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Wrestling Gone Wrong
You know it's all fake, right?
- Well, fake in the sense that these wrestlers really don't hate eachother? Or that these storylines really aren't real? Well, obviously. Though, it's not fake in the sense that the maneuvers are painless. Plenty of dive, drops and chops are full contact. Though the art of wrestling has always been a mix of combat and entertainment. In short, you're not actually trying to hurt your "opponent".
How did you get interested in wrestling?
- Wrestling was something a handful of kids I knew watched, but it hadn't gotten big yet until the late '90s. My interest in all the personalities that would hit the ring in the WWE (or then, WWF) had been growing since I can remember. By the time "The Monday Night War" was going on, I was still young, not even a pre-teen, but I was a big fan. I didn't get "smarky" until I hit 14 or so. Back then I ofcourse had alot more passion towards wrestling, maybe because I was young and so interested or because it took a bit more work to find out about things that were going on backstage or in Japan.
Who is your favorite wrestler?
- I don't have one, really. It'd be easier to ask me who would be my favorite in a certain promotion, but that's more than likely to change within a few weeks.
Do you like MMA at all?
- I do. Though I am a bit annoyed with "Cage Fighting" fans and generally badly booked UFC cards. No more than I am disgusted with alot of casual wrestling fans, though. I do however, follow promotions such as AFFLICITION, Pancrase and DREAM. Aswell as try to catch Ultimate Fighter whenever it's on.
Do you like any non-wrestling video games?
- None that I've been too into. I do remember enjoying some MGS titles and a handful of fighting games. I can't say I've ever been interested in Halo or Final Fantasy, though.
So, are you a gamer?
- Compared to most who frequent Dtoid, no. Nor do I really consider myself a "gamer". I've never sat outside of a Game Stop hours before it's opening to get ahold of a new game, I'm not a loyalist to any console nor have I ever been worried of the direction a company of video game producers are taking. I have however waited countless hours on the phone for tickets to a wrestling event, given my money to wrestling promotions through buying merch and have been worried of the direction a promotion was taking. The go-between me and a gamer was ofcourse, playing wrestling games. Much like most gamers have been playing video games from a young age and spent countless hours on a certain game, I too have, aswell, just under the wrestling games genres.
Do you ever read any other Dtoid blogs? (Ones that don't pertain to wrestling)
- Yes, I usually just like interesting and just very well written write ups.
What's your favorite wrestling game?
- The ones that I've put hours upon hours into are: WWF Super WrestleMania, WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game, WCW vs NWO: Revenge and Fire Pro Returns.
What happened to all those older blog post you made?
- When I fist came to Dtoid, I posted a few blogs mainly reviews on some arcade wrestling games and I remember a New Japan Pro Wrestling game for WonderSwan. Along with reviews on episodes of TNA Impact! and WWE RAW. Long story short, I ended up removing all them after not updating the blog for a while.
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Weekly round up. I haven't been too much of a lurker on this site anymore, I usually post my entry and take off, though I've been trying to change that and with that being said I should be more interested in the feedback left on my entries. Granted, with Wrestlemania going on I was a bit distracted with getting this done on a Sunday. Eitherway, get all your inane questions in. TrickyNicky (01/21/2009/) "If any of you gents have an early production Dreamcast, you should get your hands on Giant Gram 2000. It's basically All Japan's last wrestling game before Misawa, Kobashi, and Akiyama split and created NOAH. It has all of them plus Kawada, Hansen, and Giant-o BABA!" I haven't been able to play the first Giant Gram and Giant Gram 2k, I don't know what's the different between them either other than maybe a few more characters, possibly. The game does look awesome though, a bit more cartoony than the others aswell. Mushman (01/20/2009) "...great video posted, I do love wrestling fro the NOAH promotion, makes the farce that the WWE has become seem childish in comparison. NOAH has some of the most brutal wrestling matches I have ever seen, and no one even bleeds in them! I seriosuly doubt meatheads like Batista and half of the other new WWE wrestlers could last 10 minutes in the ring against an excellent, incredible wrestler like Jun Akiyama. Glad you are a fan of NOAH! :D" It's actually from a supercard/tournament called WRESTLE-1, tons of guys from different promotions like NOAH and ZERO-1 get thrown into it. I like NOAH the most since they carry on the King's Road style that All Japan Pro Wrestling used to have before the split. Regarding WWE's talent, I think there's alot of great wrestlers there that are being held down or watered down for whatever reason, not to mention WWE's target audience is TV-PG now. michiyoyoshiku (03/29/2009) "You know King has alot of KENTA's moves" I think King ututilized alot more of Tiger Mask and Great Muta's moveset, really. Not to mention, KENTA's entire moveset usually revolves around stiff kicks, I don't know King for doing too many kick based moves. "OH also Wolf wasn't in Zen Nihon Prowrestling, he was in Giant Gram." I think you're thinking of a different game, the one I'm referring to is an arcade game called "Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling Virtua" that has Wolf. SephirothX (03/31/2009) "So which game would you recommend more? SvR09 or LoWM?" Based on modes and match types, I'd go with SvR09, gameplay isn't bad either, probably the best the game can get since HCTP. I'll have to get the full LOWM game to really make a choice though, to some extent it just feels like more of the same, but I'd probably pick it over SvR09 just based on the controls that seem much more fun and the whole old school feel. I would say nostalgic, but then again I wasn't alive to see most of these wrestlers in their prime. Mxyzptlk (03/31/2009) "No Macho Man? Really?" There's apparently some friction between Randy Savage and Vince McMahon, though it's not clear, some say it's because of a relationship Macho Man had with a very young Stephanie McMahon. Artemus (04/03/2009) "I have yet to play a Fire Pro wrestling game... Should I get the one for the PS2 or what?!" Try to find yourself a Game Boy Advance emulator and get ahold of the two Fire Pro Wrestling GBA games, see how you like it. The learning curb will take you a while to get the hang of, but after getting passed that you won't be able to put it down if you want realism, it's about as realistic as you can get for a wrestling game. If you like it, look into getting Fire Pro Returns for the PS2 or the updated 3D Japanese Fire Pro game: "King of Colosseum". On an unrelated note: KBS Youtube mix Since I don't own the right to any of these songs, I can't make a CD with them on it and distribute it and it would be too much trouble to upload them all in MP3 form in a compressed file onto a Rapidshare or Megaupload site. So here's the much easier and faster equivalent. 
1. Bryan Danielson - Final Countdown 2. Billy Gunn - Ass Man 3. KoKo B. Ware - Piledriver 4. Dusty Rhodes - American Dream 5. nWo Wolfpac theme 6. Hayabusa - Fight With Dream 7. Colt Cabbana theme 8. Toshiaki Kawada & Yoshio Kojima - OPPAPI 9. The Funks - Spinning Toe Hold 10. Razor Ramon theme 11. Taz - Survive If I Let You 12. American Males theme 13. Jushin Thunder Liger theme 14. Bob Sapp - It's Sapp Time 15. Jim Ross - My Ass
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