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Post by kiano on Jun 10, 2024 11:22:26 GMT
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Post by Shadow Master on Jun 10, 2024 17:23:38 GMT
Great finds, Kiano! Thanks to you, I discovered the PC Engine shooter God Panic Shijo Saikyou no Gundam. A game with Giant Baba/Inoki, Stan Hansen, Tiger Mask/Super Tiger & Hulk Hogan as enemies! Today, I finished scanning a 1990 guidebook that I picked up a while ago. The guide was part of a Fire Pro bundle auction from Japan alongside the Combination Tag Data Book (in which I already scanned & posted here). Most importantly, this book features (perhaps) the earliest known codes for Fire Pro-Wrestling Combination Tag.   As a recurring theme with this publisher, the Ul-Tech Wonder Land magazines featured beauty woman in swimsuits on their covers. This particular guidebook is dedicated to games found on the PC Engine. Combination Tag's codes and secrets appear on pages 39 to 41. You can check out all 51 pages here: Link: postimg.cc/gallery/QhCS8Tx |
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Post by kiano on Jun 11, 2024 18:32:51 GMT
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Post by kiano on Jun 11, 2024 18:45:01 GMT
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Post by kiano on Jun 11, 2024 19:02:02 GMT
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Post by kiano on Jun 11, 2024 19:23:44 GMT
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Post by Shadow Master on Jun 12, 2024 10:03:15 GMT
Slowly but surely, I'm (finally) getting around to adding Kiano's magazine finds to page 1 of the directory.
These will even include the scans shared in other threads.
What started as a convenient directory for all of the Fire Pro guidebooks I scanned here has evolved into a massive
archive for all Wrestling games new and old.
My biggest challenge is about to present itself: scanning the 300 page 6men Scramble guidebook....that is,
after I finish scanning the 128 page Jikkyou Max Voltage Official Guide.
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Post by Shadow Master on Jun 13, 2024 6:37:42 GMT
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Post by Shadow Master on Jun 15, 2024 21:15:35 GMT
UPDATE: the library has now surpassed 200 scanned items. One of the newest additions is an original magazine ad for Super Fire Pro-Wrestling from 1991:  The cheesiness of Super Fire Pro-Wrestling's Road Warrior-esque cover art has grown on me over the years. The ad mentions Super's release date as December 20th, 1991 (talk about a late Christmas present), and also advertises HUMAN's lesser-known sports title Super Formation Soccer, which would be released on December 13th that same year.
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Post by Shadow Master on Jun 16, 2024 13:32:20 GMT
UPDATE: Special thanks to Roy Lucier over on Twitter for finding this rare magazine ad for Super Fire Pro-Wrestling III Final Bout from 1994. The ad mentions that Final Bout is the final work for the Fire Pro series. Other key features include mentioning an impressive roster of Wrestlers (compared to past Fire Pro titles), new game modes, the ability to create original Wrestlers, and the
option to have four players play at the same time.
Being aware of Fire Pro's past titles, the ad then goes on to say that Final Bout is worth playing even for those that mastered
past Fire Pro games.
Lastly, the bottom of the ad mentions Fire Pro's annual spring break competition, and a lottery where 300 customers who
purchased Final Bout would receive a Yonezawa four controller multi-adaptor, perfect for playing Final Bout with three other friends.
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Post by elguapo on Jun 16, 2024 20:52:53 GMT
So damn cool. I find it awesome they feature Tiger Jeet Singh with his fire ball for the ad. The cover for painted face has also grown on me.
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Post by Shadow Master on Jun 16, 2024 22:44:52 GMT
So damn cool. I find it awesome they feature Tiger Jeet Singh with his fire ball for the ad. The cover for painted face has also grown on me. In the west, Tiger Jeet Singh is regarded as a minor footnote in Wrestling's history among old school Wrasslin' fans. In Japan, however, Tiger is revered as one of Japan's greatest heels of all time. While Antonio Inoki has faced many fearsome opponents in his day, it was his staged public shoot fight at at Shinjuku mall (with Inoki's wife in tow) with Singh attacking the couple that enraged the public and city officials alike. Inoki had just created NJPW, and the mall attack was the perfect angle that made Japanese Wrestling fear for their Japanese hero's life. Rikidozan had The Destroyer as his nemesis. Giant Baba often quarreled against Abdullah The Butcher. And for Inoki, Tiger Jeet Singh was billed as the monster heel. In the years that followed, Tiger joined other promotions, which sustained his legacy in Japan throughout the 80's; even drawing one of the first
known million dollar gates in Japan when teaming alongside Butcher against Baba and Inoki in a dream card match. As such, Tiger's appeal
transcended into Japanese video games; becoming a regular fixture in the Fire Pro series (among other titles) alongside other famed heel -
The Great Muta.
As crazy as it may sound, Tiger's appeal still stands - with his action figures continuing to sell for $200 a pop in the land of the rising sun.
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Post by kiano on Jun 18, 2024 13:27:17 GMT
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Post by Shadow Master on Jun 18, 2024 16:48:41 GMT
From a cursory glance, I wouldn't be surprised if the low rating was due to the rise of 3D Wrestling games at the time. A concept Fire Pro would try with the release of '96 Iron Slam that same year, and fail spectacularly. Fire Pro was always intended to be in 2D; as such, here's an article I found for Fire Pro-Wrestling G from 1999:  In the west, 6men Scramble became one of the first Fire Pro games that really struck a nerve with Wrestling gamers alongside X Premium. In the days before Fire Pro-Wrestling Returns, and in the infancy of the GBA titles, the skeletons of several fansites created decades ago still exist in honour of Scramble. |
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Post by kiano on Jun 18, 2024 17:09:52 GMT
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