Professional wrestling legend and former two times WWE World Champion AJ Styles who is also a former two times TNA World Heavyweight Champion recently talked about his favourite wrestling video games of all time. He named Street Fighter, King of Colosseum and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 as some of his favourite wrestling video games.
Street Fighter is often mistaken as inspired by Mortal Kombat. The first Street Fighter game was released back in 1987 whereas Mortal Kombat was released back in 1992. Mortal Kombat mostly became famous because of its gory fighting style. Today is it is nothing special but back then it was a revolutionary concept.
AJ Styles Reveals His Favorite Wrestling Video Games
Another game AJ styles mentioned was King of Colosseum 2, the game that was published and developed by Spike. This PlayStation 2 exclusive was very underrated but it was quite entertaining. This game mostly focused on the Japanese professional wrestling.
Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 on Nintendo 64 was another favourite of the former two times WWE World Champion. It is another underrated gem which also focused on the Japanese professional wrestling. The game was released back in 2000 and it featured the same gameplay engine that was used in the WWF No Mercy video game.
Speaking of WWF No Mercy, it is also if favourite of Styles which he mentioned earlier. No Mercy is vastly considered as the best ever professional wrestling video game. It was also released in 2000 and it was a Nintendo 64 exclusive. The upcoming AEW video game is rumoured to be inspired from this particular video game.
WWF no mercy is still has a huge community playing and modding it. This is one of those games that has been modded more than any other game. This game is literally worshipped, and those who grew up during the 90s and early 2000s and was a fan of professional wrestling video games could not miss out on this game for sure.
AJ Styles who is also a former two times TNA World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to Fightful where he talked about his favourite wrestling video games of all time. He named Street Fighter, King of Colosseum and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 as some of his favourite wrestling video games. He said;
“Yeah, you can do a body slam here or there, but it wasn’t wrestling. It was made by Capcom, who made Street Fighter, and so it was more of a fighting game. You could hit the ropes, but it still wasn’t the same. Wasn’t a big fan.
“King of Colosseum. Do you remember that? That was a really cool game. I really enjoyed that one. It was hard to figure out, but nothing will compare to Virtual Pro Wrestling 2, which was an All-Japan Wrestling game.”