Perry Saturn United States Champion

It's funny, you leave the game for a while and in many ways forget that it exists. Then comes the day that there is nothing else to do and you boot up the game and BAM! Fucking Aki Wrestling. I have been playing these games since I was in 8th grade and yet I still go back to them. Why is that? Is it the nostalgia? Do long for the days where I had no responsibility and the only thing that mattered was how to make my match last forever and try to hit a billion head drops.

A lot of the posts I make are just spur of the moment. I have a twitter that I'm not that active with that is sorta the social media voice of the blog, yet I'm not for making this thing really public. I have so many plans that I never finish or in many ways even begin with, still I will always have these games as a place where I can pretend that I did become a pro wrestler and I can create myself on vpw2 and give myself the moves that I dig and create a character that makes me happy. These games make me happy.

I will admit that fire pro is a deeper game in terms of the things the game allows you to do. Logo editor, a deeper edit mode, more moves, blah blah blah. But while I love fire pro, there is a certain connection that I have to the aki/asmik/thq series, it has deep sentimental value to me. While I know a lot of details about pro wrestling now as an adult nerd, this game blew my mind as a kid who's only exposure to the sport revolved around wcw saturday night/ecw on the sunshine network and wwf raw.

I started to watch lucha libre on galavision (easily the best 3 hour block of wrestling at the time, you had CMLL for about an hour and then AAA for the next two hours on Saturday, fucking awesomesauce) because of this game in many ways. I used to dream who I would become as a wrestler and it allowed me to ignore the shitty environment during my early high school years.

I fucking love these games and if you happen to love them too, because you think its a cool puroresu game (vpw 1/2) or you like the wcw titles or you obsess over no mercy and still hold it as the standard (I think no mercy is easily the weakest entry of the series) then I love you too random stranger on the internet.

Good Night.