I never owned an NES while it was current, but my grandmother had one and Pro Wrestling was one of the games she had. I played the shit out of it at her lake house near Charlotte, North Carolina many a summer break. She died several rears ago, and I inherited her NES games. I got that same copy of Pro Wrestling at home today. I quickly realized as a kid that almost nothing came close to the fun and quality of Super Mario. But after playing Mario to death, I had to play other stuff. Games my grandmother had, like Pro Wrestling and Capcom's Legendary Wings, while far from the NES's best, hold a lot of nostalgia for me.
The THQ N64 wrestling games are untouchable. WCW/NWO Revenge was the first game I played where all of the guys would play 4 player and our girlfriends would have to sit there and watch looking all pissed off. Great times
I was born in 1994, and my brother bought himself an N64 in 1997. I still remember us renting wrestling games from Albertson's and playing 4 player mode right before the turn of the millennium. Feels like a completely different lifetime.
The Beaver 840 The only problem with WCW Revenge is that moving the analog stick makes you kick out of any pinfall. That literally ruined the multiplayer.
Wrestlefest is still my favorite wrestling game, ever since the first time I saw Mr. Perfect bridge the Perfect 'Plex for the pin. Finishing moves that actually finish? Yes, please!
I played all the modern wrestling games and WWF NO MERCY is still the best. The game received a lot of upgrades via emulation. Cleaner graphics and various content were added such as an 80’s WWF mode with all the wrestlers
Pro Wrestling on the NES is still my favorite - I just have no idea what I'm doing in any other wrestling game, and none of them (that I've played) ever bother to give you a tutorial. I'm not sure where you're supposed to have acquired the knowledge to know all the moves and to know what to do once you start grappling, but apparently everyone else must know since I never see anyone complaining about it.
Wrestlefest is my fav all-time wrestling game ever. Played the crap out of it and wwf superstars in the arcades. Retromania Wrestling coming out in end of august is a throw back to that. Look out for it. I love wwf royal rumble also,was an awesome party game too \m/ Long live The Ultimate Warrior!
"Mat Mania" (also known as "Exciting Hour") will always be my favorite. I relate a lot with what you said about it in this video, I basicly had the same experience. Also worth mentioning is "Champion Pro Wrestling", released for the SG-1000 by Sega in 1985 and then ported to arcades and MSX (I played this one a lot in my MSX).
My two cents on this video are: 1. Wrestling today isn't what it used to be. Ever since WCW was bought, the lack of competition drove the stories to something mundane and stated as "sports entertainment"... 2. I still have wwf royal rumble but for the game gear.
I am not much in Wrestler games but I had a lot of fun back in the days with WWF Superstars and WWF Wrestlefest in the arcade. Playing with your friends was an amazing experience. Thank you for the video and all the passion and work you put in it.
Lmaooooo I lost it when the Mighty SEGA Lord X appeared on stage at the end!! Fantastic content as always. You never disappoint SLX - (btw, 10:45 Darth Vader and Superman at the background!)
0:58 I just live-streamed the 4 AKI wrestling games myself recently; I'm trying to get the world record of 1st person to beat every North American N64 game. I'm at game #24 of 296. 5:50 My god, look at that crowd, they're giants! Or are the wrestlers tiny?🤔 9:22 Darth Vader in the upper-right corner of the crowd (Also Superman, Popeye, & ZZ Top).
Great videos. A lot of those are before my time but here’s my list, based on what I owned 1. Smackdown 5 Here Comes The Pain 2. Smackdown 2 Know Your Role 3. WWF Attitude 4. Smackdown 1 5. Smackdown 4 Shut Your Mouth 6. WWF Royal Rumble (Dreamcast) 7. ECW Anarchy Rules 8. WWF Warzone 9. WCW Mayhem (only WCW game I played) 10. The Simpsons Wrestling That’s about all the ones that maybe count as retro. The first Smackdown v Raw and SvR 07 was pretty good too. Not played a wrestling game since. Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy would probably make the list had I owned them
So many great memories playing WWF Wrestlefest. I used to go to Misquamicut Beach in RI as a kid, and I would always beg my mom for quarters to play that while we were there. I think I had more fun playing that than actually being at the beach.
Also being a huge wrestling fan as a kid and experiencing the golden wra of the late '80s , early '90s, I hungered for an arcade quality wrestler on my NES. Tecmo wrestling was that game. It's really impressive to this day and I still play it often. Whilst not great, I also have a lot of live for wwf wrestlemania challenge.
3:00 That shit brought so many memories back! I remember we used to pick the bald wrestler and named him StonCold. He was named StonCold because there weren't any more letter slots for the E!!!
2:54 Suppose to say Northern LIGHT Suplex. Guess the translator wasn't a hardcore wrestling fan and flipped a coin on whether the original Japanese should be transliterated with an L or an R.
Old school wrestling is where it is at. I still watch to this day, but nothing beats the times I went to Richmond coliseum . WWF and WCW were always there. Richmond Coliseum
Got em' both on a modded PS classic mun, worth every penny :) I strongly recommend getting one, you can buy a flash drive by itself, or the whole sytem
I was wondering the same thing, the PS1 smackdown games were great fun too and imo thanks to the CD base was able to recreate the attitude era perfectly. Having the legit og intro from SD! will always give ya the goosebumps.
The two PSX Smackdown games are two of the most overlooked (in modern times) wrestling games ever. The N64 AKI games have more nostalgia for some, especially since they were a last hurrah, while the Smackdown series would go the way of Madden and become both ubiquitous and easy to hate - and well-deserved imo, the last couple have just been garbage. But yeah, people forget what a leap forward they were at the time. I love the AKI N64 games as much as the next guy, but Smackdown felt like the next step up from their chunky models and gameplay that hadn't really changed after 4 iterations
WCW vs NWO: World Tour was my favorite, I had it marked on my calendar and got it on release day. Man I loved wrestling back then. I got Revenge but Goldberg was killing wrestling for me, and stuff was getting bonkers on WWF. I still watched through '99 but started to fall off early '00s. I got back into it around 2012, basically to watch the old WCW guys retire.
I was a wrestling fan growing up and I played a lot of these games quite a bit. Pro Wrestling on the NES was very good for its time. It was impressive to see how much detail they put into that game. I was obsessed with the WWF Superstars arcade game. I would play it at every arcade I saw it at for several years, even after Wrestlefest was out. There are some things I like about Superstars more than Wrestlefest, though that one is superior in many ways for sure. I do like the music in Superstars. I love both games and would play Wrestlefest several years after it came out as well as a nearby bowling alley had one in 1994. I played a ton of AJPW for Saturn as well. I actually got into AJPW tapes right around the same time and it was my favorite wrestling promotion instantly. I played that career mode quite thoroughly and my character, which used the Sabu body, won the Triple Crown championship quite a few times. A chronic neck injury is the main reason I lost. The precision of timing in the career mode was pretty crazy, but it was very satisfying to play it at that level. The Saturn's Fire Pro Wrestling S: 6 Men Scramble is probably the wrestling game I've played most of all and I would call that my favorite. While they would improve upon that game, the roster is my favorite in that one. After seeing this, I'll have to make a note to try Tecmo World Wrestling and Mat Mania. It also reminded me that I'd like to put more time into the old NJPW games on PS1 and Virtual Pro Wrestling. Fun video. Thanks.
The newest FirePro on steam and PS4 is literally the greatest wrestling game ever. Especially with all the dlc including the one where you can craft our own moves. It’s been one if not the greatest wrestling series all the way back to Super FirePro X Premium. On Snes. I literally bought a Saturn for FirePro Six Man Scramble (six player yeah) and AJPW featuring Virtua.
Mat Mania for the win. :D The look on your guy's face when you've thrown them out of the ring, and do the running over the ropes flying bodypress. Supafly.
Even without watching I knew the top rated games would be the AKI developed ones. Glad to see I wasn't wrong and numero uno was exactly what I expected/hoped to see!
I really enjoyed "Pro Wrestling" on the NES. My favorite wrestler was Great Tiger. This game, like many others, was made easier by turbo controllers. Papa Shango, the Model, and Crush are there, so you showed the Genesis version, which I also owned and still enjoy every once in awhile.
Happy to see Mat Mania on this list. Whenever I found this game in an arcade I'd be paying it until I had to leave. Great combination of gameplay, sounds, and visuals. For its time, it was way ahead of anything else in the wrestling genre.
I like how the SNES version of WWF Royal Rumble. The intro has the most cheesy stock SNES sound engine rock music as images of the roster scale in with a cool mode 7 effect.
I loved WWF and WCW as a kid. One day, our local civic center held a show and it was awesome! After the show, my sister, who worked the crew handed me a bat that had been nearly sawed in half beforehand. It took a lot of thought, but I finally realized it was all fake. I still cherish the memories though.
Yeah man, I was in the Hampton Colosseum when I saw Rick Flair blade right in front of me at the crowd barricade. It was an eye opener for an 11 year old.
I had wwf raw for the genius and i fucking love that game they had finishing moves and a super move for every character regular, tag team, royal rumble, survivor series, and bedlam (hardcore) matches. And with a physical ref in the ring you could do ref spots where you knock him down and cheat before he got back up. I still play that from time to time.
14:18 - can somebody please tell me what on earth (or the underworld), the Legion of Doom say during this cut-scene??? I've been wondering for nearly 30yrs at this point! "We snack on danger, dine on death", is the first bit, but what I think the second half says.... TH-cam wouldn't even let me type in these comments!!!
I like your list. I would also add Natsume Championship wrestling on SNES. It has a high learning curve, but once you get that part down it plays great. I'm also very fond of Wrestlemania Challenge on NES. That game is really fun with 2 players especially when you learn how to have other wrestlers interfere in the match. Also Saturday Night Slam Masters is awesome.
WWF Wrestlemania the Arcade game was the best looking wrestling game by far at its time of release. I used to watch people playing it at the arcades and marvel at the life like animations.
Fire Pro Wrestling World on Steam and PS4 is probably my favourite wrestling game ever. It's not often a modern game is my all-time favourite in a genre, but it's technical, has the highest amount of customization I've ever seen in a wrestling game, and features the wrestlers from New Japan Pro Wrestling, which is undoubtedly the best promotion in the world for non-casual fans.
God....looking at most of the wrestling games in this video brings back my childhood! AKI wrestling games still holds up to this day! The only games that comes close to the AKI games is WWE Day of Reckoning on the Gamecube and Wrestle Kingdom on PS2/X360 and the latter was Japan only.....let that sink in!
The N64 Wrestling games were always great. I loved playing WCW/NWO Revenge and Wrestlemania 2000, WWF Super Wrestlemania was also very fun. I had the Genesis version which had more characters
Man number 3 took so many of my quarters. Almost broke a finger trying to get up lol. If you made it to round two in the arcade you was either really good or had a lot of money lol
Saturn’s All Japan game looks amazing. Is that light sourcing? The moves looked more devastating than even the Aki games. Too bad it didn’t come to the states. All I got on the Saturn was the WWF Arcade game.
Off topic but related; The Hogan 86 belt is such a good design. It breaks my heart its never been used again by a mainstream company. Also, SLAM MASTERS!!
I’ve not got to play the game, but I highly, highly suggest anyone who has even a slight passing interest in professional wrestling check out all Japan pro wrestling from the years of like 1986 to 1999. Some of the best wrestling ever. Just huge burly dudes smackin the crap out of each other and dropping people on their heads. As always excellent video my friend. 🤘🤘🤘
@@Larry The best part of All-Stars IMO is the gameplay. The worst is the lack of options and even the create-a-wrestler is kind of shallow, and depending on what systems someone has lying around (or still working from that generation) getting a copy of All-Stars for the PS3 or Xbox 360 could be quite difficult.
My top 10 Fire Pro Wrestling Six Man Scramble for Saturn WWF Saturday Nights for the arcade Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 for N64 Toukon Retsuden 4 for PS1 Giant Gram for DC Slam Masters for SFC Blazing Tornado for Saturn Wrestlemania 2000 for N64 No Mercy for N64 Fire Pro Wrestling D for DC
Six man scramble was the greatest console FirePro with d in a close second. The newest one on steam and ps4 destroys all previous firepros though. Now that they’ve finally got all the dlc out they promised. The move craft has changed the whole scene. If you use the CarlZilla? Mods it takes it to the next level.
I was never into wrestling when I was younger but I loved the games ! I was just playing mat mania or exciting hour as it was known here in the UK. Great video and a great list thank you 1 2 3!!!!!! 😀
I played the Hell out of WWF Wrestlefest. If an arcade had it, I was all over it, or would even just watch others play. I have to add this thought with the end footage of Wrestlemania The Arcade Game. Two Razors? Definitely WWF accurate. Too bad Diesel isn't in it then you could have Two Diesels vs Two Razors and try to figure out with ones were the fakes? Man, I miss these old school wrestling days. Never got to see WCW but my Dad and I would go to the old Boston Garden back in the 80s to see WWF when they were in town. Good times.
Mat Mania...I loved going to the movie theaters and playing this before AND after the movie! I'm just shocked at no Slam Masters being mentioned...or did I miss it??
3rd game on your list was in our chip shop when I was about 15 yo, I swear down the old Indian couple made more 10p's of us kids than they sold £ fish & chips to the people actually there for something to munch. Bubble Bobble was a great hit of course, they had a couple titty arcades at times and the big one was Daytona USA. That chippy is no more, entire block flattened and a superstore is in place now. Us lot in our 40's+ will remember that chip shop for the rest of our lives without a doubt.
Great video as always. I did not like the Wrestlemania the Arcade game, as I found it too over the top. The one game I would have added to the list is The Main Event by Konami. My favorites were Wrestlefest (I always played as Mr. Perfect and Ultimate Warrior) and Mat Mania. I found Koko Savage to be the hardest one in the game Mat Mania even though he was not the champion. I never owned Pro Wrestling for the NES, but played it a lot whenever my parents went to Sears. 😆
As others have mentioned WWE Allstars on PS3 / 360 is an absolute must buy and was the last great wrestling game and is as low as $12 bucks on ebay today. Get it while the dlc character packs are still available and enjoy the greatest arcade style wrestling game of our generation.
If you love the AKI wrestling games, check out Def Jam Vendetta, Def Jam: Fight For NY and Ultimate Muscle on the GameCube. Made by the very same people.
The amount of time I can spend ranting about wrestling is silly. I love these games. When I started buying arcade cabinets and pcbs years ago, WWF Wrestlefest was an absolute must, as it was a big part of my skating rink and 7-11 experiences growing up. If I was going to slap together a hasty top ten, it'd look pretty similar to yours: WWF Wrestlemania 2000 WCW/nWo Revenge WWF Wrestlefest Fire Pro Wrestling Returns 3 Count Bout Saturday Night Slam Masters WWF Royal Rumble Wrestle Kingdom AJPW featuring Virtua Pro Wrestling Gameplay is king, but having your favorite wrestlers sure helped a lot, too. Anyone who got into the Fire Pro character creation scene surely has a lot of memories as well as save files full of carefully re-created favorites from their youth. Showing off to friends your spot-on doppelgangers from hours of color edits and scrutinizing the animations of each move was special, and was even fun to put on all CPU and watch your own little fed play out. The Aki games on N64 were the most fun to actually play, though, without a doubt.
“It was one of the few things my father and I had mutual interest in.”
Felt that lol
I never owned an NES while it was current, but my grandmother had one and Pro Wrestling was one of the games she had. I played the shit out of it at her lake house near Charlotte, North Carolina many a summer break. She died several rears ago, and I inherited her NES games. I got that same copy of Pro Wrestling at home today.
I quickly realized as a kid that almost nothing came close to the fun and quality of Super Mario. But after playing Mario to death, I had to play other stuff. Games my grandmother had, like Pro Wrestling and Capcom's Legendary Wings, while far from the NES's best, hold a lot of nostalgia for me.
The THQ N64 wrestling games are untouchable. WCW/NWO Revenge was the first game I played where all of the guys would play 4 player and our girlfriends would have to sit there and watch looking all pissed off. Great times
I was born in 1994, and my brother bought himself an N64 in 1997. I still remember us renting wrestling games from Albertson's and playing 4 player mode right before the turn of the millennium. Feels like a completely different lifetime.
I was waiting for ”saturday night slam masters” the arcade game to show up. One of my favourite wrestling games.
Haha me too!
Same
Check out my man Tophat Gaming Man's channel. He covered it not long ago!
I wouldn't even call it a wrestling game. It's a one on one fighter under the guise of wrestling.
Great though
@@big_ry82 It features exclusively wrestlers fighting in a square arena. What more do you want?
This is coming from a die hard Sega guy: all of the THQ/AKI N64 wrestling games > everything else
Wcw revenge, wwf no mercy, Hctp, WWE 13, WWE 2k14 > everything else
Yep, so glad I had N64 back then.
The Beaver 840
The only problem with WCW Revenge is that moving the analog stick makes you kick out of any pinfall. That literally ruined the multiplayer.
Yes! NWO Revenge had me and my buddy up til dawn every weekend.
@@randycruel never knew that I always tapped a and b to kick out
That sega intro must be what it feels like when you go to heaven.
Wrestlefest is still my favorite wrestling game, ever since the first time I saw Mr. Perfect bridge the Perfect 'Plex for the pin. Finishing moves that actually finish? Yes, please!
The Main Event (1988) Konami was a favorite of mine in the arcades back then. No Mercy all the way.
I played all the modern wrestling games and WWF NO MERCY is still the best. The game received a lot of upgrades via emulation. Cleaner graphics and various content were added such as an 80’s WWF mode with all the wrestlers
Pro Wrestling on the NES is still my favorite - I just have no idea what I'm doing in any other wrestling game, and none of them (that I've played) ever bother to give you a tutorial. I'm not sure where you're supposed to have acquired the knowledge to know all the moves and to know what to do once you start grappling, but apparently everyone else must know since I never see anyone complaining about it.
Wrestlefest is my fav all-time wrestling game ever. Played the crap out of it and wwf superstars in the arcades. Retromania Wrestling coming out in end of august is a throw back to that. Look out for it. I love wwf royal rumble also,was an awesome party game too \m/ Long live The Ultimate Warrior!
It’s a sequel to Wrestlefest!!
@@agentchris1482 Yes it is,forgot to mention that too
Dying to try Retromania. And yes, to all the little Warriors,they are the blood that run through these veins. Snarl
RetroMania just finally released on Steam. It is a great game and I can't wait to get it on other platforms.
I’m very impressed by the dynamic real time commentary system of Tecmo Wrestling and that Saturn game looks awesome too!
"Mat Mania" (also known as "Exciting Hour") will always be my favorite. I relate a lot with what you said about it in this video, I basicly had the same experience. Also worth mentioning is "Champion Pro Wrestling", released for the SG-1000 by Sega in 1985 and then ported to arcades and MSX (I played this one a lot in my MSX).
My two cents on this video are:
1. Wrestling today isn't what it used to be. Ever since WCW was bought, the lack of competition drove the stories to something mundane and stated as "sports entertainment"...
2. I still have wwf royal rumble but for the game gear.
AEW
There's many different promotions to watch.
@@Deathtank75 it's just not very good.
I am not much in Wrestler games but I had a lot of fun back in the days with WWF Superstars
and WWF Wrestlefest in the arcade. Playing with your friends was an amazing experience. Thank you for the video and all the passion and work you put in it.
I feel like every kid goes through that professional wrestling stage.
I never did. It wasn't until I was an adult before I became even a casual fan of wrestling.
Lmaooooo I lost it when the Mighty SEGA Lord X appeared on stage at the end!!
Fantastic content as always. You never disappoint SLX -
(btw, 10:45 Darth Vader and Superman at the background!)
0:58 I just live-streamed the 4 AKI wrestling games myself recently; I'm trying to get the world record of 1st person to beat every North American N64 game. I'm at game #24 of 296.
5:50 My god, look at that crowd, they're giants! Or are the wrestlers tiny?🤔
9:22 Darth Vader in the upper-right corner of the crowd (Also Superman, Popeye, & ZZ Top).
Great videos. A lot of those are before my time but here’s my list, based on what I owned
1. Smackdown 5 Here Comes The Pain
2. Smackdown 2 Know Your Role
3. WWF Attitude
4. Smackdown 1
5. Smackdown 4 Shut Your Mouth
6. WWF Royal Rumble (Dreamcast)
7. ECW Anarchy Rules
8. WWF Warzone
9. WCW Mayhem (only WCW game I played)
10. The Simpsons Wrestling
That’s about all the ones that maybe count as retro. The first Smackdown v Raw and SvR 07 was pretty good too. Not played a wrestling game since.
Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy would probably make the list had I owned them
So many great memories playing WWF Wrestlefest. I used to go to Misquamicut Beach in RI as a kid, and I would always beg my mom for quarters to play that while we were there. I think I had more fun playing that than actually being at the beach.
Also being a huge wrestling fan as a kid and experiencing the golden wra of the late '80s , early '90s, I hungered for an arcade quality wrestler on my NES. Tecmo wrestling was that game. It's really impressive to this day and I still play it often. Whilst not great, I also have a lot of live for wwf wrestlemania challenge.
Excellent list! I was surprised you didn't include Fire ProWrestling S: 6 Men Scramble for the Saturn, one of the greatest wrestling games ever made.
That Revenge into always gives me chills.. the good kind.
Just hearing the wrestler names is a huge trip down memory lane. Great pick
3:00 That shit brought so many memories back! I remember we used to pick the bald wrestler and named him StonCold. He was named StonCold because there weren't any more letter slots for the E!!!
2:54 Suppose to say Northern LIGHT Suplex. Guess the translator wasn't a hardcore wrestling fan and flipped a coin on whether the original Japanese should be transliterated with an L or an R.
Old school wrestling is where it is at. I still watch to this day, but nothing beats the times I went to Richmond coliseum
. WWF and WCW were always there.
Richmond Coliseum
Part two is strongly needed , where’s my psx wwf smackdown
Got em' both on a modded PS classic mun, worth every penny :) I strongly recommend getting one, you can buy a flash drive by itself, or the whole sytem
I was wondering the same thing, the PS1 smackdown games were great fun too and imo thanks to the CD base was able to recreate the attitude era perfectly. Having the legit og intro from SD! will always give ya the goosebumps.
The two PSX Smackdown games are two of the most overlooked (in modern times) wrestling games ever. The N64 AKI games have more nostalgia for some, especially since they were a last hurrah, while the Smackdown series would go the way of Madden and become both ubiquitous and easy to hate - and well-deserved imo, the last couple have just been garbage.
But yeah, people forget what a leap forward they were at the time. I love the AKI N64 games as much as the next guy, but Smackdown felt like the next step up from their chunky models and gameplay that hadn't really changed after 4 iterations
@@hotdoggington6962 Nobody overlooks the PS1 SmackDown games. They were two of the best selling games on the system.
Awesome video, loved no mercy still play it to this day... and still create modern wrestlers for it
WCW vs NWO: World Tour was my favorite, I had it marked on my calendar and got it on release day. Man I loved wrestling back then. I got Revenge but Goldberg was killing wrestling for me, and stuff was getting bonkers on WWF. I still watched through '99 but started to fall off early '00s. I got back into it around 2012, basically to watch the old WCW guys retire.
I loved both WWF No Mercy and WCW vs NWO World Tour was the first wrestling game i got for christmas as a kid. So nostalgic.
I was a wrestling fan growing up and I played a lot of these games quite a bit. Pro Wrestling on the NES was very good for its time. It was impressive to see how much detail they put into that game. I was obsessed with the WWF Superstars arcade game. I would play it at every arcade I saw it at for several years, even after Wrestlefest was out. There are some things I like about Superstars more than Wrestlefest, though that one is superior in many ways for sure. I do like the music in Superstars. I love both games and would play Wrestlefest several years after it came out as well as a nearby bowling alley had one in 1994.
I played a ton of AJPW for Saturn as well. I actually got into AJPW tapes right around the same time and it was my favorite wrestling promotion instantly. I played that career mode quite thoroughly and my character, which used the Sabu body, won the Triple Crown championship quite a few times. A chronic neck injury is the main reason I lost. The precision of timing in the career mode was pretty crazy, but it was very satisfying to play it at that level. The Saturn's Fire Pro Wrestling S: 6 Men Scramble is probably the wrestling game I've played most of all and I would call that my favorite. While they would improve upon that game, the roster is my favorite in that one.
After seeing this, I'll have to make a note to try Tecmo World Wrestling and Mat Mania. It also reminded me that I'd like to put more time into the old NJPW games on PS1 and Virtual Pro Wrestling. Fun video. Thanks.
9:11 Funny that the guy in the audience in Mat Mania wears a Einstürzende Neubauten shirt. Think it is worth mentioning.
Mat Mania & WCW vs The World
Thanks for video. Idea to create character looking like you (from last game) was great. You cool!
14:44 It's not pronounced A-K-I; the company name is not an acronym. 'AKI' of AKI Corporation is pronounced as a word, formally written as 株式会社アキ
The newest FirePro on steam and PS4 is literally the greatest wrestling game ever. Especially with all the dlc including the one where you can craft our own moves. It’s been one if not the greatest wrestling series all the way back to Super FirePro X Premium. On Snes. I literally bought a Saturn for FirePro Six Man Scramble (six player yeah) and AJPW featuring Virtua.
I remember importing the All Japan game and me and my buddies being blown away by how smooth the animation was.
holy moly brotha thanks for the top 10 list
When the games were not bug fest by 2K games.
Man, that Tecmo World Wrestling music is pretty dope!
Mat Mania for the win. :D The look on your guy's face when you've thrown them out of the ring, and do the running over the ropes flying bodypress. Supafly.
wwf no mercy and wcw revenge will always be number uno!
Even without watching I knew the top rated games would be the AKI developed ones. Glad to see I wasn't wrong and numero uno was exactly what I expected/hoped to see!
I really enjoyed "Pro Wrestling" on the NES. My favorite wrestler was Great Tiger. This game, like many others, was made easier by turbo controllers.
Papa Shango, the Model, and Crush are there, so you showed the Genesis version, which I also owned and still enjoy every once in awhile.
Pro Wrestling as the one at number 9? I don't recall Great Tiger but I do recall Giant panther.
Happy to see Mat Mania on this list. Whenever I found this game in an arcade I'd be paying it until I had to leave. Great combination of gameplay, sounds, and visuals. For its time, it was way ahead of anything else in the wrestling genre.
I like how the SNES version of WWF Royal Rumble. The intro has the most cheesy stock SNES sound engine rock music as images of the roster scale in with a cool mode 7 effect.
WWF No Mercy, Wrestlefest, & Saturday Night Slammmasters are just a few of my favorites
I loved WWF and WCW as a kid. One day, our local civic center held a show and it was awesome! After the show, my sister, who worked the crew handed me a bat that had been nearly sawed in half beforehand. It took a lot of thought, but I finally realized it was all fake. I still cherish the memories though.
Yeah man, I was in the Hampton Colosseum when I saw Rick Flair blade right in front of me at the crowd barricade. It was an eye opener for an 11 year old.
I had wwf raw for the genius and i fucking love that game they had finishing moves and a super move for every character regular, tag team, royal rumble, survivor series, and bedlam (hardcore) matches. And with a physical ref in the ring you could do ref spots where you knock him down and cheat before he got back up. I still play that from time to time.
14:18 - can somebody please tell me what on earth (or the underworld), the Legion of Doom say during this cut-scene???
I've been wondering for nearly 30yrs at this point!
"We snack on danger, dine on death", is the first bit, but what I think the second half says.... TH-cam wouldn't even let me type in these comments!!!
Awesome topic. I love genre-favorites videos
I like your list. I would also add Natsume Championship wrestling on SNES. It has a high learning curve, but once you get that part down it plays great. I'm also very fond of Wrestlemania Challenge on NES. That game is really fun with 2 players especially when you learn how to have other wrestlers interfere in the match. Also Saturday Night Slam Masters is awesome.
What, no mention of Saturday Night Slam Masters nor its arcade-only sequel?
WWF Wrestlemania the Arcade game was the best looking wrestling game by far at its time of release. I used to watch people playing it at the arcades and marvel at the life like animations.
Yup. Mat mania is the original fun wrestling game so many quarters spent. Mania challenge was good also.
Been waiting for this one for a while Sega Lord X
Love WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth, WCW Revenge and WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game the most.
Fire Pro Wrestling World on Steam and PS4 is probably my favourite wrestling game ever. It's not often a modern game is my all-time favourite in a genre, but it's technical, has the highest amount of customization I've ever seen in a wrestling game, and features the wrestlers from New Japan Pro Wrestling, which is undoubtedly the best promotion in the world for non-casual fans.
@SegaLordX I was just thinking about these old school wrestling games lol good skit
Ah those good ol' vintage wrestling video games, fun for everyone
Ah Matmania, the granddad of all wrestling games! a truly hall of famer!
God....looking at most of the wrestling games in this video brings back my childhood! AKI wrestling games still holds up to this day! The only games that comes close to the AKI games is WWE Day of Reckoning on the Gamecube and Wrestle Kingdom on PS2/X360 and the latter was Japan only.....let that sink in!
I forgot about Tecmo World Wrestling. Definitely my favorite wrestling game of the 80’s
The N64 Wrestling games were always great. I loved playing WCW/NWO Revenge and Wrestlemania 2000, WWF Super Wrestlemania was also very fun. I had the Genesis version which had more characters
Great job with the video BROTHEEERRRRRR!!! Now...LOAD THE FUEL INTO THE ROCKETSHIPS!!!!!!!!!
Wrestlemania the arcade game is my favorite wrestling game and i have it for Saturn and PS1,still play it to this day
Man number 3 took so many of my quarters. Almost broke a finger trying to get up lol. If you made it to round two in the arcade you was either really good or had a lot of money lol
Saturn’s All Japan game looks amazing. Is that light sourcing? The moves looked more devastating than even the Aki games. Too bad it didn’t come to the states. All I got on the Saturn was the WWF Arcade game.
Off topic but related; The Hogan 86 belt is such a good design. It breaks my heart its never been used again by a mainstream company.
Also, SLAM MASTERS!!
Great call on Mat Mania.
I’ve not got to play the game, but I highly, highly suggest anyone who has even a slight passing interest in professional wrestling check out all Japan pro wrestling from the years of like 1986 to 1999. Some of the best wrestling ever. Just huge burly dudes smackin the crap out of each other and dropping people on their heads. As always excellent video my friend. 🤘🤘🤘
Awesome video as always Sega Lord and agree with the number one choice
How can you now have WWE All-Stars on the list??? It's made BY the team who made Wrestlemania the Arcade Game!
Google says it came out in 2011, long after I stopped watching or caring about professional wrestling.
@Larry Bundy Jr So this is why loved It! I haven't know until now that It was made by the team behind WrestleMania Arcade Game!
@@SegaLordX Dude, you got to play it!!!, half the roster are wrestlers form the 80s and 90s, and if you liked the arcade game, you'll love All-Stars!
@@Larry The best part of All-Stars IMO is the gameplay. The worst is the lack of options and even the create-a-wrestler is kind of shallow, and depending on what systems someone has lying around (or still working from that generation) getting a copy of All-Stars for the PS3 or Xbox 360 could be quite difficult.
My top 10
Fire Pro Wrestling Six Man Scramble for Saturn
WWF Saturday Nights for the arcade
Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 for N64
Toukon Retsuden 4 for PS1
Giant Gram for DC
Slam Masters for SFC
Blazing Tornado for Saturn
Wrestlemania 2000 for N64
No Mercy for N64
Fire Pro Wrestling D for DC
Six man scramble was the greatest console FirePro with d in a close second. The newest one on steam and ps4 destroys all previous firepros though. Now that they’ve finally got all the dlc out they promised. The move craft has changed the whole scene. If you use the CarlZilla? Mods it takes it to the next level.
Good list, though some of those are basically the same game as another on the list
I never got too into wrestling games, I played them a bit when I was younger
Tag Team Wrestling on the nes. Best 3 count audio of all time.
I was never into wrestling when I was younger but I loved the games ! I was just playing mat mania or exciting hour as it was known here in the UK. Great video and a great list thank you 1 2 3!!!!!! 😀
Wrestling games were life back then!
Awesomeness video please do more thanks
I always wondered who plays wrestling games. Now I know! 😂
The referee in WrestleFest is Pat Paterson! Lol 😂
I played the Hell out of WWF Wrestlefest. If an arcade had it, I was all over it, or would even just watch others play. I have to add this thought with the end footage of Wrestlemania The Arcade Game. Two Razors? Definitely WWF accurate. Too bad Diesel isn't in it then you could have Two Diesels vs Two Razors and try to figure out with ones were the fakes? Man, I miss these old school wrestling days. Never got to see WCW but my Dad and I would go to the old Boston Garden back in the 80s to see WWF when they were in town. Good times.
Mat Mania...I loved going to the movie theaters and playing this before AND after the movie! I'm just shocked at no Slam Masters being mentioned...or did I miss it??
GeminiBlount These were personal picks. The list you saw were the most played with our group.
@@nSquared75 Yes, I know how SLX works. We usually agree on 90% of titles which is why I was shocked, NOT because I disliked his choices.
3rd game on your list was in our chip shop when I was about 15 yo, I swear down the old Indian couple made more 10p's of us kids than they sold £ fish & chips to the people actually there for something to munch.
Bubble Bobble was a great hit of course, they had a couple titty arcades at times and the big one was Daytona USA.
That chippy is no more, entire block flattened and a superstore is in place now. Us lot in our 40's+ will remember that chip shop for the rest of our lives without a doubt.
Dude you have the most epic voice on TH-cam
I have created Pro Wrestling's Star Man in every wrestling game that allowed for custom wrestlers since.
we need a part 2 of this video
Great video as always. I did not like the Wrestlemania the Arcade game, as I found it too over the top. The one game I would have added to the list is The Main Event by Konami. My favorites were Wrestlefest (I always played as Mr. Perfect and Ultimate Warrior) and Mat Mania. I found Koko Savage to be the hardest one in the game Mat Mania even though he was not the champion. I never owned Pro Wrestling for the NES, but played it a lot whenever my parents went to Sears. 😆
Hey I must thanks for posting your video
At this moment in time it really saved things
For me and I mean that too
So thank you once again
SLX: "I haven't been a fan of wrestling in about 20 years." Join the club Sega Lord X! I stopped around 2002 if I'm remembering right.
It got to the point were I just couldn't take anymore of it.
@@SegaLordX Yep. Same here. Although I would get bootleg VHS tapes from a guy who would get tapes from Japan and that was my wrestling fix.
As others have mentioned WWE Allstars on PS3 / 360 is an absolute must buy and was the last great wrestling game and is as low as $12 bucks on ebay today. Get it while the dlc character packs are still available and enjoy the greatest arcade style wrestling game of our generation.
No Mercy is an all time top 10 game for me. Funny how it hasn't been topped in 20 years.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't All Japan Pro Wrestling actually have a Wolf Hawkfield character for a while?
If you love the AKI wrestling games, check out Def Jam Vendetta, Def Jam: Fight For NY and Ultimate Muscle on the GameCube. Made by the very same people.
Hulkamanias runnin’ wild BROTHER!!
Never heard of Mat Mania, it looks great!
The amount of time I can spend ranting about wrestling is silly. I love these games. When I started buying arcade cabinets and pcbs years ago, WWF Wrestlefest was an absolute must, as it was a big part of my skating rink and 7-11 experiences growing up. If I was going to slap together a hasty top ten, it'd look pretty similar to yours:
WWF Wrestlemania 2000
WCW/nWo Revenge
WWF Wrestlefest
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
3 Count Bout
Saturday Night Slam Masters
WWF Royal Rumble
Wrestle Kingdom
AJPW featuring Virtua
Pro Wrestling
Gameplay is king, but having your favorite wrestlers sure helped a lot, too. Anyone who got into the Fire Pro character creation scene surely has a lot of memories as well as save files full of carefully re-created favorites from their youth. Showing off to friends your spot-on doppelgangers from hours of color edits and scrutinizing the animations of each move was special, and was even fun to put on all CPU and watch your own little fed play out. The Aki games on N64 were the most fun to actually play, though, without a doubt.
Dunno if I'm crazy, but I really liked the SMS Pro Wrestling in the 8-bit era.