ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

Top Wrestling

General info

Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

2020-02-20

Stats

2,884

Genre

Conversions

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 2, Sim 2

Features

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1992
Top Wrestling
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
Italian
2
Rare

Notes

[1] Game concept by Raffaele Valensise. Main coding by Fabrizio Farenga; additional coding by Francesco Simula. Graphics & animation by Alfredo Siragusa and Raffaele Valensise. Music by Nicola Tomljanovich; sound FX by Nicola Tomljanovich and Raffaele Valensise.

[2] Game features support for savegames (to save your game position in tournament mode only).

[3] Distributed in Italy by Softel.

[4] ***TOP WRESTLING (full release)*** has been deemed freeware by main coder Fabrizio Farenga and is available for download from these sources:

- TOP WRESTLING (full release) [Source: AMI Sector One]
- TOP WRESTLING(full release) [Source: Amiga Future]

[5] According to main coder Fabrizio Farenga, TOP WRESTLING was inspired by popular 1980s/90s wrestling show WWF Superstars of Wrestling:

'The game concept was born when the WWF Wrestling TV show was at the zenith in Italy. Raffele Valensise told me we should create a "Blockbuster", so we dropped a simple platform game called "Alien Hunter" and started with the development of this classic beat-em-up.

We taken a lot of ideas from the TV Show, where the anchormen Dan Peterson (aka Ted Hutchinson in our game) excited the crowd and was very ironic.

Most of the characters resemble famous wrestler of late '80s and some other famous people (like a "young" Saddam Hussein).

The game was published by Genias and didn't sold very well, probably because we had poor marketing but, hey, it was my first game!!!
'
[Source: Farenga.it]

Conversion Notes

N.B. C64/PC versions were advertised, but never released. Info. on the C64 release is avail. on GTW64.

Screen info

ECS / OCS
Screenshot ECS no. 3

Genias software boss & coder Fabrizio Farenga pictured in an anti-software piracy message, which appears if the game fails a RNC copy-protection check while loading.

Screenshot ECS no. 4

Loading Sequence

Screenshot ECS no. 5

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! TOP WRESTLING'S TV presentations are just a little reminiscent of the slick media clips in Cinemaware'sTV SPORTS franchise.

Screenshot ECS no. 6

Selection Screen

Screenshot ECS no. 7

Hilarious! Bulk Dogan vs. Sgt. Slammer (Hulk Hogan vs. Sgt. Slaughter anyone??!!)

Screenshot ECS no. 8

The crowd looks on in anticipation before the main event.

Screenshot ECS no. 9

Oeeerrr! That's gotta hurt - a knee to the head!!

Screenshot ECS no. 10

The Kentucky Tornado works over his opponent in the corner.

Screenshot ECS no. 11

Was it a flying kick or a flying elbow in this airborne exchange, I wonder??!!

Screenshot ECS no. 12

Down and out!

Screenshot ECS no. 13

Game over man!!!

Screenshot ECS no. 14

How 'ard am I??!! Your Ultimate Warrior look-alike absolutely crushes it and lets the crowd know all about it!!!

Screenshot ECS no. 15

[cue Queen] We are the champions, my friends!

Screenshot ECS no. 16

To the victor goes the spoils! The instant stardom that goes along with becoming the TOP WRESTLING champ!!!

Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

Box scan ECS no. 2

Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Sticker

ECS no. 2

Italian Advert

Manual info

ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Manual (Italian)

ECS / OCS

Type “TONIUTTI” or “CISO” in the ring and press ‘F1’ or ‘F3’ for new

energy.

Conversion info

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Joker
Jun - Jul 1992
60%
Carsten Borgmeier
1
Amiga Mania
Sep 1992
79%
Damo Spendel
1

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