By: Chris "Sledge" Douglas
As I've talked about here, here and here, joshi (women's) pro-wrestling has been, at various times, a popular form of entertainment in Japan over the years. And since having been introduced to it via some TV exposure in the United States and via tape trading (GOD I feel old whenever I talk about the concept of tape trading nowadays), I've pretty much become a fan myself, even going so far as going to see Eagle Sawai's retirement in 2007. But, the concept of women's wrestling to be mainstream enough to get an actual licensed video game was quite novel to me at the time. So that's why I did a bit of a mini freakout when I found that there were actually quite a few. For instance, did you know that Pro-Wrestling on the SEGA Master System was actually converted from a game based around the Crush Girls and their fued with Dump Matsumoto and crew?
Well, I found out about these while researching Fire Pro Wrestling games. This was well before my time in Japan of course, and therefore thought I'd never have the chance to be able to buy them, so I played the hell out of the roms. And the one I played the most was Super Fire Pro Wrestling Queen's Special.
