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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 18:48:53 GMT -4
Anyone else play a different wrestling game prior to discovering COTG/LOW?
For me it was early 1987 and I was looking through the 1986 PWI Year In Review. I saw two ads for wrestling games. One being Superstar Pro Wrestling which featured real wrestlers and the other being Champions of the Galaxy which had fictional cartoonish looking guys (it was the original PWI ad I saw). I ended up talking my parents into getting me the Superstar Pro Wrestling game.
I remember it didnt take very long to get it, it came in a plain white box. The ad had featured the names of real wrestlers but somehow I got the cards with the blank name slates. No big deal... the movesets gave you an idea of which wrestler was which. Anyhow, I used to play that damn game every day for hours at a time. I eventually began making bootleg cards for wrestlers I didnt have. Matches that stand out in memory for me back then were Hulk Hogan facing the newly turned heel Kerry Von Erich in a steel cage and the classic time limit draw between Randy Savage and Steve Keirn.
Anyhow time moved along and I eventually didnt play anymore... my cards ended up getting lost as well somewhere along the way. Fast forward to 1992. I still remembered that old game and told my buddies about it. Together the 4 of us recreated the game with the current wrestlers of the day. We'd get together on some weekends and have a huge supercard. I remember Sting (controlled by me) finally beating my best friends original creation (Big Bad Muthafucker... LOL hey I didnt name him) for the World Title. Big Bad Muthafucker had held that damn belt forever. Damn stacked ass bootleg.
The game got put away again after graduation from high school. In late 96 I bought an issue of PWI for the hell of it to see the game even still existed. I was surprised to see COTG was still around. And well... we know what happened there.
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Post by tyguy on Aug 17, 2010 18:52:37 GMT -4
I remember another game around that same time 87, 88, Forget the name but I still have it in the closet. It had NWA wrestlers, used all their names. The cards were the size of a regular piece of paper on good cardstock.
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Post by wildfire on Aug 17, 2010 19:06:06 GMT -4
I got Superstar Wrestling as well... I remember having the set with real names, the set with fake names (Bulk Logan was one, I remember), and the one with no names at all, where you had to figure out who they were... played it ALOT with my best buddy in 3rd grade and our dads.
I've since played the Computer version some... it's decent, but I find that it doesn't flow as well as LOW/CoTG does... it's harder to picture the match in your head, IMO. I'd defiinitely call it the 2nd best one I've played, though.
I've tried a few of the sims, too, Extreme Warfare and the like, but I've never really liked those, too complex for my liking.
I also fairly recently got Robert Downey's stuff(not the UltraQuick one, the other one)... it's OK, but it's more like the FG pbp sim than anything... each match is one or two dice rolls, then there's chart to spur angles and such.
It had some cool ideas for charts, but there's not much to it gameplay wise.
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Post by lwffantrav on Aug 17, 2010 19:12:34 GMT -4
I think alot may have played that one (that was the one after every offense and defense move, you had to reroll on the OC/DC chart and had the priority 5, 4 or 3?)
If it's the same, it was a great game for it's time, but after playing COTG for years, it had no flow to it. After every set, you had to roll on that OC/DC chart on the upper left of the card.
At least with COTG, you have some kind of consistency with the flow of the match. That jumped around a lot.
Great for it's time because of the real wrestlers. Probably the reason we opted for that over COTG at the time. We always wanted to bite the COTG bullet, but since it was fantasy characters, we always hesitated. My friend and I finally did in 89 and I probably never played that other one again.
I remember getting the fourth set with some crazy names and two I remember were Jersey Brisco and Nikita Kool-off
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Post by lwffantrav on Aug 17, 2010 19:20:27 GMT -4
By the way, myself, my brother and a couple of friends used to play alot. We even made cards of ourselves and made some of our friends (who didn't play) to round out our fed
We were probably 5th-6th graders at the time and we'd give ourself a foot!!!! in height and one hundred pounds, so at the time, I was 6-7!!! and 225 and my big brother was 6-11!!! and 285 pounds!
My friend and me were good guys, had our regular names and my brother and our friend's brother were the bad guys (They were the Exterminator and Big D Bucko). (I'll ask him tonight if he remembers that)
Post playing COTG, I still wish I got a copy of wrestlingwars. Gosh, how bad that looked with the horrible pencil sketch drawings. I'd take Gustovich over their stuff
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 19:43:50 GMT -4
No I never played another wrestling card or board game before CotG which I got in 1988, but I played a wrestling game on the old Commadore 64 prior to getting CotG but I don't recall the name or see it on the C64 listing that's online...
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Post by todd on Aug 17, 2010 20:07:12 GMT -4
I started out playing the superstar pro wrestling game when it first came out around 1984. I'm not sure why but it included a made up wrestler named Doctor Red Fang. I stayed with that game through the next few sets but must have stopped playing before the set with the fake names came out because I don't remember it at all. I first played COTG around 1988 with a friend but didn't get into that much because then like today I liked the game with real wrestlers better. I graduated high school in 89 and went off to serve in the army. I didn't play any wrestling games for a few years until an army friend of mine started running these weekly COTG tournaments in the recreation hall. I remember holding the title with both Mr Galaxy and Billy Jo Boxer. After my time in the army I went to college, got married and had kids. it wasn't until 2004 when I was going a bad divorce that I decided to see if I could find my old favorite game the superstar pro wrestling for sale on the Internet someplace. I came across Filsinger games and was surprised to see it was still in business and saw they a legends game.
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Post by lwffantrav on Aug 17, 2010 20:16:45 GMT -4
I Remember Dr. Red Fang. Never figured out the story on that
However, it would be interesting if we all combined forces and made a LWF Dr Red Fang. Does anyone have the original?
Just don't make him some gay sparkling vamp from Draco who looks like the Twilight dad!
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Post by todd on Aug 17, 2010 20:25:14 GMT -4
I Remember Dr. Red Fang. Never figured out the story on that However, it would be interesting if we all combined forces and made a LWF Dr Red Fang. Does anyone have the original? Just don't make him some gay sparkling vamp from Draco who looks like the Twilight dad! I dont have the original card but it might be posted on the superstar wrestling game yahoo site
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 20:26:00 GMT -4
I Remember Dr. Red Fang. Never figured out the story on that However, it would be interesting if we all combined forces and made a LWF Dr Red Fang. Does anyone have the original? Just don't make him some gay sparkling vamp from Draco who looks like the Twilight dad! . awesome idea actually...table top sports has all the sets scanned in the downloads section. You can probably find him there. Ill look as well when I get home.
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Aug 17, 2010 20:45:56 GMT -4
Ok, so my brother, our friend Bob, and I invented our own wrestling game using "fake" guys. We each tried IWA for a few months and got tired of all the bullshit and money. It was awesome and easy to play.
We also all played Rampage Wrestling ny Haffner games. This was a computer game and I still love that game. Dayton Dave and I met on a board about that game long before COTG/LOW.
We ordered the first set of GWF guys around 1995 or 1996, but we found it BORING...I swear that I would never play it again....but then LOW sucked me back in a few years ago.
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Aug 17, 2010 20:53:18 GMT -4
Anyhow time moved along and I eventually didnt play anymore... my cards ended up getting lost as well somewhere along the way. Fast forward to 1992. I still remembered that old game and told my buddies about it. Together the 4 of us recreated the game with the current wrestlers of the day. We'd get together on some weekends and have a huge supercard. I remember Sting (controlled by me) finally beating my best friends original creation (Big Bad Muthafucker... LOL hey I didnt name him) for the World Title. Big Bad Muthafucker had held that damn belt forever. Damn stacked ass bootleg. LOL! We invented our own guys too for our game. My brother had a guy named Chapeltec (long story about the name) and Bob had U.P.S (Unther P. Schwartz) who were the top of the fed. Their battles were things of legends. Snuggles the Dark Destroyer, Ric Roma, Sotoka (a take off on SOHCAHTOA), Trackman, and all the rest.
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Post by lwffantrav on Aug 17, 2010 21:02:18 GMT -4
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Post by wildfire on Aug 17, 2010 21:31:49 GMT -4
The creator's dog is awesome... vampire dog animen!
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Post by lwffantrav on Aug 17, 2010 21:34:48 GMT -4
The creator's dog is awesome... vampire dog animen! wow Wildfire! I was thinking of doing some art and I was thinking of different vampire looks and THAT came across my mind as something different!!!
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