Ranking The Best Wrestling Video Game For Each Major Console

15. SEGA Master System - WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge

For the SEGA Master System, there were only really two actual wrestling games of note - and one was hands-down better than the other.

1986 served up the vanilla Pro Wrestling, but that was followed in early 1993 by the infinitely superior WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge.

To be fair to poor old Pro Wrestling, that was released a whole seven years before Steel Cage Challenge and was focused solely on clunky tag bouts. For WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge, it had the benefit of being released towards the end of the Master System's lifespan - and that meant that game development had come a long way since the console was first launched back in 1985.

WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge may not be much to look at right now, but it's hard to explain how cool it was for a long-time Master System gamer to be able to take control of a Bret Hart or a Papa Shango and slap Hulk Hogan around.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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First Posted On: 17th Nov 2020

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