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This was one of my favorite games, along with Castlevania , Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, Zelda, Contra and so on . This is before everything was on line and you had to wait till your favorite game's either were at the local Arcade or until they were available to buy. Nothing was instant like it is now. We had to have patience.
I’m 47 now. This was the second Nintendo game I ever owned. My mother surprised me with it as an Easter present in ‘87. I was 10. I’ll never forget that as long as I live. The 80s were an awesome time to be a kid. Love you, mama.
Classic game that acompanied me 1987-2020 Stage 1 : Bought it and played it alone. Stage 2 : Played with/against a buddy. Stage 3 : Hosted tournaments with friends. Stage 4 : Drinking/party-game with squad. Stage 5 : Playing with my 3 sons. Stage 6 : Playing by myself again. Still fun at 55 years of age.
Love the literal translations of the moves found in the manual as they are actual wrestling moves: 1) Rolling Sole Butt = Rolling Sobat (spinning heel kick) 2) Plunger = Plancha (crossbody splash to the outside of the ring)
Same here. I remember me and my younger brothers playing this for this first time. This game was awesome. My brother would get so mad at me for beating him every time lol
The great poem is easy. The beat by pinfall with star man and tuna slinda. You basically hit-and-run, do you get his energy? Doand jump off the rope just befthe round is over, you can pin him.
I think some of the og nes and snes games were the best ever made in history. Like kids have to be so technical getting the exact timing down and button pressing. Double dribble, Mario, punch out, etc
My friend had this for his NES back in 1988, and we'd have matches before school, and during school we'd write handwritten promos for our characters and pass the notes to each other during class, building up to the next face off before school the next day :)
I got the original NES as a Christmas present back in 1986 when I was 11 years old. To this day, it is still my favorite Christmas gift I ever received. It’s still my favorite video game console ever made
45 yrs old and Starman was my wrestler for this wonderful game. Played it for hours and hours. Great times. Just put the game in and go. No updates or anything needed downloading. Love your content.
That masked green guy is The Amazon! lol you probably loved playing Mat Mania at the arcades as much as I did! That's where the masked wrestler "The Pirania" (sic) appears :)
Man this game was everything! I remember we would play the game and argue all the time. Then we'd go outside and have a real wrestling match to settle who was the best!
I'm 43. This game was one of the 3 video games I ever remember my dad ever playing. He also played a little of Tiger Heli, and Lethal Enforcers for the SNES. RIP Dad
42 and my dad never played a video game I can recall. He was a Vietnam veteran. He let us play but was quick to remind us that it wasn't reality and that the smell of burning human flesh is a lot more disturbing than we might think. Which for 8 year old kids, we didn't have any idea what burning flesh smelled like. Love you dad
Hahaha it seems like most of us in our 40s have similar memories of a dad being standoffish with the new Nintendo, like he didn't quite trust it (maybe Terminator was to blame?). Until seeing a game that made him try "the stupid thing"- it was 'Guerilla War' my dad finally played. After that, he and his friends played that game non-stop, my mom had to make him stop so I could play. I still remember getting put to bed then immediately hearing the start screen music.... That was nothing compared to what happened when he discovered 'Zelda'!!! Mom made him buy his own system after that. Good times.
I remember when I finally beat Great Puma. I was dancing around screaming in my room. Took hundreds of tries but felt so good to win against him. I just recently found my original NES and will be playing this again soon.
This has always been my favorite NES game, and that was even after I didn't like watching wrestling on TV anymore. Edit: Sorry, 2nd favorite behind River City Ransom. My bad, I'm old.
@@jesselynklove25 What does that have to do with the game? Cody Rhodes was born in 1985, only three years before the PRO WRESTLING game came out. The two have nothing to do with each other, except for the "star".
Thank you for showing me this game. I played this game when I was around 6-7 years old with my late uncle. This brings bag wonderful memories. He was the only close relative that play Video Games with me. We never knew that we can challenge a secret boss we just keep playing versus mode with my friends and my uncle. My uncle favorite anime is Tiger Mask
So glad I stumbled upon this today. I bought this game about 3 months or so ago and my younger brother and I have been kicking each others asses all the way down memory lane since. Great video for a supremely underrated game.
NO idea why UA-cam suggested this to me 5 years after it came out, but I'm happy about it. Some happy memories of this game. Only wrestling game on the NES I liked as much or more was Tecmo World Wrestling!
I'm thinking The Amazon was patterned after The Missing Link. He wore green and blue face paint, was billed as being from Parts Unknown, and was just an out-of-control wildman.
Yep. Huge in Hawaii too, so Japanese people were more likely to see him. Fans of wrestling in the Contiguous 48 might know him better as Pampero Firpo. If you've never saw him, I bet you still know his catch phrase: It was lifted by Randy Macho Man Savage, "OOOOOOH YEAH!"
There was also a character in Kinnikkuman ( or M.U.S.C.L.E, for those who rememeber) who looked exactly like the amazon, called Atlantis. I always assumed this was what Amazon was based on.
@@SaintStryfeArgentEngraving The Missing Link with that awesome green face paint was Dewey Robertson. Pampero Firpo was a different person. Pampero definitely had that low gravel voice that made Macho famous, Ohhhh yeaaah. The fork thing reminds me of Abdullah the Butcher
This was one of my favorite NES games. I never owned it, but the amount we spent on renting it, it would've been cheaper to buy it. I always played Starman or Amazon.
GenerationGapGaming same! Mine was 3 blocks away and next to a DQ(ice cream place). It was amazing. Brought my 5 year old to get ice cream there after her first day of school 2 days ago,,,,, so many great memories
"Rolling Sole Butt" is actually a mistranslation of "Rolling Sobat", which is an actual wrestling move. Basically you spin around 180 degrees and do a jumping back-kick to your opponent's chest or stomach.
The best character choice when you had a turbo controller was King Slender as you could set your turbo controller to automatic and just hold the button down and do repeated backbreakers to win. Cheating? Yes but if you wanted to win both titles, it was a fast way to get to the final match of the game.
Pro Wrestling and Tecmo World Wresting were THE best wrestling games on the NES hands down. Love them both. It's coolhow you can see the basis for Fire Pro in Pro Wrestling.
The best part of Tecmo World Wrestling was that despite having zero health, you still had a chance of kicking out of a pin...Me and my friend had matches that seemed to last forever while we both had no health left! I've never come across another wrestling game like that since.
I very much enjoyed Pro Wrestling for NES back in the day. This and Tecmo World Wrestling, IMO, were two of the greatest wrestling games on the NES. When I had PS2 and the WWE SmackDown games, I used the Create A Wrestler feature to bring the NES wrestlers to life. Finally, you could have tag teams, entrances, submission holds(!) and see how the NES Superstars stacked up against the WWE Superstars. Those saves are lost to time, but I remember it being tremendous fun.
Jeremy Pinto Ice Hockey and Pro Wrestling are 2 of my favorite games of all time...played a ton of both...I would play Ice Hockey all night with friends
@@thomasthetrain3942 yea, me too. It's on my son's switch now. I tried to show it to him and I got KILLED lol. I couldn't remember how to play! And my son wasn't impressed with it lol.
Hakchi all the way. I think I have around 100 games on mine including this and tag team. Of course I have all the cartridges...naturally. ; ) Btw, karn can win easily with well timed kicks. Kinda repetitive, but easy and minimal grapples..
WCW wrestling was a pretty solid NES game. Unlike WWF NES games, WCW concentrated on the many popular moves a wrestling match could bring. When you win a grapple, you can choose to either make an impact or a submission move using a combination of the directional pad and buttons.
This game was a staple rental from our local Nintendo rental place in our small town. The back body drop over and over was endless laughs and entertainment for me and my brother.
You are definitely right. I was honestly going to include that in the video, but decided not to last minute cause of the graphic nature of Abdullah with the fork. I was afraid it would flag UA-cam for some reason lol.
Guess I never really thought of it as a fork. Since the move is called the "Outlaw Choke", I always thought the Foreign Object was U shaped and that he was jabbing his opponent in the throat with it.
The one thing that irked me most about this game was the amount of time invested in playing the game. Crawling your way up the standings and having to eventually put down the controls and either leave the system on so you would not lose your progress or turn it off and then lose all your progress... Since their was no way to save your game. Very Frustrating.
I'm 40 and I vividly remember my dad buying me this game for trying sauteed mushrooms at a restaurant lol, he told me if I tried something new he'd let me get a game and I picked this one.
I remember my friend had this game. I was a huge wrestling fan at the time and as soon as I saw the box art, I knew it would be awesome. Not only were the graphics impressive, but the depth of the move set was amazing compared to the WWF wrestlemania game. Great video!
Hello again from W.V.!! I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that this was left off the NES mini roster. What a two player powerhouse this game was!
Idk bruh the late 90’s with the nwo, the return of sting,stone cold,the under taker,triple h the rock, Goldberg them days was dope too the might tie with the 80’s the story lines were crazy in the late 90’s but the characters of the mid 80’s were more colorful and unique both eras were definitely great tho
The Amazon was always my favorite. I loved the outlaw choke, and how after stuffing the weapon back in his trunks he would shake his head as if telling the referee he hadn't done anything illegal.
Yeah, that part was the best. And his hands were in prayer form, shaking his head. Never got caught either. I always thought it was a bone he was using to attack with, but I guess it was a fork.
Great video and awesome review. This is indeed the granddaddy of them all! Here's my two cents as a veteran of this game: Like you mentioned, if you fight at the top of the screen you can hit the CPU with an unblockable lariat/jumping knee strike as long as he follows you. But there were times when the opponent would glitch and "moonwalk" to the upper left corner of the ring. If you start running just a few pixels below the very top and he does that, you can still hit him with a clean lariat after rebounding off the right side of the ropes (you can start the attack immediately after rebounding and it will always connect when you reach him as long as you are perfectly positioned. He never detects it). Did you know that, if you grapple the opponent outside the front section of the ring, you can do the back drop and brain buster on the concrete? Kin Corn Karn... the weakest link? Not by a long shot! Not many people know it but his long, awkward looking Karate Kick does at least TWICE the damage the rolling sole butt does. A simple technique I've used for many years is: Wait for the opponent to do the rolling sole butt, and back off a couple pixels (a simple tap on the pad/controller will do) and immediately press the A button. His attack will miss you entirely, but your Karate Kick will connect. Every single time. Rinse and repeat. And to get an idea of how damaging this attack is, you can usually pin Great Puma cleanly around the 3 : 10 mark using only Karate Kicks. His Mongolian Chop is just slightly stronger than a regular punch, but if you start it right after the CPU starts a rolling sole butt, his attack will miss and yours will connect, always. If the opponent has been weakened at least, it will floor him immediately. Also, on Fighter Hayabusa's Back Brain Kick: The move does as much, if not more, damage than Kin Corn Karn's Karate Kick. When your opponent throws his rolling sole butt/Mongolian Chop at you, quickly move in a 315 degree angle (downward and diagonally) until Hayabusa is under his opponent, and immediately press the A button (the press must occur while the opponent is still airborne). If done correctly, the Kick will connect as he lands (works about 95% of the time). Rinse and repeat. It could still fail when fighting Kin Corn Karn as his Mongolian Chop is his default attack and uses a different animation. Using this method of exclusively using Back Brain Kicks, you can easily pin Great Puma cleanly around the 3 : 30 mark. I have also noticed that, when grappling with Great Puma, attempting the back drop early into the match will result in him using one of his own moves. However, he appears to be particularly vulnerable to the body slam (B button mashing), I once managed to give him 10 body slams in a row with a regular (non-turbo) controller. Did you know that the first 9 notes of the intro tune, were also used in the victory screen of Tag Team Wrestling for the NES? There's a funny glitch I used to create when playing. When a power move was used and the crowd roared, I would insert my finger into the slot and wiggle the cartridge a little. That caused the roaring sound effect to hang and you could still continue playing the rest of the match with an apeshit crowd. Once the match ended, the glitch would stop. ;) Hope my tricks and tips help you and others to further master Pro Wrestling! Cheers.
That is awesome, this whole time I thought I was the only master of fighter Hayabusas back brain kick glitch. I used to start every match with 20 or so bbk s and then grapple and destroy the opponent. Lots of fun, another glitch is just timing a regular kick against the computer. Once you get the hang of it you can take them down a few notches to start each battle.
Poor growing up here. I went to a friend's house and he showed me this game for the first time. After playing this game I scraped and saved every single penny I could get my hands on so I could afford a NES just to get this game. Mario wouldn't last 5 minutes against Starman.
@@dfshark Nintendo should release their own wrestling game for the switch, with a bunch of characters like Mario and all 6 characters of Pro Wrestling. It would be a hit, no doubt, and it's shocking that they never did another wrestling game ever since then.
The kids on my block always insisted that King Slender was inspired by Hulk Hogan, due to the WWF promotion being extremely popular in 1987. I always leaned towards Ric Flair for his resemblance, but most of my friends didn't know who he was since WCW was not as popular in our area. WOO!!!!
I never got to the Great Puma, I was very close using Starman and spamming the running flying body chop but time ran out against Kin Corn Karn..it was like my 7th title Defense at the time....I even landed the somersault kick with like 10 seconds left but he still managed to beat the 3 count and got up causing the time to run out. Smh I still remember it like it was yesterday!!! Great Game!!!
Samuel Santiago I recently found my copy of this game. I played it a lot, but I did not know about Great Puma. This video just gave me a reason to play the game again because I don't think I ever won the belt!
i just turned 46 and im blown away seeing this game again.... this was my favorite game growing up and you brought it back to my mind, i completely forgot about this game thank you so much for making my day a better day
I use to just run back and forth with STARMAN, and fly into my opponent with my chest, works everytime. Eventually they just run low enough on energy to be pinned.
King slender being called the cold blooded warrior jr. could be a reference to Buddy Rogers, the originator of the nature boy gimmick, Rogers being the senior and flair being the junior. Idk, just a guess.
I think "cold blooded warrior" could also be a play on Ric Flair calling himself the "Dirtiest player in the game" but I don't have a clear indication when he started saying that. Might have come afterwards.
Great video, it makes so much sense that Giant Panther was based off of Kerry Von Erich instead of Hogan which I was also saying for years. Also but you probably know this is “VWA” & “VWF” is suppose to be the NWA & WWF
In our household, we always thought Giant Panther was Ronnie Garvin, because he was hugely over at the time. The trick to being true Ron Garvin: get to where your opponent is at the second alarm, then hit him with a punch, Ron's finisher.
I never knew there were so many of these moves on this game. We would kick and punch and try to knock each other down and low and behold some of these moves would happen. We never had the manual. It was rented.
I can’t thank you enough for this video. I always loved this game as a kid but couldn’t do much and always lost. Now I get to enjoy it all over again and win on the Switch. Cheers to you sir!
The Amazon, to me, was Abdullah the Butcher with the fork stab. I like how he hides the foreign object back in his trunks n denies he did anything illegal.
I know. I want one too. I just found a cool picture on the video to go along with my comments during that segment. All the other toys and figures I included are mine though.
I played this game so much as a child. Everyone loved the Amazon. He was a crowd favorite. One of the few Nintendo cartridges i still want that i dont have in my collection next to Kid Icarus and Little Nemo the Dreamaster.
All those secrets & I never got to beat the game decades ago. Also, why wasn't Star Man considered for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate? Thanks for the video.
Toroko GAMES! That is Antonio Inoki... also if you want to see what happens when you piss him off, type Great Antonio vs Inoki (Inoki beats the hell out of a 450 lb man who was making him look bad and hit him in the neck hard
The music still makes me laugh to this day. My 2 favorite wrestlers have always been Fighter Hayabusa and Giant Panther. Especially Fighter Hayabusa mastering the Back Brain Kick was satisfying.
I am undefeated in this game. Beat hundreds of kids in my neighborhood in the 80s, and adults throughout the years since when it came out. I absolutely love this game.
Suplex outside of the ring is my favorite move then off the top rope for the splash. Then into the railing for the win. Hang out by the corner to make sure you get free kicks if needed extra time
The Amazon might be visually based off the Creature From the Black Lagoon but, his two signature moves are based off of Abdullah the Butcher, a notorious heel wrestler that isn't exactly well liked or spoken of fondly in wrestling circles.
It was 1 of the best wrestling games...Tecmo Wrestling on the NES was really good, as well, and I did enjoy the LJN games on the SNES and Genesis back in the day (they suck now). Also, let's not forget the 2 arcade games: Wrestlefest and WWF Superstars on arcade. Those were both really fun. But if we're sticking to home console the, yeah, there wasn't a whole lot between the early NES games and then the N64 games, starting with WCW vs. NWO: World Tour. Now if you haven't played Saturday Night Slam Masters on the SNES or Genesis, I highly recommend both of those.
Right I don't get why Nintendo doesn't make a next Gen console like ps4 and have all the nes classics updated to next Gen.Have them as exclusives as well as all titles that Xbox and ps4 release
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This was one of my favorite games, along with Castlevania , Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, Zelda, Contra and so on . This is before everything was on line and you had to wait till your favorite game's either were at the local Arcade or until they were available to buy. Nothing was instant like it is now. We had to have patience.
I’m 47 now. This was the second Nintendo game I ever owned. My mother surprised me with it as an Easter present in ‘87. I was 10. I’ll never forget that as long as I live. The 80s were an awesome time to be a kid. Love you, mama.
I got this and Zelda for Xmas in 1986 when we got he nes.
Same here . I'll be big 48 this March .
I miss those days! No online requirements or microtransactions, just fun!
thats sweet. you and your mom are both awesome
I'm about your age. This was the first fighting game I ever played, and I loved it.
Classic game that acompanied me 1987-2020
Stage 1 : Bought it and played it alone.
Stage 2 : Played with/against a buddy.
Stage 3 : Hosted tournaments with friends.
Stage 4 : Drinking/party-game with squad.
Stage 5 : Playing with my 3 sons.
Stage 6 : Playing by myself again.
Still fun at 55 years of age.
The circle is now complete.
@@retiredsnowbunnyhunterx5106 : Hahahaha
Get the grandkids in!
@@bobjohnson1096 : You’re right ! I didn’t think of that. It isn’t over yet. When they’re Big enough , I’ll get them playing. Thx !
@@raggeragnar Gotta get them into the classics!:)
Love the literal translations of the moves found in the manual as they are actual wrestling moves:
1) Rolling Sole Butt = Rolling Sobat (spinning heel kick)
2) Plunger = Plancha (crossbody splash to the outside of the ring)
I’m 43 yrs old and man this just took me back to the old days 😂
Same here, this was documentary quality.
Just came across this..i remember. Playing this on the arcade
Do you have impotent issue yet
Old heads know vintage games. Cheers✌️😎
I was thinking the same shit
I'm 45 years old and this truly takes me back to my childhood
(41 yo) Had a smile on my face thru the whole video .... Piranha and his specials 🤣🤣
Same here. I remember me and my younger brothers playing this for this first time. This game was awesome. My brother would get so mad at me for beating him every time lol
47 but two years after you comment so about the same age. I just sent this to my best friend back in the day …this definitely brings nostalgia !!!
The great poem is easy. The beat by pinfall with star man and tuna slinda. You basically hit-and-run, do you get his energy? Doand jump off the rope just befthe round is over, you can pin him.
I think some of the og nes and snes games were the best ever made in history. Like kids have to be so technical getting the exact timing down and button pressing. Double dribble, Mario, punch out, etc
I'm 50 years old and this is the first good wrestling game ever to me. I played this in the 80s.
I think we need to bring back that 5 Second top rope rule for real wrestling
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better than sega's pro-wrestling for sure.
Yep, I’m 47 and felt the same way…I played the hell outta this game back in the day.
49 and this game was awesome. Many hours playing this one.
My friend had this for his NES back in 1988, and we'd have matches before school, and during school we'd write handwritten promos for our characters and pass the notes to each other during class, building up to the next face off before school the next day :)
That's awesome, brother. I thought I was the only person to do things like that.
Gay. You can't win a title by count out.
I got the original NES as a Christmas present back in 1986 when I was 11 years old. To this day, it is still my favorite Christmas gift I ever received.
It’s still my favorite video game console ever made
Same here. Same year! 🎉❤
45 yrs old and Starman was my wrestler for this wonderful game. Played it for hours and hours. Great times. Just put the game in and go. No updates or anything needed downloading. Love your content.
@@countdread6467 but u had to blow in to the cartridge haha
Those were good days.
Rough but simple.
Ni shit! No downloads in the 80s? Crazy!
I always played as the piranha.....and fought my brother who was the starman! That's the story of our life growing up! Constantly feuding!
That masked green guy is The Amazon! lol you probably loved playing Mat Mania at the arcades as much as I did! That's where the masked wrestler "The Pirania" (sic) appears :)
Man this game was everything! I remember we would play the game and argue all the time. Then we'd go outside and have a real wrestling match to settle who was the best!
I'm 43. This game was one of the 3 video games I ever remember my dad ever playing. He also played a little of Tiger Heli, and Lethal Enforcers for the SNES. RIP Dad
My dad loved playing Top Gun. He sucked at the mid air refueling so he’d have me do it lol
No shit that’s kool. I’m 43. My dad would play tiger heli for hours. Pretty good at it too.
i liked playing Tiger Heli too. i had a bunch i loved playing
42 and my dad never played a video game I can recall. He was a Vietnam veteran. He let us play but was quick to remind us that it wasn't reality and that the smell of burning human flesh is a lot more disturbing than we might think. Which for 8 year old kids, we didn't have any idea what burning flesh smelled like. Love you dad
Hahaha it seems like most of us in our 40s have similar memories of a dad being standoffish with the new Nintendo, like he didn't quite trust it (maybe Terminator was to blame?). Until seeing a game that made him try "the stupid thing"- it was 'Guerilla War' my dad finally played. After that, he and his friends played that game non-stop, my mom had to make him stop so I could play. I still remember getting put to bed then immediately hearing the start screen music.... That was nothing compared to what happened when he discovered 'Zelda'!!! Mom made him buy his own system after that. Good times.
I remember when I finally beat Great Puma. I was dancing around screaming in my room. Took hundreds of tries but felt so good to win against him. I just recently found my original NES and will be playing this again soon.
Right!!?? It was like when I finally beat M Bison!
It took 5 piledrivers and 4 back brain kicks to defeat him. I was 8 years old. It was a fun game.
The Swamp Creature is a tribute to George the Animal Steele. George always used the foreign object and biting gimmik. Dead on.
I was thinking more about the Missing Link.
@@biancablayze1453 Abdullah the Butcher could be, too.
It’s really not
The music from this game lives on in my head forever!!
Holy SHT this game was absolute LIFE!!! Thanks for this wonderful trip down memory lane for me!
It still holds up imo
@Super Mario jju
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This has always been my favorite NES game, and that was even after I didn't like watching wrestling on TV anymore.
Edit: Sorry, 2nd favorite behind River City Ransom. My bad, I'm old.
Ah, Starman, those were the days.
Lol i know right! No worries! No co vid! Just starman lol love his flip move.
Sooo easy to finish the game using starman, but soo hard with anyone else
I wonder if Cody Rhodes used to play this as a kid and was inspired by the look
Good times!!
NES brings back so many good memories as a kid.
Right!! 😊
Just Christ...that Starman thumbnail just hit me like a ton of bricks. Haven't thought of that in 3 decades, easily.
Stardust, Cody Rhodes
@@jesselynklove25 What does that have to do with the game? Cody Rhodes was born in 1985, only three years before the PRO WRESTLING game came out. The two have nothing to do with each other, except for the "star".
@@RossWrock the mask is the same as the Stardust face paint…The placement of the Star is the same…
42yo, Same. Instant flashback.
Im like 10yo and life is so simple.
The time between then and now has not been kind.
All of a sudden I was 9 years old after I saw thumbnail........God that hit with alot of memories
Pro Wrestling and Blades of Steel were two of my favourite games growing up
Blades of steel is LEGEND ❤
Blades of steel is LEGEND ❤
Blades of steel...so good.
HIT THE PUCK!
Remember ladies, Slender Mountain might be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line! Woooooooo!
"The man says ya gotta be 18 years old to ride"
Thank you for showing me this game. I played this game when I was around 6-7 years old with my late uncle. This brings bag wonderful memories. He was the only close relative that play Video Games with me. We never knew that we can challenge a secret boss we just keep playing versus mode with my friends and my uncle. My uncle favorite anime is Tiger Mask
So glad I stumbled upon this today. I bought this game about 3 months or so ago and my younger brother and I have been kicking each others asses all the way down memory lane since. Great video for a supremely underrated game.
Im jealous! Thats Awsome! Good ol days
I loved this game as a child. My favorite was King Slender. The backbreaker was incredibly powerful and only required one button press.
OP move for sure.
NO idea why UA-cam suggested this to me 5 years after it came out, but I'm happy about it. Some happy memories of this game. Only wrestling game on the NES I liked as much or more was Tecmo World Wrestling!
This theme song still rings in my head when I think of this game. So many memories. Fantastic video as always, G3!
Thanks so much Smash!
I'm thinking The Amazon was patterned after The Missing Link. He wore green and blue face paint, was billed as being from Parts Unknown, and was just an out-of-control wildman.
Yep. Huge in Hawaii too, so Japanese people were more likely to see him. Fans of wrestling in the Contiguous 48 might know him better as Pampero Firpo. If you've never saw him, I bet you still know his catch phrase: It was lifted by Randy Macho Man Savage, "OOOOOOH YEAH!"
There was also a character in Kinnikkuman ( or M.U.S.C.L.E, for those who rememeber) who looked exactly like the amazon, called Atlantis. I always assumed this was what Amazon was based on.
Abdullah the butcher... remember the fork?
@@SaintStryfeArgentEngraving The Missing Link with that awesome green face paint was Dewey Robertson. Pampero Firpo was a different person. Pampero definitely had that low gravel voice that made Macho famous, Ohhhh yeaaah. The fork thing reminds me of Abdullah the Butcher
Creature from the Black Lagoon?
Star man was always my fav, I would soften them up with rope throws and cross arm blasts when they returned. Such a great game.
This was one of my favorite NES games. I never owned it, but the amount we spent on renting it, it would've been cheaper to buy it. I always played Starman or Amazon.
The amount my parents spent on late fees at video biz(local rental place) could have got me a ps4. Loved this game.....starmans kick was the best
Same here
Man I miss the rental store days. great memories. Thanks for commenting Matt.
GenerationGapGaming same! Mine was 3 blocks away and next to a DQ(ice cream place). It was amazing. Brought my 5 year old to get ice cream there after her first day of school 2 days ago,,,,, so many great memories
Renting games! I miss those days.
OMFG this game was epic back in the day.
Don't take your Lord's name in vain and do not add any way more wicked shortenings!!!
@@NicolaiKecskes omfg
@@fuckibra
You want to spend an eternity in hell?
@@NicolaiKecskes there is no god all things happen for a reason unless you really are delusional
@@NicolaiKecskesget a grip dude
"Rolling Sole Butt" is actually a mistranslation of "Rolling Sobat", which is an actual wrestling move. Basically you spin around 180 degrees and do a jumping back-kick to your opponent's chest or stomach.
I called it a Spin Kick
@@brucestuckey7316 It basically is that, but in Japan they have flashy names for everything.
thank you! you fixed a short circuit i had in my brain about this. i could never figure out why they were saying sole butt!
This makes so much sense now. Thank you!
@@ShinobiNeonit still amuses me that wrestling techniques such as Full Nelson and Boston Crab are credited in the Dragon Ball wiki
The best character choice when you had a turbo controller was King Slender as you could set your turbo controller to automatic and just hold the button down and do repeated backbreakers to win. Cheating? Yes but if you wanted to win both titles, it was a fast way to get to the final match of the game.
Played the shit out of this game in the 80's with my best friend.
Pro Wrestling and Tecmo World Wresting were THE best wrestling games on the NES hands down. Love them both. It's coolhow you can see the basis for Fire Pro in Pro Wrestling.
TheRicFactor it was dope how you could change the names on Tecmo Wrestling... the cutscenes during the special moves seemed way ahead of its time...
@@i__skins__i I also liked the commentary guy at the bottom calling the match. Definitely a game ahead of its time.
Tecmo was so dope
Dude I bought Tecmo World Wrestling about 6 months ago and haven't got a chance to play it. I will have to check it out.
The best part of Tecmo World Wrestling was that despite having zero health, you still had a chance of kicking out of a pin...Me and my friend had matches that seemed to last forever while we both had no health left! I've never come across another wrestling game like that since.
Perhaps jr is a nod to the fact that Flair wasn't the first "Nature Boy", as Buddy Rogers was the original.
Great point man! That would be awesome if that is what they meant by that.
Plus, NWA/WCW wad based out of Georgia where Ric Flair worked the most.
good catch👍🏽
I very much enjoyed Pro Wrestling for NES back in the day. This and Tecmo World Wrestling, IMO, were two of the greatest wrestling games on the NES.
When I had PS2 and the WWE SmackDown games, I used the Create A Wrestler feature to bring the NES wrestlers to life. Finally, you could have tag teams, entrances, submission holds(!) and see how the NES Superstars stacked up against the WWE Superstars. Those saves are lost to time, but I remember it being tremendous fun.
I actually remember all of these moves, as you say “piledriver” i thought down and a.
Weird.
The title song and crowd noise were also in Ice Hockey.
This was a really cool video. Thanks man.
Jeremy Pinto Ice Hockey and Pro Wrestling are 2 of my favorite games of all time...played a ton of both...I would play Ice Hockey all night with friends
@@thomasthetrain3942 yea, me too. It's on my son's switch now. I tried to show it to him and I got KILLED lol. I couldn't remember how to play! And my son wasn't impressed with it lol.
@@Real_masontroyadams the student became the teacher get a lesson n then make it a real game make it exciting he will appreciate it
It’s a travesty that neither Pro Wrestling nor Ice Hockey made the Classic NES lineup of games.
This was the game I was most disappointed when it was left off the NES Classic.
I agree completely. Makes no sense it was not included.
This and Kung Fu should have been on the Classic
Hakchi all the way. I think I have around 100 games on mine including this and tag team. Of course I have all the cartridges...naturally. ; ) Btw, karn can win easily with well timed kicks. Kinda repetitive, but easy and minimal grapples..
Ditto. Let down as well.
King Fu, Ice Hockey, and RBI baseball..
Sadface...
Another NES gem is Tecmo World Wrestling.
I still think that is the best wrestling game on nes..
@@DemonChildCC
I agree. So many characters. Great graphics. So many moves.
ITS DOOMSDAY FOR THE SKULL!!
WCW wrestling was a pretty solid NES game. Unlike WWF NES games, WCW concentrated on the many popular moves a wrestling match could bring. When you win a grapple, you can choose to either make an impact or a submission move using a combination of the directional pad and buttons.
WCW wrestling was a notch better than Pro Wrestling
This game was a staple rental from our local Nintendo rental place in our small town. The back body drop over and over was endless laughs and entertainment for me and my brother.
Since the Amazon has a fork, he could also be inspired by Adullah the Butcher.
You are definitely right. I was honestly going to include that in the video, but decided not to last minute cause of the graphic nature of Abdullah with the fork. I was afraid it would flag UA-cam for some reason lol.
Guess I never really thought of it as a fork. Since the move is called the "Outlaw Choke", I always thought the Foreign Object was U shaped and that he was jabbing his opponent in the throat with it.
or the original sheik
Thinking the same
The one thing that irked me most about this game was the amount of time invested in playing the game. Crawling your way up the standings and having to eventually put down the controls and either leave the system on so you would not lose your progress or turn it off and then lose all your progress... Since their was no way to save your game. Very Frustrating.
One of the first games on the NES I ever played. Loved this thing when I was a kid. Starman is my dude.
james staggs My mains is the Amazon and Giant Panther. I wish there we could settle which is best...
I'm 40 and I vividly remember my dad buying me this game for trying sauteed mushrooms at a restaurant lol, he told me if I tried something new he'd let me get a game and I picked this one.
I remember my friend had this game. I was a huge wrestling fan at the time and as soon as I saw the box art, I knew it would be awesome. Not only were the graphics impressive, but the depth of the move set was amazing compared to the WWF wrestlemania game. Great video!
Sometimes the box art would disappoint
King Slender. 3 backbreakers. Brain buster. Piledriver. 3 count
Amazon & King Slender are top tier: Amazon for his strikes & Slender for his grappling attacks.
Hello again from W.V.!! I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that this was left off the NES mini roster. What a two player powerhouse this game was!
Hello to you again my fellow West Virginian. I agree with you 100%. Should have definitely been on the classic.
mid 1980s are definitely the greatest period in Pro Wrestling history.
Idk bruh the late 90’s with the nwo, the return of sting,stone cold,the under taker,triple h the rock, Goldberg them days was dope too the might tie with the 80’s the story lines were crazy in the late 90’s but the characters of the mid 80’s were more colorful and unique both eras were definitely great tho
I love the Kurt Barlow pic
I've never known a better wrestling period in terms of quality than 1990's All Japan Pro Wrestling.
Golden era of wrestling is now.
Long live brock lesnar
True this game sucked
I'm 47, I use 2 ditch school me and my cousins and go play this at the mexican homie Freddy house...good ol days.
The Amazon was always my favorite. I loved the outlaw choke, and how after stuffing the weapon back in his trunks he would shake his head as if telling the referee he hadn't done anything illegal.
Yeah, that part was the best. And his hands were in prayer form, shaking his head. Never got caught either. I always thought it was a bone he was using to attack with, but I guess it was a fork.
@@georgecastillo2773 like Abdullah the Butcher
Great video and awesome review. This is indeed the granddaddy of them all! Here's my two cents as a veteran of this game:
Like you mentioned, if you fight at the top of the screen you can hit the CPU with an unblockable lariat/jumping knee strike as long as he follows you. But there were times when the opponent would glitch and "moonwalk" to the upper left corner of the ring. If you start running just a few pixels below the very top and he does that, you can still hit him with a clean lariat after rebounding off the right side of the ropes (you can start the attack immediately after rebounding and it will always connect when you reach him as long as you are perfectly positioned. He never detects it).
Did you know that, if you grapple the opponent outside the front section of the ring, you can do the back drop and brain buster on the concrete?
Kin Corn Karn... the weakest link? Not by a long shot! Not many people know it but his long, awkward looking Karate Kick does at least TWICE the damage the rolling sole butt does. A simple technique I've used for many years is: Wait for the opponent to do the rolling sole butt, and back off a couple pixels (a simple tap on the pad/controller will do) and immediately press the A button. His attack will miss you entirely, but your Karate Kick will connect. Every single time. Rinse and repeat. And to get an idea of how damaging this attack is, you can usually pin Great Puma cleanly around the 3 : 10 mark using only Karate Kicks.
His Mongolian Chop is just slightly stronger than a regular punch, but if you start it right after the CPU starts a rolling sole butt, his attack will miss and yours will connect, always. If the opponent has been weakened at least, it will floor him immediately.
Also, on Fighter Hayabusa's Back Brain Kick: The move does as much, if not more, damage than Kin Corn Karn's Karate Kick. When your opponent throws his rolling sole butt/Mongolian Chop at you, quickly move in a 315 degree angle (downward and diagonally) until Hayabusa is under his opponent, and immediately press the A button (the press must occur while the opponent is still airborne). If done correctly, the Kick will connect as he lands (works about 95% of the time). Rinse and repeat. It could still fail when fighting Kin Corn Karn as his Mongolian Chop is his default attack and uses a different animation. Using this method of exclusively using Back Brain Kicks, you can easily pin Great Puma cleanly around the 3 : 30 mark.
I have also noticed that, when grappling with Great Puma, attempting the back drop early into the match will result in him using one of his own moves. However, he appears to be particularly vulnerable to the body slam (B button mashing), I once managed to give him 10 body slams in a row with a regular (non-turbo) controller.
Did you know that the first 9 notes of the intro tune, were also used in the victory screen of Tag Team Wrestling for the NES?
There's a funny glitch I used to create when playing. When a power move was used and the crowd roared, I would insert my finger into the slot and wiggle the cartridge a little. That caused the roaring sound effect to hang and you could still continue playing the rest of the match with an apeshit crowd. Once the match ended, the glitch would stop. ;)
Hope my tricks and tips help you and others to further master Pro Wrestling! Cheers.
Nice!
That is awesome, this whole time I thought I was the only master of fighter Hayabusas back brain kick glitch. I used to start every match with 20 or so bbk s and then grapple and destroy the opponent. Lots of fun, another glitch is just timing a regular kick against the computer. Once you get the hang of it you can take them down a few notches to start each battle.
Your parents are insanely thoughtful people for getting that cake. A tear came to my eye, such a beautiful gesture!
My favorite nes game is Pro Wrestling, thank you for this great video.
I really liked Tecmo World Wrestling too!
Poor growing up here. I went to a friend's house and he showed me this game for the first time. After playing this game I scraped and saved every single penny I could get my hands on so I could afford a NES just to get this game. Mario wouldn't last 5 minutes against Starman.
They should put Starman in Super Smash Bros.
@@dfshark Nintendo should release their own wrestling game for the switch, with a bunch of characters like Mario and all 6 characters of Pro Wrestling. It would be a hit, no doubt, and it's shocking that they never did another wrestling game ever since then.
Long live STARMAN
The kids on my block always insisted that King Slender was inspired by Hulk Hogan, due to the WWF promotion being extremely popular in 1987. I always leaned towards Ric Flair for his resemblance, but most of my friends didn't know who he was since WCW was not as popular in our area. WOO!!!!
I never got to the Great Puma, I was very close using Starman and spamming the running flying body chop but time ran out against Kin Corn Karn..it was like my 7th title Defense at the time....I even landed the somersault kick with like 10 seconds left but he still managed to beat the 3 count and got up causing the time to run out. Smh I still remember it like it was yesterday!!! Great Game!!!
Samuel Santiago I recently found my copy of this game. I played it a lot, but I did not know about Great Puma. This video just gave me a reason to play the game again because I don't think I ever won the belt!
The “pause” sound was also the same amongst the sport series NES games.
i just turned 46 and im blown away seeing this game again.... this was my favorite game growing up and you brought it back to my mind, i completely forgot about this game thank you so much for making my day a better day
I found Fighter Hayabusa to be the strongest wrestler. Backdrop, backdrop, suplex, piledriver, back brain kick, fight over.
I use to just run back and forth with STARMAN, and fly into my opponent with my chest, works everytime. Eventually they just run low enough on energy to be pinned.
@@kal-elofkrypton8584 yes, his flying elbow
@@mr.blonde7812 flying elbow? Really? I always thought he was using his chest. Makes sence now.. lol
@@kal-elofkrypton8584 or forearm rather. Yeah haha
Joe Leek
Long slender you needed five back breakers and the game was over
Star Man: "It's Morphin time Zeo Ranger Five Red!"
Ohred
Lol you right!
This was the first game I bought with my allowance money. I love this game. It holds a special place in my heart.
King slender being called the cold blooded warrior jr. could be a reference to Buddy Rogers, the originator of the nature boy gimmick, Rogers being the senior and flair being the junior. Idk, just a guess.
I think "cold blooded warrior" could also be a play on Ric Flair calling himself the "Dirtiest player in the game" but I don't have a clear indication when he started saying that. Might have come afterwards.
I was going to say that. Good call
Slender reminded me of Jesse The Body Ventura
@@scottgettins3022 Barry Windham
Great video, it makes so much sense that Giant Panther was based off of Kerry Von Erich instead of Hogan which I was also saying for years.
Also but you probably know this is “VWA” & “VWF” is suppose to be the NWA & WWF
Iron claw, I mean, yeah
It might even be his brother David, who was EXTREMELY over in Japan at that time.
In our household, we always thought Giant Panther was Ronnie Garvin, because he was hugely over at the time.
The trick to being true Ron Garvin: get to where your opponent is at the second alarm, then hit him with a punch, Ron's finisher.
I never knew there were so many of these moves on this game. We would kick and punch and try to knock each other down and low and behold some of these moves would happen. We never had the manual. It was rented.
Starman and Amazon.
Gimmick wrestlers Ahead of their time.
I can't believe I forgot Amazon! After seeing this, I'm like, "that must be where they got the idea for Blanka in SF2"
Starman’s star kick needs to be someone’s actual finisher IRL.
@@MarcillaSmith Brazil is known for the Amazon rainforest
@@seank6016 paul london does it
Never knew there was an ending in this game.
I can’t thank you enough for this video. I always loved this game as a kid but couldn’t do much and always lost. Now I get to enjoy it all over again and win on the Switch. Cheers to you sir!
I always figured that the Amazon was based off of The Missing Link
You got it!
The Amazon, to me, was Abdullah the Butcher with the fork stab. I like how he hides the foreign object back in his trunks n denies he did anything illegal.
I want that Starman action figure with the belt.
Frfr
darklordojeda It was originally a Brutus Beefcake figure they painted up to look like Star man. It was a Custom made job.
@@arthurdietrich5182 nice.
I know. I want one too. I just found a cool picture on the video to go along with my comments during that segment. All the other toys and figures I included are mine though.
Make one
I played this game so much as a child. Everyone loved the Amazon. He was a crowd favorite. One of the few Nintendo cartridges i still want that i dont have in my collection next to Kid Icarus and Little Nemo the Dreamaster.
All those secrets & I never got to beat the game decades ago.
Also, why wasn't Star Man considered for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate?
Thanks for the video.
Star Man looks like Zeo Ranger V Red
I did beat Puma by pinfall,you have to stick and move,then keep whipping him into the barrier let him come in the ring,use a brain buster,then pin
I remember the playing this game for hours and hours when I was a kid. I loved this game so much! Besides Contra, it was my fav game of the NES.
I always thought the Amazon was loosely related to The Missing Link.
100%
same
same
Make the Amazon relate to, hmmm.... What’s the guy that was in boxing and fought against legendary boxer Ali?
Toroko GAMES! That is Antonio Inoki... also if you want to see what happens when you piss him off, type Great Antonio vs Inoki (Inoki beats the hell out of a 450 lb man who was making him look bad and hit him in the neck hard
I used to use the Amazon. I always know it was a fork, he hid in his trunks. He was just the coolest to me..
I thought it was an open ended wrench 🔧 back then.
49 years old and this was a great run down memory lane! Starman every time! Well done sir, got a new sub!
I can't even put into words how much I lived for this game.....Great video.
I actually just got used to playing as Fighter Hayabusa, because everyone always wanted to be Starman or Amazon.
Fight hayabusa is the low key goat of the game. His back brain kick is super spammable when you figure it out.
@@nickfry7839 Yep!
two words....HELL YEAH! thanks man
You are welcome sir! Thanks for commenting.
The music still makes me laugh to this day. My 2 favorite wrestlers have always been Fighter Hayabusa and Giant Panther. Especially Fighter Hayabusa mastering the Back Brain Kick was satisfying.
"Sole Butt" should probably be sobat kick.
I'm thinking...🤔
MrDraquo for a while, the rolling sole butt was a common kick in the Japanese style. It’s another thing Inoki helped make very popular.
I am undefeated in this game. Beat hundreds of kids in my neighborhood in the 80s, and adults throughout the years since when it came out. I absolutely love this game.
You are the champ dude! Undisputed.
Who is your main?
@@nickfry7839 King Slender but also use Giant Panther and Starman.
Suplex outside of the ring is my favorite move then off the top rope for the splash. Then into the railing for the win.
Hang out by the corner to make sure you get free kicks if needed extra time
King Slender also could have been Barry Windham since his father was a wrestler and they look alike.
That was Rick Flair
Shit, by that logic, it could be Dustys kid, dustin
King Slender is based on Ric Flair.
I needed an NES Max controller to beat Great Puma.
I don't know how one would even compete in that match without use of a turbo button.
I was only ever to beat him by count out.
Yes ! here too only count out ! Can The great puma even be beaten with a normal controller? Lol
@@madmax6654, yes but you will be worn out after the match from tapping the buttons so fast.
Nes Advantage for me but, same lol!
I’m 46, and I played this game a lot back in the day. This brings back some memories.
I always thought the amazon was taken from the wrestler “ The missing link”
Same here
Yeah, because didn't the Missing Link paint his face greenish? Or am I thinking of someone else?
@@Danimal1177 he did paint his face green
I always thought The Amazon was inspired by The Missing Link.
Yup, I always thought it was Link too.
I agree. The Missing Link is the #1 choice. MAYBE George the Animal Steele as a 2nd choice for inspiration.
@@seancohan5464 The fork made me think for of Abdullah the Butcher - not by his look obviously, but Abdullah was known for using a fork.
@@christophercarl1774good call. He’s probably a hybrid of the 3 of them.
I loved this game as a kid! Thanks for all your hard work ;this was a real classic game and deserves the attention!
King Slender wasn't modeled after "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair... he was modeled after Thunderlips "The Ultimate Male" (from Rocky III, 1982).
and Thunderlips was Ric Flair and Billy Graham's love child
I actually thought he was based on Lex Luger given Slender's finishing move.
I could never defend my championship 10 times to unlock Great Puma.
The Amazon might be visually based off the Creature From the Black Lagoon but, his two signature moves are based off of Abdullah the Butcher, a notorious heel wrestler that isn't exactly well liked or spoken of fondly in wrestling circles.
Pro Wrestling was the best wrestling game ever made until N64 WWF No Mercy
Rian Tread Tecmo World Wrestling is a close one
It was 1 of the best wrestling games...Tecmo Wrestling on the NES was really good, as well, and I did enjoy the LJN games on the SNES and Genesis back in the day (they suck now). Also, let's not forget the 2 arcade games: Wrestlefest and WWF Superstars on arcade. Those were both really fun. But if we're sticking to home console the, yeah, there wasn't a whole lot between the early NES games and then the N64 games, starting with WCW vs. NWO: World Tour. Now if you haven't played Saturday Night Slam Masters on the SNES or Genesis, I highly recommend both of those.
Rian Tread
Hell no! WCW/nWo Revenge took that title up until No Mercy
AquaDump Entertainment always had a blast with wwf royal rumble on the snes
WCW vs. the World was the game changer, nothing came close to it. Unless you had access to Virtual Pro Wrestling.
Perhaps George "The Animal" Steele is the inspiration for The Amazon.
That was always my guess.
@@travismcivor5062 We should be buddies. I wish George Steele was my dad. It would explain so much.
Would explain the biting, but I stand by my theory he's based on Abdullah the Butcher or The Sheik given his use of a fork.
Simon Leary - my thoughts exactly brother.
Starman was my favorite back then took me way back in 47 thanks for making me feel old lol
I always thought the Amazon’s fork move was a knuckle noogie
You have the coolest avatar I've ever seen. Just thought I'd share that.
Jeremy Pinto the African dream!
@@d00ks yes he really was a one man gang 😉
Jeremy Pinto he will FOREVER MORE BE KNOW AS, AKEEEEEEEEM
@@d00ks lollllll so funny. You rock.
I would love to see Nintendo bringing back this franchise
Right I don't get why Nintendo doesn't make a next Gen console like ps4 and have all the nes classics updated to next Gen.Have them as exclusives as well as all titles that Xbox and ps4 release
It would be cool if nintendo recreated those old school games again with the ps3 ps4 type graphics
Starman is forever goated in video game lore. He was the character I used the most in this game.
Besides Mike Tyson Punchout my favorite all time game
The fact I wrestle professionally and still play this at 48 keeps me young at heart