Brucetosis' GWF (currently 2098)

[brucetosis]

I was digging through a box earlier this week and found a letter I started to write to Tom (I guess) detailing the events of my federation.  Given the time details in the opening paragraph, it appears this was written in December 1989/early 1990 when I was 17 years old.  It gave a month-by-month breakdown of my fed, and even though I still have the notebooks I've written my matches in, I've never continued writing an official history.  Since this is my 30th anniversary of playing the game (on and off), and the 10th anniversary of time in my fed, I figured I would share this with the community I have recently found.

That said, enjoy what I thought was cool 30 or so years later!  The only part of the letter I have covers the first 6 months.  I have no recollection if I wrote more or lost interest...lol.

Here's the first paragraph detailing November 1986 ---my 2016 comments in red



The GWF started on Thanksgiving Day.

 True story!  I got the set either the week of or week before and waited to play it out.

To determine the champions, I used the sample card given with the character profiles.  

Unfortunately, I kept no record of this card.  I didn't start keeping track of result until December 5, 1986                                                                                                               
Star Warrior beat Thantos to become the Champion, 

Comrade Terror beat Commander Sam for the Interdimensional Champion  

I have no idea if there was any mention of the Interplanetary title at that time, or I liked what I chose since it was close to Intercontinental                                                                                               
The Greek Gods beat Brute & Massacre for the Tag Team Titles, 

and the Society of Death beat the Flying Titans for the Six-Man Tag Titles.


That's how it starts, next up December 1986!  I'll try to mix in actual results and other stuff I kept track of in between my writings.

Thanks for looking!

[brucetosis]

December 1986!  I was 14 and ravenous playing this game.  This month alone I had 14 documented events, and in my letter I make reference to stuff that was undocumented, so I couldn't stop playing.  That said, things changed fast and often...almost too fast.  This time I'll present the paragraph, with appropriate spacing so your eyes don't bleed, and then comment afterwards.  Since I have so many "house shows", it makes more sense to give an overall feel for the month instead of on a card-to-card basis.  Here goes:


The action started immediately as in a six-man match, Pulsar turned on Actagon & Star Warrior and Brute turned on Massacre & Thantos.  Brute ended up becoming a tag team force with Renegade.

Vanity & Killer Queen started a deadly war with the Greek Gods, which ended with the Gods destroying them in a cage.

Comrade Terror dominated the GWF, and was recognized as the most intense wrestler around.  This recognition got him involved in a beef with Star Warrior.

Pit Viper was savagely attacked by Krakan, who attacked him with a chair, and gave him the Falling Face Slam.

The first battle royal was held with Lord Nexus as its winner.

The month ended with a big Christmas Spectacular featuring Star Warrior downing Comrade Terror in a 2-out-of-3 falls match, Pit Viper downing Krakan in a cage, and Lord Nexus beating Pulsar in a Titan Death Match.


So, I'd been playing for a week or so and already had a heel and face turn.  The first documented event was on December 5, 1986 and looked like this:

Brute beats Pulsar, Comrade Terror & Massacre beat Renegade & Beast Rider, Massif over Exo-King, Wolf beats Deathknight, Krakan over Lord Nexus, and the Greek Gods had a Double DQ with Vanity & Killer Queen.

In these early days I didn't keep track of anything that happened during the matches, so luckily I found this letter to remind me!  Although, I did point out that Nexus won $5,000 for winning the battle royal!  My cards were usually a standard 6 matches, which is a format I kept for years.  The Christmas Spectacular was 9, and the other matches that took place (not including the ones above) were:

Ghenghis Khan beat Massif by DQ, Exo-King beat Mutant, Massacre & Executioner over Brute & Renegade, Thantos and Wolf fought to a draw, Omega beat Deathknight, and the Greek Gods successfully defended the Tag Team Championship over Vanity & Killer Queen in a Steel Cage.

Shockingly, no title changes over the month, so the champs remain:
Heavyweight--Star Warrior
Interdimensional--Comrade Terror
Tag Team--Greek Gods (Actagon & Proteus)
Six-Man Tag Team--Krakan, Mutant & Ghenghis Khan

and I kept track of the top 10 contenders to the Championship, and at the end of December it looked like this:

1. Omega  2. Lord Nexus  3. Brute  4. Renegade  5. Comrade Terror  6. Exo-King  7. Massif  8. Executioner  9. Actagon  10. Thantos


So we see Massacre getting cozy with some of Thantos' stable after Brute leaves him...what will that lead to?  We'll find out next time for January 1987!

 

[wayne]

Fantastic stuff. Interesting you mention the sample card in the original booklet. I never ran a tournament to start my fed - I used this card as the basis for my champs. So as per the booklet card I started with Thantos and Greek Gods as champs.

You had plenty of face and heel turns early on. I wonder if that was because at the time there was no guarantee of additional sets meaning the onus was on the player to make things like that happen. I didn't get my first sets til circa 1991/1992 or whenever Sudden death 2095 came out. I ordered the lot but when I started my fed had the benefit of reading ahead and not needing to do my own face or heel turns (or at least nothing too radical) because future editions did that for me. It actually made playing my early years easier as I could better prepare/set things up ready for the next edition.

[brucetosis]

Thanks Wayne!

Since at that time there was no knowing whether other wrestlers were ever getting made, and I was playing so much I was whipping through match-ups, I definitely started changing things up to keep it fresh. I started making my own wrestlers less than 3 months into things, which will be in my next write-up. It's actually nice now that I'm so far behind (the last set I got was Revolution 2098) so I can determine how much time I want to take with things and introducing characters/concepts.

[J. Bauermann]

I like the original sample fight card, but I did create tournaments to decide the first champions. I think I did start in 1995. Wolf was my first GWF Galaxian Heavyweight Champion and Brute & Massacre were my first GWF Galaxian Tag Team Champions.

[wayne]

Great to see the old sample card again. Thanks for uploading. I do enjoy the old stuff. I do have all the sets to current edition but in terms of playing a fed I am so far behind that it always makes me appreciate the 2087 era. I'm resigned to the fact I'll never catch up - I just don't get time to play regularly enough. Still, i am happy to plod on - approx 520 cards and ten years on my current fed (which I will never , ever restart) and I'm just about to start 2098!!! Looking forward to Colussus joining.

But I will always say my favourite game year is 2087. I may play some 2087 again and just call them untelevised / dark matches.

[brucetosis]

I almost passed out when I saw the sample card in color! That's the one thing I haven't gotten used to since getting back into things--a lot of times I envisioned different color schemes than what they are now.

On to January 1987 where I refused to slow down play--19 cards this month, plus the final non-documented event on January 1st. Here's how the letter sums up events:

On the first, Comrade Terror and Star Warrior met in a cage, where Star Warrior gave Terror a NOVA LAUNCH off the top of the cage, which is the most played highlights throughout the years.

Brute & Renegade turned bad in order to get a title shot, and on the 7th, beat the Greek Gods. On the same night, Lord Nexus, Pit Viper & Massif beat the Society of Death for the Six-Man Tag Championship. Brute & Renegade continued to destroy the Greek Gods after downing them in a cage.

Executioner joined with Comrade Terror and Massacre, an already formidable tag team, to spark off the biggest happening to date. Thantos, who was in a slump of late, had united himself with 4 other great wrestlers--Deathknight, Massacre, Comrade Terror and Executioner. With these wrestlers at his fingers, he called this group the Hand. He used these wrestlers to get back at Star Warrior. To counter this menace, Star Warrior organized some wrestlers of his own-Massif, Commander Sam, Omega and Wolf, the Federation Defense Fighters. These men were to arise every time a major menace arrived. The two teams clashed in a war that would affect the GWF forever.

Wolf started the war by beating Terror and winning the Interdimensional title, but losing it exactly one week later in a cage to Terror. The Hand also won the Six-Man belts by the end of the month.

Exo-King joined the Society of Death after Ghenghis Khan left after being scolded for failure of regaining their belts. Exo-King and Mutant became a very successful team.

Another brand new team, the Spacemen (Meteor & Asteroid) climbed the ladder very quickly.


OK, bad English aside (and I corrected a few errors, but left others), a very eventful month. Title changes are happening now, especially since I was having the champs defend once a week! And as you might expect after burning through so many matches, I needed more wrestlers and starting creating my own.

At the end of January I started compiling a list of champions (thankfully!):
Heavyweight-Star Warrior (11/25/86)
Interdimensional-Wolf (1/19), Comrade Terror (1/25)
Tag Team-Brute & Renegade (1/7)
Six-Man Tag Team-Lord Nexus, Pit Viper & Massif (1/7), Thantos, Comrade Terror & Massacre (1/30)

The top 10 contenders at the end of January are:
1. Comrade Terror 2. Thantos 3. Brute 4. Lord Nexus 5. Exo-King 6. Renegade 7. Omega 8. Executioner 9. Massacre 10. Pit Viper

Next post, I'm going to take an in-depth look at the Spacemen!

[J. Bauermann]

I want to re-start a GWF 2087 fed with the release of the COTG 30th Anniversary Pack.

[rjretro]

Looking forward to it!!

[brucetosis]

Based on the way I played this game, it was either January 16th or 17th.  Expansions for games were almost unheard of.  I needed more wrestlers as I was burning through match-ups at an alarming rate.  Could these be the first-ever bootleg characters in the history of Champions of the Galaxy???  Probably not, but interesting to think about.

Enter Meteor and Asteroid:  The Spacemen!

                                                                             

Sorry I have no idea how to make this image bigger.    However, I am NO artist, so you get the gist.  Meteor was a brownish/tannish rock-type humanoid, while Asteroid was just a human, and the middle line down his sleeve was blue.  

I scanned the backs too, but you won't be able to read them, so I'll just type them out.  Keep in mind there was no guide to creating your own wrestler, and I only used the basic rules, with maybe an advanced rule of two thrown in.

METEOR		ASTEROID
LEVEL 1 OFFENSE	LEVEL 1 DEFENSE	LEVEL 1 OFFENSE	LEVEL 1 DEFENSE
1. headlock-1	1. dazed-1	1. arm bar-1	1. ASTEROID-1
2. hip toss-1	2. METEOR-1	2. headlock-1	2. dazed-1
3. into the ropes	3. down-2	3. knee lift-2	3. dazed-1
4. knee lift-2	4. METEOR-1	4. shoulder tackle-2	4. hurt-2
5. facelock-2	5. dazed-1	5. into the ropes	5. ASTEROID-2
6. buckshot elbow-3	6. dazed-1	6. piledriver-3	6. hurt-2
LEVEL 2 OFFENSE	LEVEL 2 DEFENSE	LEVEL 2 OFFENSE	LEVEL 2 DEFENSE
1. bite forehead-2	1. METEOR-2	1. punch to face-2	1. hurt-2
2. into the turnbuckle	2. down-3	2. backbreaker-2	2. hurt-2
3. punch to head-2	3. hurt-2	3. into the turnbuckle	3. ASTEROID-1
4. step on hands-2	4. METEOR-1	4. flying dropkick-3	4. ASTEROID-2
5. clothesline-3	5. dazed-1	5. flying headbutt-3	5. hurt-2
6. Meteor Mash-3	6. hurt-2	6. Boston crab-3	6. dazed-1
LEVEL 3 OFFENSE	LEVEL 3 DEFENSE	LEVEL 3 OFFENSE	LEVEL 3 DEFENSE
1. deathjump	1. hurt-2	1. out of the ring	1. hurt-2
2. out of the ring	2. hurt-2	2. face drop piledriver-3	2. down-3
3. power slam-3	3. hurt-2	3. deathjump	3. hurt-2
4. piledriver-3	4. down-3	4. DDT-3	4. PIN 7
5. ASTROPLEX	5. down-3	5. HEAD DROP SUPLEX	5. down-3
6. HEAD DROP SUPLEX	6. PIN 5	6. ASTROPLEX	6. down-3
ROPES-B	Disqualification-6	ROPES-A	Disqualification-5
TURNBUCKLE-C	Cage-2	TURNBUCKLE-B	Cage-4
RING-A		RING-B
DEATHJUMP-C		DEATHJUMP-A

  The HEAD DROP SUPLEX is a brain buster, and the ASTROPLEX is a slingshot suplex.  I figured since they were a team, giving them each others' finisher gave them some sort of unity.  Surprisingly, they ended up being not too powerful, and could definitely hold their own.

This is the first of many homemade characters that I bring in, with various degrees of success.  They beat Deathknight & Mutant in their first match, went 3-4 in other matches with decisions, 1-1 in DQ matches, and 1 double DQ (Vanity & Killer Queen).  They faced off against the Tag Team Champs Brute & Renegade twice, losing by decision and DQ.  Will they fare better in February 1987?


                                                                 

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