This was such a good game. I remember having birthday money burning a whole in my pockets and seeing this at Toys R Us. I knew nothing about it, but I loved Tecmo Bowl and Ninja Gaiden. Based on that reputation, I bought the game. I was not disappointed.
I was well into high school and the PS1 era the first time I played this, at a friend's house. We randomly dug out his old NES and I was blown away by just how good of a game it was. Easily the best wrestling game on the system.
I am near 40 and love retro games and wrestling as well so Patman's videos are always amazing to me. Great job! I love seeing videos about the wrestling games I missed while Wrestlefest was eating all my quarters.
Pro Wrestling was old, by this point. TWW, naturally, had it beat in both graphics and audio. Gameplay, I don't exactly remember, but I think I preferred TWW. And that cover art is beautiful.
Well Tecmo World Wrestling also beat all the crappy WWF games from Rare that were released around the same time. Pro Wrestling, imo, i overrated. Heck, i think Pro Wrestling on the SMS was better and that is boring, but at least it had features like entrances and a face/heel divide.
Konami's The Main Event for the arcade has an "enthusiastic" announcer/commentator that goes on throughout the matches via voice samples. It's pretty impressive for 1988. They ended up using the same hardware for TMNT, Aliens, Super Contra, Gradius 3 and some others.
Yes, I agree. I meant as far as commentary on screen using text. I should have mentioned that though as I just did a video on the main event a couple of months ago. Good call the
Super ahead of its time and the animation for NES/Famicom standard looks sharp for both North American and Japanese versions respectively. The struggle is real for smashing buttons for this game and other NES games for that matter in the glorious 80's time period. Excellent video Patman. Rock on sir as the Rockers would say!!
Another top video, always looking forward to the next one appearing on my feed! Such a big gulf in quality between this and the official WWF Wrestlemania game. Makes Wrestlemania look barebones!
The WWF games and the WCW game for Nintendo had nothing on this. This, and Pro-Wrestling were my go to games for Pro-Wrestling on my 8-bit Nintendo when I was a kid. Tecmo was so f'n good
I don't thank you enough for your videos, my bad. But I really want to say thank you. It is very relaxing to listen to you and I enjoy your content! Best of luck!
Another awesome video, Sir! Like you, Pactman, I'm a huge, huge wrestling and video game fan, especially back in the 80s and 90s. WCW Wrestling, Tecmo World Wrestling and Pro Wrestling were my go to wrestling games (in that order) on the NES. By the way, Tag Team Wrestling (NES version) was also the very first wrestling game that I played also.
Great video, Patman! I played Tecmo Wrestling a LOT myself! It was fun and challenging, plus I learned a number of moves not seen on the WWF/WCW shows at the time. I also remember the commentator getting frustrated when you avoid locking up for too long! 😄 Thanks for all you do for this channel! ☝️
Nice! Seems as though I'm not the only guy going on a wrestling kick right now. And yes, i left a like (I do forget sometimes so dont worry about reminding us)
@patmanqc-historyofarcadega661 I absolutely loved those close ups...for the time it was mind blowing and It made all the other nes wrestling games obsolete until the snes and then Saturday night slam masters came in 😊
@@nehemiahpouncey3607I remember renting it a few times and my brother and I would rent and write down good games that would be awesome for Christmas 😂
Patman! This is amazing! I am in awe by the fact that you are able to connect the fictional characters to the real wrestlers! I really love the “after these messages” bit too! Great video!
Having sold off my NES and most of my collection in 2011 (huge mistake), I now have only three of my original NES carts from childhood, and TECMO Super Bowl is one of them! I have never been very good at it, but as a passionate wrestling fan I have to appreciate all of this great depth. It's the only 8-bit wrestling game with alternate pins like the bridging German suplex or the power bomb where you hold on. It's one of only 2 NES wrestling games with submissions, including some holds we really weren't seeing in the states at the time, at least not on TV, like the octopus stretch. The music is strong, adding some emotional depth to the experience.
Best wrestling game on the NES. My friend and I used to play this for HOURS back in ‘90. If WWF WrestleMania Challenge (another game we truly loved because we were both religious wrestling fanatics) had this game’s engine and gameplay……
I had this Nintendo game World Wrestling I play this on my retro fives it takes awhile to get used to for me I'm used to playing pro wrestling Nintendo
I've been playing a lot of classic wrestling games I do need to get back into World Wrestling. Mostly playing pro wrestling Saturday night slam Masters and wrestling War
Best wrestling game on the NES. Just a note on the button mashing: the game is designed so that turbo controllers won’t work, but there’s a way around that. I used my NES Advantage, which had adjustable turbo, so during the training segments I would turn down the turbo until the game would accept the input. I’d end up with a bunch of the circles filled, and the turbo was then perfectly tuned to pull off moves during matches as well. Also much easier on the thumbs :)
I never used one back in the day so I didn't know that. However, playing under emulation I definitely had to use auto fire otherwise I wouldn't have made it very far
great job as always. appreciate your content and research. i had problems leveling up the wrestlers. this one was a fun game. TECMO had quite a few fun titles.
This was a great video. Not only was it fun, but informative. I enjoy hearing about how games came to be. What was needed, and incorporated into it. Your video does this very well. Makes me glad that sometimes the algorithm here works...lol. You definitely earned my respect and admiration, not just a subscriber number. GREAT JOB!
In North America, this game had no rival. It was the spiritual successor to the old Pro Wrestling and no game came close. In Japan, it had to contend with the arrival of the 16bit Fire Pro series on PC-Engine and couldn't compete. I loved this game so much as a kid. I made some of the earlier Fire Pro models for SFPWX Premium and the GBC game. Heck, I started a FPW ring management mode game using Tecmo World Wrestling and narrated the first couple of "years" on a forum. I also made some for the more recent FFPW but I was quickly outclassed by people using more recent custom moves and smoother custom parts. I stand by my head cannon for their backstories, though.
I agree, it wasn't until North Americans had fire Pro on the PS2. I have been playing Import copies on the super Famicom since the very beginning. A friend of mine who actually did one of the early English translation patch for fire Pro also did a ring management on the series had extensive back stories for each character LOL
That Tecmo theater mode cutscene cinematics are cool to see during the games. I actually wish the newer WWE games featured more of that. In that Tecmo cartoon commercial, I see Hulk Hogan. Thanks for going over each of the wrestlers to confirm the likenesses. That masked villain would be tough to defeat. Thanks Patman!
I remember my dad coming home with this game for me as a surprise when I was a kid. I was super into wrestling at the time. Great game, loved it. Really hard though. Luckily at some point I got the nes advantage controller, the 'turbo' mode made it very easy so I could finally see the ending. I'd go as far as to say that without some sort of turbo controller, this game would be nigh on impossible to beat.
The last NES game I bought! ...and this was 92 or so after I was well underway with the SNES! I rarely tired of the good wrestling games, and this one had slipped by....and the NES still had plenty of life left for me! I played this one quite a bit, perhaps until the end of 1993. Looking back, it was the perfect game to go out on for my NES era, ending with Tecmo wrestling, starting of my collection years earlier with "Pro Wrestling." WHAT A RUSH!!!!
Oh man. Loved this game growing up. One of the things i will always remember is that my friend and i thought it was the height of comedy to name our wrestler "shit" so the announcer would say "shit is getting stomped". Not quite as funny when youre not 11 but you had to be there.
This and Pro Wrestling are the best wrestling games on the NES. P.S I also loved that Wrestling game by Taito for the arcade that you showed at the start of the video. I remember it was the first game to include managers that would throw illegal objects in to the ring when the ref wasn't looking and a Cage match. Have you made a video about that one?
wow fantastic job as always! i love the the way you looked at the other Tecmo sports titles to set up the wrestling game. I had this has a kid and could only do the workouts with a NES game pad that had a turbo mode!!!
Until the 16-bit WWF Royal Rumble/Raw games came out, this was the wrestling game that I played the most with friends and family. Absurdly fun in two player mode.
"Fighter Hayabusa" I could never land the back brain buster....lol. You old guys know EXACTLY what im talking about. Super Tecmo Bowl is THE best sports game ever on the NES period. The best part of the game no one mentions is the game kept your season stats. Pass yards, rush yards. I always tried to have at least 1000 rushing yards per the season.
Lol, I just realized Superman and another character sitting to his left and right a few rows over are in the crowd for Mat Mania. 😄 Wrestling games I played on the nes back in the day were Pro Wrestling, MUSCLE Wrestling, Tag Team Wrestling and Wrestlemania and eventually Tecmo World Wrestling. I never did friend the WCW game but my friend did have it. really miss those early gaming days since I'm getting older now.
I bought Tecno world wrestling a few months before WWF wrestlemania challenge came out, I couldn't believe the high quality of this game compared to the WWF / WWE game. It's such a shame they couldn't use licensed wrestlers and shame it didn't have a tag team mode.
A true classic, but by far most enjoyable against a friend. Even using an NES Advantage at max turbo I still struggled to win with any consistency in single player. It's so odd that Tecmo abandoned the genre after what I assume must have been solid success with this game.
I think Bass, Tina, & la mariposa (the butterfly) from the doa fighting game series have wresting outfits that say tecmo. This might be a possible reference to this game
I once played this game and something very weird happened that I have not been able to re-create. I was just putzing around beating up my opponent well past the point where I could have pinned him, and from out of nowhere, the commentator says something along the lines of oh no- what is this.. his opponent is not moving... somebody get some help! And just like that, the match was over! I tried multiple times to get it to happen again, but no luck. I know this sounds unbelievable, but I swear this happened.
Please make a history video about Captain Tsubasa Vol.2 Super Striker, which is also developed by Tecmo. That game is really ahead of its time, best graphic representation and best ost.
I remember playing this game for the first time at my first video game convention when I was around 8 or so. I hope this game comes Nintendo Online on the Switch 🤞
Thank you Pat for doing another great video. Towards the end of the video you have a picture of all of the wrestlers could I ask where you found it if you could link me in the right direction it would be great.
My friends were desperate for wrestling games in 96, 97 so in this we would rename the bald guy StonCold. StonCold because there weren't enough letter slots for the 'e' 😂
The nice thing about these fictional wrestling rosters, is that you don't feel bummed out when you go to fire up the game all these years later.
Excellent point.
I agree
Haha, like the WrestleMania 19 game 🙁
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What was that all about?😂
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WTF was that all about?
Tecmo got it right.
Nintendo got it right
And the one's who made wcw
Wrestling.
This was such a good game. I remember having birthday money burning a whole in my pockets and seeing this at Toys R Us. I knew nothing about it, but I loved Tecmo Bowl and Ninja Gaiden. Based on that reputation, I bought the game. I was not disappointed.
Wise decision!
@@justafanofnerdculture7602 i won some and I lost some. This was a win
I was well into high school and the PS1 era the first time I played this, at a friend's house. We randomly dug out his old NES and I was blown away by just how good of a game it was. Easily the best wrestling game on the system.
Tecmo World Wrestling is one of my favorite Pro-Wrestling video games ever!! I loved it. How it didn't go on and on, I'll never know.
Good question
This is a legendary game! Thanks for the excellent video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much
I am near 40 and love retro games and wrestling as well so Patman's videos are always amazing to me. Great job! I love seeing videos about the wrestling games I missed while Wrestlefest was eating all my quarters.
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed
Thank you, Patman, for another great video. Man, I love the sound of those old NES titles.
Boy, so do I. Thanks
Pro Wrestling was old, by this point. TWW, naturally, had it beat in both graphics and audio. Gameplay, I don't exactly remember, but I think I preferred TWW. And that cover art is beautiful.
Gameplay wise I have to give the Pro wrestling but the graphics and audio were far superior on this version
Well Tecmo World Wrestling also beat all the crappy WWF games from Rare that were released around the same time. Pro Wrestling, imo, i overrated. Heck, i think Pro Wrestling on the SMS was better and that is boring, but at least it had features like entrances and a face/heel divide.
Konami's The Main Event for the arcade has an "enthusiastic" announcer/commentator that goes on throughout the matches via voice samples. It's pretty impressive for 1988. They ended up using the same hardware for TMNT, Aliens, Super Contra, Gradius 3 and some others.
Yes, I agree. I meant as far as commentary on screen using text. I should have mentioned that though as I just did a video on the main event a couple of months ago. Good call the
My cousin's first wrestling game ever.
Remember seeing them play this over
My aunt And uncle's house years ago.
Very cool
Aw, jeez! Just when I was thinking about going to bed too…. Thanks Patman! P.S. I smashed that like button as requested 😉
You're the best! Hope you enjoy it
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I enjoyed it very much. Thanks again and have a great night/ morning 👾👾👾
We love you Patman. Thank you for the hard work, dedication and pure passion that goes into these videos. Happy little games make my heart feel good 😊
Owned the NES game when it came out and one day found the arcade version and got to play it. Can’t ever find that arcade version on mame
It's so nice to hear, thank you so much
Super ahead of its time and the animation for NES/Famicom standard looks sharp for both North American and Japanese versions respectively. The struggle is real for smashing buttons for this game and other NES games for that matter in the glorious 80's time period. Excellent video Patman. Rock on sir as the Rockers would say!!
This was better than WrestleMania.
LOL, thanks. Rock on!
Oh yes, leaps and bounds
I concur@@nehemiahpouncey3607
My favorite nes game of all time!👍
It sure is a lot of fun, great profile picture by the way
Another top video, always looking forward to the next one appearing on my feed! Such a big gulf in quality between this and the official WWF Wrestlemania game. Makes Wrestlemania look barebones!
It sure does and they were released the same year. Crazy
The WWF games and the WCW game for Nintendo had nothing on this. This, and Pro-Wrestling were my go to games for Pro-Wrestling on my 8-bit Nintendo when I was a kid.
Tecmo was so f'n good
Good job on this dude. I grew up w/ a lot of these games, as we all did
I don't thank you enough for your videos, my bad. But I really want to say thank you. It is very relaxing to listen to you and I enjoy your content! Best of luck!
Glad you like them! Thanks so much, I appreciate that
Pro wrestling and Tecmo World Wrestling are my two favorite NES wresting games.
Right on, Patman. I refer people to your corner of the UA-cam whenever possible.
I sure do appreciate that thanks
I loved this game
Yes, so did I
Another awesome video, Sir! Like you, Pactman, I'm a huge, huge wrestling and video game fan, especially back in the 80s and 90s. WCW Wrestling, Tecmo World Wrestling and Pro Wrestling were my go to wrestling games (in that order) on the NES. By the way, Tag Team Wrestling (NES version) was also the very first wrestling game that I played also.
Very cool, sounds like we like the same types of games. Thanks
Yes, sir, it does.
Great video, Patman! I played Tecmo Wrestling a LOT myself! It was fun and challenging, plus I learned a number of moves not seen on the WWF/WCW shows at the time.
I also remember the commentator getting frustrated when you avoid locking up for too long! 😄
Thanks for all you do for this channel! ☝️
That's hilarious, I didn't know that. Thanks a lot for watching
Nice! Seems as though I'm not the only guy going on a wrestling kick right now. And yes, i left a like (I do forget sometimes so dont worry about reminding us)
Thank you very much
Thank you so much. I've been waiting for someone to do a video on Tecmo World Wrestling. I loved this game so much when I was a kid.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks
I loved/love this game! I had it on NES.
Great channel buddy! I've been a fan for a while!
Best wishes!
Thanks a lot, Glad you enjoyed it
UA-cam & vintage NES / arcade wrestling titles. Might be the definition of nostalgia right here.
Well done!
Thanks a lot
My all time favorite wrestling game on the NES hands down 😊
You got this under your tree for
Christmas you were made for life.
It was so cool seeing those cinematic close-ups
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I absolutely loved those close ups...for the time it was mind blowing and It made all the other nes wrestling games obsolete until the snes and then Saturday night slam masters came in 😊
@@nehemiahpouncey3607I remember renting it a few times and my brother and I would rent and write down good games that would be awesome for Christmas 😂
Holy Nostalgia kick in the balls. Thank You Patman!
LOL thank you for watching
Patman! This is amazing! I am in awe by the fact that you are able to connect the fictional characters to the real wrestlers! I really love the “after these messages” bit too! Great video!
Thank you so much 😀
Another great video from you Patman!
This game was AWESOME! Definitely one of the best NES wrestling games in my opinion.
Thanks a ton, I appreciate that
TONS of memories coming back watching that. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
This is such an incredible documentary, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Having sold off my NES and most of my collection in 2011 (huge mistake), I now have only three of my original NES carts from childhood, and TECMO Super Bowl is one of them! I have never been very good at it, but as a passionate wrestling fan I have to appreciate all of this great depth. It's the only 8-bit wrestling game with alternate pins like the bridging German suplex or the power bomb where you hold on. It's one of only 2 NES wrestling games with submissions, including some holds we really weren't seeing in the states at the time, at least not on TV, like the octopus stretch. The music is strong, adding some emotional depth to the experience.
Best wrestling game on the NES. My friend and I used to play this for HOURS back in ‘90. If WWF WrestleMania Challenge (another game we truly loved because we were both religious wrestling fanatics) had this game’s engine and gameplay……
I had this Nintendo game World Wrestling I play this on my retro fives it takes awhile to get used to for me I'm used to playing pro wrestling Nintendo
Yes, Pro wrestling controls a bit better but the graphics are awesome on this game
I've been playing a lot of classic wrestling games I do need to get back into World Wrestling. Mostly playing pro wrestling Saturday night slam Masters and wrestling War
It also the main boss of World Wrestling is a lot like the main boss from pro-wrestling use everybody's moved
Best wrestling game on the NES.
Just a note on the button mashing: the game is designed so that turbo controllers won’t work, but there’s a way around that. I used my NES Advantage, which had adjustable turbo, so during the training segments I would turn down the turbo until the game would accept the input. I’d end up with a bunch of the circles filled, and the turbo was then perfectly tuned to pull off moves during matches as well. Also much easier on the thumbs :)
I never used one back in the day so I didn't know that. However, playing under emulation I definitely had to use auto fire otherwise I wouldn't have made it very far
If people don't like your vids they don't know what good vids are
Thanks so much, I appreciate that
i loved this game as a kid. Tecmo Team Ninja these days would make a phenomenal Wrestling Game.
Absolutely, Would be great to see
great job as always. appreciate your content and research. i had problems leveling up the wrestlers. this one was a fun game. TECMO had quite a few fun titles.
Thanks a lot. Yes, they had a lot of great stuff
This was a great video. Not only was it fun, but informative. I enjoy hearing about how games came to be. What was needed, and incorporated into it. Your video does this very well. Makes me glad that sometimes the algorithm here works...lol. You definitely earned my respect and admiration, not just a subscriber number. GREAT JOB!
I remember always wishing this game had a tag team mode. It's still one of my favorite wrestling games ever.
Not sure why no follow up?
Guessing they wanted to experiment
With more sports titles.
Yes, I was surprised at that as well
i played this heavy in the early and mid 90s, always got love for this.
I always thought it was fun as well
In North America, this game had no rival. It was the spiritual successor to the old Pro Wrestling and no game came close. In Japan, it had to contend with the arrival of the 16bit Fire Pro series on PC-Engine and couldn't compete. I loved this game so much as a kid. I made some of the earlier Fire Pro models for SFPWX Premium and the GBC game. Heck, I started a FPW ring management mode game using Tecmo World Wrestling and narrated the first couple of "years" on a forum.
I also made some for the more recent FFPW but I was quickly outclassed by people using more recent custom moves and smoother custom parts.
I stand by my head cannon for their backstories, though.
Yeah but if you had a NES, you couldn’t play Fire Pro so this is as good as it was getting.
I agree, it wasn't until North Americans had fire Pro on the PS2. I have been playing Import copies on the super Famicom since the very beginning.
A friend of mine who actually did one of the early English translation patch for fire Pro also did a ring management on the series had extensive back stories for each character LOL
Rented this so many times. Great video as always!
Awesome! Thank you!
Tecmo World Wrestling was and still is my fave NES game
It's a classic in my opinion
That Tecmo theater mode cutscene cinematics are cool to see during the games. I actually wish the newer WWE games featured more of that. In that Tecmo cartoon commercial, I see Hulk Hogan. Thanks for going over each of the wrestlers to confirm the likenesses. That masked villain would be tough to defeat. Thanks Patman!
Thanks for watching. It would be cool to see that type of tecmo theater on a newer system with better animation.
I remember my dad coming home with this game for me as a surprise when I was a kid. I was super into wrestling at the time. Great game, loved it. Really hard though. Luckily at some point I got the nes advantage controller, the 'turbo' mode made it very easy so I could finally see the ending. I'd go as far as to say that without some sort of turbo controller, this game would be nigh on impossible to beat.
Man, you might be right about that. To this day, I've never beaten this game. In fact, I've never made it to the final boss.
I only beat it once back in the day and that was with a standard controller. I definitely had to use auto fire to play through it this time
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The fact you did it even once is very impressive. I could never smash those buttons fast enough, not even close.
@@justafanofnerdculture7602 Finally cruising through it and getting to the end was very satisfying, I can tell you.
Man, you two are tempting me to bust this game out and go for the championship... again!
The last NES game I bought! ...and this was 92 or so after I was well underway with the SNES! I rarely tired of the good wrestling games, and this one had slipped by....and the NES still had plenty of life left for me! I played this one quite a bit, perhaps until the end of 1993. Looking back, it was the perfect game to go out on for my NES era, ending with Tecmo wrestling, starting of my collection years earlier with "Pro Wrestling."
WHAT A RUSH!!!!
Oh man. Loved this game growing up. One of the things i will always remember is that my friend and i thought it was the height of comedy to name our wrestler "shit" so the announcer would say "shit is getting stomped". Not quite as funny when youre not 11 but you had to be there.
LOL comment of the day
This and Pro Wrestling are the best wrestling games on the NES. P.S I also loved that Wrestling game by Taito for the arcade that you showed at the start of the video. I remember it was the first game to include managers that would throw illegal objects in to the ring when the ref wasn't looking and a Cage match. Have you made a video about that one?
This Is The One From Taito :
ua-cam.com/video/_J1BIby7q1U/v-deo.html
Championship wrestler is the one you are referring to. No, I haven't done it yet
Patman thanks for another great video, you always know how to capture that great nostalgic feeling👌
One thing I remember is if both wrestlers stand idly and do nothing, the commentator gets angry.
I never knew that, thanks
wow fantastic job as always! i love the the way you looked at the other Tecmo sports titles to set up the wrestling game. I had this has a kid and could only do the workouts with a NES game pad that had a turbo mode!!!
Glad you liked it! It was necessary to show the entire SportsLine since in Japan wrestling was still considered a sport at the time
Really awesome work Patrick ! Hope to see you soon!
Another great video. Thank you for the knowledge and chuckles always a great watch
Nice shout out to the late Adrian Street there Patman. 👍
Absolutely, thanks for noticing
So many history of wrestling games to catch up on! Nice work!
Thanks for the visit
It got the late 80s wrestling tv presentation down with this game.
It absolutely nailed it
I recognize that bowling team ! Awesome video Patrick! I like this video a lot !
LOL thanks brother
This is a top 10 NES game in my personal opinion. Definitely my favorite wrestling game on the system
I prefer the gameplay of Pro wrestling but this game has better graphics and sounds
How that gem of a wrestling game went under my radar, I'll never know!
Thanks for the discovery PatmanQC!
Excellent, thanks
Easily the best wrestling on the NES. Thanks for the video!
Absolutely thanks for watching
Anyone who doesn't leave this man a like can't be my friend no mo.😂
LOL thank you my friend
Been Praying for you Brother stay strong 💪
Cool video as always bro I loved tecmo wrestling
Wow Patrick this is awesome man I can't wait to hang out again ! Friends Eddie and Lori say hello 😊
Thanks buddy
Very nice Patrick from Bill Hopwood it was nice seeing you too
Hey there Billy, good seeing you buddy
I thought I knew /had most NES wrestling games and can't believe I never heard of tecmo wrestling I have to emulate this
I love this game. So much better than any WWF game on the NES.
Those NES WWF games were absolute trash. Very, very disappointing.
Yet I still played it like a madman LOL
I agree
Ricky Steamboat vs Road Warrior Animal on the cover--nice!!
Awesome thanks 👍 Pacmanqc great work Sir
So nice of you, Thanks
Thank you Patman!!
Until the 16-bit WWF Royal Rumble/Raw games came out, this was the wrestling game that I played the most with friends and family. Absurdly fun in two player mode.
Yes it was
"Fighter Hayabusa" I could never land the back brain buster....lol.
You old guys know EXACTLY what im talking about.
Super Tecmo Bowl is THE best sports game ever on the NES period. The best part of the game no one mentions is the game kept your season stats. Pass yards, rush yards. I always tried to have at least 1000 rushing yards per the season.
Love the vids Patman. Your content is awesome!
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you kindly
Lol, I just realized Superman and another character sitting to his left and right a few rows over are in the crowd for Mat Mania. 😄
Wrestling games I played on the nes back in the day were Pro Wrestling, MUSCLE Wrestling, Tag Team Wrestling and Wrestlemania and eventually Tecmo World Wrestling. I never did friend the WCW game but my friend did have it. really miss those early gaming days since I'm getting older now.
Look for my video on Mat mania where I go in detail about the various celebrity cameos at ringside
There are submission finishes in this game. I've done them on two player. And they're actually really cool, especially with the commentary.
Thanks for the info
I bought Tecno world wrestling a few months before WWF wrestlemania challenge came out, I couldn't believe the high quality of this game compared to the WWF / WWE game. It's such a shame they couldn't use licensed wrestlers and shame it didn't have a tag team mode.
Yes, I agree
Great game. Still play it.
I agree and I still play it too.
This was my favorite game growing up, lol. Ah the memories. The best wrestling game for Nintendo hands down.
Yes it was really good
A true classic, but by far most enjoyable against a friend. Even using an NES Advantage at max turbo I still struggled to win with any consistency in single player. It's so odd that Tecmo abandoned the genre after what I assume must have been solid success with this game.
I used auto fire when recording footage for this game and I lost more than a few matches LOL
Not sure why I wasn’t subscribed to this channel before now but that mistake has been corrected
Well I am glad you are here, thanks buddy
I think Bass, Tina, & la mariposa (the butterfly) from the doa fighting game series have wresting outfits that say tecmo. This might be a possible reference to this game
I also remember seeing Rex Beat cameo in Bad News Baseball, which, of course, is another Tecmo NES classic.
Excellent, I did not know that
This was one of my favorite wrestling games. Mater of fact at the time it was the best.
Definitely on the NES
christmas 91 i got this game along with an NES, had many great times with it
great game. my favorite of all time...
Fantastic, hope you enjoyed it
I once played this game and something very weird happened that I have not been able to re-create. I was just putzing around beating up my opponent well past the point where I could have pinned him, and from out of nowhere, the commentator says something along the lines of oh no- what is this.. his opponent is not moving... somebody get some help! And just like that, the match was over! I tried multiple times to get it to happen again, but no luck. I know this sounds unbelievable, but I swear this happened.
Crazy, I have never seen that. Anyone else?
Never seen that myself . I beat the game many times over . And that was never in the game.
I love this game, thanks for a great video
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks so much
Me and Eddie love your videos 🎉
Thanks Lori
Please make a history video about Captain Tsubasa Vol.2 Super Striker, which is also developed by Tecmo. That game is really ahead of its time, best graphic representation and best ost.
8:34 Poor Krillin. Looks like his wife forced him to make more money in wrestling. 💰
LOL I never noticed
patman is the man!!!
Thanks a ton
great as always
Thank you! Cheers!
I remember playing this game for the first time at my first video game convention when I was around 8 or so. I hope this game comes Nintendo Online on the Switch 🤞
That would be awesome
Thank you Pat for doing another great video. Towards the end of the video you have a picture of all of the wrestlers could I ask where you found it if you could link me in the right direction it would be great.
The original I found off of a Japanese website. Period it was faded and had some kinks which I had to manually remove.
My friends were desperate for wrestling games in 96, 97 so in this we would rename the bald guy StonCold. StonCold because there weren't enough letter slots for the 'e' 😂
LOL fantastic
Tecmo World Wrestling looks impressive for me to play. 😀👍🎮
Yes my friend it is a lot of fun
Other Techmo games with the Action Theater tagline was Captain Tsubasa or Techmo Cup Soccer in USA.
Yes, I learned of this when doing my research. Was not aware of the earlier title
I love the hairdo Patrick from Lori Hubbard 😂
LOL thanks
One of my favorite games still!
Yes, lot of fun