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
Wrestling Game StArcade: WWF European Rampage Tour
by Alex Knapp WWF European Rampage Tour Year: 1992 Systems: MS-DOS PC, Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 Developer: Arc Developers Publisher: Ocean Software Every now and then, the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment takes the time to acknowledge that… 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: TNA Impact!
by Alex Knapp TNA Impact! Year: 2008 Systems: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 2 Developer: Midway Studios Los Angeles Publisher: Midway Games As the year 2015 gets underway, one of the biggest subjects on the minds of… 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: WWF Attitude
by Alex Knapp WWF Attitude Year: 1999 Systems: PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast Developer: Iguana Entertainment Publisher: Acclaim As the 1990s approached an end, the WWF was back in the saddle again. Rocked by the steroid trials of the early 1990s,… 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 ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: 4 Ideas for WWE Game Story Modes
by Alex Knapp Well, WWE 2K15 is upon us. Sure, the last-gen versions were released this past month, but really, with how beefed up the graphics are and the major addition of the MyCareer feature, the next-gen versions are the… Read More ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: Pro Wrestling (NES)
by Alex Knapp Pro Wrestling (NES) Year: 1986 System: Family Disk Computer (in Japan); Nintendo Entertainment System Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo As I’ve been playing decades’ worth of wrestling games, I feel it’s important to stop and ask: How did… Read More ›