It was ridiculous arcade fun, and always a great spot to spend 25 cents back in a 90s arcade. Undertaker would bust out gravestones to beat people over the head with, Razor Ramon could turn his arm into a literal razor, and Doink the clown would attack with hand buzzers comically over-sized mallets. Developed by the makers of NBA Jam, WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game essentially did for Wrestling what NBA Jam did for basketball. Wrestling is at its best when it embraces and revels in its absurdity, and no wrestling game did just that better than WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game.
It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but Fire Pro Wrestling World’s deep library of wrestling moves and created wrestlers is undeniably impressive and makes it worthy of a spot on this list. The relationship between Fire Pro Wrestling and other wrestling games has always had a “Coke or Pepsi” kind of feel to it, where wrestling fans largely preferred either one or the other due to Fire Pro Wrestling’s unique control scheme and iconic isometric camera angle. The Fire Pro Wrestling series has a storied history dating all the way back to 1989, but its latest iteration, Fire Pro Wrestling World, is easily the best version to date.
It also incorporated wrestling quite nicely with short character entrances, a countout victory condition, and the ability to utilize attacks from the top rope. Developed by Capcom, Saturday Night Slam Masters was shallow fun with awesome looking characters designed by Tetsuo Hara of Fist of the North Star fame. At their core, wrestling games are fighting games, but perhaps no game embraced the fighting game aspect quite as heavily as Saturday Night Slam Masters.
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