- Promotion
Independent Circuit - Game Series Independent Games
- Release Date October 21, 1986
- Additional Releases March 1987 (NA); September 15, 1987 (EU)
- Platforms NES, Arcade
- Publisher Nintendo
- Developer Nintendo R&D3
NES Pro Wrestling is a professional wrestling video game developed and published by Nintendo.
It’s a reverse bulldog, a double nogin-knocker, a leap off the top turnbuckle — it’s pure pandemonium! Welcome to the world of Nintendo Pro Wrestling. Where you take on six of the meanest, baddest, most rotten guys around. With names like The Amazon, Giant Panther and Kin Corn Karn. You’ll begin the match by choosing a wrestler and an opponent — either the computer or a friend. Then with a flick of the wrist you’ll perform drop-kicks, body-slams, head-locks and dozens of other bone-crunching moves designed to annihilate your opponent. But be warned. Each wrestler has his own arsenal of back-breaking moves. Which means you’ll have to think fast and move even faster to pin your opponent, hold him for a three-count, and become champion of Nintendo Pro Wrestling!
NES Pro Wrestling Roster
- Fighter Hayabusa (Japan)
- Giant Panther (U.S.A.)
- Kin Corn Karn (Korea)
- King Slender (U.S.A.)
- Starman (Mexico)
- The Amazon (Parts Unknown)
Single-player
Pro Wrestling features a single player mode where your selected fighter runs the gauntlet against the other five opponents in 1v1 matches, before ultimately fighting King Slender, the Video Wrestling Association (VWA) Champion (Giant Panther if the player selected Slender). After winning the title, and making 10 successive title defenses, the player will match up against the Great Puma, champion of the Video Wrestling Federation. A final inter promotional VWA/VWF match will determine your skills, and if you become the undisputed champion, a winner is you!
Multiplayer
Multiplayer mode gameplay is entirely co-op, and is human player vs human player without a championship quest. All matches are two-out-of-three falls, and don’t have the five-minute time limit featured in single player.