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World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).
The NWA board of directors, working separately from WCW, objected to the title being changed without their vote and WCW left the NWA for good in September 1993. [ citation needed ] WCW still legally owned and used the actual belt which represented the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, however, and Rick Rude even defended it as the " Big Gold ...
WCW Wrestling was the working title for at least two other WCW games. One was a canceled game for the game.com handheld system. The other was a sequel to Electronic Arts' WCW Mayhem, intended for release on the PlayStation 2 platform (the game was later renamed WCW Mayhem 2, and eventually canceled when WCW was sold to the WWF).
Video games featuring professional wrestling promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling: All Japan Pro Wrestling [1993] (SNES) All Japan Pro Wrestling Dash: World's Strongest Tag Team [1993] (SNES) All Japan Pro Wrestling Jet [1994] (Game Boy) Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling: Fight da Pon! [1994] (SNES) All Japan Pro Wrestling 2: 3-4 Budokan [1995] (SNES)
WCW Backstage Assault; WCW Mayhem (video game) WCW Nitro (video game) WCW/nWo Revenge; WCW/nWo Thunder; WCW SuperBrawl Wrestling; WCW vs. nWo: World Tour; WCW vs. the World; WCW Wrestling; WCW: The Main Event
2011 Inside Gaming Awards presented by Machinima. In December 1999, id Software released Quake III Arena.According to Paul Marino, executive director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, filmmakers who had been using prior versions of the Quake series to record animated videos, then called "Quake movies", were initially excited, but the enthusiasm dampened when id announced that, in an ...
Wrestle War is a video game developed and published by Sega which was released in arcades in 1989, and later ported to the Sega Mega Drive console in 1991 in Japan, Australia, and Europe. Despite being released the same year as World Championship Wrestling 's WrestleWar pay-per-view event, it is not associated with any wrestling promotion.
WWE 2K, formerly released as WWF SmackDown!, WWE SmackDown!, WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw, WWE, and Exciting Pro Wrestling in Japan, is a series of professional wrestling sports simulation video games that launched in 2000.