NES Pro Wrestling
I got a little frustrated with Super Mario Bros. 2 and sort of fell off of playing my old NES games for a bit. However, I did get some Pro Wrestling in. To be honest, I just bought this game to use as reference material so I could make Star Man on WWE Day of Reckoning 2. I have to say, I've never seen the Puma or whatever the hidden guy is called. I always get to the third Great Panther and he beats me handily.
It seems sort of random what moves work and what don't at first, but there is a sort of rhyme and reason to it. The easiest moves to pull off seem to rotate, so first body slams are easy, and only much later brainbusters come out easily. Doing the wrong move means your opponent will likely be able to get their move off instead. The individual characters' throws seem to have much bigger windows of usefulness, the timing of each varying from character to character. In the later battles, where they have a lot of stamina, the moves go back to body slams being the useful ones; I had it make three full rotations when I finally petered out.
I have to say... I really dislike old wrestling games. The standard controls, which are more or less like Pro Wrestling on the NES, are terrible. The only classic wrestling game I enjoyed was Mutant Fighter on the arcade. Thus, this isn't a great game. It's pretty good as far as first generation NES sports games go, though. (Later we had games like Punch-Out!, Blades of Steel, Tecmo Bowl, Super Spike Volleyball and other decent sports games, many of which I only know by reputation.) It wasn't until the THQ wrestling games on the Nintendo 64 that wrestling games became awesome.
That said, the game does have its charm. Most of the characters are pretty memorable, except for Fighter Hayabusa and Kin Korn Karn or whatever his name is. They should have put a character in Smash Bros. Brawl, perhaps as an assist trophy. Who wouldn't want to see the Amazon stabbing Mario in the face with a fork?
It seems sort of random what moves work and what don't at first, but there is a sort of rhyme and reason to it. The easiest moves to pull off seem to rotate, so first body slams are easy, and only much later brainbusters come out easily. Doing the wrong move means your opponent will likely be able to get their move off instead. The individual characters' throws seem to have much bigger windows of usefulness, the timing of each varying from character to character. In the later battles, where they have a lot of stamina, the moves go back to body slams being the useful ones; I had it make three full rotations when I finally petered out.
I have to say... I really dislike old wrestling games. The standard controls, which are more or less like Pro Wrestling on the NES, are terrible. The only classic wrestling game I enjoyed was Mutant Fighter on the arcade. Thus, this isn't a great game. It's pretty good as far as first generation NES sports games go, though. (Later we had games like Punch-Out!, Blades of Steel, Tecmo Bowl, Super Spike Volleyball and other decent sports games, many of which I only know by reputation.) It wasn't until the THQ wrestling games on the Nintendo 64 that wrestling games became awesome.
That said, the game does have its charm. Most of the characters are pretty memorable, except for Fighter Hayabusa and Kin Korn Karn or whatever his name is. They should have put a character in Smash Bros. Brawl, perhaps as an assist trophy. Who wouldn't want to see the Amazon stabbing Mario in the face with a fork?