''World Sports Competition'' is a sports video game developed by Make Software and published by

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for the PC-Engine in 1992 and released on the TurboGrafx-16 in 1993. It has also been released on the

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in Japan and North America and on the Virtual Console in Europe and North America. The game has a

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theme and features several events, including

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, rowing, shooting, swimming, and track and field. The game is known in Japan as ''Power Sports'' which was part of the ''Power Sports Series'', a series of sports games released between 1988 and 1998.

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1992 video games Hudson Soft games Make Software games Multiple-sport video games PlayStation Network games TurboGrafx-16 games Video games developed in Japan Virtual Console games for Wii U Virtual Console games {{summer-sports-videogame-stub TurboGrafx-16-only games Multiplayer and single-player video games

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