Guacamole Anderson's 80s Experiment :: Episode #2!
Nov 2, 2019 18:06:41 GMT
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Post by Guacamole Anderson on Nov 2, 2019 18:06:41 GMT
Summer, 1984. Eleven-year-old me is flipping through the channels and comes across this:
That’s all it took — I was addicted. At every chance, I flipped through the channels of our giant satellite dish, soaking in any wrestling I could find…AWA, NWA, Continental, Mid-South, WWF…I loved them all. As I grew up, my interest in wrestling hit peaks and valleys, but never entirely went away.
In my 20s, it led me to become a huge fan of Japanese wrestling, an obsession which eventually caused me to stumble upon Fire Pro Wrestling S: 6-Man Scramble on the Sega Saturn.
And I was addicted all over again.
For over 20 years, I’ve thought about starting an e-fed via Fire Pro. So here we go — it’s an alternate reality version of the era of wrestling that originally got me hooked, experienced the way 11-year-old me would’ve imagined it.
The music.
The magazines.
The mayhem.
And with that, a prologue:
That’s all it took — I was addicted. At every chance, I flipped through the channels of our giant satellite dish, soaking in any wrestling I could find…AWA, NWA, Continental, Mid-South, WWF…I loved them all. As I grew up, my interest in wrestling hit peaks and valleys, but never entirely went away.
In my 20s, it led me to become a huge fan of Japanese wrestling, an obsession which eventually caused me to stumble upon Fire Pro Wrestling S: 6-Man Scramble on the Sega Saturn.
And I was addicted all over again.
For over 20 years, I’ve thought about starting an e-fed via Fire Pro. So here we go — it’s an alternate reality version of the era of wrestling that originally got me hooked, experienced the way 11-year-old me would’ve imagined it.
The music.
The magazines.
The mayhem.
And with that, a prologue:
