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Post by Nth on Aug 2, 2018 15:11:48 GMT
 This is the one that started it all off for me. No matter what wrestling game I've played since, if I can create an edit, I always create 'Mr Tattoo' Mark Rose.
I do that as well. When a new Fire Pro comes out I round up all the classic fictional wrestlers I can find and re-create them all.
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Post by fukuro on Aug 2, 2018 16:10:19 GMT
I guess it must be WWF Raw for my SNES.I was so hyped about it. The roster, the graphics. Wonderful game.
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Post by IamAres on Aug 3, 2018 5:43:37 GMT
WWF Royal Rumble, Super Nintendo. Believe it or not, this game is WHY I'M EVEN A WRESTLING FAN twenty-four years later. This picture is basically why.
A bunch of my friends had rented it, and it seemed cool. I didn't watch wrestling - I'd seen it a few times during the Hogan era and thought it was moderately cool, but was never hooked. But we all had a blast playing it and I ended up renting it on my own the next weekend. Being who I am, even at 12, I was going through the bios and analyzing them, figuring out what I could about these guys - especially the rock-star lookin' motherfucker with the long hair and sunglasses.
Comparing heights and weights, I noticed he was among the smallest wrestlers and figured that he must be a martial arts guy of some sort, which immediately appealed to me 100 times more than the snorting muscleheads I'd always thought of wrestlers as. I resolved to figure out when WWF was on and on what channel so I could watch this guy wrestle for real, and I ended up finding Monday Night Raw in July of 94, and Bret (who was the WORLD CHAMPION) was facing a guy called the 1-2-3 Kid.
I immediately realized three things - 1) Bret Hart was NOT actually a martial arts guy, not like I thought of, anyway, 2) This 1-2-3 Kid guy was, and was fairly cool, and 3) Bret Hart WAS actually a master of some impossibly cool fighting style I'd never seen in this light before - PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.
The moment I saw wrestling as a martial-art-type fighting style that was skill-based, not just something that big, hokey bodybuilders did, but something that could be trained and mastered, the way Bret Hart had clearly mastered it, it INSTANTLY became the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I still think it is.
That's the story of how THAT one screenshot, not even the game itself, really, started something that still impacts my life every day (no joke, either - it's one of the first things my now-wife and I bonded over. Who knows how different it would've been if I wasn't a fan?) Life can be strange sometimes.
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Post by craziej2k on Aug 3, 2018 9:49:27 GMT
Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game was definitely the first one I ever owned (and man did it suck), but WCW vs The World was the first wrestling game I really fell in love with. I LOVED that game! So unrealistic but fun, a fun arcade beat 'em up with a wrestling theme. Anyway my first wrestling game would be WWF Wrestlemania for the mightly Atari ST. To this day I have no idea what the controls were or how everything was controlled by a joystick with 1 button! |
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Post by mbxfilms on Aug 3, 2018 12:58:44 GMT
WCW/NWO World Tour on N64. Played the game with my friend before ever watching wrestling, so the game made me start watching. Played as Ultimo Dragon and The Giant.
Ultimo is still one of my top favorites.
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Post by Rangerh on Aug 3, 2018 13:26:52 GMT
WCW/NWO World Tour on N64. Played the game with my friend before ever watching wrestling, so the game made me start watching. Played as Ultimo Dragon and The Giant. Ultimo is still one of my top favorites. It's that game when i saw it played at a store by the owner that made me buy a n64 "second hand" console, despite at the time i had no interest in anything there was on that system, looked like an incredible wrestling game from what i was seeing. And oh boy after finally getting my hand on it how amazing it was in comparison to what i had been used to, despite it was a PAL version and so running 20% slower than the NTSC one because no game devs ever cared to adapt the game speeds depending on the PAL format on that console. I still remember my big smile when i finally unlocked Randy Savage :D I think the one i played the most with was Rey Mysterio with his spiderman attire. |
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Post by VCR on Aug 5, 2018 2:33:59 GMT
does this count as a wrestling game  |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Aug 5, 2018 7:13:44 GMT
WCW/NWO World Tour on N64. Played the game with my friend before ever watching wrestling, so the game made me start watching. Played as Ultimo Dragon and The Giant. Ultimo is still one of my top favorites. It's that game when i saw it played at a store by the owner that made me buy a n64 "second hand" console, despite at the time i had no interest in anything there was on that system, looked like an incredible wrestling game from what i was seeing. And oh boy after finally getting my hand on it how amazing it was in comparison to what i had been used to, despite it was a PAL version and so running 20% slower than the NTSC one because no game devs ever cared to adapt the game speeds depending on the PAL format on that console. I still remember my big smile when i finally unlocked Randy Savage :D I think the one i played the most with was Rey Mysterio with his spiderman attire. I borrowed my friend's N64 just to play WCW/NWO Revenge then I bought it off him LOL. I was rewarded extra when No Mercy came out and I played the hell out of that game. Also, WCW vs. the World actually got me back into wrestling and wrestling games again in 1998 when I randomly bought it and completely got sucked into it. |
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Post by Professor Voodoo on Aug 5, 2018 10:13:24 GMT
SmackDown 2 probably. The disc still works, but is scratched to holy hell after some 18+ years of existence.....
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Post by Phil Parent on Aug 5, 2018 14:28:01 GMT
Something on my brother's Atari 2600, I don't remember the title.
Then we started renting the NES and Pro Wrestling. Then, we get an NES for Christmas from our grandmother who bought 'the wrestling game with it', which was... WrestleMania. Oops. It had theme songs at least, I recorded them on tape.
I told the story before, my brother then later basically stole Pro Wrestling from the rental store by renting it and messing with the rental receipt pad while the owner wasn't looking. He also removed the velcro'd chip from the board they were put on when a game was out, and a buddy of his went back to grab the box from the shelves. No cameras,he never was caught and kept renting there.
That rental place is closing next month. Sad.
And no, our parents never noticed.
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Post by BakFu on Aug 5, 2018 17:25:19 GMT
My friend and I dug out his older brother's Sega Master System and played Pro Wrestling. We also played his bro's NES pro wrestling. There were games on the Genesis and SNES, but we played the shit out the old ones for the previous gen. Before that, there was an arcade near the same friend's place that had SHIT TONS of old arcade cabinets. They had both Exciting Hour (Available on PS4, BTW) and Mat Mania, (the same game, only I think in Mat Mania your guy was Dynamite Tommy... DYNAMITE-OH KIIIDOH!), and we got GOOD at that game, we could loop it over and over again and stretch quarters out over hours. We always liked the old shit for some reason, even though there were new, licensed games featuring guys we saw on TV, they were all trash compared to the fun older shit.
First Fire Pro game for me was on the GBA, I'd read about FP for so long I bought a GBA just to play it and never looked back. Shortly after I grabbed a used Dreamcast from a local pawn shop and grabbed FPD. I didn't think Fire Pro could get better, then it DID. Wow, that is easily my favourite Fire Pro game, even with all of the stuff released since, FPD is the shit. So many amazing memories of trying to navigate Japanese menus, the whole Victory Road experience, my team of four OG killers that I ran through the game, wrestlers from all organizations splattered all over mats everywhere, splayed out post CRITICAL! looking like a multicoloured, rogue, barrel of monkeys game piece laying there in the middle of the ring while my team's music played. It was just mind blowing to see guys from all combat sports/wrestling in one place. Marking the F%$K out seeing Bas Rutten, Sakuraba, and Takada, recognizing K-1 and some of the PRIDE roster (and I remember Wanderlei Silva being a part of a free update pack that you had to do all of that complicated save transferring to add to your DC!), all of the Pancrase and RINGS guys on TOP of all of the Japanese and American groups (I think FPD was the last game to go unnoticed by all of the licensing freaks, so no pallet/colour swaps, just the awesome FP names we all love!). Demolishing Kaientai with Don Frye, Vader, Gary Albright, and Steve Williams was so much fun! I loved playing mismatches at times, or squashing teams of Hogan and other big name American vets that were stealing valuable air time from the cruiserweights and stuff like that! So awesome! :D
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Post by s1zzle on Aug 8, 2018 22:49:08 GMT
Tag Team Match: Muscle for NES. When I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s, my uncles were in their teens and early 20s and were really into video games. They gave me a 72-in-1 cartridge that had this game on it, and my step-brother and I used to beat the shit out of each other for hours in this game. It was awesome at the time. But When WWF Royal Rumble came out for SNES was when I really started getting into wrestling and wrestling games.
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JIM MINY
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Post by realjeffsdomain on Aug 28, 2018 5:56:26 GMT
I can't remember if this or wcw vs the world came out first but I think power move pro wrestling was my first, vs the world was my second, and either warzone or world tour was my 3rd. Warzone was just horrendous lol |
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Post by realjeffsdomain on Aug 28, 2018 5:58:47 GMT
Not sure the first wrestling game I played, but this was the first one I owned. It was not good- despite how much I pretended it was...
Oh I feel so sorry for you lol But yeah we had to use that game as well. With vs the world, nitro, world tour,and revenge, we used those games to recreate wcw from 96-98. For the most part what we used was acceptable but that nitro gameplay from gamers perspective was just horrendous |
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Post by s1zzle on Aug 28, 2018 11:05:11 GMT
I can't remember if this or wcw vs the world came out first but I think power move pro wrestling was my first, vs the world was my second, and either warzone or world tour was my 3rd. Warzone was just horrendous lol Oh my god, I remember being so upset and disappointed when I finally bought Warzone. The online advertisements made it look awesome, but it was literally the worst wrestling game ever made. I also played the shit out of WCW vs. The World and Virtual Pro Wrestling. |
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