10 Secrets You Only Learn Attending WWE House Shows
8. ...But It's Never Been Closer
On the celebrated WWF Attitude for the PlayStation, game developers Acclaim allowed players to customise everything about the arena from the spotlights to the colours of the ropes in way that Vince McMahon himself almost never did in the real world.
They also revealed what house shows actually look like.
The giant grey curtain during the early days of your wrestler's career damns him with the stench of a rookie. You're told to dream of the TitanTron and pyro whilst strolling out underneath the sad little girder set-up, but in real life some of the biggest stars the industry would ever produce were doing the exact same thing.
A reinvention of the look and feel in the 2010s has added a little more flash to the functional, if only to give punters a little more aesthetic bang for their buck. The big screen isn't Raw or SmackDown big, but it's something else to stare at during the intervals or chinlocks, whilst an actual stage and ramp does wonders for that all-important first impression.