Joe Gagne's Funtime Pro Wrestling Arcade #8: Takedown

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64 is divisible by 8. Thus, it makes all of the sense in the world to feature our first Commodore 64 game on Episode #8 of the Funtime Pro Wrestling Arcade, right?

This week, Joe Gagne looks back at 1988's Takedown Wrestling for the C64. With a promoter named Bruno who had to retire from the ring due to repeated concussions, Donkey Kong-esque sound effects, wrestlers who count their own pinfalls, the ability to win the entire game in one match and a crowd of very few watching the action, how could they go wrong? Well..Joe will tell you how.

(NOTE: stay tuned after the credits this week, as we present a first for Joe Gagne's Funtime Pro Wrestling Arcade: A DELETED SCENE!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• mr cool
• viking
• tomahawk
• iron head
• commodore 64
• takedown wrestling
• joe gagne
• funtime pro wrestling arcade
• bryce remsburg
• retro video game reviews
• 80's video games
• pro wrestling video game
• 80's pro wrestling
• bruno squiglioni

[guitar8890]

What's the song at the very end?

[MikeAndTomPresent]

@guitar8890 It's music from the game.

[PaulSebert]

Wasn't there a C64/Spectrum game about Popeye wrestling aliens?

[MikeAndTomPresent]

@PaulSebert Absolutely. There's also a Sgt. Slaughter game that I brought to Joe's attention that looked like a combination of Oregon Trail, Roots and Legends of Wrestling.

-Tom

[guitar8890]

@MikeAndTomPresent Damn. I get no result when I look that up, like C64 Takedown music. If there was a full thing of the song, I'd love to listen to it. The thing keeps getting stuck in my head. D:

[mjritschel]

Sgt. Slam was the same guy as Col. Mustafa, right?

[TheNWA88]

Used to love this game as a kid! There weren't too many good wrestling games on the C64, but this was one of the better ones.

Just FYI -- the reason why it says 'so and so wrestler hasn't seen much action' is because it's a fresh disk. After each match, the game would update the win/loss records of each wrestler, which was kind of a cool feature in 1986! (back when we were impressed with that sort of thing).

[PaulSebert]

@MikeAndTomPresent - Didn't remember that. I do remember Jesse Ventura appearing in a magazine ad for a video game that may not have ever been released.