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- Pro Wrestling NES Secrets and History | Generation Gap Gaming - Ah the 80s, the decade of excess and fully indulging in your favorite guilty pleasures. No two pop culture juggernauts defined this era better than the Nintendo Entertainment System and the larger than life characters of professional wrestling. And while it’s not the first NES title to bring this sport into your living room, Pro Wrestling was the first one that got it right. And I can’t wait to share all the secrets and history you need to master Pro Wrestling on the NES. Let’s get started. #ProWrestling #NES #GenerationGapGaming
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I’m 43 yrs old and man this just took me back to the old days 😂
Same here, this was documentary quality.
Just came across this..i remember. Playing this on the arcade
Do you have impotent issue yet
Old heads know vintage games. Cheers✌️😎
I was thinking the same shit
Classic game that acompanied me 1987-2020
Stage 1 : Bought it and played it alone.
Stage 2 : Played with/against a buddy.
Stage 3 : Hosted tournaments with friends.
Stage 4 : Drinking/party-game with squad.
Stage 5 : Playing with my 3 sons.
Stage 6 : Playing by myself again.
Still fun at 55 years of age.
The circle is now complete.
@@retiredsnowbunnyhunterx5106 : Hahahaha
Get the grandkids in!
@@bobjohnson1096 : You’re right ! I didn’t think of that. It isn’t over yet. When they’re Big enough , I’ll get them playing. Thx !
@@raggeragnar Gotta get them into the classics!:)
I'm 45 years old and this truly takes me back to my childhood
(41 yo) Had a smile on my face thru the whole video .... Piranha and his specials 🤣🤣
Same here. I remember me and my younger brothers playing this for this first time. This game was awesome. My brother would get so mad at me for beating him every time lol
47 but two years after you comment so about the same age. I just sent this to my best friend back in the day …this definitely brings nostalgia !!!
The great poem is easy. The beat by pinfall with star man and tuna slinda. You basically hit-and-run, do you get his energy? Doand jump off the rope just befthe round is over, you can pin him.
I think some of the og nes and snes games were the best ever made in history. Like kids have to be so technical getting the exact timing down and button pressing. Double dribble, Mario, punch out, etc
Ah, Starman, those were the days.
Lol i know right! No worries! No co vid! Just starman lol love his flip move.
Sooo easy to finish the game using starman, but soo hard with anyone else
Man this game was everything! I remember we would play the game and argue all the time. Then we'd go outside and have a real wrestling match to settle who was the best!
I remember this game was ALWAYS checked out when I tried to rent it as a kid
Kids thesedays
Ha ha, me too, it was at my local convenience store, well if it wasn't checked out.
@Upson Pratt you know what’s awesome though, introducing retro games to my kids and they love it. My youngest especially, he’s really awesome at them too, it’s an incredible feeling to share the games you love and grew up with now with the kids.
Fuckin facts 😂
One of my cousins had this game and it was so fun. The moves are easy to do and the music is great too.
Remember ladies, Slender Mountain might be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line! Woooooooo!
Love the literal translations of the moves found in the manual as they are actual wrestling moves:
1) Rolling Sole Butt = Rolling Sobat (spinning heel kick)
2) Plunger = Plancha (crossbody splash to the outside of the ring)
Holy SHT this game was absolute LIFE!!! Thanks for this wonderful trip down memory lane for me!
It still holds up imo
@Super Mario jju
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Hulksters from Tampa fl bud
This has always been my favorite NES game, and that was even after I didn't like watching wrestling on TV anymore.
Edit: Sorry, 2nd favorite behind River City Ransom. My bad, I'm old.
I remember when I finally beat Great Puma. I was dancing around screaming in my room. Took hundreds of tries but felt so good to win against him. I just recently found my original NES and will be playing this again soon.
Right!!?? It was like when I finally beat M Bison!
I loved this game as a child. My favorite was King Slender. The backbreaker was incredibly powerful and only required one button press.
OP move for sure.
Played the shit out of this game in the 80's with my best friend.
I always figured that the Amazon was based off of The Missing Link
You got it!
Since the Amazon has a fork, he could also be inspired by Adullah the Butcher.
You are definitely right. I was honestly going to include that in the video, but decided not to last minute cause of the graphic nature of Abdullah with the fork. I was afraid it would flag RUclips for some reason lol.
Guess I never really thought of it as a fork. Since the move is called the "Outlaw Choke", I always thought the Foreign Object was U shaped and that he was jabbing his opponent in the throat with it.
or the original sheik
Thinking the same
The one thing that irked me most about this game was the amount of time invested in playing the game. Crawling your way up the standings and having to eventually put down the controls and either leave the system on so you would not lose your progress or turn it off and then lose all your progress... Since their was no way to save your game. Very Frustrating.
Poor growing up here. I went to a friend's house and he showed me this game for the first time. After playing this game I scraped and saved every single penny I could get my hands on so I could afford a NES just to get this game. Mario wouldn't last 5 minutes against Starman.
They should put Starman in Super Smash Bros.
@@dfshark Nintendo should release their own wrestling game for the switch, with a bunch of characters like Mario and all 6 characters of Pro Wrestling. It would be a hit, no doubt, and it's shocking that they never did another wrestling game ever since then.
I always played as the piranha.....and fought my brother who was the starman! That's the story of our life growing up! Constantly feuding!
That masked green guy is The Amazon! lol you probably loved playing Mat Mania at the arcades as much as I did! That's where the masked wrestler "The Pirania" (sic) appears :)
This was the game I was most disappointed when it was left off the NES Classic.
I agree completely. Makes no sense it was not included.
This and Kung Fu should have been on the Classic
Hakchi all the way. I think I have around 100 games on mine including this and tag team. Of course I have all the cartridges...naturally. ; ) Btw, karn can win easily with well timed kicks. Kinda repetitive, but easy and minimal grapples..
Ditto. Let down as well.
King Fu, Ice Hockey, and RBI baseball..
Sadface...
This was one of my favorite NES games. I never owned it, but the amount we spent on renting it, it would've been cheaper to buy it. I always played Starman or Amazon.
The amount my parents spent on late fees at video biz(local rental place) could have got me a ps4. Loved this game.....starmans kick was the best
Same here
Man I miss the rental store days. great memories. Thanks for commenting Matt.
GenerationGapGaming same! Mine was 3 blocks away and next to a DQ(ice cream place). It was amazing. Brought my 5 year old to get ice cream there after her first day of school 2 days ago,,,,, so many great memories
Renting games! I miss those days.
OMFG this game was epic back in the day.
Don't take your Lord's name in vain and do not add any way more wicked shortenings!!!
@@nicolaikecskes967 omfg
@@moupow7056
You want to spend an eternity in hell?
@@nicolaikecskes967 there is no god all things happen for a reason unless you really are delusional
I'm thinking The Amazon was patterned after The Missing Link. He wore green and blue face paint, was billed as being from Parts Unknown, and was just an out-of-control wildman.
Yep. Huge in Hawaii too, so Japanese people were more likely to see him. Fans of wrestling in the Contiguous 48 might know him better as Pampero Firpo. If you've never saw him, I bet you still know his catch phrase: It was lifted by Randy Macho Man Savage, "OOOOOOH YEAH!"
There was also a character in Kinnikkuman ( or M.U.S.C.L.E, for those who rememeber) who looked exactly like the amazon, called Atlantis. I always assumed this was what Amazon was based on.
Abdullah the butcher... remember the fork?
@@SaintStryfeArgentEngraving The Missing Link with that awesome green face paint was Dewey Robertson. Pampero Firpo was a different person. Pampero definitely had that low gravel voice that made Macho famous, Ohhhh yeaaah. The fork thing reminds me of Abdullah the Butcher
Creature from the Black Lagoon?
Perhaps jr is a nod to the fact that Flair wasn't the first "Nature Boy", as Buddy Rogers was the original.
Great point man! That would be awesome if that is what they meant by that.
Plus, NWA/WCW wad based out of Georgia where Ric Flair worked the most.
good catch👍🏽
So glad I stumbled upon this today. I bought this game about 3 months or so ago and my younger brother and I have been kicking each others asses all the way down memory lane since. Great video for a supremely underrated game.
Im jealous! Thats Awsome! Good ol days
The Swamp Creature is a tribute to George the Animal Steele. George always used the foreign object and biting gimmik. Dead on.
I actually remember all of these moves, as you say “piledriver” i thought down and a.
Weird.
Pro Wrestling and Tecmo World Wresting were THE best wrestling games on the NES hands down. Love them both. It's coolhow you can see the basis for Fire Pro in Pro Wrestling.
TheRicFactor it was dope how you could change the names on Tecmo Wrestling... the cutscenes during the special moves seemed way ahead of its time...
@@i__skins__i I also liked the commentary guy at the bottom calling the match. Definitely a game ahead of its time.
Tecmo was so dope
Dude I bought Tecmo World Wrestling about 6 months ago and haven't got a chance to play it. I will have to check it out.
The best part of Tecmo World Wrestling was that despite having zero health, you still had a chance of kicking out of a pin...Me and my friend had matches that seemed to last forever while we both had no health left! I've never come across another wrestling game like that since.
One of the first games on the NES I ever played. Loved this thing when I was a kid. Starman is my dude.
james staggs My mains is the Amazon and Giant Panther. I wish there we could settle which is best...
The best character choice when you had a turbo controller was King Slender as you could set your turbo controller to automatic and just hold the button down and do repeated backbreakers to win. Cheating? Yes but if you wanted to win both titles, it was a fast way to get to the final match of the game.
The music still makes me laugh to this day. My 2 favorite wrestlers have always been Fighter Hayabusa and Giant Panther. Especially Fighter Hayabusa mastering the Back Brain Kick was satisfying.
I found Fighter Hayabusa to be the strongest wrestler. Backdrop, backdrop, suplex, piledriver, back brain kick, fight over.
I use to just run back and forth with STARMAN, and fly into my opponent with my chest, works everytime. Eventually they just run low enough on energy to be pinned.
@@kal-elofkrypton8584 yes, his flying elbow
@@mr.blonde7812 flying elbow? Really? I always thought he was using his chest. Makes sence now.. lol
@@kal-elofkrypton8584 or forearm rather. Yeah haha
Joe Leek
Long slender you needed five back breakers and the game was over
Another NES gem is Tecmo World Wrestling.
I still think that is the best wrestling game on nes..
@@DemonChildCC
I agree. So many characters. Great graphics. So many moves.
ITS DOOMSDAY FOR THE SKULL!!
WCW wrestling was a pretty solid NES game. Unlike WWF NES games, WCW concentrated on the many popular moves a wrestling match could bring. When you win a grapple, you can choose to either make an impact or a submission move using a combination of the directional pad and buttons.
WCW wrestling was a notch better than Pro Wrestling
Man oh man call me a mark for nostalgia, lol. This game I can't tell u how much this take me back to my child hood. And I been a ProWrestling fan since I came out the womb so yeah truly miss these days.
I had forgotten completely about this game, but flashes of my childhood came in like a fever dream. Something has come over me. I have to play this game again.
This theme song still rings in my head when I think of this game. So many memories. Fantastic video as always, G3!
Thanks so much Smash!
King Slender. 3 backbreakers. Brain buster. Piledriver. 3 count
Wait did I just watch this whole thing lmao 😂 37 years old today and man I remember this game it was awesome and still is .
I was an 80’s kid and also a huge wrestling fan at this time. I had an NES and Pro Wrestling and played the heck out of this game for hours at a time. I never knew the move list was so deep. I never read any of the games manuals! 😁👍🏻
Star Man: "It's Morphin time Zeo Ranger Five Red!"
Ohred
Lol you right!
mid 1980s are definitely the greatest period in Pro Wrestling history.
Idk bruh the late 90’s with the nwo, the return of sting,stone cold,the under taker,triple h the rock, Goldberg them days was dope too the might tie with the 80’s the story lines were crazy in the late 90’s but the characters of the mid 80’s were more colorful and unique both eras were definitely great tho
I love the Kurt Barlow pic
I've never known a better wrestling period in terms of quality than 1990's All Japan Pro Wrestling.
Golden era of wrestling is now.
Long live brock lesnar
True this game sucked
This brings back some of my greatest memories as a kid. I was about 7 or 8 and I’d wait for my 19 year old brother to come home from work every night and hoped he rented this and double dragon. This game was so fun even though he kicked my ass.
Pro Wrestling and Blades of Steel were two of my favourite games growing up
Never knew there was an ending in this game.
I remember my friend had this game. I was a huge wrestling fan at the time and as soon as I saw the box art, I knew it would be awesome. Not only were the graphics impressive, but the depth of the move set was amazing compared to the WWF wrestlemania game. Great video!
Sometimes the box art would disappoint
Star Man was a savage. Easily the most powerful character on the game. From the flying elbow to the back flip kick to the face Star Man was my favorite character.
You can't deny Fighter Hayabusa's back brain kick either because whenever he connected with it the opponent would just crumble.
Thank you so much for this!! Pro Wrestling was my first favorite NES game; and still probably is today. It's great how you showed the real-life wrestlers who inspired this legendary game.
The title song and crowd noise were also in Ice Hockey.
This was a really cool video. Thanks man.
Jeremy Pinto Ice Hockey and Pro Wrestling are 2 of my favorite games of all time...played a ton of both...I would play Ice Hockey all night with friends
@@thomasthetrain3942 yea, me too. It's on my son's switch now. I tried to show it to him and I got KILLED lol. I couldn't remember how to play! And my son wasn't impressed with it lol.
@@Real_masontroyadams the student became the teacher get a lesson n then make it a real game make it exciting he will appreciate it
It’s a travesty that neither Pro Wrestling nor Ice Hockey made the Classic NES lineup of games.
The Amazon was always my favorite. I loved the outlaw choke, and how after stuffing the weapon back in his trunks he would shake his head as if telling the referee he hadn't done anything illegal.
Yeah, that part was the best. And his hands were in prayer form, shaking his head. Never got caught either. I always thought it was a bone he was using to attack with, but I guess it was a fork.
@@georgecastillo2773 like Abdullah the Butcher
This was the first game I bought with my allowance money. I love this game. It holds a special place in my heart.
oh man. I just stumbled across your channel and THIS is the video that did it. NES Pro Wrestling was the first game where me and my buddies all got in on the action. As luck would have it, one of the first videogame rumors I ever heard is that you could hit the ref. We spent MANY game hours trying to get him, but you probably know how that ended.
Hello again from W.V.!! I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that this was left off the NES mini roster. What a two player powerhouse this game was!
Hello to you again my fellow West Virginian. I agree with you 100%. Should have definitely been on the classic.
My favorite Nintendo game. I still play it today. Thanks for sharing pics of you from your childhood!
My all-time favorite NES game... And you're right -- it really taxed friendships, as well as sibling and even parent relations.
Hahahahaha you ain't lying.
Just want to say that I've only now found your channel and I absolutely love it. The way you incorporate your own childhood into the video makes me remember my own days as child playing these games. The quality of the commentary along with all the visuals, gives a certain level of information not often seen in other video channels. I hope you find some success in making these videos that you share with us. You have a new subscriber.
Kevin thank you so much man! Great to meet you and welcome to G3
I never got to the Great Puma, I was very close using Starman and spamming the running flying body chop but time ran out against Kin Corn Karn..it was like my 7th title Defense at the time....I even landed the somersault kick with like 10 seconds left but he still managed to beat the 3 count and got up causing the time to run out. Smh I still remember it like it was yesterday!!! Great Game!!!
Samuel Santiago I recently found my copy of this game. I played it a lot, but I did not know about Great Puma. This video just gave me a reason to play the game again because I don't think I ever won the belt!
The “pause” sound was also the same amongst the sport series NES games.
Man that was a nostalgia trip. My friends and I ran wrestling tournaments all summer. I was Giant Panther with his iron claw.
I´ve been watching dozens of vintage videogame channels for several years and I can´t believe I just found yours a few days ago (work on that SEO!!!). I Love the editing and the way you tell a simple history in every video, and also the simple (yet amazing) way to walk us thru the games you play. Great job bro, your channel is amazing, keep up the amazing work! Kind regards from Argentina :)
Thanks so much Nicolás! Great to meet you. Welcome to G3!
My favorite nes game is Pro Wrestling, thank you for this great video.
I really liked Tecmo World Wrestling too!
Starman and Amazon.
Gimmick wrestlers Ahead of their time.
I can't believe I forgot Amazon! After seeing this, I'm like, "that must be where they got the idea for Blanka in SF2"
Starman’s star kick needs to be someone’s actual finisher IRL.
@@MarcillaSmith Brazil is known for the Amazon rainforest
@@seank6016 paul london does it
I forgot about this game until your thumbnail and then a rush of memories came back!!!!! Thank You!!!!
A birthday cake like that is the ultimate display of motherly (maybe grandmotherly) love.
King slender being called the cold blooded warrior jr. could be a reference to Buddy Rogers, the originator of the nature boy gimmick, Rogers being the senior and flair being the junior. Idk, just a guess.
I think "cold blooded warrior" could also be a play on Ric Flair calling himself the "Dirtiest player in the game" but I don't have a clear indication when he started saying that. Might have come afterwards.
I was going to say that. Good call
Slender reminded me of Jesse The Body Ventura
@@scottgettins3022 Barry Windham
I used to use the Amazon. I always know it was a fork, he hid in his trunks. He was just the coolest to me..
I thought it was an open ended wrench 🔧 back then.
I just came across your channel and love your content. Very informative, entertaining, and nostalgic. An 80s kid myself I'm a big retro gamer, but had never heard of Rygar until watching your videos. Thanks for turning me on to this awesome game. Bought a cartridge on eBay for like $15 and now it's one of my favs on the NES. Hope to see more vids from you in the future! I subbed to your channel and liked a bunch of videos.
This is my first and best NES "no sleep" game ever! Wow i would love playing this for hours and hours with my cousin back in the day. Imagine back then in the 80's, graphics and detail of this was incredible on 8-bit.
Great video and awesome review. This is indeed the granddaddy of them all! Here's my two cents as a veteran of this game:
Like you mentioned, if you fight at the top of the screen you can hit the CPU with an unblockable lariat/jumping knee strike as long as he follows you. But there were times when the opponent would glitch and "moonwalk" to the upper left corner of the ring. If you start running just a few pixels below the very top and he does that, you can still hit him with a clean lariat after rebounding off the right side of the ropes (you can start the attack immediately after rebounding and it will always connect when you reach him as long as you are perfectly positioned. He never detects it).
Did you know that, if you grapple the opponent outside the front section of the ring, you can do the back drop and brain buster on the concrete?
Kin Corn Karn... the weakest link? Not by a long shot! Not many people know it but his long, awkward looking Karate Kick does at least TWICE the damage the rolling sole butt does. A simple technique I've used for many years is: Wait for the opponent to do the rolling sole butt, and back off a couple pixels (a simple tap on the pad/controller will do) and immediately press the A button. His attack will miss you entirely, but your Karate Kick will connect. Every single time. Rinse and repeat. And to get an idea of how damaging this attack is, you can usually pin Great Puma cleanly around the 3 : 10 mark using only Karate Kicks.
His Mongolian Chop is just slightly stronger than a regular punch, but if you start it right after the CPU starts a rolling sole butt, his attack will miss and yours will connect, always. If the opponent has been weakened at least, it will floor him immediately.
Also, on Fighter Hayabusa's Back Brain Kick: The move does as much, if not more, damage than Kin Corn Karn's Karate Kick. When your opponent throws his rolling sole butt/Mongolian Chop at you, quickly move in a 315 degree angle (downward and diagonally) until Hayabusa is under his opponent, and immediately press the A button (the press must occur while the opponent is still airborne). If done correctly, the Kick will connect as he lands (works about 95% of the time). Rinse and repeat. It could still fail when fighting Kin Corn Karn as his Mongolian Chop is his default attack and uses a different animation. Using this method of exclusively using Back Brain Kicks, you can easily pin Great Puma cleanly around the 3 : 30 mark.
I have also noticed that, when grappling with Great Puma, attempting the back drop early into the match will result in him using one of his own moves. However, he appears to be particularly vulnerable to the body slam (B button mashing), I once managed to give him 10 body slams in a row with a regular (non-turbo) controller.
Did you know that the first 9 notes of the intro tune, were also used in the victory screen of Tag Team Wrestling for the NES?
There's a funny glitch I used to create when playing. When a power move was used and the crowd roared, I would insert my finger into the slot and wiggle the cartridge a little. That caused the roaring sound effect to hang and you could still continue playing the rest of the match with an apeshit crowd. Once the match ended, the glitch would stop. ;)
Hope my tricks and tips help you and others to further master Pro Wrestling! Cheers.
Nice!
That is awesome, this whole time I thought I was the only master of fighter Hayabusas back brain kick glitch. I used to start every match with 20 or so bbk s and then grapple and destroy the opponent. Lots of fun, another glitch is just timing a regular kick against the computer. Once you get the hang of it you can take them down a few notches to start each battle.
So many good times playing this game with my brother and the neighbors across the street! I will always have love for Star Man. Thanks for another wholesome, high quality video Tyler.
Edit: I forgot to mention I really like your theory about Kerry Von Erich being the real Giant Panther.
Thanks for posting this. It took me back to when I was in seventh grade in 1986 and played this with my buddy Steve Mitchell.
"A winner is you!"
Like most channels, I found yours completely randomly, but being a big fan of the nes, having grown up in that era, I love these vids, and look forward to more in the future. Have you covered, and if not, will you cover blaster master? That’s my fave nes game of all time!
I want that Starman action figure with the belt.
Frfr
darklordojeda It was originally a Brutus Beefcake figure they painted up to look like Star man. It was a Custom made job.
@@arthurdietrich5182 nice.
I know. I want one too. I just found a cool picture on the video to go along with my comments during that segment. All the other toys and figures I included are mine though.
Make one
One of my proudest accomplishments back in the day was pinning great puma.
StarMan diving over the top rope to the floor on an opponent, even when he missed, WAS THE BEST!
I'm 42 and I never heard any of those alarms!! But wow did this take me back to my childhood. thank you.
You're welcome man!
Great video, it makes so much sense that Giant Panther was based off of Kerry Von Erich instead of Hogan which I was also saying for years.
Also but you probably know this is “VWA” & “VWF” is suppose to be the NWA & WWF
Iron claw, I mean, yeah
It might even be his brother David, who was EXTREMELY over in Japan at that time.
In our household, we always thought Giant Panther was Ronnie Garvin, because he was hugely over at the time.
The trick to being true Ron Garvin: get to where your opponent is at the second alarm, then hit him with a punch, Ron's finisher.
I remeber playing this at the arcade. Loved Amazon. Great video bro.
This video was absolutely awesome! Thanks for making this and for rekindling so many great memories
We never had a NES, but our cousins did. They had a fair stack of games, and we played various, but we ALWAYS played PW. It is a perfect design, nailing the sounds, music, tempo, and, crucially, the theatrics of wrestling in the '80s (the moves, the clueless refs, outside the rings action .... the only things missing are "managers", tag teams, and props, and intros, but that was beyond this tech level. It was AMAZING that they squeezed in so much in a NES cart). This is what kids were watching (yikes) on weeknights and weekend mornings. It took no imagination at all to imagine Okerlund, Heenan, Jim Ross, or Schiavone calling the action! :D
I actually just got used to playing as Fighter Hayabusa, because everyone always wanted to be Starman or Amazon.
Fight hayabusa is the low key goat of the game. His back brain kick is super spammable when you figure it out.
@@nickfry7839 Yep!
I always thought the Amazon was loosely related to The Missing Link.
100%
same
same
Make the Amazon relate to, hmmm.... What’s the guy that was in boxing and fought against legendary boxer Ali?
Toroko GAMES! That is Antonio Inoki... also if you want to see what happens when you piss him off, type Great Antonio vs Inoki (Inoki beats the hell out of a 450 lb man who was making him look bad and hit him in the neck hard
Man, sweet nostalgia. Borrowed this from a older friend back in the day and thought it was the coolest thing to not only bodyslam people, but to jump from the top turnbuckle as well.
Later my dad bought some WWF action figures for me, and MUCH later I finally watched pro wrestling for real, which turned out to be ECW stuff. Helluva introduction.
And Starman was my main pick, ofc.
Fantastic game, great memories.
Also found it kinda funny how Cody Rhodes in WWE 2014 had the gimmick of Stardust, with the face paint of a star on his face.
Coincidence?
Wow!!! I had this game over 25 years and never figured out how to get to fight puma until now. Thanks for a great video on moves, secrets and more🙌🏽
"Sole Butt" should probably be sobat kick.
I'm thinking...🤔
MrDraquo for a while, the rolling sole butt was a common kick in the Japanese style. It’s another thing Inoki helped make very popular.
All those secrets & I never got to beat the game decades ago.
Also, why wasn't Star Man considered for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate?
Thanks for the video.
Star Man looks like Zeo Ranger V Red
I did beat Puma by pinfall,you have to stick and move,then keep whipping him into the barrier let him come in the ring,use a brain buster,then pin
Just happened upon your channel and I’m loving it. So many memories with The NES. Love the content. Keep making. I’ll keep watching. Great stuff
Really happy you are enjoying the videos. Glad to have you here at G3!
Excellent video!! It brought back tons of good memories. Thank you!!
I am undefeated in this game. Beat hundreds of kids in my neighborhood in the 80s, and adults throughout the years since when it came out. I absolutely love this game.
You are the champ dude! Undisputed.
Who is your main?
@@nickfry7839 King Slender but also use Giant Panther and Starman.
two words....HELL YEAH! thanks man
You are welcome sir! Thanks for commenting.
Subscribed, I was a video game addict in my youth I love playing this game while my grandma's watching & she can't stop laughing while I just bust out all the special moves on my opponents. I also beat the Great Puma many times, you just need to wear him down to the point when you can use special moves on him. I'm off to binge watch your videos.
Thanks so much for subscribing and sharing your memories man. Welcome to G3!
Thanks for bringing back these childhood memories. I am most def going to look for this game!
When I was a kid back in the 80's my neighborhood friend from across the street came back from a trip, and he acquired Pro Wrestling about a day after it was released (if memory serves me right). Either way, we played the living daylights out of that game. It may not look like much on the surface but that game is so fun. I still play it in emulation from time to time. It's good stuff.
I needed an NES Max controller to beat Great Puma.
I don't know how one would even compete in that match without use of a turbo button.
I was only ever to beat him by count out.
Yes ! here too only count out ! Can The great puma even be beaten with a normal controller? Lol
@@madmax6654, yes but you will be worn out after the match from tapping the buttons so fast.
Nes Advantage for me but, same lol!
Very cool channel, man!!! So many wonderful memories and great tips!!! Keep up the great work!!
We played this for hours back in the 80’s just using basic moves. Great video man!
King Slender also could have been Barry Windham since his father was a wrestler and they look alike.
That was Rick Flair
Shit, by that logic, it could be Dustys kid, dustin
King Slender is based on Ric Flair.
I always thought The Amazon was inspired by The Missing Link.
Yup, I always thought it was Link too.
I agree. The Missing Link is the #1 choice. MAYBE George the Animal Steele as a 2nd choice for inspiration.
OMG !.....i thought they buried this game under the soil on Mars. I remember as a tween on my NES System playing "Pro Wrestling" with my god brothers i always choose "Star Man " or "The Great Amazon". To the current generation you got to remember we didn't have the luxury of online modes, upscale graphics unless it was 16 Bits. We didn't have DLCs or Easter Egg Findings. We had to play it from begining to end. If you game is over ....there was no saving progress. You had to start the game all over again from stage 1. But see that's what made this game great. You had to be there to experience this magic. I still love this game......it aged lovely like a bottle of your favorite Champagne straight no ice.
Bro no Health meters and having to manage the alarms, those were some of the dopest things about this game! You never know exactly how much energy your opponent has left. I think it was a feature that was ahead of its time as a matter of fact. It makes you have to take chances.
I always thought the amazon was taken from the wrestler “ The missing link”
Same here
Yeah, because didn't the Missing Link paint his face greenish? Or am I thinking of someone else?
@@Danimal1177 he did paint his face green
I could never defend my championship 10 times to unlock Great Puma.
My older brother and I played this to see who had to do dishes each night. One of my best memories with him.
King Slender was my favorite. Backbreaker as a set up move. Piledriver as a finisher. My go to was throwing em outside, plunger, a couple of hammer throws against the fence, piledriver on the concrete.