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If World History were Professional Wrestling…

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If World History were Professional Wrestling…

Obviously, I’m not going to venture back to the beginning of time. Let us travel back to the middle 1930s. Here’s the setting, America is a top performer drawing a lot of cheers and applause, not quite a main-eventer, but has been a face and getting a push for a while. America had quite a history of its own. Formerly part of the “British Empire” stable along with England, America broke away from them years back and stepped out of the shadow with an upset victory, shocking the world. Ever since then, America had a fruitful solo career. Some time had passed and now and elsewhere, Germany had teamed up with Japan and was in a feud with England who had to make a deal with the devil to fight these two off and join forces with Russia.

One day, Japan stopped America backstage and peaceful words were exchanged, both sides agreeing to steer clear of one-another. America started to walk away after this conversation and Japan quickly acquired and chair and whacked America in the back of the head. …A Pearl Harbor job – if you will. So America joined up with the alliance of Russia and England. The were called “The Allied Forces.” The team of Japan and Germany was “the Axis Powers.” This was war.

After a grueling feud, the Allied Forces triumphed, the final battle was a no disqualification “I quit” match pitting America against Japan. After a while, it appeared America was invincable and emotionally had snapped. After beating Japan to a bloody pulp, America took a sledgehammer to the back of the head of Japan. After Japan refused to say “I quit,” America nailed him again. Finally Japan quit, and America was named the winner and new World Champion!

America was the hottest star now. Everyone knew America, whether you watched wrestling or not. It was a household name. America cereal boxes, America T-shirts, America action figures, he was unstoppable. Well, years went by, America had many feuds, successful title defenses and a legacy that seemed like it would be on route to the Hall of Fame. But the something happened, America got cocky. America began telling everyone he was the best. Despite up and coming superstars displaying a wealth of talent, America began becoming more and more self-absorbed. America began insisting they had all kinds of attributes going for them, which in reality were all old stories that everyone had heard before. America never even attempted to defend the title, he just would rant and bicker about how great he was. The fans got bored with this and began to boo. America apparently felt as though they were still in the limelight. America was stripped of the title whilst the young talent-pool had a tournament to determine who would be the new champion. A new belt was given to the winner. Who won? It doesn’t matter, America still thinks he’s the champ, and still wears the old belt completely unaware that the world has passed him. America is the first one to tell you all the great things he’s done, despite that none of it has taken place anytime recently. America is a heel now folks. He’s snapped, gone completely crazy and consequently turned his back on all of his fans. America now attacks fellow competitors for no reason, cuts promos against others who also haven’t done anything, stating they’re “next.” Hopefully America will see the light down the road, perhaps win the actual world title, once again. Until then, America needs to be BOOed, and louder…until he can actually hear it, because he needs to start listening.

Fire Pro Returns!

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Fire Pro Wrestling Returns!Finally!! A real console version of Fire Pro Wrestling here in the U.S.! This is huge to any Fire Pro fan. I think one thing that separates Fire Pro from most of the other games is simple, you have to be a well…smart wrestling fan in order to enjoy this game to the max, as well as a big gamer. The wrestling games that typically come out, whether they are fun to play, put together well, or just plain good at capturing that moment in time of what is going on with its real-life counterpart, it is not a game meant for a seasoned gamer who knows that game-play is key. Fire Pro is a game that is… well, just that, a game. There is a learning curve, those who learn how to play are rewarded by being the better players. There are no licenses being used in the game. All the wrestlers are cleverly presented to let you know, it may not say “AJ Styles,” but it’s AJ Styles. The description of the wrestler, his info, even his birthday and place of origin are clear indications of who indeed this is. The Fire Pro series has been around for years dating back to the early nineties. Imports crept over here and allowed American fans to get a taste of it. It wasn’t until I was placed in front of Fire Pro D that I got to experience this game. As chance would have it, the engine was ported to the Game Boy Advance. Although the port changed some key things in order for it to play nice with Game Boy, it did teach me a lot about the series and I was able to apply much of what I learned to the console version. Enough of the boring history.

Fire Pro kicks Ass! Okay, with the US version you need to do a little tweaking, that is, downloading some stuff off the interweb, but then you get to rename all the wrestlers instantly (instead of doing it all manually). Another tasty downloadable morsel are roster expansions. Since a lot of wrestlers are simply unrepresented, there’s guys who play this game (and gals I’m sure) that have extracted these characters, some from scratch, some from other games, and ported them to this game. A quick trip to gamefaqs allows you to download over 400 wrestlers. I’m speechless. When you have a roster of 30 guys or so such as a game like Smackdown… 400 is practically a quantum leap. Well Fire Pro Returns is available now, although good luck finding it. A lot of retailers didn’t take it seriously and when big box companies shipped in all of 12 copies, they flew off the shelves. I’m sure nuts like me didn’t help, buying three and all. I assure you people however, they aren’t all for me.

Three copies of Fire Pro Returns