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Post by EventHorizon on Jun 1, 2016 15:03:53 GMT -5
This is some incredibly cool stuff. It's fun to look back. I'm looking forward to more of this. Thank you EventHorizon. It's been really fun for me to figure out things that I did in my teenage years with an adult eye. I wish I kept better track of why certain things happened, but the big stuff I remember quite well. As I get older and repeatedly go back to it after long dormant periods, it starts to look more like what people expect out of wrestling shows today. Reading other people's feds have even changed what I keep track of today. I'm pretty glad I got back into it this year and found this community! Thanks for reading. Hopefully, you'll stick with me after the next couple of posts, which get weird and disturbing...lol. I can imagine if I had some of my old stuff from when I was a teenager it would be weird and disturbing too. Can't wait for it. |
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Post by brucetosis on Jun 8, 2016 9:02:04 GMT -5
As teased, before I get into the next pay-per-view, I wanted to broach a subject that I'm curious to see if I'm the only one who has done this....given the "historical" context, I'm sure I am, but we'll see.
First, in July 1987 came yet another new crop of wrestlers. They are--
Christian--the ultimate good in the universe. He looks like a blond Jesus Christ with no beard...lol. His finishing maneuver is the CRUCIFIX--it's no different than the
real move of the same name, which I still think is one of the coolest of all time
Gemini--a tag team made up of two fully costumed wrestlers, Dark & Light. I have no recollection of what their finisher was called, but it involved Light holding his opponent over his shoulder face-up, and Dark jumping off the top rope and clotheslining the held opponent down to the mat. They were brought in by Krakan.
Fin--a half-man half-shark whose finisher I can't remember the name or what it did.
Wait a minute--where are the cards?
This game definitely has a huge imagination component since it captures the wrestling side of things well, but leaves storylines/feuds/run-ins etc. up to the individual promoters to handle it however they would like. I decided to take that to the next level, mostly out of a lack of desire to spend extra time on anything, and basically play the matches of these new wrestlers out in my head. While they were created in the summertime, it must have been as a mechanism to get through playing faster, but once school came around, it gave me something to think about on the 20 minute walk home (when I couldn't catch up to the girl I liked...lol).
Now the "spoiler" part, all of the future wrestlers I create are done in this manner. Invasion is getting closer to coming out, so most of my creations have been made.
Finally, the shocking part (and kind of spoiler), there is still one wrestler of this type that exists in my current fed this way. While I don't play out the entire matches in my head, it makes a great way to guide storylines if they start getting away from me, and has allowed me to do a couple of things that dice probably wouldn't have let me do. The key is to use it in that manner sparingly, let the surrounding fed dictate what the character does, and allow the dice to guide practically every thing else.
The perfect storm was created with a lack of knowledge about upcoming expansions, the strange complexities of the teenage mind, and boredom. Since a lot of people got into this game after there were expansions, and most people would make bootleg cards of their creations, I have to assume I am the only one that did this. I couldn't continue any further without explaining this, especially since I was able to post my other home-brewed creations.
That said, hopefully you'll continue on as I get into my next big event. I suggest you read it while sitting down. SERIOUSLY.
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Post by brucetosis on Jun 9, 2016 13:47:21 GMT -5
Finally, the GWF looks to schedule matches away from Federation Headquarters, starting with the planet that invented the sport of wrestling. The night before the big event, the hopefully-soon-to-be-reunited Hand strikes a major blow against the Federation by Brute, Renegade & Massacre winning the Six-Man Tag Team Championship from Star Warrior, Executioner & Commander Sam.
Oh, by the way, this is the worst-named PPV ever, but, here it is:
TOUR OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM-EARTH 7/4/87
Match 1: Christian vs. Pulsar Debut Match
After the much-hyped debut of the Cultist resulted in a loss to Beast-Rider, I wasn't about to let history repeat itself. Since Christian fell in the new "mentally-controlled" wrestler category, he won a very respectful match and even helped Pulsar up and shook his hand afterwards. Being that this was Earth, and Christianity is the dominant religion here, the crowd went absolutely crazy for the newcomer.
Match 2: Deathknight & Cultist vs. Vanity & Killer Queen
This was basically a match-up between two middle-of-the-road tag teams looking to advance their rankings. While DK & Cultist had found some partial success, the experience of Vanity & Killer Queen won out.
Match 3: Brute vs. Pit Viper
No real rivalry between these two, just a solid singles match. Brute entered the match as the number one contender for the Championship, and was apparently looking forward to a title shot as he was upset by a mostly-tag-team wrestler.
Match 4: Wolf vs. Krakan II in a Titan Death Match
Before Wolf lost the Interdimensional Championship to Exo-King, he defended his belt a couple of times against Krakan II, both resulting in disqualifications. This was finally the settling of that, and as you might predict, Wolf dominated in a no-DQ setting.
Match 5: Executioner vs. Comrade Terror in a Cosmic Cage
Comrade Terror was the main person responsible for Executioner's face turn, and then ended his Championship reign. The war would be finalized in the cage, and Terror continued his dominance over his former acquaintance.
Match 6: Renegade & Massacre vs. the Spacemen for Galaxian Tag Team Championship in a Cosmic Cage
Despite their disappointing showing in June's tag team tournament, the Spacemen were allowed to get their championship rematch. Their current slide continued as the champs beat them...and beat them up pretty badly.
Match 7: Exo-King vs. Slicer for Interdimensional Championship in a Cosmic Cage
Don't raise that cage up just yet! These two fought in a cage because...I liked cage matches? When Slicer was the Champion, he successfully defended against Exo, this time the King continued his IC run.
Match 8: Thantos vs. Lord Nexus for Galaxian Heavyweight Championship
The Gamesmaster awarded a title shot to the highest ranking good contender. Thantos was obviously more concerned about the Hand reuniting than this match as Nexus won the title.
Match 9: Omega & Commander Sam vs. Proteus & Mutant in a Retirement Match
Beside Comrade Terror and Exo-King wins, Krakan was ecstatic about the retirement of one of the greatest faces in wrestling history, Omega. The crowd treated him with all the respect and honor he deserved. The match did not end greatly for the FDF, as Proteus pinned Commander Sam. Those two rolled out of the ring still fighting and the ref and Krakan went to break it up. Mutant snuck up on Omega and knocked him outside the ring. Grabbing a chair, he smashed Omega over the head a couple of times, and when he fell to the ground, Mutant jammed the chair repeatedly into all 4 of Omega's limbs. Finally, order was restored, Mutant was restrained, and a stretcher was brought out to take the wrestling great to the back. Star Warrior came out and walked with the stretcher, making sure his dad was OK.
Match 10: Star Warrior vs. Massif for the fate of the Hand
Much like Wrestlestar, the future of Thantos' group hung on a match against Star Warrior. Massif was brutal and enjoyed inflicting pain on SW. Warrior's head was in the back with his father, however. After an initial offensive outburst by the big man, Star Warrior roared back and made quick work of Massif. Even Thantos knew better than to get in the way when the match ended. The result meant that although they could team up in smaller groups, in no way could all 5 men work together as a unit, and they could not address themselves collectively as the Hand.
Due to the injuries Omega sustained from Mutant, he would not survive the night.
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Post by EventHorizon on Jun 9, 2016 21:09:33 GMT -5
You....you killed off Omega!? That's awesome! I mean, that's terrible but that's awesome! I can see how early on that would be something one could consider. You had no way of knowing how long Champions of the Galaxy would last (I imagine there are few who would have predicted it would still be going strong thirty years later!); so I imagine the desire to sort of create your own future of the GWF was strong. What better way than to kill off a living legend?
I personally wasn't into CotG quite early enough to consider adding bootlegs to flesh out the roster. My first experience with the game was watching my cousin play since, oh I would guess it probably was around the first or second invasion set. I don't know exactly where he started. He might have been there from the very beginning. I personally didn't buy the game until Revolution 2096 came out (quite an investment to get caught up at that point) and I haven't looked back. But the roster was definitely big enough by that point where I didn't really need to add my own guys.
But anyway, I love reading these. They're just a wonderful insight into the earliest days of Filsinger Games and the GWF and I love that you even remember what you were thinking during some of these. Either that or you kept really wonderful notes. Can't wait to see more; keep 'em coming!
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Post by brucetosis on Jun 10, 2016 8:34:03 GMT -5
You....you killed off Omega!? That's awesome! I mean, that's terrible but that's awesome! I can see how early on that would be something one could consider. You had no way of knowing how long Champions of the Galaxy would last (I imagine there are few who would have predicted it would still be going strong thirty years later!); so I imagine the desire to sort of create your own future of the GWF was strong. What better way than to kill off a living legend? I personally wasn't into CotG quite early enough to consider adding bootlegs to flesh out the roster. My first experience with the game was watching my cousin play since, oh I would guess it probably was around the first or second invasion set. I don't know exactly where he started. He might have been there from the very beginning. I personally didn't buy the game until Revolution 2096 came out (quite an investment to get caught up at that point) and I haven't looked back. But the roster was definitely big enough by that point where I didn't really need to add my own guys. But anyway, I love reading these. They're just a wonderful insight into the earliest days of Filsinger Games and the GWF and I love that you even remember what you were thinking during some of these. Either that or you kept really wonderful notes. Can't wait to see more; keep 'em coming! Thanks eventhorizon! I have to tell you, I hated Omega. He seemed like such a useless character.....boy, did I get that right..lol. It's funny how 29 years later, I remember every single thing about that match, it truly affects everything going forward, even though I didn't realize it at the time. Although it did put me in a pickle. I had no idea what to do next; Star Warrior was involved with feuds against two different factions, so he gets no time to grieve. In my fed to this day I still feel remotely guilty if I try to give Mutant a push. I just looked through all the matches through the rest of 1987 and Mutant doesn't re-appear at all, so at least I had the sense to keep him away for a while. My notes at this point in time are non-existent. I'm looking over these match results like I'm studying an ancient text trying to re-ignite what my thought processes were. I have a list of who's good/bad so that I can notice when they turn, and I look at each month at a time taking notes and noticing trends. I don't start making notes in my notebook until 91 (who knows what the actual playing year is on that), and they get more detailed as time goes on. I feel I couldn't do this without constant "peeks behind the curtain" because it just wouldn't make sense if I wrote it up similar to the way other people write up their feds. I'll get there though. Thanks for the encouragement; this is really fun to do, and it seems like people are reading it, so I have no plans to stop. |
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Post by EventHorizon on Jun 10, 2016 21:37:12 GMT -5
As a character I liked him, but I was never a huge Omega fan as a wrestler. Which is understandable since he's at the tail end of his wrestling career when the first set comes out. Though shockingly I had one play through a few years ago (in fact I think it was the last fed I played before the current one I am running) where Omega beat Thantos for the Galaxian Championship. The dice do funny things sometimes.
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Post by brucetosis on Jun 11, 2016 12:39:57 GMT -5
Now that we've had time to breathe after the death of Omega, we can look at what happened the rest of July. Still going strong with 15 cards played this month, including the two referenced earlier. Here's what else went down:
As mentioned a few posts ago, some more new wrestlers showed up. Krakan brought in a new tag team, Gemini, to his already large supergroup. Their first match came on July 14th, which they won by beating Vanity & Killer Queen. The other newbie, Fin, came in July 26th with a victory over Beast Rider.
With an opening now in the Federation Defense Fighters, Star Warrior and Commander Sam invited Wolf's sometime tag-partner Actagon to join with them. Krakan's Society of Death was becoming too much of a dominating force throughout the GWF, choosing to not only battle the FDF, but also picking on Thantos and his allies. Things escalated to such a level that Star Warrior gave permission to Thantos to officially reform the Hand.
The Hand and the Society of Death immediately went at it ferociously. Exo-King battled Massif and Thantos for the Interdimensional Championship, and joined with Comrade Terror (as the Towers of Power) to battle them in a tag setting. Things got so intense that at one point, Star Warrior and Thantos teamed up a couple of times, once a DQ victory over Proteus & Krakan II, and a loss to the Towers of Power. That loss did not go over with Thantos well, and their tentative alliance was shattered.
Not only did Thantos finally get his way with the rebirth of the Hand, but he started a new friendship with Cultist. Cultist used this alliance to his advantage, scoring some big victories over some SoD members until he finally got a crack at the Interdimensional Championship. With Exo-King winning the first time by count-out, Cultist was able to win the fall in the rematch to become the champ.
The Heavyweight Champion did not rest easy, as Lord Nexus had a couple of title defense over Brute, culminating in a Cosmic Cage.
Lord Nexus also allied himself with the Spacemen (Meteor & Asteroid) as Ghengis Khan silently slid back to the heel side, mostly as a jobber.
Very early on in his budding career, Christian got involved in a feud with Deathknight, who was still allied with Cultist. There was an instant hatred between Christian and Cultist, as you might expect. They finally met in the ring during a tag match, as Christian enlisted the help of Star Warrior. The match ended as a double disqualification, as the hatred between the religious enemies boiled over.
Odd to say, but not much aftermath from the death of Omega. As I said earlier, I wasn't sure how to handle things at the time, but Omega will get honored in the future.
Almost all the titles changed this month, so this is how things look at the end of July:
Champion-Lord Nexus (7/4)
Interdimensional-Cultist (7/25)
Tag Team-Renegade & Massacre (6/13)
Six Man Tag Team-Brute, Renegade & Massacre (7/3)
The Top 10 contenders at the end of the month:
1. Exo-King 2. Brute 3. Star Warrior 4. Executioner 5. Massacre 6. Thantos 7. Comrade Terror 8. Renegade 9. Wolf 10. Meteor
Next up, the FDF/Hand/Society of Death war comes down to one match for total supremacy!
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Post by rjretro on Jun 11, 2016 13:58:11 GMT -5
That's such a shocking decision. Way to make Mutant the top heel in your fed. That's absolutely amazing.
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Post by brucetosis on Jun 11, 2016 15:27:12 GMT -5
That's such a shocking decision. Way to make Mutant the top heel in your fed. That's absolutely amazing. Thanks for commenting rj! If only I had the brains back then to truly do it justice. Knowing it was coming in my write-up, and revisiting it in my mind, I finally have come to a way to resolve it in my current fed. It's only taken me about 29 years...lol. |
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Post by brucetosis on Jun 12, 2016 16:17:38 GMT -5
In August 1987, things start to slow down. APBA Baseball and Football were starting to monopolize my gaming time, and I knew they came out with sets every year. However, I still found time to get 9 cards played throughout the month. Here's what went down:
Lord Nexus found success yet again in the Six-Man Tag ranks as his alliance with the Spacemen led them to beat Brute, Renegade & Massacre
While his Hand was having plenty of success in both wars against the Federation Defense Fighters and the Society of Death, Thantos found that having an ally in the Cultist and Deathknight gave him plenty of battle options. As the new Interdimensional Champion, Cultist did not mind the extra exposure and back-up.
During the Hand's portion of the three-way-war, Cultist was able to extend his growing feud with Christian as well. They met in a six-man match as his team with Thantos & Deathknight lost to Christian's team with Star Warrior & Executioner, and then toward the end of the month, he and Deathknight were involved in a brawl with Christian & Actagon that led to a double-countout.
On August 15th, a 15 man Elimination match between the three factions served as an ending point to this vicious feud that had monopolized months of wrestling, and caused loss of life for one of the wrestlers. The teams were:
Federation: Star Warrior, Commander Sam, Wolf, Actagon & Executioner
Hand: Thantos, Massif, Massacre, Deathknight & Cultist (Brute and Renegade had solo matches that same night where they lost to Vanity and Killer Queen, respectively)
Society of Death: Exo-King, Comrade Terror, Proteus, Krakan II, and Krakan himself came out of retirement for this match (Gemini had a match where they beat the Spacemen earlier in the night)
Unfortunately, I kept no records of who beat who, except for the Federation came out with the victory. While neither team had to disband, they were humbled and their collective rises to prominence were stunted. Knowing that the Federation could beat them kept them from getting out of control and running rampant as they had been.
However, that didn't stop Thantos quest for power. In his first rematch for the Championship, he was able to beat Lord Nexus, putting him back atop the federation.
The only other thing of note from this month, was that Wolf found himself a kindred spirit in Slicer, and they formed a tag team known as the Hitmen.
The updated champions list:
Champion-Thantos (8/28)
Interdimensional-Cultist (7/25)
Tag Team-Renegade & Massacre (6/13)
Six-Man Tag Team-Lord Nexus with Meteor & Asteroid (Spacemen) (8/3)
The Top 10 contenders:
1. Lord Nexus 2. Exo-King 3. Massacre 4. Thantos 5. Star Warrior 6. Brute 7. Executioner 8. Renegade 9. Comrade Terror 10. Meteor
Next time, things slow down more. WAY more. The darkest time ever for my GWF (outside of, you know, Omega's death).
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