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Post by Werner Mueck on Jul 25, 2007 19:43:20 GMT -5
I'm thinking that PWI add was one of Tom's smartest moves.
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Post by WRAITH on Jul 25, 2007 20:17:44 GMT -5
LMAO to Soug ... same here buddy ... I played the first edition for five years before realizing there were other editions. I actually was starting my own bootlegs (which leads to a funny story about the Ultimate Warrior, I brought in the Warrior briefly as one of the first people to use the Kronos device (Actagon, Proteus and Khan all came via Solaris who opened the gates of time-a storyline a few years ago closed the gates and sent Solaris back to the time of the dinosaurs), ANYWAY ... Warrior and the Grim Reaper came to the future. When they were sent back it was explained that it made the Warrior crazy but little effect on the Taker because he was already dead. The Kronos device was banned and taken by the UFSP and like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" hidden in some random warehouse).
Wow I wondered way off topic there ... but anyway Hi Soug lol
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Post by traviz on Jul 25, 2007 20:25:05 GMT -5
I saw the "Spike" ad in PWI back in 1989 and begged my mom to order it for me. I got the first three game editions and the main event for the first card I ever played was Thantos vs. Trainer Jim for the Galaxian title.
Trainer Jim won by the way.
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Post by GOODZILLA on Jul 25, 2007 21:10:58 GMT -5
Trainer Jim won by the way. Isn't blatant lying against the rules here?! Oh, and it was the Death Masque add that got me by the way. |
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Post by traviz on Jul 25, 2007 21:23:04 GMT -5
Trainer Jim won by the way. Isn't blatant lying against the rules here?! Oh, and it was the Death Masque add that got me by the way. No, he really did! I never had a tournament or anything to crown a GWF champion, I just gave the title to Thantos and Trainer Jim was his first defense. He did beat Jim on the next card tho. |
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Post by Trent Lawless on Jul 25, 2007 22:16:43 GMT -5
AUGUST 27th - First ever card, first ever tournament, first ever cage match. Pit-Viper becomes the first ever champion. - On the 10th anniversary show we found out that Magnus Colby was the biological father of myself and Nora Pelf was my real mother. I was kidnapped when I was young and sent back in time to 1980. When I was 10 years old, my best friend and my actual great great great grandfather was the inventor of time travel and sent me back to the future. Colby has the patent on Kronos and that is what got him all his money (until he recently lost it all through shady dealings and is now missing). - Massif won his first ever title on August 27th - Massacre won his first ever singles title in the first ever Heavy Metal title tournament - Vengeance won his first ever title on August 27th. Ah, so you're one of the other 3 August 27th birthday people. Me too. But I'm 7 years older. And maybe a few hours one way or the other. I saw the first ad back in the fall of '86 or so and asked for it for Christmas. It actually came early in December (the 4th), and my folks said I could have it early. I dealt with some of this in my podcast at lawless.libsyn.com for 12-04-06 if you want to check it out. It was my 20th anniversary of playing, and I just thought I'd put some of my reminiscences on audio for posterity, whatever it's worth. |
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Post by MikeMcKinney on Jul 25, 2007 22:22:29 GMT -5
The old PWI ad got me back in '86.
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Post by JMello on Jul 25, 2007 23:28:15 GMT -5
I guess I was a late bloomer. PWI ad, saw it for years, ordered it in 1997. Was very happy I did and shortly after got the sets upto 2093 and a bunch of other random cards. 10 years later and I'm now more into it then ever and I'm only 25, which means I got alot of catching upto do.
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Post by Matt on Jul 25, 2007 23:35:45 GMT -5
Saw an ad in PWI in early summer 1987 and ordered. Best $9.95 plus s&h I ever spent.
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Post by dbfnq on Jul 26, 2007 2:52:16 GMT -5
Huh. Am I the only one who got into the game in the last couple of years?
Pretty sure I first heard about it through RPGnet and Cynthia Celeste Miller (Baby Cindi).
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Post by owney69 on Jul 26, 2007 4:50:16 GMT -5
I also saw the ad in PWI in '86 and bought it for something to play with my son. He never got into it and here I am still playing 4 or 5 times a week at 51 years old. I still have a postcard Tom sent to me in '87 saying he's glad I liked the game and hopefully he would be putting out a new editon soon. Guess we've come a long way.
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Post by vansabu on Jul 26, 2007 9:18:29 GMT -5
Saw it in PWI years ago ...Chose between LOW and Superstars of wrestling game ( I think that was it) ...chose S>O>W....Hated it and then bought LOW , love it and planning on buying GWF soon.
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Post by cakejedi on Jul 26, 2007 14:35:28 GMT -5
I was influenced by PWI also, but in a more round about way.
On a family vacation to Charlotte, North Carolina I found a wrestling card game at a comic book store. I think it was called Superstars of Wrestling: Promoters Dream Editions. The cards were obviously based on real wrestlers, but you had to fill in the name. I had fun with the game for a while. Then when I was getting ready to go to college, I decided I was "too old" for the game. So I got rid of it.
A couple of years go by and I start missing the old wrestling card game. I tried to find it, but with no luck. Then I remembered seeing the add in PWI for Champions of the Galaxy. I thought it might be like my old game, only with futuristic wrestlers. So I ordered it and now I am HOOKED!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by GalactiKing on Jul 26, 2007 14:37:26 GMT -5
Spike Decemeber 88. I had only been in wrestling since August (of 88) when I saw that add and had to order.
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Post by uwamandate on Jul 26, 2007 14:42:03 GMT -5
I saw the ad in 1988 while digesting another edition of PWI. I remember...it was raining that day, so I ran out to the living room to tell my dad, "If I had this game, I wouldn't be so bored"! Great selling point I might add. My dad responded with an emphatic...NO! He said "They will probably only come out with that edition and quit". Now, I could understand his argument...So I went to MOM! I worked her over something fierce for the next month. Then something magical happened the next PWI that came out...It had an Invasion edition also you could purchase. I ran out to my dad to show him that he was wrong...little did I know, my mother had worked my dad over real well that month also. He let me order both editions and away I went. I stopped playing right before the CPC era began. Little did I know just a matter of months ago, my boy was visiting their house and found those cards. He came home, we played, I got the GWF fever...and have now purchased all the editions that I have missed, including the CPC and aCe! All I have left is the PM 1 & 2 editions to collect. Of course, I have taken great pleasure in telling my father that now the game he though years ago was going to be a waste of money, his son and grandson now play. Thank you to all that make this great game possible...and thanks for giving me a Told You So Card that I can issue at my conveience towards my father!
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Post by BrianU on Jul 26, 2007 15:09:33 GMT -5
I saw the ad in 1988 while digesting another edition of PWI. I remember...it was raining that day, so I ran out to the living room to tell my dad, "If I had this game, I wouldn't be so bored"! Great selling point I might add. My dad responded with an emphatic...NO! He said "They will probably only come out with that edition and quit". Now, I could understand his argument...So I went to MOM! I worked her over something fierce for the next month. Then something magical happened the next PWI that came out...It had an Invasion edition also you could purchase. I ran out to my dad to show him that he was wrong...little did I know, my mother had worked my dad over real well that month also. He let me order both editions and away I went. I stopped playing right before the CPC era began. Little did I know just a matter of months ago, my boy was visiting their house and found those cards. He came home, we played, I got the GWF fever...and have now purchased all the editions that I have missed, including the CPC and aCe! All I have left is the PM 1 & 2 editions to collect. Of course, I have taken great pleasure in telling my father that now the game he though years ago was going to be a waste of money, his son and grandson now play. Thank you to all that make this great game possible...and thanks for giving me a Told You So Card that I can issue at my conveience towards my father! That is a great story. |
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Post by bigsexxy on Jul 26, 2007 15:42:27 GMT -5
I love hearing these stories.
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Post by gatekeeper on Jul 26, 2007 15:59:34 GMT -5
I had seen the ads in PWI but didn't order it. I always thought the pics were cool.
So, one day my buddy Rob (Swarm) calls me and tells me his mom bought him this amazing game for his birthday and it had arrived in the mail.
I went to his house and checked it out. It was really cool (duh). So, after playing some matches at his house for about a month or so, I ordered the game in 1989 or 1990.
Took a few years off when I went to college but got back into it in '99 and have been going strong ever since.
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Post by john on Jul 26, 2007 19:48:02 GMT -5
I got started in the late 80's as well. I saw an ad in PWI and couldn't resist I already owned a game called Wrestling Superstars, but this game looked much cooler. It hooked me becuase it had no math involved it was just pure wrestling action. I quit playing for a while shortly after Choas. Then came right back when the legends game and the New Beginnings came out and now I hooked again.
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Post by Pete on Jul 26, 2007 20:27:53 GMT -5
1991. The first ad to catch my interest was one with Whiplash and Lord Nexus. Whiplash looked way cool, and it had a description of the Backside Beheading that made it sound like the most devastating offensive weapon in history. (Even in the 4th grade I was a sucker for a good clothesline.)
But, it wasn't enough for me to beg for the game.
What sent me from "That looks neat" to "GET ME THIS GAME NOW" was the second ad I saw: this one covering the Galactic Punisher vs. Bishop Hell feud. At the time, the Carter Bishop Hell drawing was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. I still think it beats Snelly's version easily. On top of that, according to the ad, there were four other guys like him (The Royal Court), he had this devastating, mysterious, illegal finisher...and then there was this police officer out to stop him.
That was enough for me to determine that not only would this game rule, but that whoever was writing it really understood wrestling and storylines. No other game, even ones that were decent mechanically, ever had that kind of story detail. And that was just from one ad!
Yeah...turns out my instincts were right.
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