Natsume Championship Wrestling
Encyclopedia
Natsume Championship Wrestling is a 1994 Super Nintendo Entertainment System
video game that was released in North America
.
This game is widely based on a conversion of , a Japanese video game for the Super Famicom.
Players must become either the Triple Crown Champion or the Triple Crown Tag Team Champions and achieve the limits of professional wrestling. There is no other story line other than this. When a certain wrestler performs a jumping DDT
, he slightly resembles Barry Windham
; a professional wrestler during the era of this game's release. There are 6-12 different songs on this game to keep the wrestling experience enjoyable every time. However, the computer tends to cheat when playing against it in "tag team" mode.
licenses. It is considered to be only game for the North American market that replicates the "feel" of a Japanese Super Famicom wrestling game.
The player has a choice between an exhibition
, a round-robin
tournament, and a championship
tournament. Players must choose between 12 wrestlers who have ten minutes to knock each other out. Each wrestlers has a very extensive set of moves depending on their situation in the ring. Every victory screen with have both wrestlers' taunts, the time of the match, and the condition that caused the victory. The championship tournament has three difficulty levels: easy, medium, and hard. Criticism for this game was mixed from very positive to very negative.
There are more than fifty moves to master and an intelligent AI
offers up plenty of might for the player. Six levels of energy bar
s (in order from best to worst: blue, green, yellow, orange, red, black) and the ability to heal help to separate this game from the other wrestling games of that era. However, recovery time is increased when the player is severely hurt.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
video game that was released in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
.
This game is widely based on a conversion of , a Japanese video game for the Super Famicom.
Players must become either the Triple Crown Champion or the Triple Crown Tag Team Champions and achieve the limits of professional wrestling. There is no other story line other than this. When a certain wrestler performs a jumping DDT
DDT (professional wrestling)
In professional wrestling a DDT is any move in which the wrestler has the opponent in a front facelock, and falls down or backwards to drive the opponent's head into the mat...
, he slightly resembles Barry Windham
Barry Windham
Barry Clinton Windham is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and the son of wrestler Blackjack Mulligan. He is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling ....
; a professional wrestler during the era of this game's release. There are 6-12 different songs on this game to keep the wrestling experience enjoyable every time. However, the computer tends to cheat when playing against it in "tag team" mode.
Summary
This game is considered to be an unlicensed wrestling game due to its lack of WWF (now WWE) and/or WCWWorld Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling, Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance , named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and...
licenses. It is considered to be only game for the North American market that replicates the "feel" of a Japanese Super Famicom wrestling game.
The player has a choice between an exhibition
Exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...
, a round-robin
Round-robin
The term round-robin was originally used to describe a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified...
tournament, and a championship
Championship
Championship is a term used in sport to refer to various forms of competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion.- Title match system :...
tournament. Players must choose between 12 wrestlers who have ten minutes to knock each other out. Each wrestlers has a very extensive set of moves depending on their situation in the ring. Every victory screen with have both wrestlers' taunts, the time of the match, and the condition that caused the victory. The championship tournament has three difficulty levels: easy, medium, and hard. Criticism for this game was mixed from very positive to very negative.
There are more than fifty moves to master and an intelligent AI
Game artificial intelligence
Game artificial intelligence refers to techniques used in computer and video games to produce the illusion of intelligence in the behavior of non-player characters . The techniques used typically draw upon existing methods from the field of artificial intelligence...
offers up plenty of might for the player. Six levels of energy bar
Health (gaming)
Health is a game mechanic used in role-playing, computer and video games to give value to characters, enemies, NPCs, and related objects. This value can either be numerical, semi-numerical as in hit/health points, or arbitrary as in a life bar....
s (in order from best to worst: blue, green, yellow, orange, red, black) and the ability to heal help to separate this game from the other wrestling games of that era. However, recovery time is increased when the player is severely hurt.