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Pro Fire Wrestling is the the first game in a series of 7
games.
More
games will probably follow.
All 7 parts have been released on the Super
NES as far as I know and they are only available in Japan as far as I
know.
When I played this game for the first time I was impressed by the moves that
the wrestling characters had.
There were already wrestling games
produced at that time like WWF Wrestle Mania and WWF Royal
Rumble but none of them could hold a candle to Pro Fire
Wrestling.
The reason was the fact that for example in WWF Wrestle
Mania every wrestler had the same moves so it was pretty boring.
WWF
Royal Rumble was an improvement but still every wrestler in the game
had the same moves except for the finishing moves.
Pro Fire
Wrestling 1
is different. Every wrestler has his own moves.
Since the game is in
Japanese and I don't speak any Japanese I can only give you an impression
of who is in the game.
Pro Fire Wrestling 1 consists of 21 wrestlers. The wrestlers I can recognize (keep in mind that I don't like to watch Japanese wrestling, but that I have seen it a few times) are the following:
Stan "the Man" Hansen, Hawk, Animal, the Great
Muta, the Ultimate
Warrior, Tiger Jeet Singh, Bad News Brown/Allen, Jushin
Liger, Giant
Baba, Hogan and Big van Vader.
As for the rest, they
are
Japanese wrestlers, whom I don't recognize.
All the wrestlers I mentioned
are very well recognizable and have their own special moves.
Jushin
Liger has his Frankensteiner for example. The same counts for
all the
other wrestlers.
When you add all the moves those 21 wrestlers have
together you have a collection of almost very m
ove there is in professional wrestling.
Here are some controls. Keep in mind that the controls are Super Nintendo
controls.
This is the second game of the series, also only released on the Super
Nintendo in Japan.
The controls are totally the same as in part 1, but
there are a few more wrestlers, 25 to be exact.
The wrestlers I
recognized are:
Shinya Hashimoto, Jushin Liger, the Great Muta, Tony Halme, Stan "the Man" Hansen, Hulk Hogan, Bam Bam Bigelow, Big van Vader and Abdullah the Butcher (!).
Abdullah the Butcher is really
cool. This guy can really make a bloody mess out of opponents.
The
rest are
Japanese wrestlers.
This game also has the same modes as part 1 and plays the same and has
the same action.
Shortly said,
, it's another cool wrestling games approaching reality as much as possible.
This part was a huge improvement on the other 2 predecessors, because
more buttons can be used now.
The game contains 56 (!) wrestlers. Like in part 1 and 2 every wrestler has
his own moves. The wrestlers I recognize are the following:
Masa Saito, Stan "the Man" Hansen, Shinya
Hashimoto, Jushin Liger, Scott
Norton, "Pegasus Kid" Chris Benoit, El Samurai, Terry
Gordy, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, Tony
Halme, Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior,
Hawk, Animal, Power (Warrior)/Kensuke Sasaki,
Sting, Bad News Brown/Allen, the Great Muta, Bam Bam
Bigelow, Big van Vader, Rick Steiner and Scott
Steiner.
The rest
is Americans and Japanese I don't recognize.
But this game is even more
unique! It's the only game ever to contain Bruiser Brody!
A
lot of people say he is great, but I can't judge that, because unfortunately
I have never seen him wrestle.
Fact is that he is in the game and that
the Japanese haven't forgotten.
Hats off to the programmers of the game.
That's called honoring somebody, something WCW knows nothing about, when
you look at the so-called son of the great Andre the Giant.
I am
not
here to express my opinion about wrestling but this son of Andre crap
disgusts me.
The playing is the same as in the other 2 predecessors. Wrestlers and
referees can bleed. Wrestlers can brawl outside of the ring etc etc.
The new things in the game are more controls and the high risk
maneuvres!
When you have thrown a wrestler out of the ring you can
jump over the top rope onto your opponent. It's so cool !
Controls are the following:
---NOTE of Wrestler---: "Four Corners Match"???
This part is the best game of the whole series in my eyes! It's, as far
as I know, the first game ever featuring only women wrestlers ! And not
just a few, but 25.
The only women's wrestling I have ever seen was at
the
Survivor Series of 1987 and Wrestle Mania 1 and 2, but the moves used in
those wrestling matches are nothing compared to the moves that are in
this game.
When I played that game I saw moves I had never seen before
! So I went on looking for some videotapes of All Japan Women's
wrestling.
Fact is I couldn't find them. Sure there were people
offering them, but I am not willing to pay too much money for wrestling.
Forget it.
WWF and WCW both showcased some All Japan Women wrestlers,
but I have to admit that WCW did a better job.
These women could
teach a
lot of WWF and WCW wrestlers some moves.
Anyhow, those babes (at least
3 were babes) in the game really can do some moves.
There is a masked
woman with a blue mask called Kaoru .... She looks like a female
Liger
to me, but does she have moves in the game! I wish I could see her in
real-life action some day!
And what about Mayumi Ozaki ? She's really something else!
Anyhow, the women I recognize (still nearly all the names are written in
Japanese) are :
Bull Nakano (great Guillotine legdrop in the game), masked Kaoru ....(great Moonsault in the game), Aja Kong, Kyoko Inoue, Chapparita Asari (great Sky Twister press in the game) and Mayumi Ozaki.
The playing has changed. In the first 3 games of the series you had to wait for
the 2 wrestlers starting bending their knees and then push the button of choice
as fast as possible.
In Pro Fire wrestling 4 you have to push
the button of your choice as soon as the women grab each other.
That
playing is easier learnt this way in my opinion.
The options are tournament mode (single or tag team),
single, tag team
and "pin anybody you can" (see Pro Fire Wrestling 3) for 4
wrestlers.
The buttons are the same as in Pro Fire Wrestling 3.
This game has almost everything you see on tv,just like the other 3 parts of
the series.
The women really execute some fascinating moves, can do high risk
maneuvres, brawl outside of the ring.
The thing they can't do is bleed.
And that's better: Bleeding is for men.
This is a monster game. It contains 82 wrestlers.
The wrestlers I recognized are:
Riki Choshu, Shinya Hashimoto, Hawk, Power, Scott Norton, Hercules, Jushin Liger, Black Cat, El Samurai, Stan "the Man" Hansen, Ted Dibiase, Terry Gordy, Dr Death Steve Williams, Arn Anderson(!), Sabu (!!), Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Earthquake, Bam Bam Bigelow, Ravishing Rick Rude(!), Sting, the Great Muta, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, the Undertaker and Tony Halme. The rest is Japanese wrestlers or American wrestlers.
Well, what can I say about this game ? It plays the same as Pro Fire
Wrestling 4. Controls are the same as in Pro Fire Wrestling 4.
What I like about this game is the addition of Sabu and Ravishing
Rick
Rude. I guess they are pretty popular in Japan otherwise they wouldn't
be included.
Well, this wrestling game is the second wrestling game ever featuring only All Japan Women wrestlers.
Not much is added in this game. Now you
can choose between 38 women wrestlers and the only improvements I have seen in
this game are grabbing wrestlers from the top rope when they try to do a
top rope maneuver and an Irish whip in the corner
immediately followed
up by a move.
The moves of some of the women wrestlers have been
softened up.
Mayumi Ozaki's devestating DDT for example
has been transformed into a soft one.
The women I recognize are:
Chapparita Asari, masked Kaoru ...., Aja Kong, Alundra Blayze, Tomo ... (Tomo was written in English but I never have seen her in action), Bull Nakano, Mayumi Ozaki, a kind of female Doink and very cute Cutie Suzuki.
The game plays the same as Pro Fire Wrestling 4 and 5. The controls are the same and the action is a little bit improved.
This game is the last one of the Pro Fire Wrestling series, but
I am convinced the programmers will come up with more sequels, when they
improve some more things.
This game features 84 wrestlers and are some
of them weird !
I have never seen them before.
This game has been improved but if you
ask me it cost some playing quality.
The graphics of the wrestlers are
larger and that's good ! But the bad thing is that they tried to make the game
more realistic.
When you get a beating in this game you get tired. Well,
that happens. But when you are tired and somebody attacks you you can counter
a move but after that you still stay tired.
To evade this you could go
outside of the ring, but since you are tired you also move slow.
That's a
bit crappy in my eyes, but it may appeal to other people.
The
wrestlers I recognize are:
Jushin Liger, Chris Benoit, Black Cat, El Samurai, Terry Gordy, Dr Death Steve Williams, Doug Furnas, Tiger Jeet Singh, the Great Kabuki, Hulk Hogan, Undertaker, Big van Vader, the Great Muta, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner and a person called Hayate (Hayate was written in English unlike the rest).
The controls are the same as in Part 4 through 6. The modes are the same
as part 3 through 6.
All in all I can say that if you have one of the 7 games you are a lucky
person. Those 7 games are the best wrestling games ever created, because
you can let the wrestlers execute the same moves they do on tv.
And
because it is very true to the nature of professional wrestling with all
its facets.
And you can name almost any wrestling move there is. If one
of the Pro Fire Games doesn't have it the only reason for not
having it
would be the fact, that the move was originated after the release of the last
version.
Before there was a Sega or a Nintendo there was a Commodore 64, the best
computer ever made. In 1985 a wrestling game called Rock 'n Wrestle
was
created. It was the first wrestling game ever created on any computer.
The game would prove to be the best wrestling game in my eyes, until the
arrival of the Pro Fire Wrestling series.
Who would have
thought that ?
There are 9 wrestlers in the game. According to the reviews at the time
the game was released all wrestlers were from the past.
The player
himself plays Gorgeous George.
People say he was a jobber, but
I can't judge that because I have never seen that guy wrestle.
Every wrestler has the same moves. All moves are classical wrestling
moves.
The moves in the game are:
Irish whip, High Crossed Body, a devestating
clothesline, dropkick, atomic
drop, press slam, top rope splash,
elbow drop, kick in the nuts,
chop, headbutt, belly-to-back
suplex, suplex, kick in
the ribs and an airplane spin.
All of the moves are
executed cool.
The controls are the best controls ever created for a wrestling game.< I won't explain the controls because I doubt there are people around who still play games on the Commodore 64. I guess I am one of the few. There is a 2 player mode and a 1 player tournament mode. This game is really a classic and I am really nostalgic about it.
When they promoted this wrestling game the slogan was "Forget you ever heard
of Rock 'n Wrestle. This is the real thing".
Well, guess what ? It was
NOT better than Rock 'n Wrestle. The only things that were better were the
graphics, but the playability sucked.
There were no
clotheslines for example. There were a few wrestling
moves, though but not as many as in Rock 'n Wrestle.
The
characters you
could choose were imaginary wrestlers, not wrestling personalities from
tv.
They tried to make Championship Wrestling a better game but
they
failed miserabely.
But it is a wrestling game nonetheless, even if there
are imaginary wrestlers.
As far as I know this was the first tag team wrestling game ever
on a
homecomputer.
The game did already exist in the arcades so some company
converted it to the commodore 64. I have to say that the graphics weren't
impressive but the playability was good and certainly better than the
playability of Championship Wrestling.
The only option you had in the game was a tag team tournament.
There
were some leagues in which you had to become champ to progress and ultimately
your tag team would end up in the super league.
And the more matches you
won the bigger your champion's trophy got.
There were only 2 tag teams. A face tag team and a heel tag team.
Both
teams
had a few of their own moves but not too many. But it was cool to play coz you
could also dropkick your opponent out of the ring and bash his skull in with a
championsip belt.
You could say that this was the first game in which you
could use a foreign object.
Vince McMahon decided that the WWF also needed a game so Vince hired some
company to produce a wrestling game featuring WWF wrestlers.
It could
very well be that Microleague Wrestling is the first WWF game
ever on any computer and I doubt that there was an earlier WWF game.
Fact
is that this game was totally different from all the other existing games.
The wrestlers that appear in the game, depending on the version you had, are Hulk Hogan, Mr Wonderful Paul Orndorff, Macho Man Randy Savage, Honky Tonk Man, Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the King Harley Race.
The playing of the game is as follows:
Every wrestler has a list of moves. When you play against an opponent
you have to choose one of the moves on your wrestler's move-list.
Then
the computer decides who gets the move and loads a move that consists out
of a few pictures which are shown shortly after each other. And that's
all.
When you have beaten up your opponent enough you can choose to
pin him, but you can only pin him after you choose the finishing move of
your wrestler.
You can play against the computer or against an other humanoid.
What is also funny is the fact that there are some comments from
McMahon, Jesse "the Body" Ventura, Gorilla Monsoon en
Bobby Heenan.
There
are 2 different versions. There is a version with McMahon and
Jesse "the Body" Ventura.
The other version has Bobby
Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon.
You see their faces and then you
see some
comments.
Especially Bobby Heenan can be funny sometimes, but
there isn't
really much commentary, because there wasn't much memory left because of
all the graphics.
This game is really something different.
Sergeant Slaughter's mat wars is a wrestling game that was
released on
the commodore 64 around 1991: The year that Slaughter was really
kicking
some ass.
Anyhow, this game features Sergeant Slaughter as an
announcer
and nothing more.
The wrestlers are fictional wrestlers and have a few
moves.
The only option is a 1 player tournament mode. Just go out there
and kick wrestlers's butt.
The graphics are pretty good, but the playing is a bit difficult. But
it's a wrestling game nonetheless.
To tell you the truth this game isn't even worth to be mentioned, but as
far as I know this was the first wrestling game featuring cage matches.
The graphics are good but the wrestling quality is poor.
And the
wrestlers aren't wrestlers, they are aliens.
This game is funny. There aren't many wrestling moves but it can be fun
to play.
The wrestlers in the game are fictional. There is one Ninja
kind of character who is really funny. When you choose him he says " I cut you
to pieces".
The same counts for a wrestler called Ironhead. He is funny too. When you choose him he says
with a voice like he is on steroids or something " I am Ironhead".
You
can play in single mode or tag team mode.
This is another wrestling game released in Japan.
After the Pro Fire
wrestling series this series is the best wrestling game series.
It
features wrestlers from New Japan.
There are 16 wrestlers in the game.
I would never have found out who all
the wrestlers were if it weren't for the game showing normal names when kicking
butt in the ring. To make it clear.
When you choose a wrestler you only
see his picture and some Japanese letters.
But when playing you see
normal letters.
The wrestlers are:
the Patriot, the Eagle, Doug Furnas, Dan Kroffat, Johnny Ace, Dangerous Danny Spivey, Dr Death Steve Williams, Terry Gordy, Stan "the Man" Hansen, Giant Baba, Akira Taue, Kenta Kobashi, Jumbo Tsuruta, Misuhara Misawa and Toshiaki Kawada.
The wrestlers all have their trademark moves.
I especially liked Stan
Hansen's Lariat clothesline. (Note: Now you know why he's called Stan
"The Lariat" Hansen, sometimes)
It's devastating, but also Doug
Furnas's
Frankensteiner is great.
You can also brawl outside of the ring
. In the tag team mode you can also do some doubleteaming.
In
the tag team mode you can also save your partner when he is about
to be
pinned.
All in all it's, just like the Pro Fire Wrestling
series, very realistic.
There is a single match mode, tag team mode, single tournament mode, tag team tournament mode and a "pin anybody you can" mode for 4 wrestlers.
This same game was also released in the United States, but they changed
some features of the wrestlers but didn't use the real names.
Probably
some copyright bull.
This is the sequel to All Japan Wrestling 1. It's virtually the
same
game, but now you can choose between 19 wrestlers. 15
wrestlers from
All
Japan Wrestling 1 return and the 4 new ones are some wrestlers
called x Deaton (never heard of but then again, I don't like
watching Japanese wrestling and All Japan is not broadcasted here),
x Akiyama, Takao Ohmori and Masanobu Fuchi.
Note of wrestler@dds.nl: The Deatons could be "Outlaw" Joe(l) Deaton and his brother? Maybe anybody can help out?
The playing is the same and the controls are the same. The only extra thing in the game is the fact that in the tag team tournament mode the rev shoves back the wrestler who is not legally in the ring.
This is the first WWF game on the Super Nintendo. It was a pretty bad
one, but it was a beginning.
What irritated me a lot is that every
wrestler in the game has the same moves and they haven't got their finishing
move. It's also the only wrestling game on the Super Nintendo featuring Jake
"the Snake" Roberts.
But a Jake "the
Snake" Roberts without a DDT is just like a wrestling world
without
Shawn Michaels.
Very incomplete. Thank god Michaels is still
active and thank god that Jake "the Snake" Roberts has returned to
wrestle part-time.
This guy is the meanest and best heel ever. I hope
he will be a heel again very soon. But I am drifting away here.
There are 8 wrestlers in the game:
Jake "the Snake" Roberts, Undertaker, Macho Man Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Earthquake, Typhoon, Hawk, Animal, Ted Dibiase and Sid Justice.
There is a single match mode, single tag team match mode and a Survivor Series mode.
The playing isn't very good, especially compared to any of the Pro Fire Wrestling games, which are the standard for wrestling games.
This game is the sequel to WWF Wrestlemania.
The improvement in
the game
is for example the fact that every wrestler has his finishing move, but I
hardly call that an improvement.
Except from their finishing moves every
wrestler uses the same moves and that is dull.
An other improvement is
the fact that there is a Royal Rumble mode. The name Royal
Rumble says it all. You can play a Royal Rumble. There are 12
wrestlers.
The wrestlers in the game are:
Macho Man, Mr Perfect, Undertaker, Bret Hart, Tatanka, Shawn Michaels, Crush, Ted Dibiase, Narcissist Lex Luger, Ric Flair, Yokozuna and Razor Ramon.
The graphics of the game are very good. You can really recognize the
wrestlers.
Razor Ramon's Razor's edge looks really
cool.
The playing is
cool in the beginning but after a while it's boring because every wrestler has
the same moves.
Royal Rumble has,next to the Royal Rumble option, the same
options as WWF Wrestlemania except for a Survivor Series
mode.
This is the 3 part of the WWF videogame series. There are some improvements,
but the gameplay is somewhat lousy compared to WWF Royal
Rumble.
And
there are also some special moves for which you have to use Mortal Kombat- like
joystick movements and that sucks.
The wrestlers in the game are:
"Big Daddy Cool" Diesel, Shawn Michaels, Luna, Doink, 1-2-3 Kid, Razor Ramon, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Yokozuna, Lex Luger, Bam Bam Bigelow and The Undertaker.
This game has all the modes of part 1 and part 2 combined, so there is a Royal Rumble mode and a Survivor Series mode next to the other modes.
One thing about the game I really like and that's tossing someone into
the corner and climbing on top of him and giving him 10 punches.
Now if
they could also make that move in the next Pro Fire Wrestling game
the Pro Fire Series would be unbeatable.
See also: Scott
Remen's page
The wrestling game MUSCLE BOMBER ,a.k.a. Saturday Night Slam
Masters
(for Super Nintendo) is a very lousy attempt at creating a wrestling
game.
The same counts for it's sequel Muscle Bomber 2.
Capcom is very good at creating beat 'm up games, but they really can't create
wrestling games. The MUSCLE BOMBER games feature fictional
wrestlers.
Other wrestling games that aren't great are:
Name Computer on which it was released. WWF SUPERSTARS Commodore 64, Amiga WWF EUROPEAN RAMPAGE Commodore 64, Amiga BODYSLAM Commodore 64 WRESTLING STARS Commodore 64There could be more wrestling games but right now I don't remember any more.
On the Sega 32-bit a WWF game called Rage of the Cage exists.
On Sega 8-bit there is a game called