Talk:Pro Wrestling (NES video game)

A winner is you

I suspect the majority of contemporary interest in this game stems from the 'a winner is you' meme, which should be reinstated in the article. Notice that A winner is you already redirects to this page, with nothing in this article to explain why. Pro Wrestling is one of several games that are famous for their amusing Engrish translations - read for example Zero Wing and All your base - and this should be reflected in the article. --Air (talk) 14:36, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Updated in unambiguous terms. --Air (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

ENGRISH

HAHAHHAHHA

who tried to clean up the article and thought they were correcting a spelling error without knowing what they were doing?

its supposed to say engrish ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish

Also why was the height weight and home country info for the wrestlers deleted this seems like valuable info to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.211.57 (talk) 08:22, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Game Boy version

Until I saw a recent edit to this article, I didn't know there was a Japanese Game Boy game titled Pro Wrestling. I figured it was a generic game that had nothing to do with the NES original, so I downloaded a ROM of the game (ssshhh). I noticed that at first the game appears to have nothing to do with Pro Wrestling NES (better character select graphics, better title screen, the wrestlers appear to have nothing to do with the characters from the NES game). When you get into actual gameplay, though, you'll notice that the ring looks similar to PWNES (a rectangle that's roughly twice as wide as it is tall), a similar looking audience and, most telling of all, two announcers sitting in the front row of the audience (though they're hard to pick out from the audience, what with the Game Boy's lack of color).

I am 99% sure this is an official remake of Pro Wrestling NES. I went ahead and added a section for the GB version on the main page.

Interesting note, Professional Wrestling for Game Boy is listed on the Fire Pro Wrestling page as being part of that series (Human produced Pro Wrestling GB). That means one of a few things: PWGB is the official remake of PWNES but has nothing to do with FPW (and the FPW page needs to be edited), PWGB is the official remake of PWNES and is also considered the predecessor to (or maybe the first game in) the FPW series, or PWGB has nothing to do with PWNES (which I find unlikely, as the two games are remarkably similar in gameplay). Jeff Silvers 17:05, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

UPDATE: After doing a bit of research, I found out that Human's Pro Wrestling was released in the United States as HAL Wrestling and was published by HAL Laboratory, Inc. I'm assuming HAL had no hand in the production of the game, as the Japanese version never mentions the company at all. Jeff Silvers 17:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

UPDATE (again): You know, for some reason I'm now beginning to doubt HAL Wrestling is actually a sequel to Pro Wrestling NES. I emailed Nintendo, but all they gave me was some generic-sounding message about how "some video game mysteries may never be solved." Anybody care to dig deeper? Jeff Silvers 01:07, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Vote for SPLIT: Personally, I don't believe the two games to have anything to do with each other. The NES and Game Boy games share a name, but that's about it. Considering that they were developed and published by different companies, and none of the characters from the original game return, there's very little in common. There are similarities, as mentioned above, but it's nothing that's not anything uncommon to professional wrestling as a "sport". Although I personally wouldn't count Puroresu on the Game Boy as a Fire ProWrestling game, it certainly has far more in common with that series than NES Pro Wrestling. These articles should be split. Jacquismo 02:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I support this idea. Although I was originally the one who posted the information on the Game Boy game, I have since realized the games are not similar enough to be considered the same. After sending Nintendo an email on the matter, they responded with some generic message about how there are some "mysterious" in video games that may never be solved; in other words, they don't know, either. So yeah, I support a split. Jeff Silvers 02:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Done and done. Jeff Silvers 17:10, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Pro Wrestling characters resembling real life wrestlers

This article used to include information about what real life wrestler each Pro Wrestling wrestler was likely modeled after. Why was this, which I found very interesting, removed? I can see that there is probably no official mention of this, but with only stating the obvious Wikipedia will be pretty pointless in my opinion. (Though, this doesn't mean that I advocate outright speculation, rumors and such.) -- x-Flare-x^{Talk) 10:39, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, unless someone can find a source, it's pretty much pure speculation. Sorry. DrWarpMind 21:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I came here after finding out that Hayabusa is a real person! But I guess no one really knows? audiodude (talk) 06:03, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Removed "Controversy" section

I removed the "Controversy" section for the following reasons:

• There were no sources or verification for the claims made.
• The claims were fairly ridiculous.
• I could find no evidence elsewhere to support the material.
• The individual who originally added the section (under the anonymous IP 75.137.108.12) also deleted a talk page entry about it and removed a fact tag without sourcing the section. Jeff Silvers (talk) 20:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Correction: 75.137.108.12 didn't originally added the section, at least not under that IP. The talk page and tag deletions were by that user, however. Jeff Silvers (talk) 20:47, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Second Wrestling Game On NES?

I noticed that the page for Tag Team Wrestling has it coming to the Famicom in April, 1986 and to the NES in October, 1986. The Pro Wrestling page says it came to the Famicom in October, 1986 and the NES in March, 1987. If those dates are right, that would make Pro Wrestling the third wrestling game on the NES.DevilsCrash (talk) 02:30, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

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