Ludography
Beast Wrestler cover

1991 · Telenet Japan · Fighting · Science

Beast Wrestler

Sega exclusive

War of the Manmade Monsters!

Released
14 October 1991
Platforms
Sega Genesis
Genres
FightingScienceSports
Developers
Telenet Japan
Publishers
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Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Themes
Science fictionHorror
Country
Japan

About

Beast Wrestler is a 1991 fighting game published for the Mega Drive in Japan and North America. The cover art was made by Yasushi Nirasawa, in his position as a model-builder for Hobby Japan magazine.

Keywords

  • anime
  • wrestling
  • robots
  • artificial intelligence

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Beast Wrestler is a wrestling video game containing two modes: Match and Tournament. Match is a single-round that can be played with two human players or one player and a computer opponent. Tournament has multiple rounds and requires the player to fight every beast in the game.

Reception

The presentation, although generally the most-well received aspect of Beast Wrestler, garnered a mixed response. Joystick called it the best part.

Paul Rand of Computer and Video Games found the premise of monsters in a wrestling game interesting, but strongly dismissed its gameplay as "dull, simplistic and annoying in equal parts", heavily attributed to unresponsive controls. He also criticized the unsuitable music and visuals. Although appreciating the monsters' design, he was critical of the sprites' animation, shadows, their identical sizes, and flickering. Mega also found it a "tedious" experience with very few attacks to experiment with. He disliked the graphics, such as the "boring empty ring-type arena thingy" and choppy animation.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Sega Genesis4 November 1991Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Included in
Renovation Products Collection 1

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Platform libraries

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