Wrestling games were the holy grail to me as a kid. I still remember trying to convince my self I liked European Rampage on the Amiga ☠️ wish I'd have known about the fire pro games, I did actually love Royal Rumble on my SNES, but would have been so excited to find all of these other titles. Great videos my man, I absolutely love them 💪🏻
Ooooh! I learned about this game from a Kim Justice vid on 'obscure Japanese pro wrestling games that aren't FirePro' and ya, this game looks stacked on many levels. Thanks for covering this one in detail and looking forward to more of these!
Really underrated game. I remember playing this one a little back in the late 90s, a few people in the Fire Pro scene liked it as well. It's a lot of fun, and a lot of options that we still don't see often enough for a lot of newer games (like guest referee).
In North America, I highly recommend Natsume Championship Wrestling for the SNES... A true hidden gem that is playable by th masses today with the SNES playlist with a Nintendo Switch Online membership (just the basic membership is required for NES, SNES, and Original Game Boy)
Oh, man! I would love to see a video on Saturday Night Slam Masters. I loved that game as a kid and I have fond memories of it. Amazing job as always, Wrestling Bios!!
I'm actually putting together something for Slam Masters. I began earlier in the week, just recording footage for the different home ports. Hoping to finish it next week (or the week after).
I looked at that new Fire Pro Wrestling game and then I saw all the old wrestlers from the 70s and 80s (my era) that were created in the workshop, along with the old rings and I had to say...how much time on this planet do I have left to sink 5000 hrs into that game lol
Awesome! I own a huge pile of these Super Famicom Japanese wrestling games! They're so cheap (or at least were 15 years ago when I bought most of them) that I just had to! Great to see them getting some love here on the channel! Thanks for all the hard work! You deserve all the views!
Awesome stuff. Looking forward to some more Japanese game videos. There’s some real gems out there, Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 on N64 is the big one everyone talks about but other ones I think folks should look at are Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling Toukon Retsiden 3 on PS1, Giant Gram 2 and 3 on Dreamcast, and the bevy of PS2 games like the All Star Pro Wrestling series, King of the Colosseum 2, and Wrestle Kingdom 2
Awesome video! I'd really recommend sitting down and familiarizing yourself with the katakana alphabet, especially if you want to seriously get into imported Japanese games. The letters are fairly simple to learn and you can really take advantage of the Japanese tendency to use English loan-words; the menu shown at 1:21 is about 50% understandable just with the ability to read katakana, which really helps reduce your reliance on looking back and forth at a guide. I learned katakana to help me play a different series, Super Robot Wars, that was Japanese exclusive (at the time) and it really helped reduce my frustration with navigating/memorizing menus.
Freakin' awesome lineup. It's like the FIFA or FIBA World Cup but for wrestling! UWF roster may only have 4 guys but Suzuki and Shamrock alone could murder the competition 😅
As a big fan of the movie Hook the Sega CD version of Hook which includes the films original sound track is the best way to play that game, hidden gem for sure
Great episode the mega I had was a Japanese console I got a game called ring side angels it was hard to figure out but the finishing moves where metal wrestling bios with love ya
Amazingly never played this one and I thought I got to play every SNES Japanese wrestling game. Or maybe I did but I was to invested in Fire Pro and the AJPW games to care about this one.
A few years ago I discovered an absolute gem of a game. Kings Soul AJPW for ps1 (japan only). Its a 3d wrestler made by Human, who made the Fire pro games. They were the precursor to the king of colloseum ps2 games, but I prefer this ps1 game cause the pacing of the matches are more in line with a 90s AJPW match (KOC and KOC2 was too arcadey for my taste) You should do a review someday!!
I'd love to see videos covering the Japanese versions of Wcw/Nwo Revenge and World Tour. I found both games at a hole in wall video rental store back when I was a kid and they blew my mind. They were both so far ahead of the American versions. THQ added moves and aspects to those games that weren't available in America until Wrestlemania 2000 was released. Not gonna lie I have "permanently rented" one of those Japanese versions.
You forgot one of the major concepts of pre "Raw vs. Smackdown" wrestling games-- how's the music? Wrestling games have some of the most intense and banging music ever.
the only game I have played is wwf war zone for the Playstation and I was wondering if you would ever do a video about the the rock or cena now that could have been much better if it was a different time period but anyway keep up the good work
Burning Pro STINKS. I used to play Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium on emulators in The 90's. i played it in the 90's the only cool thing about it was having wrestlers as The Referee & Playing as a Ref. All Japan was very good for SNES but came to US as Natsume Championship Wrestling. Konami made an awesome Japanese wrestling game I believe it was called Hybrid Pro Wrestling it was more like Slam Masters not based on real wrestlers but had GREAT Weapons based matches & striking that even Fire Pro Lacks in Collision Detection.
Is there a modern version of this or Fire Pro ? I bet Japanese wrestling games destroy WWE games now . Damn , I got to look into modern Puroresu games ! Speaking of , PLEASE do a video about new wrestling games from Japan !!!! Im now dying to see how good they are now considering how well this 8 bit game was put together .
@@Brando-Lee3725 a lot of reasons, japanese wrestling games never sell well, and now as wrestling is not as popular they probably think would sell even less.
It's so stupid how this rip-off games had a better roster than the actual licensed games, and in most cases it was simply because companies just wanted the game out asap with as little money put into it as possible. Even in the early 2000s we had Smack Down and RAW games remove wrestlers from the game (or hide as you showed in one of your reviews) because of time, or the wrestler got injured so WWE didn't want to pay them any royalties from the game.
@@pafoneto1275 Did you read my whole comment or did you stopped at licensed and just thought you knew the rest?, I never said anything about the actual license, I said the reasons some wrestlers weren't in it was because the companies rushed the game so even after the wrestler was in it they blocked them out, or because they got injured so they just didn't have them so they couldn't get royalties from it.
It’s pretty mid tbh. Really no reason to play it over X Premium. You showed a clip of Super Battle 7 in the intro, now there’s a friggin’ game. Very similar to the Technos arcade games. 2 of the 3 Varie wrestling games on SFC are pretty great.
I felt so cheated when I started discovering all the of awesome wrestling games I missed as a child!
Yeah the fire pro games have been light years ahead for decades and in some ways still are
Same
Wrestling games were the holy grail to me as a kid. I still remember trying to convince my self I liked European Rampage on the Amiga ☠️ wish I'd have known about the fire pro games, I did actually love Royal Rumble on my SNES, but would have been so excited to find all of these other titles. Great videos my man, I absolutely love them 💪🏻
Ooooh! I learned about this game from a Kim Justice vid on 'obscure Japanese pro wrestling games that aren't FirePro' and ya, this game looks stacked on many levels. Thanks for covering this one in detail and looking forward to more of these!
Last time I was this early for a video, people drank Bud Light.
Really underrated game. I remember playing this one a little back in the late 90s, a few people in the Fire Pro scene liked it as well. It's a lot of fun, and a lot of options that we still don't see often enough for a lot of newer games (like guest referee).
In North America, I highly recommend Natsume Championship Wrestling for the SNES... A true hidden gem that is playable by th masses today with the SNES playlist with a Nintendo Switch Online membership (just the basic membership is required for NES, SNES, and Original Game Boy)
I love the wrestling game retrospectives! You do such a great job man, they're some of my favorites here on CZcams. So detailed and complete 👌
Oh, man! I would love to see a video on Saturday Night Slam Masters. I loved that game as a kid and I have fond memories of it.
Amazing job as always, Wrestling Bios!!
I'm actually putting together something for Slam Masters. I began earlier in the week, just recording footage for the different home ports. Hoping to finish it next week (or the week after).
@@WrestlingBios Awesome! I can’t wait to see it. Keep up the great work.
@@WrestlingBios you really spoil us, bro. Thanks for all the work you do.
YES !!!!! I somehow still have the cover and instruction booklet for that game all these years later !!!
This channel is a blessing! Thanks so much for all your amazing work!
I can't wait for a future virtual pro wrestling 2 review.
I just ran through your entire wrestling game series in three days. Hope you keep at it 💪
Thank god for emulators.
Thanks for the perfect drop at the perfect time!!
Saturday Night Slam Masters next :D
On a U.S. SNES, all you need to do is cut out the tabs in the cartridge slot on the SNES and that's how you can play Super Famicom games.
Or you can take the motherboard of the cartridge out of the shell and put it in a U.S. SNES shell. 😄😅
Or use a Game Genie, which is the easiest way.
@@AllieRX You have to open the system to do that while the other way you don't.
I looked at that new Fire Pro Wrestling game and then I saw all the old wrestlers from the 70s and 80s (my era) that were created in the workshop, along with the old rings and I had to say...how much time on this planet do I have left to sink 5000 hrs into that game lol
Don't forget Fire Pro: Special Edition on Super Famicom. That one has the most depressing ending ever in a wrestling video game.
Tecmo Pro Wrestling on NES will always be the greatest wrestling game. Love the camera angle changes during finishers.
I got myself a super famicom, a sega genesis, an old crt and everdrives for both consoles. Nothing better than playing on original hardware.
It just seems like there's So Much stuff packed in to some of these SNES\Super Famicom games.
😄👍
I can't wait for you to cover HCTP and SVR 2005 . Just the videos aswell makes me excited
Awesome! I own a huge pile of these Super Famicom Japanese wrestling games! They're so cheap (or at least were 15 years ago when I bought most of them) that I just had to! Great to see them getting some love here on the channel!
Thanks for all the hard work! You deserve all the views!
Awesome stuff.
Looking forward to some more Japanese game videos. There’s some real gems out there,
Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 on N64 is the big one everyone talks about but other ones I think folks should look at are Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling Toukon Retsiden 3 on PS1, Giant Gram 2 and 3 on Dreamcast, and the bevy of PS2 games like the All Star Pro Wrestling series, King of the Colosseum 2, and Wrestle Kingdom 2
Awesome video! I'd really recommend sitting down and familiarizing yourself with the katakana alphabet, especially if you want to seriously get into imported Japanese games. The letters are fairly simple to learn and you can really take advantage of the Japanese tendency to use English loan-words; the menu shown at 1:21 is about 50% understandable just with the ability to read katakana, which really helps reduce your reliance on looking back and forth at a guide. I learned katakana to help me play a different series, Super Robot Wars, that was Japanese exclusive (at the time) and it really helped reduce my frustration with navigating/memorizing menus.
really wish we got a WWF game like this back in the day
I remember MJC2021 covering this back in the day. Really fun game.
Freakin' awesome lineup. It's like the FIFA or FIBA World Cup but for wrestling! UWF roster may only have 4 guys but Suzuki and Shamrock alone could murder the competition 😅
Always love seeing your breakdowns and thoughts on different wrestling games. Can't wait to see the others!
Your videos are awesome man I've been binge watching a ton of them
As a big fan of the movie Hook the Sega CD version of Hook which includes the films original sound track is the best way to play that game, hidden gem for sure
Not that long gotten home from work. Something to watch whilst dinner cooks.
Appreciate your videos. Always great content.
I love the idea to have a series on these lesser known wrestling games. Great content as always.
Great Video this looks awesome 👌
Honestly NL got me into Wrestling Collosum 2 which looked amazing
These video reviews are neat
Great posting of this video game and look forward to other wrestling games you plan to post…. Saturday Night Slammasters….
Great episode the mega I had was a Japanese console I got a game called ring side angels it was hard to figure out but the finishing moves where metal wrestling bios with love ya
Amazingly never played this one and I thought I got to play every SNES Japanese wrestling game. Or maybe I did but I was to invested in Fire Pro and the AJPW games to care about this one.
I would love it if WWE games ever added a round robin style tournament so we can make our own G1 Climax tournaments in game!
Love playing these . Still have my original snes and have been buying the super Famicom versions to collect
"Just a quick video". 17 minutes long.
Idk if you planned it this way or not, but the snare in the outro song, sounds like Lars Ulrich's via Saint Anger
Totally looking forward to more of these Japanese Super Famicom wrestling game reviews
A few years ago I discovered an absolute gem of a game. Kings Soul AJPW for ps1 (japan only). Its a 3d wrestler made by Human, who made the Fire pro games. They were the precursor to the king of colloseum ps2 games, but I prefer this ps1 game cause the pacing of the matches are more in line with a 90s AJPW match (KOC and KOC2 was too arcadey for my taste)
You should do a review someday!!
I'd love to see videos covering the Japanese versions of Wcw/Nwo Revenge and World Tour. I found both games at a hole in wall video rental store back when I was a kid and they blew my mind. They were both so far ahead of the American versions. THQ added moves and aspects to those games that weren't available in America until Wrestlemania 2000 was released. Not gonna lie I have "permanently rented" one of those Japanese versions.
Über cool vid, more obscure games please!
Damn man I wish I had this one!!
Hook was so good!
Wrestling game have evolved ALOT over the years JFC
Woah! Andy Hug!
You forgot one of the major concepts of pre "Raw vs. Smackdown" wrestling games-- how's the music? Wrestling games have some of the most intense and banging music ever.
Oh yeah, baby
the only game I have played is wwf war zone for the Playstation and I was wondering if you would ever do a video about the the rock or cena now that could have been much better if it was a different time period but anyway keep up the good work
@Wrestling Bios, you should try Slam Masters.
Where is Steve Mu'fuggin Blackman?
Good
Giant Gram 2000 for the Naomi is great.
And the Dreamcast port is pretty cheap still I think
remember World of Sport? you were not allowed to jump off the top rope for a long time.
🔥🔥🔥
0:15 where can u get some of these graphics telling all the games?😊
the roster alone made me mark out
Nice! Reminds me of printing out a gamefaqs translation and ordering new japan pro wrestling 3 for the original PlayStation. That was a great game.
Woooooooo
Virtual pro wrestling 2 for n64 is worth the review. It's the best game ever made imo.
No mercy engine
No Mercy has the Virtual Pro Wrestling engine With Added Tables. VPW 2 was First.
@jayceegenocide4402 facts. I wanted ppl who didnt know to understand thst it's the same engine. The biggest difference is the shoot fighting/mma stuff
@@kaodik Yeah it's dumb that they took it out. Should have kept it in for Ken Shamrock. Bill Goldberg had a prototype version of it in WCW Revenge.
@jayceegenocide4402 there wasnt enough characters I don't think. But that's the main r3ason why I choose vp2.
Burning Pro STINKS. I used to play Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium on emulators in The 90's. i played it in the 90's the only cool thing about it was having wrestlers as The Referee & Playing as a Ref.
All Japan was very good for SNES but came to US as Natsume Championship Wrestling. Konami made an awesome Japanese wrestling game I believe it was called Hybrid Pro Wrestling it was more like Slam Masters not based on real wrestlers but had GREAT Weapons based matches & striking that even Fire Pro Lacks in Collision Detection.
Can we see a Cody Rhodes complete career video?
Is there a modern version of this or Fire Pro ? I bet Japanese wrestling games destroy WWE games now . Damn , I got to look into modern Puroresu games ! Speaking of , PLEASE do a video about new wrestling games from Japan !!!! Im now dying to see how good they are now considering how well this 8 bit game was put together .
They aren't any japanese wrestling game now. They stopped doing them.
@@pafoneto1275 Well that sucks . I wonder why ? Popularity in wrestling there is not as it once was ? Anyway , thanks for the info
@@Brando-Lee3725 a lot of reasons, japanese wrestling games never sell well, and now as wrestling is not as popular they probably think would sell even less.
If you have an everdrive then why do you need to wait for the games to ship?
Because he likes to Flex about it.
I got WWF Super WrestleMania for Christmas one year, and I'm still bitter about it. Most disappointing game ever.
Just dl the roms
It's so stupid how this rip-off games had a better roster than the actual licensed games, and in most cases it was simply because companies just wanted the game out asap with as little money put into it as possible. Even in the early 2000s we had Smack Down and RAW games remove wrestlers from the game (or hide as you showed in one of your reviews) because of time, or the wrestler got injured so WWE didn't want to pay them any royalties from the game.
Is not stupid, the licensed games obviously only can used wrestler that are... Licensed. I mean, what you are saying is actually stupid.
@@pafoneto1275 Did you read my whole comment or did you stopped at licensed and just thought you knew the rest?, I never said anything about the actual license, I said the reasons some wrestlers weren't in it was because the companies rushed the game so even after the wrestler was in it they blocked them out, or because they got injured so they just didn't have them so they couldn't get royalties from it.
@@ernieb352
Yes I read it, and it doesn't change what I said. Your comment just doesn't make any sense.
@@pafoneto1275 No you didn't, you are stuck on the license part only and not the whole comment so forget it then.
@@ernieb352
Your whole comment doesn't deny mine.
It’s pretty mid tbh. Really no reason to play it over X Premium.
You showed a clip of Super Battle 7 in the intro, now there’s a friggin’ game. Very similar to the Technos arcade games. 2 of the 3 Varie wrestling games on SFC are pretty great.
Am i actually first!?
3rd
nice filler -_-