Ranking The Best Wrestling Video Game For Each Major Console

Both the SNES and the SEGA Genesis (or Mega Drive, for those outside of North America) had a fair few wrestling games that served well for their time.

For the most part, the two consoles had the same third-party games land on their respective platforms and that resulted in both the SNES and Genesis having the same answer when looking at the best wrestling game to grace their ranks.

1993 gave both consoles WWF Royal Rumble, but that offering just loses out here to the game which followed it a year later. That game being WWF Raw.

Brimming with the neon vibrancy that 16-bit systems excelled at, WWF Raw's key appeal was in how it was more than just a fresh lick of paint to WWF Royal Rumble. At this point in time, games would take what had gone before them and just import a new roster as their main selling point. Here though, new moves were included, you could knock an opponent to the outside, and wrestlers were afforded their own unique attributes in a way not seen before.

Additionally, this was the first time that intergender wrestling was possible in a wrestling game - with Luna Vachon able to battle her male cohorts.