Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling by NCS. A game for the Super Famicon (SNES)
system released in 1993. It is a quick moving, cartoonish wrestling game
that is quite good. It spawned two sequels and Natsume Championship 
Wrestling. Matches are decided by pinfall or countout.

Controls Basics-
button
X= run                            
Y= punch or weak grapple
B= kick or medium grapple or climb corner or enter/ exit ring
A= power strike or strong grapple
L= pin or tag
R= taunt

Grappling occurs when the wrestlers touch. The one to input their move
first wins and will perform a move.
To irish whip a wrestler win a grapple by pushing a direction and the run button.
To put a fallen opponent in a hold or do a ground attack use the kick or
power button.
To pick up an opponent push the Y button (punch) twice. This will stand him up.
Pushing the Y button once will sit your opponent up so you can kick him in the
back or apply sleeper or chinlock (A button).

Grapples-

"Y" grapples- slams, hip tosses, punch/kick/chop combos. With some wrestlers
                    you must hold the Dpad up or down (instead of tapping) and push Y.
Examples-  Kawada machine gun kicks= hold down+Y
                    Kobashi hip toss= hold up+Y
                    Patriot's belly to belly overhead release suplex= hold down+Y
                   
"B" grapples-suplexes,piledriver,power slam etc.
Examples-  piledriver (all players)= tap up+B
                     Kikuchi snap suplex= tap down+B
                     Ogawa neck breaker=tap down+B

"A" grapples-back drop suplex, DDTs,powerbombs, finishers
Examples- Misawa tiger bomb= down+A
                 - Ace Crusher= down+A
                 - Dr Death Oklahoma slam= down+A
                 - Taue Chokeslam=down+A
                 - Patriot Full Nelson Slam=down+A

Running attacks- Very simple, run at opponent then push Y, B. or A. To counter
attack a whipped opponent push Y,B or A. If you whip a wrestler at the very top
of the ring he will run into the steel post and be stunned. A whip close to the ropes
will send him out to the floor.

The ropes- these are useful to do extra damage and stun an opponent. Using
a front slam (ie Fuchi- hold down +Y) will hot shot your opponent off the top
rope and hurt him  more. Using punches,kicks and strike based Y grapples
to bounce people off the rope is also effective.
The down side to the ropes is that it is too easy to send an opponent to the
floor. A suplex or slam in the direction of the ropes can send him flying
off like a pinball.

Power Moves non grapple- if you press the A button while you are fighting
a standing opponent (preferrably stunned) your wrestler will reach out
and do a non grapple power move. Hold the D-pad in different directions
for the various moves. There are a lot of subtle hits and throws in the game
so experiment. The computer always seems to have a new move.
Examples- Fuchi cobra twist=up+A (close but not grappling)
                    Fuchi low drop kick=left/right+A or just A
                    Fuchi front slam=down+A

Top rope attacks- very few wrestlers in Zen Nihon PW have these.Climb the corner
with the Dpad toward it and the B button. The tope rope attacks are as follows;
Kawada- flying elbow
Kikuchi- diving headbutt
Kobashi-moonsault with pin
Misawa- frog splash with pin
Ogawa- flying drop kick (if the opponent is down the AI will stand him stunned
to receive the hit)
Patriot- flying shoulder tackle (AI will stand opponent up for hit)

The stamina bar- indicates the health of the wrestlers. A wrestler in the red
or black is ready for a pinfall. Comebacks, crowd approval, and resting
after you tag out in tag matches raise stamina. Being beat up and taunted
drops stamina.

Main Game Menu translation-

1-Singles championship
2-Tag Championship (with the 8 premade teams or an EDIT one)
3-Singles Tournament
4-Tag Tournament
5-Player 1 VS Player 2
6-Team Battle-Pick a pre-team. Ogawa,Fuchi,Taue,Tsuruta or Kikuchi
Kobashi, Kawada, Misawa. Chose a Captain for each team. A series
of tag matches goes until the one of the Captains is beaten. His stamina
is carried over from match to match.
7-Training mode- Giant Baba teaches a class of the game basics

Game roster (names listed as they appear on pages 8 and 9 of the game manual)

Page 8

Baba                        Misawa
Kawada                   Kobashi
Kikuchi                     Tsuruta
Taue                         Fuchi

Page 9

Ogawa                     Rusher Kimura
Stan Hansen           Terry Gordy
Dr Death                  Dan Spivey
Johnny ACE            Patriot

Roster listed as it appears on Singles championship menu in game-

Baba       Tsuruta       Misawa       Kawada
Taue        Kobashi      Fuchi          Ogawa
Kikuchi    Kimura        Hansen       Gordy
Spivey     Dr Death     Patriot         ACE

FAQ-
Q= Can I play it on my Super Nintendo?
A= Yes, I use a Game Genie with the plastic tabs trimmed off to
      play it on my SNES.

Q= Are there double team moves?
A= No, but later the Dash version (1993) did include them.

Q= Blood? Submissions? Foreign objects? Create a Wrestler?
A= No. No. No. No.

Q= Is it fun?
A= YES!

Q= Best mode?
A= Team battle matches are the best.

Q= Coolest move?
A= A tough one... I vote for the Stan Hansen Lariat.

Q= The main screen says START and PASSWORD. What PASSWORD?
A= I do not know at this time.

bitman16 2004