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Best WRESTLING Games: US & JAPAN – Are you rrrready?!

  John Riggs is a long time wrestling fan and has played most wrestling games ever released, both in the US and Japan. Today he talks about the best wrestling games ever made for the NES, Famicom, Super Famicom, PS1, …

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Phobos Militia Hobbycast – 04 – The Best of Current Professional Wrestling

Phobos is back again with another topic near and dear to us, professional wrestling! In this episode we go over our thoughts on the current state of wrestling and compare a lot of the different promotions that are out there, …

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Basic Championship Wrestling Review for NES – NES Wrestling Homebrew! | RGT 85

There’s a brand new NES Homebrew Wrestling Game: Basic Championship Wrestling. Join Macho Man RGT 85 as he breaks down what Basic Championship Wrestling is all about! And if you wondering just who I am, I’m Shawn Long. I started …

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‘Basic Championship Wrestling’ Pulverizes With This New NES Homebrew

  BCW! BCW! Introducing Basic Championship Wrestling! It’s a homebrew originally programmed in QBasic and ported to work in a NES. It’s kind of like a turn-based RPG wrestling game. Wait, what?

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WCW/NWO Revenge – Game Genie Review

  After another disappointing WWE Royal Rumble, Mike reminisces about a golden age when there was a competing federation named WCW, who back in 1997 release the best licensed Wrestling game to date at that time WCW/NWO Revenge for the …

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Wrestle Reviews: Hulk Hogan’s Main Event

Wrestle Reviews Hulk Hogan’s Main Event Release 2011 Format Xbox 360 Background Well let me tell you something, dude if you want the best wrestling game in the world brother, then you better make sure you have the Kinect and …

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Wrestle Reviews: WCW Backstage Assault

Wrestle Reviews WCW Backstage Assault Release 2000 Format Nintendo 64  Playstation  Background Man I would loved to have been in the room when this game was pitched, and then approved by the powers that be at EA! WCW Mayhem the …

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Wrestle Reviews: American Tag Team Wrestling

Wrestle Reviews American Tag Team Wrestling Release 1992 Format ZX Spectrum Commodore 64 Amstrad Amiga Background American Tag Team Wrestling was released in 1992 and while now to newer wresting fans a game focused on tag team wrestling may seem …

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Wrestle Reviews: Title Match Pro Wrestling

Wrestle Reviews Title Match Pro Wrestling Release 1987/89 Format Atari 2600 Atari 7800 Background Despite its popularity in the 1980’s pro wrestling would not make much of an impact on the Atari 2600. When it comes to wrestling games for …

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Wrestle Reviews: WCW/nWo Thunder

Wrestle Reviews WCW/nWo Thunder Release 1998 Format Sony Playstation Background WCW/nWo Thunder was the last WCW video game to be released on the Sony Playstation by THQ. It is a direct sequel to the game WCW Nitro that was released …

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Wrestle Reviews: WWE 2K14

Wrestle Reviews WWE 2K14 Release 2013 Format Sony Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Background I have waited a while to review this game because I wanted to put some serious time into it before I gave my opinion. WWE 2K14 is …

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Wrestle Reviews: Top 10 Wrestling Games Part 1

Wrestle Reviews Top 10 Wrestling Games Part 1 10-6  Today I am not going to review a classic wrestling game instead I thought I would share with you guys what I consider to be the ten best wrestling games of …

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Wrestle Reviews: The Simpsons Wrestling

Wrestle Reviews The Simpsons Wrestling Release 2001 Format Sony Playstation Background In doing my research for this review I found something out about this game that I never knew of before; that this game was published by EA.  I have …

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Wrestle Reviews: WCW Nitro

Wrestle Reviews WCW Nitro Release 1997 Format Sony Playstation Background Back in the 90’s the WWF and WCW went head to head on Monday nights. WWF had their RAW TV show and WCW had WCW Nitro. For a while WCW …

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Wrestle Reviews: Sgt Slaughter’s Mat Wars

Wrestle Reviews Sgt Slaughter’s Mat Wars Release 1989 Format Commodore 64 Background Sgt Slaughter is one of the all time classic characters in pro wrestling. As a kid I hated Sgt Slaughter and my best memories of him are when …

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Wrestle Reviews: Rumble Roses

Wrestle Reviews Rumble Roses Release 2005 Format Playstation 2 Background Man how could you not feel kind of dirty when you took this game on the counter in your local video game store? If you like hot chicks wrestling in …

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Wrestle Reviews: Giant Gram 2000: All Japan Pro Wrestling 3

Wrestle Reviews Giant Gram 2000: All Japan Pro Wrestling 3 Release 2000 Format Sega Dreamcast Background I have never been a big import gamer if I am honest, but one game that I went out of my way to import …

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Wrestle Reviews: WCW Mayhem

Wrestle Reviews WCW Mayhem Release 1999 Format Sony Playstation Nintendo 64 Background WCW Mayhem was the very first WCW game to be released by EA. EA got the rights to make games based on WCW after THQ who previously made …

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Wrestle Reviews: Showdown Legends Of Wrestling

Wrestle Reviews Showdown: Legends Of Wrestling Release 2004 Format Playstation 2 Xbox Background Showdown: Legends Of Wrestling was the very last wrestling game that Acclaim would put out. Actually it was one of the last video games they would ever …

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Wrestle Reviews: World Championship Wrestling

Wrestle Reviews WCW: World Championship Wrestling Release 1990 Format NES Background WCW was the very first wrestling game to be released under the WCW name. This game was released not that long after the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) became known …

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Wrestle Reviews: Legends Of Wrestling II

Wrestle Reviews Legends Of Wrestling II Release 2002/2003 Format Sony Playstation 2 Nintendo Game Cube Xbox Game Boy Advance Background Despite the somewhat clunky controls there was still a great deal of fun to be had with Acclaim’s first Legends …

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Wrestle Reviews: The Scorpion King

Wrestle Reviews The Scorpion King Release 2002 Format Sony Playstation 2 Nintendo Game Cube Background “What the hell does this have to do with wrestling?”  The Scorpion King was the first time that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would be the …

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Wrestle Reviews: Wrestle War

Wrestle Reviews Wrestle War Release 1991 Format Sega Mega Drive Background Wrestle War is a very interesting game in that for some odd reason it was never released in the USA on the Sega Genesis. Here in the UK it …

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Wrestle Reviews: Tecmo World Wrestling

Wrestle Reviews Tecmo World Wrestling Release 1989-90 Format NES Background Tecmo World Wrestling was one of my favorite games on the NES as a kid. I didn’t actually own this game, but one of my buddies did, and we would …

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Wrestle Reviews: WCW/nWo Revenge

Wrestle Reviews WCW/nWo Revenge Release 1998 Format Nintendo 64 Background I have wanted to talk about this one for awhile. This game to me was the ultimate reason to own a Nintendo 64 back in 1998. Yeah I know that …

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Wrestle Reviews: ECW Hardcore Revolution

Wrestle Reviews ECW Hardcore Revolution Release 2000 Format Sony Playstation Sega Dreamcast Nintendo 64 Game Boy Color Background Acclaim is mainly remembered for their ten year run of making games based on the WWF, and probably after that, it’s their Legends …

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Wrestle Reviews: Legends Of Wrestling

Wrestle Reviews Legends Of Wrestling Release 2002 Format Playstation 2 Xbox Game Cube Background The ten year relationship that Acclaim had with the WWF in the late 80’s up to 1999 was one of their strongest properties. When they lost …

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Wrestle Reviews: WCW VS The World

Wrestle Reviews WCW VS The World Release 1997 Format Sony Playstation Background WCW vs The World is actually a pretty big mile stone in pro wrestling video games. First of all it was the first WCW video game in a …

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Wrestle Reviews: Saturday Night Slam Masters

Wrestle Reviews Saturday Night Slam Masters Release 1994 Format Super Nintendo Sega Mega Drive FM Towns Marty Arcade (1993) Background Saturday Night Slam Masters was originally an arcade game made by Capcom in 1993. There was also an updated version …

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Nostalgia Nights – Smackdown Shut Your Mouth

OUTTAKES; For anyone who would like to see how hard it was for the boys to ‘act’ the outtakes will be at the end of this episode (12:12) Welcome to the 16BitBrothers. This time round the four guys have another …

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Glenndust’s Wrestlemania Special Part 2

To celebrate Wrestlemania Glenndust has taken over Glenn Plants channel, and here is the second part of his special where he reviews the next five wrestling games on the n64!   For additional posts by GlennPlant: Click Here Join the new …

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User Spotlight-TNA Impact Xbox 360 Review

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History of WWF/E Games Part 31

History of WWF/E Games Part 31 WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth Release 2002 Format Sony Playstation 2 Time to look at the last WWE game to feature one of The Rock’s catchphrases. Background I am sure that too many people …

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History of WWF/E Games Part 9

  History of WWF/E Games Part 9 WWF Superstars 2 Release 1992 Format Game Boy This week it is the 2nd WWF title for the original Game Boy Background This was the very first WWF game that was billed as …

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History of WWF/E Video Games Part 1

WWF Micro League Wrestling Release 1987-1989 Formats Commodore 64 Amiga Atari ST PC This is a weekly look at the history of WWF/E video games, and may from time to time focus on WCW, ECW, or even Japanese wrestling games. …

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