Hi Michael, Well, I'm personally of two minds about creating an "all stars" wrestling game. I guess it really all depends on if you come from a wrestling purest point of view or not.
What I mean by that is around 1982 Vince McMan officially purchased the WWF, and then they split off from the National Wrestling Alliance as an independent wrestling federation. The WWF purchased several competing wrestling outfits across the U.S. and in Canada which made them the largest U.S. based wrestling federation on the market. As a result they began buying up top performers from the AWA and NWA to fill the roster with the best of the best. That's why they were so famous in the 1980's. Anyway, because of the split from the NWA, National Wrestling Alliance, WWF performers were barred from wrestling NWA performers and NWA wrestlers were barred from wrestling in the WWF. The only way they could do that is to quit and sign a contract with the other federation. As a result these wrestlers were mainly kept separate through contracts and commercial permotions for one wrestling alliance or another. However, this is a game not real life. So such real life contracts and issues wouldn't necessarily have to be an issue if we aren't going for a purest type game. There are a number of advantages to opening it up to all stars from the era rather than just the WWF/WWE. For one thing you will notice the female wrestlers I have on the list is extremely short. That's because when the WWF went independant in 1982 they never really built up a large women's devision like the AWA, NWA, POW, etc had in place. They maybe had 50 top male performers but only about 10 female performers on the pay roll at a time. To say the women were under represented in the WWF is an under statement since there were quite a number of top female performers at the time. For example, just off the top of my head I can think of Susan Green, Mad Maxine, Sally the Farmer's Daughter, Holliwood and Vine, Penny Mitchell, Susan Starr, and so on. Basically, if we would tie into the NWA, AWA, GLOW, POW, etc we could easily get a large roster of 50 women to wrestle in the game. That would definitely be more fair and balanced for anyone who might want to play in a women's devision. Then, as far as male performers there are definitely some living legends who carved out big names long before they reached the WWF. The Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal, were definitely kings of the ring everywhere they went, but never ended up wrestling in the WWF until the 1990's. Still they were pretty famous in the 80's and helped draw people to the NWA. Same goes for the Fabulous Freebirds, Midnight Express, etc. Great tag teams, but often didn't get as publicized since they weren't in the WWF at the time. So I'd be interested to hear everyone's thought on this. Should we go with a purest view, just WWF wrestlers, or expand it to be more generalized across the board and bring in some top performers from other wrestling promotions too? Cheers! On 4/11/11, michael barnes <c...@samobile.net> wrote: > Hello, I think that making a wrestling game using wrestlers from the > 80's would be alsome. > Is any of the old ECW and NWA and WCW superstars going to be in the > game aswell? > Here is something to think about what about using the wrestlemania and > starcade wrestling rings. If you think about it this game could be the > accessible version of wwe superstars game that just came out. > Look forward to playing this game. > > -- > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit > www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
