WCW World Championship Wrestling

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Originally a run-of-the-mill puroresu game (without a promotion license) in Japan, WCW World Championship Wrestling was the promotion's very first video game and their only one prior to leaving the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1993.

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japan	US

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The US version also has added animation in the form of the WCW letters zooming into frame before the rest of the logo is revealed and the voice bellowing the game's name plays.

Wrestlers#

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To fit the US version's tie-in with WCW, all wrestlers were updated accordingly. The Road Warriors (aka the Legion of Doom) were in both games, but only Animal used the exact character slot. In addition, as WCW did not have their own super-giant wrestler at the time (The Giant, better known in WWE as The Big Show, didn't debut until 1995), the final boss, based on André the Giant, was given a mask similar to what he wore as Giant Machine and called simply "WCW Master". (André did appear in a WCW event at Clash of Champions XX, but it was two years after this game was released, and even then, he didn't actually wrestle at said show.)

Note that the move sets were not changed in the US version, so the WCW wrestlers don't really have their proper move sets with the exceptions of Animal. Sting has his correct finisher due to using the slot of Riki Choshu, the inventor of the Scorpion Deathlock. You can also make a case for Steve Williams' finisher being correct, since Oklahoma Stampede is a powerslam. Some finishers are also misnamed, like Kevin Sullivan's "Brain Buster" being a Powerbomb, and Ricky Steamboat's "Flying Body Press" being a Knee Drop (Bruiser Brody's finisher), and Michael Hayes' DDT (his real life finisher, in fairness) actually being a proper Brain Buster.

Voice Samples#

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