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| WCW: The Main Event | |
|---|---|
 North American cover art featuring Sting | |
| Developer | Beam Software |
| Publisher | FCI, Inc. |
| Producer | Sue Anderson |
| Designer | Steve French |
| Programmer | Cameron Sheppard |
| Artists | Alex Efstratiades Jos Valdman |
| Composer | Marshall Parker |
| Platform | Game Boy |
| Release | |
| Genre | Fighting |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
WCW: The Main Event is a professional wrestling video game released in 1994 by FCI, Inc. for the Nintendo Game Boy portable video game system. It was the second video game based on World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the first of two released to a handheld console.
There are two types of matches available: a set number of falls (best of one, three, or five) and a set time limit (five, ten, or fifteen minutes). Each wrestler has his unique special move along with punch, clothesline, bodyslam, suplex, dropkick, and cross body block. One can choose between a single match and an elimination match which runs the gauntlet of the remaining wrestlers.
Throwing one's opponent out of the ring is possible, as is fighting outside of the ring. There is no ten-count while both wrestlers are outside of the ring, but one will start after one enters.
The wrestlers included in the game were considered to be the top-ranked superstars of WCW as of 1993. They were "Ravishing" Rick Rude, Ron Simmons, "Stunning" Steve Austin, Sting, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes, Johnny B. Badd, Big Van Vader and former tag team duo The Steiner Brothers (who had left for the WWF shortly before the game's release but still appeared in the game as it was too late to remove them).
GamePro gave the game a negative review. They commented that the options are varied and the controls effective, but that "the fights themselves look weak - the large, cartoony sprites lumber towards each other with bored spectators behind them. The fights sound weak, too, with thin hit effects".[1]
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WCW: The Main Event is a professional wrestling video game released in 1994 by FCI, Inc. for the Nintendo Game Boy portable video game system. It was the second video game based on World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the first of two released to a handheld console.
Starrcade '88: True Gritt was the sixth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. It was the first Starrcade event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and took place on December 26, 1988, from the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. Shortly before the event, Ted Turner bought Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), and the company became WCW. The main event featured Ric Flair and Lex Luger for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. They were once members of the Four Horsemen stable, but Luger left the group. Luger started a feud with Flair when Barry Windham, Luger's tag team partner, turned on him, and joined the Four Horsemen. Other matches included The Road Warriors against Sting and Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Tag Team Championship, Barry Windham against Bam Bam Bigelow for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, and Mike Rotunda against Rick Steiner for the NWA World Television Championship. A 17-Man $50,000 Bunkhouse Battle Royal was won by the Junkyard Dog
WCW Main Event, originally NWA Main Event, is an American televised wrestling program of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that aired from April 3, 1988 to January 3, 1998. For most of its run, it was the promotion's secondary show and aired on Sunday evenings on TBS. The show originally aired in 1988 as NWA Main Event. The rights to WCW Main Event now belong to WWE.
Greed was the final professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on March 18, 2001 from the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. Greed replaced the promotion's March PPV event Uncensored which was held from 1995 to 2000. The pay-per-view event took place three days before the final episode of Thunder and eight days before the final episode of Monday Nitro. Ten matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Scott Steiner retained his WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a Falls Count Anywhere match against Diamond Dallas Page. On the undercard, Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo defeated The Filthy Animals (Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio Jr.) to become the inaugural holders of the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship, Shane Helms defeated Chavo Guerrero Jr. to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, The Natural Born Thrillers (Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire) retained the WCW World Tag Team Championship against Totally Buffed (Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger), and Booker T defeated Rick Steiner to win the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship. As the final WCW PPV, WCW Greed was also the last WCW PPV of the Monday Night War era of September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001, during which WWF Monday Night Raw (later WWF Raw Is War) and WCW Monday Nitro competed for ratings in a weekly Monday night time slot, which is now widely seen in retrospect as having been a "golden age" of pro wrestling, along with the 1980s boom.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →The Greenwood District.
