Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling © 1993 Masaya
Zen-Nihon Pro-Wrestling is the very first Zen Nihon Pro-Wrestling video game ever. Wrestlers of the promotion, including founder Giant Baba and the Four Great Lords: Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue and Kenta Kobashi, compete for the Triple Crown Championship, the World Tag Team Championship, or take part in the Champion Carnival or Strongest Tag Determination League. A team battle mode pits the old guard versus the super generation. There is also a tutorial mode where Giant Baba teaches the player the basics of the game. Sixteen wrestlers to choose from and up to four players can play together.
Game ID: SHVC-JP
Barcode: 4988616008046
The first video game licensed by Zen Nihon Pro-Wrestling (also known as All Japan Pro-Wrestling) promotion and released in July 16, 1993.
Zen Nihon Pro-Wrestling was founded by Shohei Baba in October 21, 1972. It remains one of the most popular puroresu promotions today.
As the first video game licensed by All Japan, the following sixteen wrestlers who worked for the promotion at the time are featured:
Giant Baba
Jumbo Tsuruta
Mitsuharu Misawa
Toshiaki Kawada
Akira Taue
Kenta Kobashi
Masanobu Fuchi
Yoshinari Ogawa
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
Rusher Kimura
Stan Hansen
Terry Gordy
Dan Spivey
Steve Williams
The Patriot
Johnny Ace
Passwords for use in the road to the Triple Crown Championship (the first mode on the main menu). These will send the listed character to the final match of the road. To see passwords after a single player game, press Select during the match result screen:
Giant Baba = 4IBA
Jumbo Tsuruta = E2I5
Mitsuharu Misawa = EIIA
Toshiaki Kawada = G5I3
Akira Taue = MI2A
Kenta Kobashi = E2U5
Masanobu Fuchi = M2UA
Yoshinari Ogawa = M5BA
Tsuyochi Kikuchi = GIUA
Rusher Kimura = MIBY
Stan Hansen = E223
Terry Gordy = EN23
Dan Spivey = GNI5
Steve Williams = G52Z
The Patriot = EIUA
Johnny Ace = E5B5
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Cast: Giant Baba, Jumbo Tsuruta, Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue, Kenta Kobashi, Masanobu Fuchi, Yoshinari Ogawa, Tsuyochi Kikuchi, Rusher Kimura, Stan Hansen, Terry Gordy, Danny Spivey, Steve Williams, Patriot, Johnny Ace
The Promotion Project Team: Yasuaki Yokoe, Akira Ishizuka, Norihiko Iwamoto, Takashi Kikuchi, Akio Matsuda
Game Design: Akira Ishizuka, Yukio Morimoto
Programmed: Hiroshi Hishikawa, Tsuyoshi Noh
Graphic Chief: Isao Inoue
Wrestler Graphics: Shinya Miyamoto, Sinji Nakazawa, Tsuyoshi Minagawa
BG Unit: Yukio Morimoto
Wrestler Actions Design: Yukio Morimoto
Sound Unit: Iku Mizutani
Advisor: Shouhei Baba (All Japan Pro-Wrestling), Kouichi Hamamura (Weekly Famicom Tsushin), Toshiroh Tsuchida
Technical Support: Tetsuya Ohya
Special Thanks to: Hisaya Yabusaki, Kyosuke Shindoh, Kenichi Daigosan, Keisuke Yasaka, Syuya Takaoka, Asuka Yamao and other NCS staffs
Produced: Akira Ishizuka, Yasuaki Yokoe
Executive Producer: Michio Shibuya
Game's ROM.