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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 8, 2021 0:16:42 GMT -5
The topic has been discussed before, but, a new example of video games making wrestling references presents itself.
Anything familiar about many of his attacks? He uses a number of moves associated with the original Tiger Mask, and even has tiger stripes in his outfit. The sole butt kick, the hammerlock spin thing into a sweep he does, the snap DDT, a crossbody, all Tiger Mask I moves. His footwork is more than a little familiar, as well.
Of course, a lot of games reference Tiger Mask in general, lots of Hogan, Andre, Vader, and more, but I thought it'd be fun to start the thread with one hot off the presses.
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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Jul 8, 2021 16:45:39 GMT -5
The No More Heroes series is full of wrestling references. I love that Travis Touchdown can slice someone’s head off and then hit a tiger Suplex on someone right after.
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Post by chrom on Jul 8, 2021 16:49:25 GMT -5
King in Tekken uses many moves including The Muscle Buster
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jul 8, 2021 17:05:33 GMT -5
King in Tekken uses many moves including The Muscle Buster King flat out had an Okada skin in Tekken 7, which then got referenced in one of Drew Gulak's Powerpoint presentations.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 8, 2021 17:33:36 GMT -5
King in Tekken uses many moves including The Muscle Buster King flat out had an Okada skin in Tekken 7, which then got referenced in one of Drew Gulak's Powerpoint presentations. Tekken 7 had a big collaboration with New Japan. Lots of themed GUI elements around the Lion logo, Chaos, and Taguchi Japan, the King Okada skin, a Tanahashi skin for Lars, and Bullet Club shirts for everyone. Strangely, even though there was a Bryan Fury x Kenny Omega themed t-shirt, Fury didn't have a Kenny Omega-themed skin like King and Lars had with their Okada and Tanahashi collabs.
And speaking of KOF, Angel is a wrestler and has used a lot of famous signature wrestling moves over the years in her movesets. KOF2002 gave her the People's Elbow as her Hyper SDM and one of the later games gave her an RKO.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 8, 2021 18:12:24 GMT -5
Alex in Street Fighter games sometimes begins matches with a shirt and rips it off as a Hogan reference, and if he's facing Hugo Andore, an Andre the Giant tribute from Final Fight that made its way into Street Fighter games, they will do the Hulk vs Andre at WM III pose.
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Post by Venti on Jul 8, 2021 18:19:56 GMT -5
My partner plays a game called VA-11 Hall-A where you play as a bartender I think, and she always shows me when a wrestling reference pops up. Apparently there's quite a few of them in the games dialogue.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jul 8, 2021 18:24:55 GMT -5
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 8, 2021 18:29:29 GMT -5
Yakuza has done a lot of NJPW references over the years including having Naito, Okada, Tanahashi etc in the game In Yakuza LAD you even still got enemies doing the Slingblade as an attack
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Post by Cyno on Jul 8, 2021 18:55:57 GMT -5
Also probably no surprise in a game series that has featured Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper as guest voices, but the Saints Row series has a ton of wrestling references.
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Post by ltcproductions on Jul 9, 2021 8:57:46 GMT -5
Also probably no surprise in a game series that has featured Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper as guest voices, but the Saints Row series has a ton of wrestling references. Rob Van Dam also voiced a character in The Third.
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Post by smokinvokoun86 on Jul 9, 2021 10:06:13 GMT -5
In the SNES game Live a Live, in the Akira Tadokoro section of the game. If you talk to the orphans, they are watching wrestling and the little girl screams “MISAWA!!” And there is a wrestling section in the game as well, with all boss fights, and one of them is clearly a parody of Hulk Hogan.
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Post by chrom on Jul 9, 2021 10:29:44 GMT -5
Mike Haggar of Final Fight was based off of Jesse Ventura.
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Post by Bad Moon on Jul 9, 2021 10:42:37 GMT -5
No More Heroes has probably the deepest cut of wrestling lore I've ever seen in a non-wrestling game hidden away in a flavor text box. You mostly unlock new moves by watching wrestling tapes from your tape trading buddy, which is already pretty relatable to hardcore wrestling fans, but then you also get letters from your master just before the boss fight that unlock one-time-special moves that only work on the next boss you're up to fight. One of those letters tells you to "remember your training in the dungeons of Calgary". I have no idea if that was a direct translation from the original Japanese or if it was changed by the localization team, either way that one blew me away when I read it.
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Post by Fundertaker on Jul 9, 2021 11:05:32 GMT -5
No More Heroes has probably the deepest cut of wrestling lore I've ever seen in a non-wrestling game hidden away in a flavor text box. You mostly unlock new moves by watching wrestling tapes from your tape trading buddy, which is already pretty relatable to hardcore wrestling fans, but then you also get letters from your master just before the boss fight that unlock one-time-special moves that only work on the next boss you're up to fight. One of those letters tells you to "remember your training in the dungeons of Calgary". I have no idea if that was a direct translation from the original Japanese or if it was changed by the localization team, either way that one blew me away when I read it. Well the biggest to me is that Travis's master in NMH1 is named Thunder Ryu. In Fire Pro Wrestling games, Thunder Ryu is Genichiro Tenryu.
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Post by Dub H on Jul 9, 2021 11:18:18 GMT -5
TF2 has an achievment called "Honky Tonk Man" where you need to use the Engineer taunt to kill someone with a guitar
And of course Angel from KOF does the People's Elbow,complete with the running over and theatrics
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 12:13:03 GMT -5
Hawlucha is a pretty direct reference to the Lucha tradition, complete with a "Flying Press" signature move, and is one of the coolest pokemon in my opinion because of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 12:39:26 GMT -5
Mortal Kombat 11 has a ton of them. Lot of them are in connection to Sonya but even beyond that Kano has the Lumbar Check while Jax has the Burning Hammer, I think someone had a piece of gear called Empress of Tomorrow (think it was one of Kitana's masks?), Kano has a piece of gear called Ruby's Riot Shield, and there are others I'm blanking on.
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Post by chronocross on Jul 9, 2021 13:00:53 GMT -5
Big Bear/Raiden from the Fatal Fury series is based off Big Van Vader.
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Post by Dub H on Jul 9, 2021 14:40:05 GMT -5
Hawlucha is a pretty direct reference to the Lucha tradition, complete with a "Flying Press" signature move, and is one of the coolest pokemon in my opinion because of it. And Inceneroar that is literally a Heel Wrestler (he even is a Dark Type because of it) And his appearence on Smash is just the biggest love letter to wrestling moves
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