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Post by Aquinas on May 13, 2007 13:14:24 GMT -5
I just dusted off the box with all my old stuff, and it was cool to look through all the manuals since '86....and then I remembered. Back in the Snelly Days, can't remember the exact set, I actually thought I lost my entire card set....so after a couple days of looking, I decided to reorder -everything-.....only to find my original set in the trunk of the family card (oops).
So I have duplicates of all the first several sets. Makes me ponder doing occasional "retro" cards with old editions.
Not sure the point of this post.....just is super cool to look back at 20+ years of this awesome game, and see those semi-yellowed old first edition cards.
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Post by swarm on May 13, 2007 14:03:31 GMT -5
Good job Aqunias.
Nothing like going through the old stuff now and then...always a good time...always makes me appreciate being caught up all that much more.
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Post by Aquinas on May 13, 2007 14:08:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's awesome people jump on the COTG train at various stages along the way....but having been playing since Year 1 just gives such a rich, real history to my fed.....I only wish I had somehow kept the notebooks and notebooks of results....I only have stuff going back to New Beginning and while I can remember a lot of the memorable title runs, I wish I had all of it recorded still.
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Post by dukedave on May 13, 2007 15:54:52 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's awesome people jump on the COTG train at various stages along the way....but having been playing since Year 1 just gives such a rich, real history to my fed..... That's what P...s me off about my involvement. I was there at the beginning. Went to college and lost touch. Got back in with LOW but lost interest in that due to actually knowing the wrestlers and getting upset when so in so beat so in so. I'm now back into things but restarted with New Beginnings because starting over would be too lengthy. When I get caught up I might go back and start from the Beginning but with the first three sets to jump start. |
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Post by Aquinas on May 13, 2007 16:01:30 GMT -5
I just spent the past hour or so organizing all my cards by set, then the manuals.....and even though I did live through them all sequentially, like I said before there's a part of me that would love to try starting a fed from the beginning (maybe first 3, like you said)....but just like the rare times I've tried to bring back a favorite old wrestler (Janus not included), I'm wondering if I'll quickly hit a "You can't go back home" attitude and just not enjoy it.
COTGonline might be a nice way to do that though, eventually.
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Post by mikefortune on May 13, 2007 16:17:36 GMT -5
I am only in 2102 and I already miss Massif, Gladiators, Badger and The Bounty Hunter plus a few others. So I am going to hate it whan and if I finally reach like 2110 and even more of my favourites will have retired.
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Post by Aquinas on May 13, 2007 16:22:28 GMT -5
There have been guys that I got really iritated when Tom retired them...and told myself I would keep them around....but my tendency to follow Tom's storylines always won out. Count Necros was one....Janus the Overman....Mandrill.....Pegasus......I really dug The Gatekeeper too.....but I've learned to move on  |
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Post by steefposton on May 14, 2007 2:16:24 GMT -5
Actually, the reason I started back up was nostalgia. I was just so curious to what happened with my favs. Then, when I started doing research and I'd find a guy like Vengence and be like, "wow, I forgot all about him, he was pretty cool, what happened to him?" The more I did it, the more I just had to jump back in and find out! (I guess the GWF files would have been the faster and cheaper way, but I'm really enjoying the game now, so my wife will just have to put up with it!
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Post by swarm on May 14, 2007 7:25:26 GMT -5
I am only in 2102 and I already miss Massif, Gladiators, Badger and The Bounty Hunter plus a few others. So I am going to hate it whan and if I finally reach like 2110 and even more of my favourites will have retired. No you won't. There are plenty of sweet new characters to take their place. Trust me. |
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Post by GrumpyBigBee on May 14, 2007 9:53:43 GMT -5
I lost my stats from the early yeas and am redoing them so its AWESOME! Wolf is the GWF champion right now. Tag team is Powerhouse (Massif/Earthquake). IP is THantos and Titan Power (Lord Nexus/Billy Jo Boxer)
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Post by Aquinas on May 14, 2007 10:04:32 GMT -5
I might start up a retro thread with sets 1-2 (or 3)....and intersperse a card here and there as a "Flashback" in my current GWF binder. Can give that a try and see if the nostalgia keeps going.
If it works, maybe can post results here and see what y'all think.
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Post by Tournament Master on May 14, 2007 11:07:55 GMT -5
Looking forward to revisiting the Silver Age of the GWF when online releases, as I missed it the first go around myself, by starting in 2093.
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Post by offspring515 on May 14, 2007 12:58:31 GMT -5
Man oh man, I played out 2087-2096, then lost most of my stuff in a basement flood.
Now I've been playing out 2 time periods in the same fed...New Beginnings (where i'm up to April of 2120) and 2088. As cool as the old characters are, and as fun as it is to go back, I find myself playing with the newer sets nine times out of ten.
It is really cool to look back at your title histories and stuff. Some of mine survived the flood, and I rewrote some based on memory and it's just cool to look back at it. I was reading some of the older stuff the other day and I was like "Pulsar Prime was IP and Heavyweight champion at the same time?"
I honestly had no memory of that happening, but it was from my original records so I guess it did happen. I think 20 years from now I'll look back at my New Beginnings stuff and think "Steele Freak beat Bloodline for the Heavyweight title? Then lost it back the next night???"
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Post by gamemaster on May 14, 2007 20:31:32 GMT -5
I have played since around the time 2088 was being advertised in Pro Wrestling Magazine. I played nonstop until about 2093. I was really young and never recorded anything throughout this time because it was just fun to me. I stopped playing as I got into high school but Tom's clever marketing (by sending me a random newsletter or a Promoter) through mail would pique my interest again. I then started recording starting with 2093 and I played until 2100 but I think it was the lure of New Beginnings that really got my addiction full blown. Before this set I would play for a while and take off for about a year or so. Now I play both the current feds and 2103 but find the older fed a bit harder to play just because I played some of the cards so many years (Chaos and Matador especially) that I think I cant wait for them to rotate out of the main event. I've tried to replay from the start a couple of times to fill in my missing years but have failed. I'm hoping COTG online will help this. Im still going to try to complete my history but its hard when I can play with the streamlined 2121 roster so easily. Sorry about the rambling but this memory lane topic just got me thinking about the first time I seen that Bishop Hell ad in the PWI that had me at hello. I just wish Hell did a little better in my fed.
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Post by steelthunder814 on May 14, 2007 20:36:39 GMT -5
I remember those ads in PWI...oh I wish I had changed my mind back in 1987 and ordered COTG instead of the Superstar Pro Wrestling Game
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Post by Sharpshooter on May 15, 2007 9:00:27 GMT -5
I only played with the first 5 sets, that I had purchased in the day......then I stopped and got interested again with the New Beginning...Always wanted to start over, but never got the courage to. I would love to have a indepth history to my promotion, but wondered how I would explain the tournament to crown new champs, once I would reach 2119. You guys have any ideas?
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Post by euritar on May 15, 2007 9:14:48 GMT -5
I play a current fed, and a "catch up" fed. The way I explained the titles being vacant, was after the economic depression, and closing of the gates, the GWF was sold, and the new owners wanted to start fresh, new shows, new belts, so they declared the titles vacant, and held tournaments for all the titles. That worked for me, what about everyone else?
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