The Island of Lost Games No.2: ﾌﾟﾛﾚｽ Edition

I love pro wrestling. Morality plays involving people pretending to beat each other up in ever more dangerous ways has been a passion of mine for quite a while.

 

Before, dear reader, you skip this retrospective on wrestling games written by someone with perhaps an unhealthy passion for oiled men in spandex, bear in mind that the recent histories of wrestling and of videogames aren’t dissimilar. Both appeal to similar target audiences in mainly 15-30 males, both caught fire in terms of popularity in the mid 80’s (Rock ‘n’ Wrestling and the Famicom era, respectively) and the late 90’s (Attitude and Playstation) and it has been argued that both have been putting spectacle before substance of late. Stick around, you may learn something.