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- ↑ World Rugby at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
- ↑ World Rugby at Lemon 64
- ↑ Nash, Jonathan (February 1993). "World Rugby review". Your Sinclair (86). Retrieved 2007-12-09.
Tragically, the most important and exciting part of the game is reduced to a fair-to-middling graphic of a newsreader with a couple of numbers whizzing around behind his head. Whoops. Eh?
- ↑ "World Rugby review". Sinclair User (134). April 1993.
...this one is bearable because of the relative accuracy of the teams and the amount of choice in the options. It's also rugby. We really don't need another soccer sim.