Hi Ryan, Actually, what I am doing is creating two seperate wrestling games using the same basic engine. The first is a legends based game featuring only wrestlers from the 1980's like Hulk Hogan, Junkyard Dog, Randy Savage, Wendi Richter, Sinsational Sharri, Rockin' Robin, etc. Basically, anyone who was really popular when I was growing up with wrestling. This one brings back a lot of personal nostalgia as I not only watched wrestling on television, but my dad and I actually went and watched several matches live when they were being held at the Ritchfield Coliseum in Cleveland Ohio. There's nothing quite like actually being there in person munching down popcorn, drinking soda, while watching the matches live and in person. If you only watched wrestling on television that's one thing, but quite another to be sitting there when you hear the speakers blaring "I'm A Real American" as Hulk Hogan makes his way out to the ring with the crowd litterally screaming so loud your ears hurt for days afterward.
Anyway, basically I haven't forgotten Stone Cold Steve Auston, Trish Stratus, The Rock, or anyone who became popular in the late 90's and into the early 2000's. I just feel that they require a separate game. To me that's a totally different era of wrestling in part because that's when I lost my sight and I've never felt the same way about wrestling again. For instance, Trish Stratus came to the WWE just after I lost my sight, and I was in college then. Everybody told me she was extremely hot looking, especially in the bra and panties matches they had, but I couldn't really fully enjoy it since I couldn't see it. I did my fair share of chearing her on when she won the women's championship, but like I said although I still listen to wrestling I also get extremely frustrated that the comontators assume you can see what is happening and leave out alot of things I use to be able to see before. The diva's matches especially have lost their apeal since the main reason I use to watch women like Wendi Richter and Rockin' Robin wrestle is because they were really nice looking women and every guy I know of likes to see a good looking woman in little more than a bathing suit. Anyway, basically the point I was getting at is that like most people who has suffered any kind of tramatic loss I separate my life into before and after. Anything from the late 70's, 1980's, and early 90's is before my blindness. Everything after including a lot of the wrestlers you mentioned are after. I can't see someone like Rockin' Robin wrestling Trish Stratus anyway as she retired from wrestling in the mid 1990's as I recall. Then, as we've mentioned on list a lot of people who I grew up watching in the 80's the Junkyard Dog, Sensational Sherri, Andre the Giant, Hawk, etc are dead now and can't compete against younger wrestlers from a realistic point of view to begin with. We'd pretty much have to strike any wrestler who died from the list in order to make it work. HTH On 4/11/11, Ryan Conroy <staindadd...@juno.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Are you trying to make this all older wrestlers? If not, you forgot quite a > people like Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock, Tripple H, John Cena, ETC. > Oh, and for women, you can't forget Trish Stratus. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
