by Alex Knapp WCW Mayhem Year: 1999 System: PlayStation and Nintendo 64 Developers: Electronic Arts, Kodiak Interactive Publisher: Electronic Arts In retrospect, WCW Mayhem is a pretty fascinating game.
The Monday Night Wars
Wrestling Game StArcade: WCW/NWO Revenge
by Alex Knapp WCW/NWO Revenge Year: 1998 System: Nintendo 64 Developers: Asmik Ace and AKI Publisher: THQ Good news/bad news time, folks.
Wrestling Game StArcade: WWF Betrayal
by Alex Knapp WWF Betrayal Year: 2001 System: Game Boy Color Developer: WayForward Technologies Publisher: THQ In the early 2000s, I had two embarrassing guilty pleasures. One of them was listening to Limp Bizkit. The other was playing WWF Betrayal.
WWE Pay-Per-View Roundtable: WrestleMania 31
by Daniel Johnson, Kyle Childers and Dave Pendleton – Tyson Kidd and Cesaro (c) (with Natalya) vs. The Usos (with Naomi) vs. Big E and Kofi Kingston (with Xavier Woods) vs. Diego and Fernando (with El Torito) for the WWE… Read More ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: WCW World Championship Wrestling
by Alex Knapp WCW World Championship Wrestling Year: 1989 System: NES Developer: Nihon Bussan Publisher: FCI Inc. Who would’ve thought that the competition between the WWF and WCW on the video game consoles extended all the way back to the… Read More ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: Power Move Pro Wrestling
by Alex Knapp Power Move Pro Wrestling Year: 1995 System: PlayStation Developer: Yuke’s Publisher: Activision The mid 1990s was a lean period indeed, for both wrestling video games and American pro wrestling in general. The WWF had lost its… Read More ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: ECW Hardcore Revolution
by Alex Knapp ECW Hardcore Revolution Year: 2000 Systems: PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast Developer: Acclaim Publisher: Acclaim Late in The Monday Night Wars, the wrestling video game community witnessed an event that signaled a major changing in the wind…. Read More ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: WCW vs. the World
by Alex Knapp WCW vs. the World Year: 1997 System: PlayStation Developers: Asmik Ace and AKI Publisher: THQ The Asmik Ace/AKI/THQ series of wrestling games. To this day, they stand up as perhaps the greatest string of wrestling games ever… Read More ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: WWE ’13
by Alex Knapp WWE’13 Year: 2012 System: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii Developer: Yuke’s Publisher: THQ Before THQ went out of business, they had one last outing in their long relationship with WWE. The previous year had seen them… Read More ›
5 Late 1990’s WCW Matches That Didn’t Deserve Pay-Per-View Time (But Got It)
by Daniel Johnson The Monday Night Wars era is arguably the most exciting period in wrestling history. Not just that it is arguably the most exciting period there ever will be is wrestling. That may sound like hyperbole or looking back… Read More ›
The Johnson Transcript 