Pro Wrestling by Nintendo for the Nintendo
Entertainment System was THE 8-Bit wrestling game.
Nothing compared to it, especially the crap that LJN and
Acclaim were bringing out with big name licenses from
WCW and WWE (then WWF). Tecmo was able to come
out with a contender with their Tecmo World Wrestling,
which featured a running color commentator of all things
but it still paled in comparison to Nintendo’s grappler.
If Acclaim would
have been smart
they would have
created this hack
decades ago by
licensing the Pro
Wrestling engine
from
Nintendo
themselves. Thanks to pacnsacdave (see the previous
page for another of is cool hacks) wrestling fans can
finally play a WWE game on NES that is actually good.
With no big names tied to it, no super meters and
certainly no “icon items” bouncing across the top of the
ring, Nintendo was still able to capture the imaginations
of
wrestling
fans. All of the
wrestlers in Pro
Wrestling
are
generic grapplers
going
for
a
generic title.
Wrestlers on hand here include Daniel Bryan, CM Punk,
Stone Cold, Triple H, Randy Orton and the Rock. Each
wrestler is replacing a Pro Wrestling original while
retaining the moves set by Nintendo. You won’t be
pulling off a Stone Cold Stunner or the Pedigree here,
sadly. The sprites don’t really resemble the wrestlers
they are supposed to be (Starman is Stone