Wrestling video games we never got

By Scott Keith on June 8, 2019

Good morning Mr. Keith.

1) a google search looking for news of an NJPW video game only led me to the fire pro series and Wrestle Kingdom for PS2/360, so what gives? Surely even a market for an annual game there for that at the least.
2) piggybacking off Q1, and I spend way more time with create wrestlers, arenas etc from the past and other promotions on WWE yearly recycled 2k series, and it being nearly 20 years since the end of the Monday night wars, is wwe missing, or already missed, the boat on dedicating a game-within-a-game, of all WCW and/or ECW characters and shows? The DLCs now are so random but the creators definitely do there homework and are fans with what little bits they give us. I’m 35 and I do Steiners in clash arenas constantly when I’m playing.

1. You'd think wrestling games would be a big thing in Japan, but apparently not. I'm also shocked that New Japan hasn't cashed in with a game before now. Maybe they can get it together and team with AEW for the rumored AKI-created No Mercy sequel?

2. They've poked at that market a couple of times with "Legends of Wrestlemania" and "WWE All Stars", both of which were pretty decent games but didn't really offer much in the way of gameplay depth. I think the problem is that they're very beholden to their 2K series at this point and can't really just shop an alternative engine and design to some other developer without costing a lot of money in licensing and such. That being said, the Attitude Era mode of whichever year that game was ended up making it a big seller. And there's big buzz over WCW Feel the Bang, which we've talked about here briefly before and is worth a Google.

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