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.
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.
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
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
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...
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!
😮 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Wow This One Actually Slipped Passed My Radar. It Looks Like a Superior Version of Their AJPW SuperFamicom Games. Natsume Championship Wrestling Was The SNES Version.
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.
