2. WWF WrestleFest
You have to be careful with nostalgia sometimes when analyzing an older game. If not, then you run the risk of talking about a game as you’d like to remember it rather than for what it was.
But if you were a wrestling fan in the early 90s that happened upon a WrestleFest arcade machine, it’s impossible to not carry a sense of nostalgia about it. The game’s vibrant and huge character models perfectly captured the cartoonish atmosphere of wrestling at that time and completely dwarfed anything that console’s were capable of achieving at the time. For the first time ever, wrestling fans didn’t have to use their imagination when playing a wrestling game and instead were allowed to bask in a game that so clearly loved wrestling in the same way they did.
No, WrestleFest is not a game about nostalgia. It’s a game that perfectly captured its particular time in history and remains beloved because of it.
