7. Tecmo World Wrestling
While Pro Wrestling for the NES gets all of the love for being one of the first wrestling games to feature a semi-realistic recreation of pro wrestling, as well as some loveable translation goofs (“A Winner Is You!”) it just can’t measure up to the brilliance of Tecmo World Wrestling.
Tecmo World Wrestling was a truly revolutionary pro wrestling game. It was the first to feature character customization, the first to feature announcer commentary and it was the first to really play with the idea of television-like presentation as the game would zoom in during big moves and climatic moments. Speaking of big moves, Tecmo featured more faithfully recreated wrestling maneuvers than we would see out of a wrestling game for years to come and a roster that creatively mimicked some of the best wrestlers in history.
This was as good as it got for wrestling fans in the 8-bit era.
