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Seraphis Cain · Oct 29, 2013

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/654436224/wrestling-with-pixels-the-world-tour-of-wrestling

For a few years now, Audun Sorlie have been interviewing wrestlers and developers of video games through various work for Hardcore Gaming 101, Destructoid and magazine publications. No matter if the interview originally revolved around other subjects, or if he had sat down with them specifically to discuss the world of wrestling, it dawned on him the sheer amount of stories he was gathering that had never been heard before, yet held so much humor, shock, passion and confusion.

And as Sorlie sat down to research this genre further; he discovered the synchronicity between the wrestling industry and the video game industry. Both had experienced a sense of rebirth in 1984, as the WWF expanded its coverage beyond its territory of the northeast and video games resurfaced from the debris of the video game collapse left by Atari. Together these eventual juggernauts formed a tag team, perfectly working together to create an interactive experience of the action seen on TV. Wrestling did not only showcase the sport itself to be represented through maneuvers and rules, but also through the colorful and eccentric characters, tailor made for a medium such as video game to allow fans at home to take control of their favorite wrestler.

Quickly, wrestling video games became one of the most important merchandising item for companies around the world, and in order to bring the likeness of the performers, the authenticity of the moves and the sound of action home to the living room, it would often find itself pushing the limitations of video game consoles as far as it could handle.

Thats exactly why he and his good friend Matthew Gregg, creator of Botchamania, decided to create a truly unique project in order to get the full story told!

As a fan of wrestling and especially wrestling video games, I'm super interested in this project. And the list of confirmed and potential interviewees is amazing. Syuji Yoshida of AKI, Suda51, Yoshihisa Kishimoto of Technos, Akira Yamaoka, Tetsuo Hara, Mick Foley, Samoa Joe, and tons more. Oh and they got Junkboy from Minecraft doing the art, so that's pretty cool too.

:lol at nobody from Yukes being interviewed

Ryce · Oct 29, 2013

I want to see this get made for the Yoshida and Geta interviews alone. Those guys lead a team of two dozen people to create Revenge, WrestleMania 2000, VPW2, and No Mercy.

Seraphis Cain said:
lol at nobody from Yukes being interviewed

They probably aren't allowed to. They are interviewing former THQ staff and Simon Inoki, though, who have deep ties to Yuke's.

PixyJunket · Oct 29, 2013

Ooh, interesting.

I'm going to "star" it for the time being.

GhaleonQ · Oct 29, 2013

I really just wish that it could get enough publicity to have someone, New Japan, McMahonLand, anyone, to license a quality wrestling game.

The plan sounds fantastic, Maffew's good enough, and Hardcore Gaming 101 is the best, so I'm on board.

C-Drive · Oct 29, 2013

Yep, I'll probably back this one in some form.

I wonder how much sales-speak is behind this nugget:

For many, the main draw is hearing from AKI directly about their work in wrestling games, and what they plan for the future.

Heart of Black · Oct 29, 2013

There needs to be more people interviewed from Spike/Human (Fire Pro & King of Colosseum, King's Soul) before I'd even consider it. Also Giant Gram Pro Wrestling needs to be in.

AKI made popular wresting games in the US (that I LOVE of course) but Fire Pro.. on a whole different plane.

Also this happened

And there's people who made EWR & other internet based wrestlers, etc. The genre is huge.. and I don't trust these guys to do it.

Oh and TECHNOS!

JLynn · Oct 29, 2013

I backed. Wrestling video games hardly get any love from the press so I welcome it gladly.

Seraphis Cain · Oct 29, 2013

Heart of Black said:
There needs to be more people interviewed from Spike/Human (Fire Pro & King of Colosseum, King's Soul) before I'd even consider it. Also Giant Gram Pro Wrestling needs to be in.

AKI made popular wresting games in the US (that I LOVE of course) but Fire Pro.. on a whole different plane.

Also this happened

http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/5/8/3/196583_13505_front.jpg[IMG]

And there's people who made EWR & other internet based wrestlers, etc. The genre is huge.. and I don't trust these guys to do it.

Oh and TECHNOS![/QUOTE]

They're interviewing Yoshihisa Kishimoto of Technos. And Masato Masuda from HUMAN is one of the potential interviews. Also you could count Suda51 as a HUMAN guy, since he did work on FPW back in the day.

GhaleonQ · Oct 29, 2013

Heart of Black said:
There needs to be more people interviewed from Spike/Human (Fire Pro & King of Colosseum, King's Soul) before I'd even consider it.

Obviously, but I'd imagine that Human/Spike/Chunsoft require a little more maneuvering to reach.

Someone should ask, though. I didn't see anything.

KenOD · Oct 30, 2013

Interesting. I like Audun Sorlie's writing and honestly I never bothered to pay much attention to any development of wrestling games beyond "oh Yukes, you are awful" and Kinnikuman titles, so this has me interested to be sure.

bjork · Oct 30, 2013

I'm only familiar with Maffew, but I like the idea of a book like this.

Heart of Black · Oct 30, 2013

Seraphis Cain said:
They're interviewing Yoshihisa Kishimoto of Technos. And Masato Masuda from HUMAN is one of the potential interviews. Also you could count Suda51 as a HUMAN guy, since he did work on FPW back in the day.

Oh I do, we're friends! When we first met one of the first things I mentioned was his Fire Pro game, and we was surprised because people don't really reference it. I still want an English translation...

I will admit I didn't see the other names.

As someone who kinda obsesses over the genre I'm just super picky. There was a time where Ebay wasn't my best friend and I collected way too many games.

Hell I own 2 copies of Wrestlemania XVIII because of the cover switch (and they were cheap).

I'd love to see a discussion about the difference in ethos between building Smackdown, SvR/WWE '(year #), Day of Reckoning/Wrestlemania (WM XIX is probably my favorite WWE game) and Wrestle Kingdom.

I'm a smark for wrestling games. I used to watch Fire Pro Wrestling matches...

I want this to be amazing.

Aku-Audi · Oct 30, 2013

Heart of Black said:
Oh I do, we're friends! When we first met one of the first things I mentioned was his Fire Pro game, and we was surprised because people don't really reference it. I still want an English translation...

I will admit I didn't see the other names.

As someone who kinda obsesses over the genre I'm just super picky. There was a time where Ebay wasn't my best friend and I collected way too many games.

Hell I own 2 copies of Wrestlemania XVIII because of the cover switch (and they were cheap).

I'd love to see a discussion about the difference in ethos between building Smackdown, SvR/WWE '(year #), Day of Reckoning/Wrestlemania (WM XIX is probably my favorite WWE game) and Wrestle Kingdom.

I'm a smark for wrestling games. I used to watch Fire Pro Wrestling matches...

I want this to be amazing.

Aye me and Suda sat down to discuss Super Fire Pro 3 and you could tell he was a really passionate wrestling fan. Working on getting a second interview now cause there's more stuff I want to ask.

I have tried getting in touch with SPIKE Chunsoft and am still working on it. If you read any of my stuff at HG101, you'll know that I go to quite extremes to get even the most miniscule bit of trivia. I even tracked down the actors from The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan arcade game just to interview them.

EDIT: There are 2 threads? I appreciate the support but maybe a mod can merge the two so it's easier to keep things up to date? http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=706217

Heart of Black · Oct 31, 2013

Well I appreciate it. I will admit I came in kind of ignorant that it was HCG 101 since I love that site.

I'm just so used to people coming in and taking a shit on things I love.

Also, this was the 1st thread

See You Next Wednesday · Oct 31, 2013

I love that image.

They deserve a few bucks just for it

Deleted member 74300 · Oct 31, 2013

I hope this get's DDP in it. Had him sign my WCW game for the N64. He thought it was awesome that my system still even worked after all this time. Seemed like a great guy to talk to / hang out with.

Grayman · Oct 31, 2013

I haven't been into wrestling games in a few years but as a long term fire pro and king of colosseum fan as well as the aki games on n64 I would be interested in this. As Blackheart suggested include EWR if you can. It is not released by a mainstream publisher but from what I played a huge amount of detail goes into it.

What the hell

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Afrikan · Oct 31, 2013

See You Next Wednesday said:
I love that image.

They deserve a few bucks just for it

what the hell....that's a Mario Hogan.

Deleted member 74300 · Oct 31, 2013

Afrikan said:
what the hell....that's a Mario Hogan.

MarioMania running wild brother!

Jamie OD · Oct 31, 2013

Backed it. The book will make a good companion piece to Joe Gagne's Funtime Pro Wrestling Arcade.

orioto · Nov 20, 2013

Hey guys so i don't know if you see but there is a hard cover done by me for the book. (the 250$ pledge, yeah i know...) It will be a Neogaf own version in a way

Of course it need to be backed to happen

I'll even ask you what you'd like for the cover if it's the case

I'm a big wrestling fan so i'd love to have fun with that

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