Tecmo World Wrestling (NES, 1989)

Tecmo World Wrestling is a 1989 Nintendo Entertainment System professional wrestling game for one or two players that lets you control one of 10 imaginary worldwide professional wrestlers. This was the first wrestling game to have a play-by-play commentator, the animated Tom Talker, however, his speaking was limited to text bubbles. The game's material, such as Tom Talker's comments, was practically immediately translated from the Japanese game, resulting in instances of Engrish. The Northern Lights Suplex, for example, is known as the "Northern Right Suplex".

Because there is no designated grapple button in Tecmo World Wrestling, each wrestler has more than 20 techniques. Instead, a grapple is begun anytime the wrestlers collide, and from there, various joypad and button combinations may be utilized to accomplish a variety of grips and smashes. There are also other situational actions to execute (such as ground assaults, high-risk top-rope aerial strikes, and running attacks).

Furthermore, the game was possibly the first to include action replays: when certain signature techniques are done on a weakened wrestler, the game inserts a small cut-scene showing the move being completed, as if in a close-up television replay. Matches can be won by a three-count pinfall, submission, or count-out (if a wrestler is flung out of the ring, a twenty-count begins, and if either wrestler is still outside the ring when the count expires, they are disqualified). If both wrestlers are counted out in the single-player game, the player loses.

Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System

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