Royal Pro Wrestling - The Knock-off 3DO Game with WWF / WCW Superstars

[@terryeubanks8797]

The Rich Flair promo at the end is one of the Wilderness Boy's finest. It's always nice to hear a "HOO!" from the tiny owl he keeps in his robe.

[@williewinston1498]

Lmao

[@doriangreen3231]

Feels kind of weird not seeing Sean Michaelbottom, Bert “The Hartman” Shooter, or the Intimate Warrior here.

[@marccaselle8108]

Haha! Intimate warrior

[@NateTheGnat]

I want to see Dunk the Clown and Jacksaw Dim Huggin. And Rowdy Roddy Peeper.

[@mrmagpiepromotions]

You know warrior would be called Jim Dingomaster.

[@faschuck]

I personally wonder where The Stoner Brothers are…

[@dryzenhawk4251]

These names in this thread somehow made my day lol

[@panoramatint]

The Underdiser's theme sounds like what would play at the three blind mice's funeral

[@BlastersChannel]

Andy Savage is the 'Dream of the Crop' 😂

[@Rob_Thorsman]

OH YEAH DIG IT!

[@lamekamiller]

😂

[@ryancorrigan4149]

Mug of caffeine, mug of caffeine...

[@christophernicholson20]

"SNAP INTO SOME GREAT VALUE BEEF JERKY" OOOOH YEAHHH

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Skunk vs. The Underdise, the match we've all been waiting for!😁😆😁

[@troywright359]

They'll feel fear like they've never felt it before.

[@81rbutler]

@@md12962 The Underdise Morgan

[@SegaDream131]

SKULLAVAN MY SON!!!

[@djdarq6311]

“Enjoy yourself while you can.” - Andy Savage

[@durt9872]

Bite on an Oberto - Andy Savage

[@brettfowler8394]

😂😂

[@SteRDLK]

reminds me of Andy Organ from 5 Star Wrestling

[@Thinker77]

OK! I learned three things 1.) This game exist 2.) How the host keeps a straight face reading the names is beyond me… kudos 3.) Don’t eat dinner while listening to him read off the names ☺️

[@dudearnav]

Not going to lie, the Animations are really great. If someone made an English patch, I'd definitely play this game, it gives me Fire Pro vibes for some reasons.

[@1tychoma]

Yeah the grapple system seems similar, and the AI

[@anonamatron]

While they're at it they can just hack in the proper names too.

[@alexkid2437]

Fire Pro Wrestling is such a good wrestling game I love them on the GBA system

[@Technosphile]

There’s barely any Japanese in it at all.

[@daviddee9336]

This is even better than when you find obscure toys abroad that rip off trademarked characters. Pubescent frogs of the silent war to name but one.

[@JohnJohnson-fr5cx]

So that was the Ninja Turtles?

[@daviddee9336]

@@JohnJohnson-fr5cx not if you were their lawyers.

[@JohnJohnson-fr5cx]

@@daviddee9336 LOL! 😂 good one cause it’s true. I can only imagine what they looked like these Pubescent frogs 🐸 lol, omg I can’t believe I actually just typed those words together. I’m gonna google them tonight when I get home from work. Thanks for giving me a laugh before I go to work. On a side note, I used to know someone named David Dee, I knew him through his job in Corpus Christi at a place called SATF. I doubt you are the same person but man, that’d be crazy if you were the same Mr. Dee. Take care buddy.

[@ryancorrigan4149]

HA! I used to joke about making a knockoff I called Pubescent Genetically Modified Karate Tortoises!

[@Elementa2006]

5:00 the "Dragon" is because Fujinami had the nickname "The Dragon" and is crediting with inventing the Dragon Suplex and Dragon Sleeper.

[@tomworrier]

those are some Shockmaster level promos right there, pure gold!

[@MaterialBlade]

That Hogan theme actually slaps.

[@Kay_Fabe]

How 'bout I slap YOU?

[@ZekeThePlumber86]

I would've done deplorable things in 1996 to play this!

[@simoncobian2816]

We all would have! I’d love a HD remake lol

[@homerj.simpson7562]

I am laughing way too hard at this way too relatable comment!

[@WTFiTzFlow]

6:30 Underdice Morgan vs Skunk The Dream Match I never knew I needed. 🤣

[@DDWES]

Considering the year this was released in, it has some ahead of it’s time mechanics. That rich flair woo at the end tho…..

[@wasmadeinthe80s]

Calling a damn owl to come down and help

[@WTFiTzFlow]

@@wasmadeinthe80s they don’t call him The Nature Boy for no reason.

[@wasmadeinthe80s]

@@WTFiTzFlow 😂😂🦉

[@mrwhopee]

That wooo! alone is worth the price of a 3do and this game.

[@thisisnotachannel]

Wow... a wrestling game of which I have never heard. Good on ya, buddy! Edit: "Bon's eye"? What's wrong with his eye, Yoko? Tell me!

[@emanuelsosa8]

Cause it was on 3do probabñy the most forgotten console ever

[@maxlethe3973]

A preposition aware pro wrestling fan, surprising

[@aceassn716]

Nah not for me I still want to get a 3do for Road Rash and The Need for Speed alone This wrestling game is now top priority!!

[@jreed7125]

2:36 "The Wilderness Kid" Rich Flair looks pretty good in that little cutscene

[@RikkiRoxxNWS]

This is awesome. It's rare to come across a wrestling game I haven't heard of, so this was a real treat. Reminds me a little of Zen-Nippon Pro Wrestling with the Fire Pro twist of using incredibly obvious knock-off characters. I would've been all over this back in the day, for sure. Hopefully I'll get to give it a shot one day.

[@Benjatron-jw2rg]

Now this was a find! I’m always going to be tempted to call Macho Man Andy Savage now.

[@No1BRC]

Actually its a very deep game with the crowdpleasing part and booking etc

[@gianyrivera1082]

This game is really cool, and I love the idea of having to appeal to the crowd and other nuances you need to do besides just win the match, and the backstage segments before the match are a nice touch In a lot of ways this game is really ahead of its time

[@ZekeThePlumber86]

That Road Warrior promo omg 😂

[@sofiaciel7599]

so for the Japanese guys with kanji in their names, as far as I can tell, they mostly use one kanji from their surnames, save for Koji Izawa. Also, Jumbo the Tomo is based on a kanji in Tsuruta's name. Iwaki 岩木 vs. Inoki 猪木 Fujiyama 藤山 vs. Fujinami 藤波 Hashitomi 橋富 vs. Hashimoto 橋本 Kiba 鬼場 vs. Baba 馬場 Izawa 伊澤 sounds like "Misawa," but also, Koji 光治 contains the first kanji in Misawa's given name, Mitsuharu 光晴 Jumbo the Tomo gets his name from Jumbo Tsuruta's real given name, Tomomi 友美. He only went by his real name early in his career, and changed it after a fan poll, because Tomomi is more commonly seen as a girl's name.

[@GMSpectre]

4:00 - The greatest sentence said in a Wrestling Bios episode.

[@mikeharless4596]

I never owned a 3DO, but you definitely make this game seem appealing! I think I might have to check it out sometime. I agree, the depth in different territories preferring different wrestling styles is very innovative for it's time. Great video, man!

[@anonamatron]

Whip out an emulator and give it a try. I'm sure the required materials aren't terribly hard to source.

[@DoctorProfessorPablo]

Shocked to see there was a wrestling video game I didn’t know about. Great find.

[@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749]

Imagine mr long announcing that a “playa” has to wrestle Underdise Morgan, that would be hilarious

[@conradojavier7547]

Teddy Short Announce a Singles Match with Da Undadise Morgan.

[@ShanAli-sq4rs]

Mr Short*

[@mr.x9566]

Teddy Dore R. Long

[@NASCAR_Gamer]

Rich Flairs little wooo at the end was hilarious! 😂 kinda wished we’d have gotten this game in the states on multiple platforms.

[@rohitcr2k]

Yo... The backstage stuff are fantastic and needs to be added. The cameramen in Mexico, wrestlers getting ready for match in Japan,... WOW.

[@Chuck_EL]

This game was ahead of it's time, it looked very good , no other wrestling games were doing them things, it's influence is felt to this day with wrestling games

[@Vortecha]

Oh man, imagine if a game like this existed today, and you had all those knockoff wrestler names. Rhody Starr Large Langstin Carter the 4th The Rowdy Gal Comic Kens And so on and so forth...

[@daniel-san-augh]

John Ambrosia Robert Lasher Broccolis Child of the Wilderness Roaming Annoai The possibilities are Endless

[@miked7212]

Great video! This seems like a fun game to play! Great upload!

[@martynodonnell8467]

Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet! Like most the other comments. I had no idea this game existed either. Which makes this unique and very different video. You keep pulling them out the bag. Thanks for the content.

[@drunkensailor112]

Kind of looks like wrestlefest. I'm going to buy this for my 3do

[@GLJosh]

Loved that bootleg Flair ending!

[@guyfranchise934]

😮 I used to play this game 🤘 Thank you for making this video!!! I'm now flooded with memories from my teenage years. Man the world was simple back then

[@gamerk316]

Huh, looks like a much better version of the LGN games. Grapple system sounds a lot like what AKI eventually implemented.

[@GamerBoy-bh5tc]

The wrestling different styles in the territories to get a better crowd reaction, and the crowd reaction itself are super innovative even by today's standards in a wrestling video game. Awesome game ( ×10 for its time, 30 years ago) very innovative.

[@battinghat]

Woah, I had no idea that this game existed!

[@vintage3262]

I've never heard of this game until today and I was born in the 80s and boy this game is actually pretty creative.... More wrestling games should use this type of career concept... Pretty dope

[@jamesbaker6006]

I honestly wanna give this a go.

[@KEWLV1C]

It looks kind of like a 2D version of WCW vs the World. Great video, never heard of this game til now!

[@chadsherrill7559]

Interesting looking game…but ooooomg that “Wooo” at the end🤣🤣🤣

[@davidjones6470]

Never heard of this!!! Great upload 👌

[@evolvedcopper2205]

Feels like some true effort was put in to this and the team did a lot for what little resources they had. I like how the names mostly imvolved some trivia

[@anonamatron]

Totally never heard of this one before. Very cool. Really like seeing managers on the outside.

[@JBHtown1646]

This could honestly lead to something if someone decide to take time to mod this game

[@kevynhansyn2902]

This was a drinking game video in many ways. Every time someone says the magically word "Explain", you take a drink. I believe there were 6 uses in this video.

[@guacamole9199]

THE MAN CALLED SKUNK!!!

[@conradojavier7547]

Remember Skunk's Fight with Gregg Hearty.

[@nationalweatherbroadcast8445]

@@conradojavier7547 oh yeah, wasn't that on T and A wrestling? I think it was the Winner's lane ppv

[@DasNordlicht91]

Better known to some as Bord Stevens.

[@freddiejohnson6137]

The animation is quite impressive and I am admittedly not very knowledge about 3DO games let alone ones only released in Japan. Very surprising it never got a port on either the PS1 or Saturn.

[@atodamadre3197]

Not sure how they could port it. Would be a licensing nightmare

[@freddiejohnson6137]

@@atodamadre3197 not in Japan like this was released in and other wrestling games got released during that period in the West with slightly altered looks and names of wrestlers so can't see why this would have been any different.

[@EastsideLingo]

This is most definitely a hidden gem.

[@ashes2ashes20]

The rich flair promo at the end was the best, thank you.

[@americanmeowth3336]

Thanks for showing this off; I had never heard of this! Personally, I'm a big fan of "The Manly Madman" Andy Savage; they never should have broken up the Mondo Strengths team. If only Golden Lips didn't have creative control in his contract. These bootleg themes would make Jimmy Hart blush. All joking aside, I wish modern wrestling games had something like the crowd-pleasing meter more often, especially with trying to work a specific style for a crowd; at least more involved than the WWF Warzone/Attitude style of just "do all your moves with repeating in a row". They really seemed proud of this aspect, since the individual federation descriptions do clue the player in to what type of match the fans like. Five will get you ten, the promos were done by one or two non-Japanese guys someone on staff knew with the only direction of "Do you know pro-wrestling?", since the text doesn't exactly line up with the spoken lines.

[@81rbutler]

Andy Savage, Rich Flair, Golden Lips, Big Kiba. Man ooooh man did I need this today. Japan programmers, thank you for being such cheapos on paying rights to companies yet making a real good game. I'd play it right here and now. Clever names and way around the music etc.

[@81rbutler]

Beat this game on easy and hard setting within 24 hours. Good game!

[@robertwarf3316]

Mr Stink is now Skunk. I love it

[@chubbycatfish4573]

I like how they have animated and voiced promos, but slideshow entrances.

[@carnage2380]

WWA=World Wrestling Alliance a mix of WWF and the NWA is what I see in my opinion. Another great video of something I wouldn't normally see. Keep up the great work.

[@Cloud121D]

I LOVE the 3DO, and have been collecting for it since 2007. I am very surprised I had never heard of this one before now.

[@JayCord00]

Would of love this back in the day ! Great ideas in the game and the move sets looking great .

[@XjasondagX]

The crazy names are a signature of many Japanese wrestling games. The Fire Pro Wrestling series is famous for it. Burning Pro Wrestling for the SNES (see what they did there) also had them too. It's part of the charm of the games

[@SteelyBud]

I love Rich Flair's owl impression.

[@davidford3968]

Man, where do you find this stuff??? Amazing work good sir!!! You are truly out here doing the Lord's work, but the big question I have is this, are you still chinlock free?

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Missed opportunity to have a Hull Logan or a Krisp Ben Wah... Or a See em Punked.

[@jazzygeofferz]

That Natsume game on SNES is a good one. It also has amusingly redesigned versions of All Japan Wrestlers outside of Japan. It had a bit more of an emphasis on working the match as opposed to beating your opponent. The GBA Fire Pro had some interesting "homages" to the real wrestlers on the roster as well.

[@Siarawaszympanemjest]

There would be lawsuits up the arse if this would come out as a retail title today :D

[@mrmoose6619]

Sounds a lot like WCW vs. The World on first blush... let's see if I am right....

[@nationalweatherbroadcast8445]

I thought Undertaker's theme was about to play 3 blind mice

[@m.otransformers4855]

Same lol

[@BlueMageWithSoulEdge]

I am now very interested in this game. Not every wrestling game has to be like Aki to be good. How you describe the grappling system, it sounds like it can be REALLY competitive if you got some serious players.

[@PABrewNews]

Needed a pick me up today, cheers

[@PistNRods]

This reminds me of Champion Wrestler on PS1. Similar aesthetic, and also another Japanese game with renamed real wrestlers. The grappling system in that game is timing based like Fire Pro as well. The commentary is absolutely amazing. I can’t understand what they are saying in Japanese but boy do they sell the action with enthusiasm. Try it sometime.

[@thegame7134]

Natsume Championship Wrestling was the first wrestling game I ever owned. I wouldn’t actually mind seeing a review on that. I remember the controls being really hard to get at first but once you did it was pretty fun.

[@pezpowerproductions2602]

looks like it would be fun. and the music is amazing.

[@C0ldIron]

Fan art is a common thing in Japanese media. Lots of manga will show of fan art on extra pages in the magazines. The one that’s probably most famous for it would actually be Kinnikuman which you would probably like as it is a wrestling manga with all the wrestlers be crazy super heroes. Many of the characters are inspired by actual wrestlers such as Spanish hero Buffaloman taking inspiration on his look from Andre the giant. American hero Terryman is a combination of Terry Funk and Dusty Roads. Anyway it actually became a regular part of the series that fans would send in their own wrestlers and the author would draw them in the manga and even use them as characters in the series. This game probably had a similar promotional event.

[@benstephens2633]

The voiceovers are freaking hilarious 😂😂

[@RNCV-uf7wu]

Love Rich Flair's owl impression at the end, lol

[@wwr7224]

Yes! I love the wrestling video game content!

[@BreadHart]

"Skunk" Absolutely killed me.

[@salimrahal1811]

Rich Flair's woo in the end killed me. xD

[@brosevideogames7908]

“The Underdise Morgan” is my new favorite name for anything ever

[@noeljr.7724]

I never knew about this. Thanks for sharing. It seems like a fun game to play. The promos made me laugh.

[@mysteriotube1233]

this is deffo a hidden gem i love the idea of the diffrent crowds wanting diffrent styles of matches

[@mitchwooten5150]

Rich flair and the woo at the end 🤣🤣

[@fayezfawzi3255]

As someone who owns a 3DO, been interested in this one for awhile! Thank you for the great video, will definitely check it out now.

[@RamblinErikk]

AWESOME!!! How in the blue hell have I lived without THIS all these years? Thats it, Im buying a 3DO, brother!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@homerj.simpson7562]

Wooo!

[@besotoxicomusic]

Holy ish. I thought I played all obscure rasslin games. Good on you for finding one I never even heard of.

[@whooll]

This looks so cool in my opinion lol but as a kid I loved the wwf raw is war game for Sega and the Super Nintendo WrestleMania game so this is so epic to me having learned about the wrestlers from outside the US and the careers of most of the ones featured in this game way later on in my life. And especially with how unique this looks throughout

[@redroversk]

i was interested until I saw they want $200 for it, used. This would've blown our minds back in those 16/32 bit days, we only had wwf ljn games

[@LuisHGarcia]

This is amazing! Never knew this game existed. The country/promotion-specific aspects to working the crowd in the championship mode with the pre-match promo work is really cool and sounds like it has a little touch of FirePro from how you have to time grapples and ect. Thank you for sharing this.

[@conradojavier7547]

Royal Pro Wrestling deserves a Re-Released.

[@alexcarriere199]

Copyrights our killer there my friend

[@Sgtviolence]

Undertaker’s theme sounds like three blind mice!

[@aaroneudell4388]

Man, wrestling and obscure console games! I'm a retro console collector so brilliant combo. Do a series and get Guru Larry or even AVGN on your videos! The quality of your videos, the presentation, I'm always really impressed, how a promotion hasn't dragged you in, I don't know.

[@arvisconti]

This sounds like a very well thought out game that the actual WWF WCW games from this time period lacked.

[@alphabanks3798]

Watching Mr.Bios old videos is weird to me😂 He talks quietly in his old videos but now he doesn’t

[@brianlarsen9952]

Woooooooooo Just what a day off called for

[@GK_with_PK_India]

Good features for 1996 standards..Great Video by you always :)

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

I like the promos, that was super rare to have a wrestling game like this back in the day.

[@rdavisct1986]

Jesus no kidding me.i was playing this game a few months ago and here we are I didn't expect to see this game here lol awesome

[@MakopoweredGaming]

I had no idea that this was a thing, and I kinda really love it! I also didn't know that the 3DO was big enough in Japan to get region-exclusive games!

[@Caolan114]

9:19 Hey It's Doraemon!

[@thesolidsnakealpha]

Looks amazing, TBH. Modern wrestling games just aren't as fun any more, I miss 2D wrestling games.

[@novaterian7042]

Check out Fire Pro Wrestling World. I bought it on steam and it really does hit that 2d wrestling feel. Has a lot of content for it

[@jaahnnn]

Lmao I bought one of those pandora's box arcade machines and I still play wwf wrestlefest

[@haiasieel6099]

Ever played Giant Gram 2000 for Dreamcast??

[@robertlawrence4719]

Check out Retromania , what’s he sequel to wrestlefest. Also action arcade wrestling is fun.

[@gateofdivine582]

Video games and rasslin…2 of my favorite childhood things. I’d have loved this.