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Last week just goes to show that classics don't always reserve a place in our hearts as bigger and better games come along with each new console release. Although, the Thanksgiving debate showed that we still love older football games more than newer ones, so the torch isn't always passed on with each generation that passes in the sports genre.

This week we look at another game series that has greatly changed over the years, not just in graphics and gameplay, but even as an industry itself. That's right, I'm talking about the WCW, WWF, WWE, and whatever the hell else the panda haters decide to name their leagues in the future. For some of us wrestling is nothing more than a one year phase in our lives that we'd rather forget about, but there's no denying it's a successful corner of the entertainment industry. And as far as video games are concerned, it's nice to know that every wrestling game that's released each year undergoes more content changes than just a simple roster switch-up like many of the current sports games have been guilty of in recent years.

New wrestlers come and go just as often as the games released in their series. So this week I want you to pick out your favorite wrestling game of all time. Which is your favorite, and why? Was it the graphics, the controls, or did it just have your favorite wrestler in it? Give us some reasons for your decision, get some other candyasses and jabronis to give their opinions as well, and check back next week for the winner. Feel free to also let us know which wrestlers and wrestling terms you loved and hated the most over all the years. Let us smell what you're cooking.


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amalgamut00's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 02:29
amalgamut00
WWF No Mercy for the N64
PANZERDRAKO's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 02:34
PANZERDRAKO
i don´t like wrestling games, although i played one that one where appears final fight´s mayor...
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 02:35
vexed alex
ZOMG!

Fire Pro Wrestling
dotdotdot216's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 03:04
dotdotdot216
fist fighting with the heavy in team fortress 2 is the closet i've gotten to wrestling games.....pretty damn fun too
akathatoneguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 03:17
akathatoneguy
No Mercy for the N64! Any other answer is blasphemy!
Redzie's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 03:32
Redzie
Fire Pro Wrestling. EGMHOE agrees with me.
SwampFoxB46's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 05:31
SwampFoxB46
*cough* WCW vs NWO World Tour */cough*
witthaus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 05:50
witthaus
@dprime: "By the way I'm smarter than a growth in an unused shower so I don't watch wrestling." you enjoyed ICP...so, NO, you're not smarter than a growth in an unused shower. anyways, my vote goes to Smackdown 2 for the PS1. the amounts of various match types and make-your-own PPV were pretty fun when i was younger.
tehArtist's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 06:01
tehArtist
WCW Monday Night Nitro for the PC
bloodylip's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 06:19
bloodylip
Pro Wrestling.
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 06:43
Haxan
Back in the day I used to watch wrestling religiously. Then the real ECW went bankrupt and Mick Foley retired. Back then there were two franchises that stood atop the heap of shit that were wrestling games and proved that it was possible to elevate the sorry genre into something incredible. One was Fire Pro Wrestling. The other was Yukes' N64 games. But for my money, I really have to declare my absolute favorite WWF No Mercy. (Though, the retro gamer in me does scream for a tag team match between the Amazon and Kin Karn Korn vs. Starman and Fighter Hayabusa. Just saying.)
supremeFronk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 06:44
supremeFronk
no mercy hands down
Natural 20's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 06:44
Natural 20
WWE Day of Reckoning on the GC.

We hooked that in our common room and it kept us entertained for upwards of two years.
peeetah's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 07:08
peeetah
Smackdown 2, probably the most fun game on PS1.
Rabite's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 07:13
Rabite
Pro Wrestling on NES. Though the Wrestlemania arcade game is a VERY close second.
kavvy_boy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 07:15
kavvy_boy
WCW vs NWO Revenge on the N64! Best wrestling Game by miles!
Phanman's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 07:30
Phanman
I gotta agree with Chad here and say Pro Wrestling on the NES was my favorite. Starman was my childhood hero.

I'd say that the old school Wrestlemania in the arcades was my 2nd favorite. You know the one with Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan in it.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 07:39
TheStripe
ICP < Professional Wrestling < Mime
michiyoyoshiku's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 07:45
michiyoyoshiku
1. WTF @ that video

2. Everybody know it's fire pro.
KingGrimlock's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 07:48
KingGrimlock
First... Video=Epic.

Back on subject: No Mercy and Wrestlemania 2000 FTW.

Now when it comes to the CAW system... Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth had the best one. I think I filled over 2 memory cards soley dedicated to CAWs. After that, the Smackdown series has gone down hill. SvR08 is a joke.

Here's hoping the TNA game takes the throne.
madk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 08:04
madk
I can't believe no one has mentioned Virtual Pro Wrestling 2. Best ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Pro_Wrestling_2:_Oudou_Keishou

Fire Pro comes in at a close 2nd though.
Mauer's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 08:05
Mauer
Fire Pro Returns, WWF No Mercy.
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 08:11
galagabug
Wrestlemania 2000, good create a character, more playable than the firepro series. Also black catridges FTW!
ertailara's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 08:27
ertailara
Fire Pro Wrestling people

bringin the good stuff to Snes, Gba, Dc and ps2
unitqm's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 08:27
unitqm
WCW vs NWO Revenge for the N64. Hands down.
Tragic_hero 's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 08:32
Tragic_hero
Smackdown 2 for PS1. Had a good blend of Arcade style wrestling with innovative CAW skills and attributes that would later be butchered. I also vote for Saturday Night Slam Masters if we can vote for 2.
AlucardX24's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 08:37
AlucardX24
WWF No Mercy hands down.
mad cow's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 09:03
mad cow
Come on this is silly. WWE No Mercy wins easily. I remember using the good ol' Game Genie so my wrestlers came out with their championship belts on their shoulders. Good times.
MPHtails's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 09:16
MPHtails
Honorable mention to WCW/NWO Revenge, used to rent that sucker like once a week it seems.

Runner up goes to Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game. Punching Yokozuna only to have trukeys fall out his ass? Win.

But Smackdown: Here comes the Pain is the most feature filled game of them all. Many match types, several backstage arenas, one of the better rosters (remind me why they took the Road Warriors out after SvR again? Also, with a game shark, you can get Ultimate Warrior (or with CAW make a good recreation)), and it played great. 6 man Hardcore Time Limit matches where you can pin the champ as much as you like during the 10 minutes, but only the man who's champion at the time limit wins), doing flapjacks off Choppah ladders and moonsaults off WWE New York. Plus the first Videogame appearance of the Elimination Chamber, backin the day it was awesome to see and it's still the best playing game in the series. Also, every ironman match I've played that was not in HCTP is ass. They perfected the damage ratio in that game so that Ironman matches could easily stretch to an hour, whereas in every other game you can win in 5-10 minutes.

Also, when me and a buddy used COM vs COM matches to sim Wrestlemania 20, the Lesnar/Goldberg match was almost exactly the same. Long, unintense staredowns, useless lockups, a move a minute for the first 5 or so minutes. It was awesome,if only because the game was flippin psychic.
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 09:29
Niero
I've heard from many people that Fire Pro Wrestling was the best game ever made, in the same way many people say football games don't get any better than Madden 95. Sadly, I've never played it because I've been too busy watching reruns of GLOW
balth's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:11
balth
Honestly, Virtua Pro Wrestling 2.


This game came out in Japan about a year after No Mercy, and was phenomenally innovative even for that series. It never saw a stateside release. N64 cart; you could set which moves your wrestler used that were KO and/or Bleed moves.

The announcer screamed your name (from a preset list) in Japanese, and I set everyone's name to Gianto Baba (literally translated as Giant Grandfather). The announcer would scream "Giantooooooooooooooo Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa-Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" and my friends and I would cackle like Cheeburga on a ghey video.

Also, the game had two levels of specials, the standard special meter like No Mercy, but if you taunted when you had your special (and completed the taunt), you would get a SUPER Special, which were moves that, if performed on a normal person, should kill them.

I had just started watching ECW at the time, and had found the Dudley Boys. I set D-Von to have a diving groin headbutt, set to blood and KO. I would get the opponent down, and just do it repeatedly. Ding! Ding! And eventually, the opponent would cough up blood...you remember the animation!

Funniest thing ever...they'd check their bloody hand, then pass out via KO from repeated headshots to the groin.

Classic.

If you have a N64 and a game shark, and if you can find it, import that baby!

that is all.
Origim's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:11
Origim
WWE No Mercy is my vote
Lou Chou's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:19
Lou Chou
and yukes wrestling game is the balls. I'll go with Wrestlemania 2000, because i have fond memories of almost dying trying to buy it.
Ha-Puken's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:22
Ha-Puken
Pro Wrestling NES! It hasn't gotten any better since...
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:34
Cheeburga
Shit, I can't think of the name.
But it was this wrestling game you could play in an arcade box. But it had famous ones, like Doink the clown.
Good times.
tkyy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:39
tkyy
win video is
bayushi's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:46
bayushi
my fave is pro wrestling on the nes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Wrestling_(video_game)
ToiletDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:50
ToiletDuck
Both the WCW vs NWO games on N64, hands down.
Bacchus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:53
Bacchus
Fire Pro Wrestling : Six Men Scramble

no contest
Skovacs13's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 10:56
Skovacs13
Virtual Pro Wrestling and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 (Imports to the us) for the N64 and US titles NWO vs. WCW Revenge. I need this game for my Wii or a good remake with this fighting system. Fire pro is also a good game but the N64 games are better, but they need more wrestlers in those games like in fire pro.
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 11:24
blehman
WCW vs NWO: Revenge. One of the first. THE best. They've all gone downhill from there.
mikeohara's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 11:36
mikeohara
I'd have to go with Giant Gram for the Dreamcast.
charliesuh's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 12:38
charliesuh
WCW vs NWO for on the N64!
akathatoneguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 12:39
akathatoneguy
@ witthaus WWE > ICP, definitely. Just About Everything > ICP. The only thing that ICP is greater than, is child porn. Everything But Child Porn > ICP.

Also, "lol" @ all the wrestling hate. Like you guys have never liked anything geeky or somewhat lame. Most wrasslin' fans (like myself, once upon a time) will willingly admit that wrestling is a ridiculous, although entertaining thing. How is it any worse to play along with wrestling by getting into the characters and matches than it is to cry at a f'king MOVIE, or endlessly debate what's going on in Lost or 24? It's all fake, after all. Nobody other than the mentally retarded and kids under 6 years old believes that wrestling is real.
MPHtails's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 13:17
MPHtails
Honorable mention to WCW/NWO Revenge, used to rent that sucker like once a week it seems.

Runner up goes to Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game. Punching Yokozuna only to have trukeys fall out his ass? Win.

But Smackdown: Here comes the Pain is the most feature filled game of them all. Many match types, several backstage arenas, one of the better rosters (remind me why they took the Road Warriors out after SvR again? Also, with a game shark, you can get Ultimate Warrior (or with CAW make a good recreation)), and it played great. 6 man Hardcore Time Limit matches where you can pin the champ as much as you like during the 10 minutes, but only the man who's champion at the time limit wins), doing flapjacks off Choppah ladders and moonsaults off WWE New York. Plus the first Videogame appearance of the Elimination Chamber, backin the day it was awesome to see and it's still the best playing game in the series. Also, every ironman match I've played that was not in HCTP is ass. They perfected the damage ratio in that game so that Ironman matches could easily stretch to an hour, whereas in every other game you can win in 5-10 minutes.

Also, when me and a buddy used COM vs COM matches to sim Wrestlemania 20, the Lesnar/Goldberg match was almost exactly the same. Long, unintense staredowns, useless lockups, a move a minute for the first 5 or so minutes. It was awesome,if only because the game was flippin psychic.
Corncobtacular's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 13:47
Corncobtacular
WCW vs NWO: Revenge
outrage's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 14:38
outrage
Shalashaska said it best... WCW vs NWO Revenge FTW!
binny101's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 16:15
binny101
no mercy by far. Get a gameshark and you can do amazing things in the game.
KMCC's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 16:36
KMCC
WCW vs NWO Revenge. No Question. One of the best multiplayer games in existence.
allisonaxe's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/19/2007 21:22
allisonaxe
my vote goes for Fire Pro! I don't necessarily even care for wrestling, but I looooooove this game.
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