Overview
- Number of Players
- 4
- Genre
- Fighting
- Release Date
Super Nintendo
- Jun 1994
Wii (Wii Shop)
- 21st Mar 2011, 800 points
- 18th Feb 2011, 900 points
Wii U eShop
- 20th Nov 2014, £5.49
- Series
- Nintendo Switch Online
- Tags
- Nintendo Switch Online
Screenshots (5)
Reviews
Review Natsume Championship Wrestling (Wii U eShop / SNES)
Tapped out
Let's be honest here: wrestling is essentially one big television drama, and that's no way an attempt to belittle the incredible athleticism of the men and women involved. It's Eastenders with a mullet and tight pants, complete with plot twists and a cast of larger than life characters to root for. These heels and faces are the reason we...
Review Natsume Championship Wrestling (Wii Virtual Console / Super Nintendo)
Puts up a fight
It might seem strange that there has not been a single wrestling game on Virtual Console in the West so far, but when you really think about it, it makes sense. Almost every single wrestling title out there features the likenesses of real people, meaning it would take some serious effort and money to rerelease them. Games with...
About The Game
Step into the ring!
Choose from 12 outrageous wrestlers and bring it on! Wield the massive power of Asteroid, the lightning-fast strikes of Viper, the underhanded attacks of Phantom, and many more mad men of the ring!
With its robust grappling system and over 50 moves to master, Natsume Championship Wrestling delivers the deepest and most realistic wrestling action of the 16-bit era! Test your might against the crafty AI, or up to 4 players can compete in exhibition, tag team, and round robin matches!
Comments (14)
What the? Natsume's releasing a Wrestling game on VC? How about Harvest Moon 64 first?
Unreleased in Europe on SNES ?!?
Judging by the prices in the upper right, I guess it was unreleased on this side of the great pond.
Yes exactly, I do not knew this.
Fantastic game!
@Banana_Jane Is it true ?
Maybe this will inspire Nintendo to finally release Pro Wrestling.
Wow... Does anyone realize this is a first? Never before has a wrestling game seen the light of day on VC!
VC lives!!!!
The only wrestling game they need to release on the Virtual Console is Saturday Night Slam Masters.
Unless this one is just as good. I've never played it...
(NCW has Awesome music btw...)
It's a 16 bit wrestling game by Natsume, so the chances are it will play like WWF Road To Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania X8 and WWE Survivor Series for the Game Boy Advance, all of which Natsume also developed.
And all of which sucked. They have lousy collision detection at the best of times, VERY limited movesets, no real differences inbetween any of the wrestlers aside from their appearances and easy ways to exploit the AI and get cheap victories every time, even on the hardest difficulty setting.
The video above makes this game look very similar to those games as well, a lot of the frames of animation even look the same. I'm a huge wrestling fan but I'm going to hold fire on this one I think...a case of me having given Natsume wrestling games 3 failed chances to impress me already....
VC needs ProWrestling now. Delivers backbrain kick to thread...!!!!
I played it again and it's really not as good as I remember it, but still a lot better than the WWF SNES ones.
Lovin' the music
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