Best Pro wrestling game

[vanman]

What is the best classic pro wrestling game? I would say ProWrestling for NES or WWF King of the ring for NES. What is the best?

[MegaManFan]

Experience has taught me most "classic" wrestling games stink. Terribly gameplay, poor move execution, ridiculously unrealistic graphics. Truthfully I don't think any wrestling games were even decent until Nintendo 64 came along, but I suppose at least on the SNES and Genesis there were a few +tolerable+ games, such as home ports of Wrestlemania the Arcade Game.

[Brad2600]

Saturday Night SlamMasters was awesome for the Genny.

 

More of an arcade game though. No referee. A bit too repetitive.

[vanman]

How about best modern game as well?

[MegaManFan]

Def Jam Vendetta

WCW vs. NWO World Tour

Wrestlemania X8

[Gregory DG]

About the only one I ever liked was the aforementioned Pro Wrestling for the NES. God, I rolled on the floor everytime that green dude munched on his opponents head!

[chrisbid]

NES Pro Wrestling was pretty good, all of the offcial games lacked in the fun department

 

the fire pro series from Japan gets a lot of rave reviews, but ive only played the GBA version, and i didnt get into much to like or dislike it

 

one of my favorite 3D wrestling games is Giant Gram, an import on the Dreamcast. A couple of American wrestlers are in this (Vader and another i cant think of), and Wolf Hawkfield from Virtua Fighter are in this game.

[Scooterb23]

EPYX Championship Wrestling for the Commodore 64...still about the only wrestling game I've ever liked

[oesii]

My favorite was the arcade game, Mat Mania. The 7800 port was terrible but a great port exists for the Sharp X68000 computer.

 

Great page about Mat Mania (known as Exciting hour in Japan)

 

 

http://zeroes.overclocked.org/exciting.htm

[ubersaurus]

Good modern wrestlers?

 

WWF No Mercy

Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth

 

uhhh..Fire Pro Wrestling I guess.

[MegaManFan]

I just picked up No Mercy at a Toys'R'Us that hadn't liquidated their N64 stock yet for $15, but I haven't played it. If you approve though I'm looking forward to it.

[Joe C.]

About the only one I ever liked was the aforementioned Pro Wrestling for the NES. God, I rolled on the floor everytime that green dude munched on his opponents head!  

 

The Amazon man.

[Xot]

I was always a big fan of Konami's The Main Event. Never ported to any home system that I know of.

[Brad2600]

Never even heard of it.

 

I'm also a fan of the arcade WWF games as they looked much better than their console counterparts.

 

Is there a way to play them using a MAME emulator? I haven't downloaded one yet.

[Xot]

Never even heard of it.

 

I'm also a fan of the arcade WWF games as they looked much better than their console counterparts.

 

Is there a way to play them using a MAME emulator? I haven't downloaded one yet.

 

Absolutely. Works best if you've got a joystick of some sort 'cause many of them are very difficlut to play with a keyboard and multiplayer on a keyboard is an exercise in futility.

 

I'm suprised you don't have MAME yet. Definately worth your download time!!!