OK! I learned three things 1.) This game exist 2.) How the host keeps a straight face reading the names is beyond me… kudos 3.) Don’t eat dinner while listening to him read off the names ☺️
@@daviddee9336 LOL! 😂 good one cause it’s true. I can only imagine what they looked like these Pubescent frogs 🐸 lol, omg I can’t believe I actually just typed those words together. I’m gonna google them tonight when I get home from work. Thanks for giving me a laugh before I go to work. On a side note, I used to know someone named David Dee, I knew him through his job in Corpus Christi at a place called SATF. I doubt you are the same person but man, that’d be crazy if you were the same Mr. Dee. Take care buddy.
Not going to lie, the Animations are really great. If someone made an English patch, I'd definitely play this game, it gives me Fire Pro vibes for some reasons.
This is awesome. It's rare to come across a wrestling game I haven't heard of, so this was a real treat. Reminds me a little of Zen-Nippon Pro Wrestling with the Fire Pro twist of using incredibly obvious knock-off characters. I would've been all over this back in the day, for sure. Hopefully I'll get to give it a shot one day.
This game is really cool, and I love the idea of having to appeal to the crowd and other nuances you need to do besides just win the match, and the backstage segments before the match are a nice touch In a lot of ways this game is really ahead of its time
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet! Like most the other comments. I had no idea this game existed either. Which makes this unique and very different video. You keep pulling them out the bag. Thanks for the content.
I never owned a 3DO, but you definitely make this game seem appealing! I think I might have to check it out sometime. I agree, the depth in different territories preferring different wrestling styles is very innovative for it's time. Great video, man!
This game was ahead of it's time, it looked very good , no other wrestling games were doing them things, it's influence is felt to this day with wrestling games
Thanks for showing this off; I had never heard of this! Personally, I'm a big fan of "The Manly Madman" Andy Savage; they never should have broken up the Mondo Strengths team. If only Golden Lips didn't have creative control in his contract. These bootleg themes would make Jimmy Hart blush. All joking aside, I wish modern wrestling games had something like the crowd-pleasing meter more often, especially with trying to work a specific style for a crowd; at least more involved than the WWF Warzone/Attitude style of just "do all your moves with repeating in a row". They really seemed proud of this aspect, since the individual federation descriptions do clue the player in to what type of match the fans like. Five will get you ten, the promos were done by one or two non-Japanese guys someone on staff knew with the only direction of "Do you know pro-wrestling?", since the text doesn't exactly line up with the spoken lines.
so for the Japanese guys with kanji in their names, as far as I can tell, they mostly use one kanji from their surnames, save for Koji Izawa. Also, Jumbo the Tomo is based on a kanji in Tsuruta's name. Iwaki 岩木 vs. Inoki 猪木 Fujiyama 藤山 vs. Fujinami 藤波 Hashitomi 橋富 vs. Hashimoto 橋本 Kiba 鬼場 vs. Baba 馬場 Izawa 伊澤 sounds like "Misawa," but also, Koji 光治 contains the first kanji in Misawa's given name, Mitsuharu 光晴 Jumbo the Tomo gets his name from Jumbo Tsuruta's real given name, Tomomi 友美. He only went by his real name early in his career, and changed it after a fan poll, because Tomomi is more commonly seen as a girl's name.
The wrestling different styles in the territories to get a better crowd reaction, and the crowd reaction itself are super innovative even by today's standards in a wrestling video game. Awesome game ( ×10 for its time, 30 years ago) very innovative.
😮 I used to play this game 🤘 Thank you for making this video!!! I'm now flooded with memories from my teenage years. Man the world was simple back then
I've never heard of this game until today and I was born in the 80s and boy this game is actually pretty creative.... More wrestling games should use this type of career concept... Pretty dope
Andy Savage, Rich Flair, Golden Lips, Big Kiba. Man ooooh man did I need this today. Japan programmers, thank you for being such cheapos on paying rights to companies yet making a real good game. I'd play it right here and now. Clever names and way around the music etc.
The animation is quite impressive and I am admittedly not very knowledge about 3DO games let alone ones only released in Japan. Very surprising it never got a port on either the PS1 or Saturn.
@@atodamadre3197 not in Japan like this was released in and other wrestling games got released during that period in the West with slightly altered looks and names of wrestlers so can't see why this would have been any different.
Feels like some true effort was put in to this and the team did a lot for what little resources they had. I like how the names mostly imvolved some trivia
Oh man, imagine if a game like this existed today, and you had all those knockoff wrestler names. Rhody Starr Large Langstin Carter the 4th The Rowdy Gal Comic Kens And so on and so forth...
WWA=World Wrestling Alliance a mix of WWF and the NWA is what I see in my opinion. Another great video of something I wouldn't normally see. Keep up the great work.
That Natsume game on SNES is a good one. It also has amusingly redesigned versions of All Japan Wrestlers outside of Japan. It had a bit more of an emphasis on working the match as opposed to beating your opponent. The GBA Fire Pro had some interesting "homages" to the real wrestlers on the roster as well.
The crazy names are a signature of many Japanese wrestling games. The Fire Pro Wrestling series is famous for it. Burning Pro Wrestling for the SNES (see what they did there) also had them too. It's part of the charm of the games
Man, where do you find this stuff??? Amazing work good sir!!! You are truly out here doing the Lord's work, but the big question I have is this, are you still chinlock free?
This was a drinking game video in many ways. Every time someone says the magically word "Explain", you take a drink. I believe there were 6 uses in this video.
I am now very interested in this game. Not every wrestling game has to be like Aki to be good. How you describe the grappling system, it sounds like it can be REALLY competitive if you got some serious players.
Natsume Championship Wrestling was the first wrestling game I ever owned. I wouldn’t actually mind seeing a review on that. I remember the controls being really hard to get at first but once you did it was pretty fun.
Fan art is a common thing in Japanese media. Lots of manga will show of fan art on extra pages in the magazines. The one that’s probably most famous for it would actually be Kinnikuman which you would probably like as it is a wrestling manga with all the wrestlers be crazy super heroes. Many of the characters are inspired by actual wrestlers such as Spanish hero Buffaloman taking inspiration on his look from Andre the giant. American hero Terryman is a combination of Terry Funk and Dusty Roads. Anyway it actually became a regular part of the series that fans would send in their own wrestlers and the author would draw them in the manga and even use them as characters in the series. This game probably had a similar promotional event.
This reminds me of Champion Wrestler on PS1. Similar aesthetic, and also another Japanese game with renamed real wrestlers. The grappling system in that game is timing based like Fire Pro as well. The commentary is absolutely amazing. I can’t understand what they are saying in Japanese but boy do they sell the action with enthusiasm. Try it sometime.
Man, wrestling and obscure console games! I'm a retro console collector so brilliant combo. Do a series and get Guru Larry or even AVGN on your videos! The quality of your videos, the presentation, I'm always really impressed, how a promotion hasn't dragged you in, I don't know.
Huh, when I get my replacement computer next week, I'm going to have to scroll through my 3DO ROMs, see if this is in there, and if not, may have find it.
Great vid, had never heard of this but their earlier game Natsume Wrestling is on the Switch Snes virtual console selection, worth checking out, but the really great one is Zen Nihon Pro Res 2 3 4, real licensed characters but Japan only sequel.
This is amazing! Never knew this game existed. The country/promotion-specific aspects to working the crowd in the championship mode with the pre-match promo work is really cool and sounds like it has a little touch of FirePro from how you have to time grapples and ect. Thank you for sharing this.
This looks so cool in my opinion lol but as a kid I loved the wwf raw is war game for Sega and the Super Nintendo WrestleMania game so this is so epic to me having learned about the wrestlers from outside the US and the careers of most of the ones featured in this game way later on in my life. And especially with how unique this looks throughout
I have a 3do and after a this time I never knew abkut this game. Great work about letting all of us knkw abkut it and great work on the video game side of the channel.
The Rich Flair promo at the end is one of the Wilderness Boy's finest. It's always nice to hear a "HOO!" from the tiny owl he keeps in his robe.
Lmao
Feels kind of weird not seeing Sean Michaelbottom, Bert “The Hartman” Shooter, or the Intimate Warrior here.
Haha! Intimate warrior
I want to see Dunk the Clown and Jacksaw Dim Huggin. And Rowdy Roddy Peeper.
You know warrior would be called Jim Dingomaster.
I personally wonder where The Stoner Brothers are…
These names in this thread somehow made my day lol
The Underdiser's theme sounds like what would play at the three blind mice's funeral
Andy Savage is the 'Dream of the Crop' 😂
OH YEAH DIG IT!
😂
Mug of caffeine, mug of caffeine...
"SNAP INTO SOME GREAT VALUE BEEF JERKY" OOOOH YEAHHH
Skunk vs. The Underdise, the match we've all been waiting for!😁😆😁
They'll feel fear like they've never felt it before.
@@md12962 The Underdise Morgan
SKULLAVAN MY SON!!!
“Enjoy yourself while you can.” - Andy Savage
Bite on an Oberto - Andy Savage
😂😂
reminds me of Andy Organ from 5 Star Wrestling
OK! I learned three things
1.) This game exist
2.) How the host keeps a straight face reading the names is beyond me… kudos
3.) Don’t eat dinner while listening to him read off the names ☺️
6:30
Underdice Morgan vs Skunk
The Dream Match I never knew I needed. 🤣
5:00 the "Dragon" is because Fujinami had the nickname "The Dragon" and is crediting with inventing the Dragon Suplex and Dragon Sleeper.
That Hogan theme actually slaps.
How 'bout I slap YOU?
This is even better than when you find obscure toys abroad that rip off trademarked characters. Pubescent frogs of the silent war to name but one.
So that was the Ninja Turtles?
@@JohnJohnson-fr5cx not if you were their lawyers.
@@daviddee9336 LOL! 😂 good one cause it’s true. I can only imagine what they looked like these Pubescent frogs 🐸 lol, omg I can’t believe I actually just typed those words together. I’m gonna google them tonight when I get home from work. Thanks for giving me a laugh before I go to work.
On a side note, I used to know someone named David Dee, I knew him through his job in Corpus Christi at a place called SATF. I doubt you are the same person but man, that’d be crazy if you were the same Mr. Dee.
Take care buddy.
HA! I used to joke about making a knockoff I called Pubescent Genetically Modified Karate Tortoises!
those are some Shockmaster level promos right there, pure gold!
Not going to lie, the Animations are really great. If someone made an English patch, I'd definitely play this game, it gives me Fire Pro vibes for some reasons.
Yeah the grapple system seems similar, and the AI
While they're at it they can just hack in the proper names too.
Fire Pro Wrestling is such a good wrestling game I love them on the GBA system
There’s barely any Japanese in it at all.
That Road Warrior promo omg 😂
2:36 "The Wilderness Kid" Rich Flair looks pretty good in that little cutscene
Considering the year this was released in, it has some ahead of it’s time mechanics. That rich flair woo at the end tho…..
Calling a damn owl to come down and help
@@wasmadeinthe80s they don’t call him The Nature Boy for no reason.
@@WTFiTzFlow 😂😂🦉
That wooo! alone is worth the price of a 3do and this game.
Wow... a wrestling game of which I have never heard. Good on ya, buddy!
Edit: "Bon's eye"?
What's wrong with his eye, Yoko?
Tell me!
Cause it was on 3do probabñy the most forgotten console ever
A preposition aware pro wrestling fan, surprising
Nah not for me
I still want to get a 3do for Road Rash and The Need for Speed alone
This wrestling game is now top priority!!
Rich Flairs little wooo at the end was hilarious! 😂 kinda wished we’d have gotten this game in the states on multiple platforms.
This is awesome. It's rare to come across a wrestling game I haven't heard of, so this was a real treat. Reminds me a little of Zen-Nippon Pro Wrestling with the Fire Pro twist of using incredibly obvious knock-off characters. I would've been all over this back in the day, for sure. Hopefully I'll get to give it a shot one day.
Loved that bootleg Flair ending!
THE MAN CALLED SKUNK!!!
Remember Skunk's Fight with Gregg Hearty.
@@conradojavier7547 oh yeah, wasn't that on T and A wrestling? I think it was the Winner's lane ppv
Better known to some as Bord Stevens.
Now this was a find!
I’m always going to be tempted to call Macho Man Andy Savage now.
This game is really cool, and I love the idea of having to appeal to the crowd and other nuances you need to do besides just win the match, and the backstage segments before the match are a nice touch
In a lot of ways this game is really ahead of its time
Actually its a very deep game with the crowdpleasing part and booking etc
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet!
Like most the other comments. I had no idea this game existed either. Which makes this unique and very different video. You keep pulling them out the bag. Thanks for the content.
I never owned a 3DO, but you definitely make this game seem appealing! I think I might have to check it out sometime. I agree, the depth in different territories preferring different wrestling styles is very innovative for it's time. Great video, man!
Whip out an emulator and give it a try. I'm sure the required materials aren't terribly hard to source.
4:00 - The greatest sentence said in a Wrestling Bios episode.
I would've done deplorable things in 1996 to play this!
We all would have! I’d love a HD remake lol
I am laughing way too hard at this way too relatable comment!
Yo... The backstage stuff are fantastic and needs to be added. The cameramen in Mexico, wrestlers getting ready for match in Japan,... WOW.
This game was ahead of it's time, it looked very good , no other wrestling games were doing them things, it's influence is felt to this day with wrestling games
Thanks for showing this off; I had never heard of this!
Personally, I'm a big fan of "The Manly Madman" Andy Savage; they never should have broken up the Mondo Strengths team. If only Golden Lips didn't have creative control in his contract. These bootleg themes would make Jimmy Hart blush.
All joking aside, I wish modern wrestling games had something like the crowd-pleasing meter more often, especially with trying to work a specific style for a crowd; at least more involved than the WWF Warzone/Attitude style of just "do all your moves with repeating in a row". They really seemed proud of this aspect, since the individual federation descriptions do clue the player in to what type of match the fans like. Five will get you ten, the promos were done by one or two non-Japanese guys someone on staff knew with the only direction of "Do you know pro-wrestling?", since the text doesn't exactly line up with the spoken lines.
so for the Japanese guys with kanji in their names, as far as I can tell, they mostly use one kanji from their surnames, save for Koji Izawa. Also, Jumbo the Tomo is based on a kanji in Tsuruta's name.
Iwaki 岩木 vs. Inoki 猪木
Fujiyama 藤山 vs. Fujinami 藤波
Hashitomi 橋富 vs. Hashimoto 橋本
Kiba 鬼場 vs. Baba 馬場
Izawa 伊澤 sounds like "Misawa," but also, Koji 光治 contains the first kanji in Misawa's given name, Mitsuharu 光晴
Jumbo the Tomo gets his name from Jumbo Tsuruta's real given name, Tomomi 友美. He only went by his real name early in his career, and changed it after a fan poll, because Tomomi is more commonly seen as a girl's name.
Shocked to see there was a wrestling video game I didn’t know about. Great find.
Great video! This seems like a fun game to play! Great upload!
The wrestling different styles in the territories to get a better crowd reaction, and the crowd reaction itself are super innovative even by today's standards in a wrestling video game. Awesome game ( ×10 for its time, 30 years ago) very innovative.
Interesting looking game…but ooooomg that “Wooo” at the end🤣🤣🤣
😮 I used to play this game 🤘
Thank you for making this video!!!
I'm now flooded with memories from my teenage years. Man the world was simple back then
I honestly wanna give this a go.
I've never heard of this game until today and I was born in the 80s and boy this game is actually pretty creative.... More wrestling games should use this type of career concept... Pretty dope
The rich flair promo at the end was the best, thank you.
Andy Savage, Rich Flair, Golden Lips, Big Kiba. Man ooooh man did I need this today. Japan programmers, thank you for being such cheapos on paying rights to companies yet making a real good game. I'd play it right here and now. Clever names and way around the music etc.
Beat this game on easy and hard setting within 24 hours. Good game!
Never heard of this!!! Great upload 👌
The animation is quite impressive and I am admittedly not very knowledge about 3DO games let alone ones only released in Japan. Very surprising it never got a port on either the PS1 or Saturn.
Not sure how they could port it. Would be a licensing nightmare
@@atodamadre3197 not in Japan like this was released in and other wrestling games got released during that period in the West with slightly altered looks and names of wrestlers so can't see why this would have been any different.
Feels like some true effort was put in to this and the team did a lot for what little resources they had. I like how the names mostly imvolved some trivia
Woah, I had no idea that this game existed!
Oh man, imagine if a game like this existed today, and you had all those knockoff wrestler names.
Rhody Starr
Large Langstin
Carter the 4th
The Rowdy Gal
Comic Kens
And so on and so forth...
John Ambrosia
Robert Lasher
Broccolis
Child of the Wilderness
Roaming Annoai
The possibilities are Endless
Totally never heard of this one before. Very cool.
Really like seeing managers on the outside.
WWA=World Wrestling Alliance a mix of WWF and the NWA is what I see in my opinion. Another great video of something I wouldn't normally see. Keep up the great work.
It looks kind of like a 2D version of WCW vs the World. Great video, never heard of this game til now!
Huh, looks like a much better version of the LGN games. Grapple system sounds a lot like what AKI eventually implemented.
Imagine mr long announcing that a “playa” has to wrestle Underdise Morgan, that would be hilarious
Teddy Short Announce a Singles Match with Da Undadise Morgan.
Mr Short*
Teddy Dore R. Long
Missed opportunity to have a Hull Logan or a Krisp Ben Wah... Or a See em Punked.
Kind of looks like wrestlefest. I'm going to buy this for my 3do
Mr Stink is now Skunk. I love it
I love Rich Flair's owl impression.
That Natsume game on SNES is a good one. It also has amusingly redesigned versions of All Japan Wrestlers outside of Japan. It had a bit more of an emphasis on working the match as opposed to beating your opponent. The GBA Fire Pro had some interesting "homages" to the real wrestlers on the roster as well.
Sounds a lot like WCW vs. The World on first blush... let's see if I am right....
This is most definitely a hidden gem.
The crazy names are a signature of many Japanese wrestling games. The Fire Pro Wrestling series is famous for it. Burning Pro Wrestling for the SNES (see what they did there) also had them too. It's part of the charm of the games
Man, where do you find this stuff???
Amazing work good sir!!!
You are truly out here doing the Lord's work, but the big question I have is this, are you still chinlock free?
This could honestly lead to something if someone decide to take time to mod this game
There would be lawsuits up the arse if this would come out as a retail title today :D
This was a drinking game video in many ways.
Every time someone says the magically word "Explain", you take a drink.
I believe there were 6 uses in this video.
I am now very interested in this game.
Not every wrestling game has to be like Aki to be good. How you describe the grappling system, it sounds like it can be REALLY competitive if you got some serious players.
I LOVE the 3DO, and have been collecting for it since 2007. I am very surprised I had never heard of this one before now.
Yes! I love the wrestling video game content!
looks like it would be fun. and the music is amazing.
Natsume Championship Wrestling was the first wrestling game I ever owned. I wouldn’t actually mind seeing a review on that. I remember the controls being really hard to get at first but once you did it was pretty fun.
The voiceovers are freaking hilarious 😂😂
Fan art is a common thing in Japanese media. Lots of manga will show of fan art on extra pages in the magazines. The one that’s probably most famous for it would actually be Kinnikuman which you would probably like as it is a wrestling manga with all the wrestlers be crazy super heroes. Many of the characters are inspired by actual wrestlers such as Spanish hero Buffaloman taking inspiration on his look from Andre the giant. American hero Terryman is a combination of Terry Funk and Dusty Roads. Anyway it actually became a regular part of the series that fans would send in their own wrestlers and the author would draw them in the manga and even use them as characters in the series. This game probably had a similar promotional event.
Rich flair and the woo at the end 🤣🤣
Would of love this back in the day ! Great ideas in the game and the move sets looking great .
Needed a pick me up today, cheers
Love Rich Flair's owl impression at the end, lol
"Skunk" Absolutely killed me.
Rich Flair's woo in the end killed me. xD
This reminds me of Champion Wrestler on PS1. Similar aesthetic, and also another Japanese game with renamed real wrestlers. The grappling system in that game is timing based like Fire Pro as well. The commentary is absolutely amazing. I can’t understand what they are saying in Japanese but boy do they sell the action with enthusiasm. Try it sometime.
I thought Undertaker's theme was about to play 3 blind mice
Same lol
As someone who owns a 3DO, been interested in this one for awhile! Thank you for the great video, will definitely check it out now.
I like how they have animated and voiced promos, but slideshow entrances.
Man, wrestling and obscure console games! I'm a retro console collector so brilliant combo. Do a series and get Guru Larry or even AVGN on your videos!
The quality of your videos, the presentation, I'm always really impressed, how a promotion hasn't dragged you in, I don't know.
“The Underdise Morgan” is my new favorite name for anything ever
Huh, when I get my replacement computer next week, I'm going to have to scroll through my 3DO ROMs, see if this is in there, and if not, may have find it.
Great vid, had never heard of this but their earlier game Natsume Wrestling is on the Switch Snes virtual console selection, worth checking out, but the really great one is Zen Nihon Pro Res 2 3 4, real licensed characters but Japan only sequel.
This is amazing! Never knew this game existed. The country/promotion-specific aspects to working the crowd in the championship mode with the pre-match promo work is really cool and sounds like it has a little touch of FirePro from how you have to time grapples and ect.
Thank you for sharing this.
This looks so cool in my opinion lol but as a kid I loved the wwf raw is war game for Sega and the Super Nintendo WrestleMania game so this is so epic to me having learned about the wrestlers from outside the US and the careers of most of the ones featured in this game way later on in my life. And especially with how unique this looks throughout
The Man they callllllllllllll............. SKUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNK!
Bro this is awesome. Thanks for making it
I never knew about this. Thanks for sharing. It seems like a fun game to play. The promos made me laugh.
What a gem you've unearthed, thanks mate!
Holy ish. I thought I played all obscure rasslin games. Good on you for finding one I never even heard of.
5:44 looks like the Blue Blazer.
Good features for 1996 standards..Great Video by you always :)
9:19 Hey It's Doraemon!
Woooooooooo
Just what a day off called for
AWESOME!!! How in the blue hell have I lived without THIS all these years? Thats it, Im buying a 3DO, brother!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Wooo!
What a fan service regarding the names
I have a 3do and after a this time I never knew abkut this game. Great work about letting all of us knkw abkut it and great work on the video game side of the channel.
Awesome job I always love your video game reviews
Undertaker’s theme sounds like three blind mice!
Rich Flairs woo at the end 🤣