/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2310712
Wrestlemania Arcade is pretty good.

>>2310712
This game was the shit...

Best /vr/? Wrestlemania 2000.

Absolute best?

Def Jam: Fight For New York

>>2310713
The one with Mortal Kombat graphics?

That's my favorite

Pretty unique game

>>2310712
The best wreslting game series is probably Fire Pro Wrestling. Those games are mandrama encyclopeadias... I'm not shitting you, gameplay wise and because of the amount of wrestlers.
Start with Fire Pro Wrestling D for the Dreamcast. But it's in JAP though... there is a translated version going around there somewhere... Check out that series on gamefaqs or something, many games for many consoles, retro and not.

>>2310712
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
WWF No Mercy
Virtual Pro Wrestling
King of Colosseum II

Those are pretty much the elite 4 in terms of replayability and overall quality. I'd throw WWF WrestleFest in there as the top 5 for sheer fun factor alone.

Also check out these:

WWF WrestleMania 2000 (N64 version ONLY!)
WCW vs. nWo World Tour
WCW / nWo Revenge
Virtual Pro Wrestling
King of Colosseum
Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special
Super Fire Pro Wrestling Queen's Special
Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium
Fire Pro Wrestling S
Fire Pro Wrestling D
Fire Pro Wrestling (GBA)
Final Fire Pro Wrestling (japanese version of Fire Pro Wrestling 2 on GBA, features TONS of content cut from the American release)
Gekkitou Burning Pro Wrestling
Jikkyou Power Pro Wrestling '96 Max Voltage
Big Bang Pro Wrestling
Saturday Night Slam Masters
Zen Nippon Pro Wrestling Fight da Pon!

There's some other shit for PS2 that I'm forgetting the names of, but those should give you most, though certainly not all, of the top tier wrestling games.

>>2310881
The game third down in the top column should read Virtual Pro Wrestling 2. Sorry about that.

My favorite game is WWF Smackdown!: Know your Role 2

Game plays amazingly and is a time capsule of my favorite era of wrestling I personally got to watch as a kid. When Smackdown just came out and was light years ahead of RAW, man, even back then you saw how out of touch Vince was starting to get.

>>2311003
I enjoyed this one too, it wasn't a sim kinda game like Fire Pro Wrestling, but it was fun as hell. Once you mastered it, i think the best part of it was playing the game making it look like the matches you would see on TV: letting hte AI get some offense and finishers, selling the interferences, etc.

>>2310720
dat based Henry Rollins

The best wrestling game is the fictional one that Pat suggested that was all about selling and calling good spots.

And No Mercy.

Working on a collection of none WWF wrestling games.
The 2600 "Pro wrestling" must be played, its awful but every move sounds like an explosion

Best /vr/ wrestling game I would have to say is No Mercy.

But best non-/vr/ wrestling game? [Spoiler]Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation[/spoiler] I never see this game brought up anywhere online, but it is fucking amazing. It doesn't exactly fit into the same category as Fire Pro or the WWF games, but I still think it's the best.

>>2311724
And I fucked up a spoiler. I'm off to kill myself.

Nigga, those Aki developed wrestling games are the GOAT.

Is the only reason people prefer No Mercy because they're WCW marks? Wrestlemania 2000 is functionally the same game with more options, so I'm always curious why they think No Mercy is better.

>>2311748
Create-A-Wrestler mode.

>>2311748
You're confusing No Mercy with WCW/nWo Revenge

>>2310712
>>2310754
Would anyone here be interested in some saves for Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium on SNES?

Not NOW, but somewhere down the road whenever I finish them.

>>2311809
Id be interested in the English dreamcast one, its to much fiddling about for me to get it going

>>2311821
Wasn't really planning on doing anything with D, though I suppose I might start on Returns when I'm done with X Premium.

>>2311821
I've seen a translated FPWD that comes with files incorporated inside, you have to activate "internet" on either the emulator or the Dreamcast to "download" the files from the ISO, it translates the names of all the wrestlers, however it doesn't unlock the hidden ones. You have to beat at least one tournament (can't remember the name) to unlock all the wrestlers, the easiest one to beat is the 4 man tag team interpromotion title.

Here comes the pain
No Mercy
The original SVR
Smackdown 2 [if you can bare skipping matches]
Fire Pro for PS2
that japanese wrasslin game for N64, thats th same engine as no mercy but has mma style modes [NJPW, AJPW? ]

>>2311792
Yes I am. Apologies.

>>2311792
>>2311914
Revenge was cool, too though. Best WCW game at the very least.

I always liked wrestling but only played Day ofReckoning 1 and 2 on the Gamecube. I guess I should get one for the N64, for which I'm currently collecting games.

>>2310712

I got WCW Mayhem for the N64 the other day. Great roster, but not very fun. Any N64 wrestling game not made by AKI/THQ is fucking garbage.

>>2311917
I asked about N64 wrestling games a few months ago and people were telling me Revenge was the best game on the N64. Now No Mercy seems to be the universal answer. Weird.

Smackdown vs Raw 2006 is the best.

WCW vs nWo World

>>2312232
>this post

I think you just stumbled on the greatest mistery of the 21st century.

There's some food for thought here, either the entity known as /vr/ has changed tastes or we've all been played.

I personally really liked Here Comes the Pain and the original SvR, I skipped a few years after SvR 2007 and picked up WWE '12 when I got my PS3. It was fun but the online is down. RIP THQ

>>2312109
>ask for No Mercy for Christmas
>get Backstage Assault instead

>>2313758

WCW Backstage Assault is one of the worst games ever.

>>2313803
It was released in the dying days of WCW, the roster was lacking and NO RING! Its not one of the worst, its not even one of the worst rasslin games, try Mat mania

>>2313803
>>2313758
I found a sealed copy of Backstage Assault at 2nd and Charles for $3. I'm not even gonna open it. I'm keeping it as my own private museum piece to shitty games.

>>2313902

$3 is a decent price for a coaster.

>>2313816
>Its not one of the worst, its not even one of the worst rasslin games, try Mat mania

Yeah, but Backstage Assault was released 15 years after Mat Mania. There's less of an excuse for it to be that shitty.

>>2314325
Yes there is, its by EA during there rise to evil
At least its more fun than those ECW games
I was working in a game store when those Acclaim ones where coming out
>Warzone - People kinda liked as it was different, but down down down grapple should not be for a pile driver.
>Attitude - (RIP Owen Hart, it got delayed due to that), was better than WZ, but people soon got rid of it
>ECW HR - This stuck around, people liked ECW, but as soon as they found out it was just Attitude reskined they lost interest, plus WWF WM2k was out.
>ECW AZ - Nobody gave a shit about it, it was a sinker from day one and before long we where selling it for under a tenner, didnt help that it came out in the same year as the last one, even the wrestling fans that got every wrestling game didnt want it.

I wasn't around for the Legends of wrestling games as I walked out on the job due to "Differences with the boss"

>>2314794
>I wasn't around for the Legends of wrestling games as I walked out on the job due to "Differences with the boss"

Story?

>>2316350
Well..............
He had his own customers that never bought anything, I had mine that spent some serious cash, I took a week off, came back and he basically told them all to go to the other store and was rude to them (really most asked who "That other guy" was), then he stopped giving the store I managed the new titles, sometimes it was a fortnight before we got them, I lost a lot of custom due to that.
He also didnt get any Xbox stuff in and ignored the staffs advice on what to get in and instead getting stuff that we couldn't sell or display (softcore porn DVDs), I think LOW was out, but nobody cared
Then the store got robbed a few times, his response was "Why didn't you call the police? If this happens again I wont be able to pay you" We had a panic button that worked when it wanted to. I also lost a customer due to that as well as one guy (That me and the other bloke called "Taz" as he looked like him) was buying a game at the time and the boss wouldn't allow me to refund him the tenner he spent or osrt him with a replacement game
I got a job stacking shelf's and didn't show up again, didn't even hand in my notice.
Just got a call off the boss on my mobile phone round closing time that I ignored

Annnnnnnyway
I do remember one quiet Sunday showing some kids how to really play WCW/NWO revenge, they knew the basics, but not how to do diving moves, counters, the doomsday device, I still kept beating them.

>>2310754
>>2311821
RETURNS is the only FPW title you need. It's officially translated to English. No need for incomplete English patched copies of D or Returns.

RETURNS > Z > D > SMS > G > X

>>2310881
>dat list
MY NIGGA
You forgot Giant Gram 2000 (Dreamcast) & Wrestle War (arcade).

I only played the first WCW vs NWO. It was pretty fun, in a butten masher kind of way. The whole game felt like it was a bar room brawl.

Speaking of which, do we have any games that feature a good, old fashioned drunken brawl in a pub/inn/tavern? Not 1vs1 or 2vs2 but an entire inn full of drunkards hitting each other with chairs and bottles flying around and shit.

>>2311809
I used to frequent a forum dedicated to such saves WAYYYYY back in the day, FireProHeaven.

>>2317945
>Speaking of which, do we have any games that feature a good, old fashioned drunken brawl in a pub/inn/tavern?

In the horrible WCW Backstage Assault you can fight in several backstage areas. You can even set 2X4s on fire and hit people with them. Wanna jump off a soda machine onto your opponent? You can do that as well. It's the closest you get to what you described.

The game is shit.

>>2310712
You already have the correct answer, OP. The reason(s): CAWS & mods.

>>2311614
I always thought that was just poor crowd sound effects

No Saturday Night Slam Masters?

I take it that much like real sports, unlicensed games are dead in this genre

>>2318080
isn't that more of a street fighter style 2d fighter rather than a wrasslin game ?
i still have to try it as im a fan of both

>>2318116
>isn't that more of a street fighter style 2d fighter rather than a wrasslin game ?

It's kind of like Final Fight with pins.

>>2318071
That's the magic of the Atari. Your imagination was forced to pick up a lot of the load.

>>2318080
got mentioned already >>2310881

>>2318325
Yeah it was ment to be the audience, but the idea of it being explosions makes the game seem better

>>2318967
>>2318325
>>2318071
>>2311614

Are you guys talking about Title Match Pro Wrestling on the Atari 2600?

It's not a good game, but impressive that you could pick from 4 characters.

>>2318071
>>2311614
>The 7800 version uses the exact same sounds as the 2600 version
I can't believe they actually thought this system could compete with the NES.

>>2318979
the version I have is just called Pro Wrestling, but it is the same game.
Its pants, but at least they tried.

at least it isnt as bad as the 7800s Mat Maina, the CPU just wants to be annoying

>>2317945
SmackDown! 2 offers this.

>>2317931
Yeah, those as well I guess.

>>2317971
That was 10+ years ago IIRC. I'm planning on getting back into it soon. Might post some info/screenshots sometime this week.

>>2318080
Great game.

>>2318116
It's like wrestling meets fighting. The sequel is a full blown fighter with vague wrestling elements, but no pins.

>>2317945
No Mercy has a bar in one of the backstage sections. You can also have a four player brawl with no teams instead of 2v2.

>>2317945
Pit fighter?

>>2310712

How the fuck are people forgetting Tecmo World Wrestling on the NES?

I spent a lot of weekends renting that game when I was a little kid,

I'm a big fan of about half of the smackdown series.

Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role
Smackdown! 3: Just Bring It
Smackdown! 4: Shut Your Mouth
Smackdown! 5: Here Comes the Pain

Then it became Smackdown! vs RAW, I actually like the first SVR a bunch, but they seemed to get less and less good after that. WWE '14 and '15 are better now days, atleast.