Fire Pro Wrestling Returns is phenomenal
My friend also had copies of Virtual Pro Wrestling 1 and 2 for N64 which were also amazing.
My friend and I had so many awesome memories of playing Fire Pro Wrestling Returns.
One of the best ones setting up the 6 man barbwire landmine death match with the explosive timer set to random. It went off two seconds after the opening bell.
Then there was the time we tested exactly how long the most lenient referee would tolerate cheating before DQ'ing someone. It let me stab Brett Hart in the head with Abdullah the Butcher's BBQ fork for almost 40 minutes before he called it.
I remember also when we attempted to tackle promoter mode and could only afford hiring wrestlers from some child oriented wrestling promotion and some low end hardcore promotion. So yeah we threw the kid friendly clown wrestler against the hardcore wrester in a weapons match. Damned if that clown didn't put up a valiant fight for his life going for the weapons first before he ended up bleeding all over the place. I loved the end of the match critque...
"The fans were confused by this match being added to the card but were pleasantly surprised by the outcome."
Finally there was the epic series of what we dubbed "Karate Man vs the son of the ghost of Mike Hagger Jr the 3rd."
Basically under the MMA K1 list of fighters there is a character called Karate Man who I have no idea who he's based on, but apparently he has super powerful kicks. My friend chose him while I went with Bone Cry, the guy based on Don Frye that looks like the Mike Hagger character from Final Fight.
Two seconds into a match he roundhouse kicks me into a critical finish that left Bone Cry face down on the mat not breathing and bleeding out from the head. From there it turned into a series of fight between the two characters with each subsequent rematch of me trying to get revenge for the death of the predecessor.
Oh that game was so much fun with it's varied rosters, match types, and rule sets.