I Ranked Every WRESTLING game on NES
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- We didn't get a ton of wrestling games on NES but we did get 9 here in the United States. Here's a look at all 9 wrestling games for NES and a brief look at a 10th that only came out in Japan.
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Hi Rigg's, " had a really good wrestling game
years ago on N64, forgot name but me and
my friends had a lot of fun playing", :)
List is right on the mark JohnRiggs
Happy to see you are enlightened enough to know PW is an easy S.
@@rioncitylife1917 it may be wcw nwo world tour
Glad you gave Tecmo World Wrestling an 'S' -- It was a masterpiece for its time.
I like still like it today.
Best. Thumbnail. Ever! 😂
@Killer Rune total inspiration
If I had your band's kit I would've done the facepaint to go with it. Next time for sure.
I would have loved an intro where John runs like the ultimate warrior into the ring.
Lol
Jesus saves but Satan prevails
I have so many fond memories of playing Pro Wrestling in the military with my friends. We each had our wrestler and we tracked wins and losses. Had a fictional VWF championship. I remember when I won the title I held on to it for a long time by purposely getting counted out. We all know titles don't change hands on a count out. I was the perfect heal champion. When I finally lost everyone was going crazy.....fun times.
Who was your wrestler??
I was hoping you'd do a wrestling one soon, glad to see Tecmo World Wrestling up in the S Tier, LOVE that game.
I have fond memories of my dad and I writing theme songs for the wrestlers in "Pro Wrestling." Such nostalgia.
You wrote them?!
@@KirkLee1983 I'm sorry! That was misleading. We wrote our own themes for them. It was a good bonding moment.
Pro Wrestling was/is so much fun!
Star Man was always my go to character 🙂
King Slender with the backbreaker!!
Fighter Hayabusas grapple moves were deceptively powerful. Everybody slept on him because he was the first character you beat up in the rotation.
I agree with your ratings, WWF Wrestlemania Challenge is often very underrated so it's good to hear you give it some credit.
Challenge was not bad at all. It and Superstars on Gameboy were good. I’d go Tecmo number 1 and wCW number 2. But Challenge would be 3 or 4. Lots of options, the weird angle, the music. It’s good stuff
WCW was the best wrestling game on NES
Spot on with your rankings! Hard to believe a mere 4 years after that King of the Ring game we had WCW/NWO World Tour on the N64.
I grew up with a kid that had the last name Bigelow and he said he was related to Bam Bam Bigelow, but I never believed him. Then I found out about a year ago that Bam Bam is from the town I grew up in. I guess he was related to him. Egg on my face once again.
oh damn! Yeah, he was one of my faves. I photos of me wearing his old WWF shirt.
@@JohnRiggs Apparently Larry Sharpe's "Monster Factory" that trained wrestlers was located in my hometown.
Go find him
I like your new formatting with the ranking on the left side. Love the NES and I love these videos.
I love your channel, especially the game reviews such as this one. You definitely deserve more subscribers!
Apparently the guy who made Pro Wrestling went on to create the Fire Pro Wrestling series, which was an enduring franchise in Japan and has more recently found fans in the United States. Also, I'm noticing that a lot of these old wrestling games have Vader in them, even when they claim they don't. Sure they change the name, but the likeness is unmistakable!
Masata Masuda was the designer of Pro Wrestling. His employer TRY later merged with Sonata to create Human and indeed he made Fire Pro Wrestling there.
Vader was a huge star in Japan, by 1989 he already was a 2x IWGP World Champion, so it's understandable he was put into these games. Japan didn't care much about trademarks back then (if you want to have your mind blown, look up the original cover art for the Mega Drive game Wrestle War, it's copyright infriction madness)
i remember going to toys r us, looking at the nes game box as a kid for king of the ring. i read somewhere on it the word "customize" and i turned and told my cousins and said, "guys, we can create our own costumes!"
needless to say, it sold me on the game, and i was disappointed when i came home and learned that there were no costumes and i learned the meaning of the word customize :P
I've watched several of your Ranked videos. I really like this idea. I hope you keep doing this. I would suggest ranking different sports games on NES, SNES, Genesis like all baseball, basketball, football, hockey, etc.
Thank You, I got to see the games which i was looking for :)
I knew you would get to the wrestling games eventually and I'm glad you did man bro some of these games I remember having fun memories of WrestleMania I remember getting from a pawn shop when I was like about 10 or 9 and it was cool to play it but it was terrible I do videos on my channel as well and I've done Stone Cold Steve Austin impressions and stuff like that but man glad to see you do this video bro I saw the video you did with metal Jesus rocks and it was pretty cool as well with the wrestling games and stuff keep up the good work man.
For obvious reasons, this is my favorite video of yours so far...I'd love to see your rankings of SNES wrestling games
Man you missed your calling. Big John Riggs is a shoe in for a wrestling name
Game -> Big Riggs: Over the Ropes Wrestling
Watched this mainly to see that Pro Wrestling S. Spot on! Great content as always! Looking forward to the other Nintendo brand (non-black box) ranking video eventually hopefully!
Love this video! Really enjoyed your thoughts on all of these games. Kind of crazy how many wrestling titles on the NES
Tecmo World Wrestling pwns every other wrestling game I had the opportunity to play on NES. The soundtrack and the cut scenes really made it great...giving the op a good old giant swing and having them land outside the ring was so fun! The WCW title looks fun wish I could have played it. Great video!
Mate I was concerned about having an epileptic fit at one point. Great video as always
Let me tell you man, I was a pro wrestler for about 10 years and even though I was in decent health when I started it took a heavy toll on my body.
Was it fun? In the words of Austin “oh hell yeah.”
Would I do it again? Probably.
But man I wish I was more careful.
But I did get to wrestle Cowboy Bob Orton ;)
But I appreciate this list, too many wrestling games didn’t get enough love on the NES.
Started story with "let me tell you..."pro wrestler confirmed!
@@mgarofalojr you can look me up. Kris Synz. Sadly I only have a few matches up online, but I have a snippet of me Vs. Bob Orton and a cage match where I wrestled the promoter and was paid to make him look good.
Another great ranking tier video, Riggs.
Keep 'em coming, brother \m/
I had the Amiga WWF game back in the day. Today 2022 I ordered Tecmo World wrestling on NES. I look forward to this journey back in time.
John, your professional wrestling career may not have panned out, but those villainous blue sunglasses of yours would give you the perfect look for a heel manager if you ever decided to become one! Also, awesome video as always!
for some reason Steel Cage challenge was my favorite on the NES, I think it was the combo of me being like 4, Bret Hart, and The Cage
i owned tag team and wrestlemania. spot on for rating those. took me over a year to realize tag team had a moveset when u locked up lol then i found pro wrestling and techmo wrestling at a friends house, what great games,solid S on those 2 as well! those cut scenes in techmo world wrestling are so sexy...
Well let me tell you something John Riggs..! Always rented WWF Wrestlemania Challenge when we’d rent an NES from the grocery store back in 1991, always thought even though you had a life bar it would play the wrestler’s theme music to show who was getting the upper hand, loved that charm..plus we owned King of the Ring and WWF Superstars for the Gameboy loved both of them on road trip vacations
Wrestlemania Challenge was a birthday gift request for me. I was a huge Warrior fan at the time, but for some reason Rick Rude and the Rude Awakening was my go-to. I only had like 7 NES games at the time, but a B is too generous. Solid C.The number of wrestlers in that game who have passed. RIP
It's because Vince McMoron overworks his talent. I'm hoping that AEW treats their wrestlers better.
Always love your reviews. I will love wrestling until the day i'm buried. Just haven't been watching much recently though. Heh, if you became a wrestler you could be called Truck Riggs :O
If you're burned out on WWE, you can try AEW.
Never played any of these growing up, but picked up the launch title pro wrestling for an NES race, and now I hold the one loop record for it. Love that game!!
WCW game on NES was awesome. Really dug the round robin style tag team tournament and selecting your moveset.
I had wreslemania, LOVED the graphics and sound quality. had NO idea how to play.
I'm glad to see that you ranked WCW Wrestling so high. That game came out of nowhere for me as a kid. I bought it from a Mom and Pop's video rental store that was closing it's doors in 1991 for like $5.00 and was surprised how good it was. Tecmo and Pro Wrestling are still the best, but I still had a blast with WCW.
This is a good ranking video
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Wcw wrestling had the iconic picture on the box of the road warriors, man NES games had such great box art.
Great video! My favorite wrestling game was Sega Master System's Pro Wrestling
Great video John, huge WWE fan. I can’t wait to meet you at Midwest Gaming Classic.
Retro gaming hippie approves! Another great video! If not a wrestler why not a manager? Could totally see your tag line: “you just got rigged!”
I got a everdrive and I have been watching these videos for good recommendations to play. Newest game I have loved from your recommendations is city connection
Hi John
TEMCO TEMCO TEMCO !!!!!!!
There are only 3 wrestling games i like and its WRESTLE FEST MAME, SATURDAY NIGHT SLAM MASTERS AND TEMCO!!!!!!
I used to play this with my brother and i love the cut scenes!!!!!
Thanks Danny
John i have been involved with pro wrestling for 20 years on the independent level now i know you have health issues but if you always wanted to do it is never to late you dont have to wrestle you can promote ref announce or manage and have just as much if not more fun if you were to wrestle it is never to late i hope you go after it and great video as always thanks for the content
The Big Rig John Riggs would’ve worked. I agree with your S tier ranked games. Those are some that I revisit often with NES games.
Been away for a long time..
Love the hair John!! 🤘 .. 😎
You liked Kin Korn Karn. Me too!!! I always liked him because his move set was basic and simple; and because he was Korean like me.
I love how Kin Korn Karn is Killer Khan with a different name his avatar really is Killer Khans face lol.
I was an Amazon kid myself. 😄
I first played pro wrestling on a 10 game nes stand up arcade machine in a hotel near Disney. I begged my parents for quarters. One of the best of all time. Still play it so many yrs later
I literally said “fuck yes” out loud when I saw the thumbnail for this video
I wish Capcom and Snk would collab with WWE to make a wrestling game crossover
Even better would be SNK handling the AEW side and Capcom handling the WWE. That or AEW V.S. WWE by SNK and WWE V.S. AEW by Capcom. Either way good call.
We want to see the John Riggs Backyard Wrestling Matches!!
Oh you have to upload those backyard wrestling videos
Oh man, here is a story. In 1991, on my 12'th birthday I go to the game store to buy a NES game. I ask the dude in the store for the best games and I am presented with two boxes.
One is Tecmo World Wrestling (featuring cool muscle dudes). The other was golden and featured a shield with some symbols on it.
-To this day I have never played a Zelda game.
Where in the heck is the thumbs down button? Naw! Just playing. You're actually one of my top gaming CZcamsrs. I don't actually have a favorite. Every one of you guys and gals bring real enjoyment to gaming. I'm kinda disabled, but hopefully I will start making videos soon. Peace out bro.
Nah bro gotta see those backyard wrestling tapes now 👍🏾😁☮️
I got food poisoning. In that starting to get better phase where I can warily nibble a saltine and sip a gingers ale. And watch John Riggs. The three combined are an age old home remedy.
ooh, sorry man. Food poisoning is the worst.
Wrestlemania is the only wrestling game I had on the NES and the music is simply amazing for 8bits!!! Brings back soooo many memories!
Completely agree. Played most of these and Tecmo is one of the most underrated games on NES.
Pro wrestling and John Riggs. Doesn’t get any better. I had most of these games. Big pro wrestling fan back in the 80s.
I tried so hard as a 6 year old kid to get good at Tag Team Wrestling.
Fun video, thanks!
My favorite was Pro Wrestling. All my friends loved being Star Man, but I was always Fighter Hayabusa. I won against them most of the time because I mastered Hayabusa's back-brain kick (which was essentially a form of the Ghetto-Blaster).
My least favorite was King of the Ring. I bought it at Toys R Us. Played it for an hour or two. Realized that every wrestler has the same move-set and the game was pretty much crap. Still not sure how, but I was able to return it later that day... lol.
As you know, I collect wrestling games. So I pretty much have all those games, except Toukon club. I pretty much agree with this list for the most part.
But good or bad, I still add them to the collection.
There's still some great ones out there.
Had no idea there were even 9 wrestling games on the NES!
Wrestling games can come up under appreciated/under appreciated for sure.
I have pretty fond memories of playing wrestlemania challenge on NES with my brother and my dad. They would probably say the let me win at times cause I’m a girl but I held my own, button mashing and all!
Wow That's awesome Pro wrestling for the Nes. I had that when I was a kid . I even downloaded it to my Cellphone📱 . I love the Music🎶!!!
hi Rigg's, " this makes me want to watch
wrestling again", :) Stone Cold, lol
Will you be doing more Rank and Reviews by publisher going forward? More nes? Perhaps more snes videos too? Well anyway love these rank and review videos, there is not many people doing these kind of vids. Now I know what to play
Pro Wrestling was definitely awesome.
With Muscle, I had the brick guy and one day found the claw guy. Made my week.
Tecmo World Wrestling is my number one, great list.
It's funny about the play as yourself. I was like, man, I must have gotten vitiligo and permed my hair.
Tecmo World Wrestling was definitely a favorite among my friends and I back in the day. It really wasn't until WWF Royal Rumble on SNES and Genesis that the Tecmo game fell out of our game rotation.
Yeah I can't remember what wrestling game I had on the mega drive but I got hooked on the wwf games on the ps2 spent some crazy hours playing them
Tecmo world Wrestling is my best loved the music as well!
Hahahaha I felt like I had drank a Alice in wonderland drink me potion. I was like : “ John is a big boy!!!” 😂🤣😂💪🏽
Let me tell you something brother Riggs, the wrestling games on NES was the worst there is the worst there was and the worst there ever will be🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nice Bret Hart reference lol. But the actual worst ever wrestling game isn't even on the NES at all. It's on the game boy color, which I suppose you could say is kind of a handheld NES. But either way, check out WWF Betrayal for GBC. I was so excited to get it as a Christmas present one year. I'd never heard of it, but I loved WWF and played all of the ps1 WWF games to death, even Attitude and War zone. So I assumed this would be a great game too. But oh my god, you start the game in a wrestling ring of course. But then someone kidnaps someone (I think it was Stephanie Mcmahon but its not important), and you leave the ring and just start walking around in streets in your underwear beating up thugs on the street. Yes, it's actually a beat em up game. What a bait and switch. And it's the worst beat em up game I have ever played. It is mind numbingly repetitive, and just difficult enough to make you keep dying to unfair bullshit because the hit boxes are so wonky. All you can do is punch, and occasionally do the finisher of your wrestler. That's it, 2 moves. Double Dragon managed to give multiple moves despite the NES pad only having 2 buttons, same as the game boy color, so why couldn't they do it for this wwf beat em up? Anyway yeah, I suggest you try it
It's the worst wrestling game, because it's kuet a terrible game, but also it bait and switches you, tricking you into thinking it's more of an actual wrestling game and not a bad beat em up, ya know?
Can you smell what the Atari VCS was cooking?!
@@ostiariusalpha it smells like amico intellivision
@@samholdsworth3957 WRONG! How can something that doesn't exist have a smell?
Pro-wrestling was great. My mom got it for us on sale for just $5 at the time. Had a lot of fun with it. I also remember seeing some pro wrestling show on TV as a kid once and I could have sworn I saw Star Man. It was probably a luchador.
The Arcade game for WWF was unreal use to play it after school in the 90's at a corner store had Royal rumble
Pro Wrestling was a game my friend had who was really into wrestling... me (at the time) not so much. We really loved playing it together and we always wondered what "The Amazon" was grabbing out of his pants... and nailing the ever so hard to nail Fighter Haybusa's "Back Brain" kick... which almost never landed, and if you missed, you left yourself wide open.
I’m thinking a fork? Maybe a fish hook?
glad i'm not the only one who mained with kin korn carn
now I usually go with star man or slender, but I occasionally use kin korn carn.
great video 👍
Tag Team Wrestling had some weird charm that kept me playing it. Tecmo WW is a masterpiece though.
Early mornin Riggs! Alright!
So which wrestling game had the face scratch move? I remember it was hard to block for some and my cousin wouldn't allow it. The next time I did it he got super angry, then did the move on my face... lol
wwf steel cage was one of my intros to games and wrestling when I was like 6 in Mexico , to me it was awesome good times
Same here.. Love from India❤🙂
Great list and great content! I played all of these games except the King of the Ring because I was fully into the 16 bit era when that game came out, and was having a good time with WWF Royal Rumble on the SNES. That said, It is all personal preference, but my only disagreement is that I would have moved Pro Wrestling into the A tier and WCW into S tier. Hard to argue with your list though. Very good!
Awsome vid
There was one wrestling (or fighting) game on NES where you could win every match by just holding down the fire button if you had a controller with auto fire. I started the game, put a chair on the A or B button and then watched the game play itself until I won the tournament. Can’t remember the name of it, maybe it’s one of the games in the video but none of them look quite how I remember it.
I enjoyed NES Pro Wrestling so much, that when I got a PS2, I made CAWs of the roster to pit against WWE Superstars. I used WWE SmackDown Here Comes The Pain. Great fun.
I was a big wrestling fan as a kid, but weirdly don't recall playing anything on the NES. It wasn't until much later with the N64 WCW and later WWF games that I played any. That said, based on the fact that I ONLY knew of WWF at the time it looks like a good thing I didn't play those games.
I AGREE WITH THIS LIST!!! I was so disappointed as a child when i got wwf wrestlemania for my birthday as a kid lol
Tecmo was ALWAYS tops in our house. Especially for SPorts games. Tecmo was on fire from 85-95. Always a safe buy, was Tecmo.
Great stuff! Love the lineup I think I would of put the WCW at an S though.
Steel Cage Challenge & King of the Ring = how do we take Super Wrestlemania and shrink it down to the 8-bit systems? Good list!
Never heard of Muscle and what a creative acronym lol
It may be Sumo Wrestling, but there is also Tsuppari Oozumou for the Famicom. The cartridge even has a gameplay image on the back label. It's only fitting if you own a Famicom to own a Sumo Wrestling game.
Loved WCW World Championship Wrestling! That is my #1 then have to go with WWF Wrestlemania challenge as #2.
Glad to see you agree that Tecmo World Wrestling is S tier. That game is so good!
Tecmo World Wrestling was great. It played almost identically to Nintendo's Pro Wrestling, and it was almost like a follow-up. And both of them inspired Fire Pro Wrestling's grapple system.
NES Pro Wrestling was surprisingly advanced for the time.. makes sense since it was developed by the people who would go on to make the Fire Pro games.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for givingPro Wrestling an 'S' rating. Sooooooo many hours playing this game. The funny part is I only have tried 1 or 2 other wrastlin' games in the 25 yrs since Pro Wrestling came out.
An immediate Rick Flair woooo! After seeing this notification.
Are you sure it wasn't a Sting, "Woooo!!"?
Never made any sense that the biggest rivalry in WCW was two guys using the same taunt.
When Sting did more of an Aaaaaooowwwww it made more sense but his Woooow, it's too close.
There is no one better suited for this video!