Inside The Games

Joe Hendry and Stevie Aaron explore the world of wrestling video games, revisiting all your favourite classics and obscure gems. There’s admiration, hilarity, anger and bewilderment as Inside The Games relives the good, the bad and the downright strangest wrestling video games ever created.

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1. Inside The Games #23 – ECW Hardcore Revolution – PS1/ N64/ Dreamcast

   We take a look at what happened when Acclaim invested in ECW and applied that license to the WWF Attitude Era template.

2. Inside The Games #22 – Tecmo World Wrestling – NES

   The first game to feature an announcer with some interesting mispronunciations in the English translations.

3. Inside The Games #21 – WWF Raw – XBOX

   WWF debuts on the Xbox.

4. Inside The Games #20 – Wrestlemania 2000 – N64

   It’s the first of the WWF AKI video games, Wrestlemania 2000.

5. Inside The Games #19 – Def Jam Vendetta

   It’s rap meets wrestling!

6. Inside The Games #18 – Zen Nippon Wrestling – SNES

   We take a look at this All Japan Pro Wrestling Super Nintendo Classic and of course play some totally irrelevant Ahmed Johnson promos.

7. Inside The Games #17 – WWF Superstars – Gameboy

   Joe and Stevie take a look at the 1991 Gameboy title WWF Superstars.

8. Inside The Games #16 – TNA Impact! – PS2/3 and Xbox

   Is this the underrated most underrated wrestling video game ever?

9. Inside The Games #15 – MicroLeague Wrestling – C64

   It’s 1987 and turn-based WWF games are in.

10. Inside The Games #14 – Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special – SNES

    It’s one of the most controversial and best entries in the Fire Pro Series with the darkest story arc to ever appear in a video game

11. Inside The Games #13 – WCW vs NWO World Tour – N64

    One of the all-time greats and the first of the AKI series for western audiences is up for discussion.

12. Inside The Games #12 – WCW SuperBrawl – SNES

    This week, the team discuss the infamous WCW game where almost none of the featured wrestlers are actually with WCW at the time.

13. Inside The Games #11 – WWF Royal Rumble – Dreamcast

    The first 128 bit wrestling game is up for review.

14. Inside The Games #10 – WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge

    Joe and Stevie are back to officially licensed games and this time it’s the NES and Master System’s 19 year old WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge, which randomly got a re-release in 2018!

15. Inside The Games #9 – Wrestling Superstars – Commodore 64

    Joe has another meltdown when Stevie brings yet another knock off Hulk Hogan game to the podcast with Codemaster’s Wrestling Superstars.

16. Inside The Games #8 – Smackdown vs Raw 2007

    It’s arguably the strongest of the entire Smackdown vs Raw series and has one of the most stacked rosters to ever appear in a wrestling game.

17. Inside The Games #7 – Backyard Wrestling – PS2 and XBOX

    This week we discuss the pro wrestling game without a wrestling ring, the pros and cons of the Insane Clown Posse and we get distracted by the funniest, yet most horrific spot in the history of backyard wrestling.

18. Inside The Games #6 – WWF Warzone – Playstation and N64

    After weeks of Ahmed Johnson promos, WWF Warzone is finally here.

19. Inside The Games #5 – WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game

    This week, the highly underrated WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game is up for discussion, with graphics that somehow still hold up after 25 years.

20. Inside The Games #4 – Fire Pro Wrestling – GBA

    That’s the bottom line because Deep Freeze Steve Majors said so!

    Joe makes the case that this may be the greatest wrestling video game ever made as Stevie details the incredible Audience rating matches and the incredible balance of timing and strategy.

21. Inside The Games #3 – Wrestler War – Mega Drive

    This week Joe and Stevie discuss the sheer balls of Sega to actually put Hulk Hogan on the cover of an unlicensed game without even removing the word Hogan from his bandanna.

22. Inside The Games #2 – WCW/nWo Thunder – PS1

    This week Joe is out for blood after finding out that a whopping 24 of the games developers felt the need to add themselves to the roster.

23. Inside The Games #1 – Smackdown 2 Know Your Role – PS1

    It’s time to talk about The PS1 masterpiece that brought us The Hell In A Cell, Casket Matches and well… those loading screens