The nice thing about these fictional wrestling rosters, is that you don't feel bummed out when you go to fire up the game all these years later.

I was well into high school and the PS1 era the first time I played this, at a friend's house. We randomly dug out his old NES and I was blown away by just how good of a game it was. Easily the best wrestling game on the system.

Tecmo World Wrestling is one of my favorite Pro-Wrestling video games ever!! I loved it. How it didn't go on and on, I'll never know.

This is a legendary game! Thanks for the excellent video!

This was such a good game. I remember having birthday money burning a whole in my pockets and seeing this at Toys R Us. I knew nothing about it, but I loved Tecmo Bowl and Ninja Gaiden. Based on that reputation, I bought the game. I was not disappointed.

I am near 40 and love retro games and wrestling as well so Patman's videos are always amazing to me. Great job! I love seeing videos about the wrestling games I missed while Wrestlefest was eating all my quarters.

Aw, jeez! Just when I was thinking about going to bed too…. Thanks Patman! P.S. I smashed that like button as requested 😉

Good job on this dude. I grew up w/ a lot of these games, as we all did

My cousin's first wrestling game ever. Remember seeing them play this over My aunt And uncle's house years ago.

Thank you, Patman, for another great video. Man, I love the sound of those old NES titles.

Right on, Patman. I refer people to your corner of the KZfaq whenever possible.

Konami's The Main Event for the arcade has an "enthusiastic" announcer/commentator that goes on throughout the matches via voice samples. It's pretty impressive for 1988. They ended up using the same hardware for TMNT, Aliens, Super Contra, Gradius 3 and some others.

I don't thank you enough for your videos, my bad. But I really want to say thank you. It is very relaxing to listen to you and I enjoy your content! Best of luck!

Pro Wrestling was old, by this point. TWW, naturally, had it beat in both graphics and audio. Gameplay, I don't exactly remember, but I think I preferred TWW. And that cover art is beautiful.

We love you Patman. Thank you for the hard work, dedication and pure passion that goes into these videos. Happy little games make my heart feel good 😊

Another top video, always looking forward to the next one appearing on my feed! Such a big gulf in quality between this and the official WWF Wrestlemania game. Makes Wrestlemania look barebones!

Super ahead of its time and the animation for NES/Famicom standard looks sharp for both North American and Japanese versions respectively. The struggle is real for smashing buttons for this game and other NES games for that matter in the glorious 80's time period. Excellent video Patman. Rock on sir as the Rockers would say!!

KZfaq & vintage NES / arcade wrestling titles. Might be the definition of nostalgia right here. Well done!

Another awesome video, Sir! Like you, Pactman, I'm a huge, huge wrestling and video game fan, especially back in the 80s and 90s. WCW Wrestling, Tecmo World Wrestling and Pro Wrestling were my go to wrestling games (in that order) on the NES. By the way, Tag Team Wrestling (NES version) was also the very first wrestling game that I played also.

My favorite nes game of all time!👍

I had this Nintendo game World Wrestling I play this on my retro fives it takes awhile to get used to for me I'm used to playing pro wrestling Nintendo

Great video, Patman! I played Tecmo Wrestling a LOT myself! It was fun and challenging, plus I learned a number of moves not seen on the WWF/WCW shows at the time. I also remember the commentator getting frustrated when you avoid locking up for too long! 😄 Thanks for all you do for this channel! ☝️

Thank you so much. I've been waiting for someone to do a video on Tecmo World Wrestling. I loved this game so much when I was a kid.

This is such an incredible documentary, thank you!

i loved this game as a kid. Tecmo Team Ninja these days would make a phenomenal Wrestling Game.

TONS of memories coming back watching that. Thanks

Tecmo World Wrestling was and still is my fave NES game

My all time favorite wrestling game on the NES hands down 😊

I loved/love this game! I had it on NES. Great channel buddy! I've been a fan for a while! Best wishes!

Nice! Seems as though I'm not the only guy going on a wrestling kick right now. And yes, i left a like (I do forget sometimes so dont worry about reminding us)

I remember always wishing this game had a tag team mode. It's still one of my favorite wrestling games ever.

If people don't like your vids they don't know what good vids are

Best wrestling game on the NES. Just a note on the button mashing: the game is designed so that turbo controllers won’t work, but there’s a way around that. I used my NES Advantage, which had adjustable turbo, so during the training segments I would turn down the turbo until the game would accept the input. I’d end up with a bunch of the circles filled, and the turbo was then perfectly tuned to pull off moves during matches as well. Also much easier on the thumbs :)

Best wrestling game on the NES. My friend and I used to play this for HOURS back in ‘90. If WWF WrestleMania Challenge (another game we truly loved because we were both religious wrestling fanatics) had this game’s engine and gameplay……

Having sold off my NES and most of my collection in 2011 (huge mistake), I now have only three of my original NES carts from childhood, and TECMO Super Bowl is one of them! I have never been very good at it, but as a passionate wrestling fan I have to appreciate all of this great depth. It's the only 8-bit wrestling game with alternate pins like the bridging German suplex or the power bomb where you hold on. It's one of only 2 NES wrestling games with submissions, including some holds we really weren't seeing in the states at the time, at least not on TV, like the octopus stretch. The music is strong, adding some emotional depth to the experience.

i played this heavy in the early and mid 90s, always got love for this.

Holy Nostalgia kick in the balls. Thank You Patman!

Rented this so many times. Great video as always!

Another great video from you Patman! This game was AWESOME! Definitely one of the best NES wrestling games in my opinion.

Patman! This is amazing! I am in awe by the fact that you are able to connect the fictional characters to the real wrestlers! I really love the “after these messages” bit too! Great video!

In North America, this game had no rival. It was the spiritual successor to the old Pro Wrestling and no game came close. In Japan, it had to contend with the arrival of the 16bit Fire Pro series on PC-Engine and couldn't compete. I loved this game so much as a kid. I made some of the earlier Fire Pro models for SFPWX Premium and the GBC game. Heck, I started a FPW ring management mode game using Tecmo World Wrestling and narrated the first couple of "years" on a forum. I also made some for the more recent FFPW but I was quickly outclassed by people using more recent custom moves and smoother custom parts. I stand by my head cannon for their backstories, though.

Oh man. Loved this game growing up. One of the things i will always remember is that my friend and i thought it was the height of comedy to name our wrestler "shit" so the announcer would say "shit is getting stomped". Not quite as funny when youre not 11 but you had to be there.

It got the late 80s wrestling tv presentation down with this game.

This was a great video. Not only was it fun, but informative. I enjoy hearing about how games came to be. What was needed, and incorporated into it. Your video does this very well. Makes me glad that sometimes the algorithm here works...lol. You definitely earned my respect and admiration, not just a subscriber number. GREAT JOB!

That Tecmo theater mode cutscene cinematics are cool to see during the games. I actually wish the newer WWE games featured more of that. In that Tecmo cartoon commercial, I see Hulk Hogan. Thanks for going over each of the wrestlers to confirm the likenesses. That masked villain would be tough to defeat. Thanks Patman!

great job as always. appreciate your content and research. i had problems leveling up the wrestlers. this one was a fun game. TECMO had quite a few fun titles.

The last NES game I bought! ...and this was 92 or so after I was well underway with the SNES! I rarely tired of the good wrestling games, and this one had slipped by....and the NES still had plenty of life left for me! I played this one quite a bit, perhaps until the end of 1993. Looking back, it was the perfect game to go out on for my NES era, ending with Tecmo wrestling, starting of my collection years earlier with "Pro Wrestling." WHAT A RUSH!!!!

Nice shout out to the late Adrian Street there Patman. 👍

This is a top 10 NES game in my personal opinion. Definitely my favorite wrestling game on the system

One thing I remember is if both wrestlers stand idly and do nothing, the commentator gets angry.

Patman thanks for another great video, you always know how to capture that great nostalgic feeling👌

I remember my dad coming home with this game for me as a surprise when I was a kid. I was super into wrestling at the time. Great game, loved it. Really hard though. Luckily at some point I got the nes advantage controller, the 'turbo' mode made it very easy so I could finally see the ending. I'd go as far as to say that without some sort of turbo controller, this game would be nigh on impossible to beat.

wow fantastic job as always! i love the the way you looked at the other Tecmo sports titles to set up the wrestling game. I had this has a kid and could only do the workouts with a NES game pad that had a turbo mode!!!

Really awesome work Patrick ! Hope to see you soon!

I recognize that bowling team ! Awesome video Patrick! I like this video a lot !

So many history of wrestling games to catch up on! Nice work!

Another great video. Thank you for the knowledge and chuckles always a great watch

Easily the best wrestling on the NES. Thanks for the video!

How that gem of a wrestling game went under my radar, I'll never know! Thanks for the discovery PatmanQC!

Very nice Patrick from Bill Hopwood it was nice seeing you too

Cool video as always bro I loved tecmo wrestling

Wow Patrick this is awesome man I can't wait to hang out again ! Friends Eddie and Lori say hello 😊

Anyone who doesn't leave this man a like can't be my friend no mo.😂

Until the 16-bit WWF Royal Rumble/Raw games came out, this was the wrestling game that I played the most with friends and family. Absurdly fun in two player mode.

Lol, I just realized Superman and another character sitting to his left and right a few rows over are in the crowd for Mat Mania. 😄 Wrestling games I played on the nes back in the day were Pro Wrestling, MUSCLE Wrestling, Tag Team Wrestling and Wrestlemania and eventually Tecmo World Wrestling. I never did friend the WCW game but my friend did have it. really miss those early gaming days since I'm getting older now.

I love this game. So much better than any WWF game on the NES.

Awesome thanks 👍 Pacmanqc great work Sir

Love the vids Patman. Your content is awesome!

Thank you Patman!!

A true classic, but by far most enjoyable against a friend. Even using an NES Advantage at max turbo I still struggled to win with any consistency in single player. It's so odd that Tecmo abandoned the genre after what I assume must have been solid success with this game.

Great game. Still play it.

There are submission finishes in this game. I've done them on two player. And they're actually really cool, especially with the commentary.

This was one of my favorite wrestling games. Mater of fact at the time it was the best.

This was my favorite game growing up, lol. Ah the memories. The best wrestling game for Nintendo hands down.

christmas 91 i got this game along with an NES, had many great times with it

I think Bass, Tina, & la mariposa (the butterfly) from the doa fighting game series have wresting outfits that say tecmo. This might be a possible reference to this game

"Fighter Hayabusa" I could never land the back brain buster....lol. You old guys know EXACTLY what im talking about. Super Tecmo Bowl is THE best sports game ever on the NES period. The best part of the game no one mentions is the game kept your season stats. Pass yards, rush yards. I always tried to have at least 1000 rushing yards per the season.

8:34 Poor Krillin. Looks like his wife forced him to make more money in wrestling. 💰

I once played this game and something very weird happened that I have not been able to re-create. I was just putzing around beating up my opponent well past the point where I could have pinned him, and from out of nowhere, the commentator says something along the lines of oh no- what is this.. his opponent is not moving... somebody get some help! And just like that, the match was over! I tried multiple times to get it to happen again, but no luck. I know this sounds unbelievable, but I swear this happened.

I loved this game

Not sure why I wasn’t subscribed to this channel before now but that mistake has been corrected

great game. my favorite of all time...

Me and Eddie love your videos 🎉

I love this game, thanks for a great video

Please make a history video about Captain Tsubasa Vol.2 Super Striker, which is also developed by Tecmo. That game is really ahead of its time, best graphic representation and best ost.

patman is the man!!!

I love the hairdo Patrick from Lori Hubbard 😂

I remember playing this game for the first time at my first video game convention when I was around 8 or so. I hope this game comes Nintendo Online on the Switch 🤞

Other Techmo games with the Action Theater tagline was Captain Tsubasa or Techmo Cup Soccer in USA.

A friend of mine was big into this game, and when I finally got it, it was all he would ever play when he came over, and a lot of times he would hog the NES just to play this game. I eventually traded it off just to aggravate him, and he found another way to annoy me on a completely different game. Sometimes, a guy just can’t win.

great as always

We knew Mat Mania as The Exciting Hour…..I could play that for as long as I liked on one coin.

My friends were desperate for wrestling games in 96, 97 so in this we would rename the bald guy StonCold. StonCold because there weren't enough letter slots for the 'e' 😂

love your reveiws.. but your wrestling reviews are on an even higher level

Tecmo World Wrestling looks impressive for me to play. 😀👍🎮

One of my favorite games still!

THE best wrestling game on NES. Period.

I missed out on this one. Too burned out on all the crummy rasslin games, of which there were several for the NES.

Road Warrior knockoff guy had a cameo in Bad News Baseball after you hit a homer iirc

I had this game for the nes back in the day