Bop'N Wrestle

The Good
Bop'N Wrestle does indeed have over 20 moves as its advertising blurb states, including the spectacular Turnbuckle Fly, where you climb onto the ropes and dive onto your opponent. It is fun to learn how to use all of these to your advantage; all perform as expected. I was never a fan of pro wrestling, but I have to admit that swinging a guy around by his arm, bouncing him into the ropes, and then slamming my meat-hook-for-an-arm across his neck to send him sprawling to the floor appealed to a certain element in me. :-)

The Bad
The leg kick--that is, the act of simply kicking your opponent--has a rediculously quick recover time. If you are fast and loose with a keyboard, you can always reduce your opponent's energy down to 0 in about 5 seconds with little effort other than reflexes. This is a glaring problem in an otherwise even game.

The Bottom Line
If you never use your legs as weapons, you'll enjoy this game (if you enjoy wrestling games, that is.)

The Good
The amount of moves you could do was cool, but there was a problem doing them correctly.

I can't remember if the PC version had speech (probably only the Apple version did) but to this day I remember the wacky theme song and the digital referee's count down ("One, Two, Thaareee!") (Editor's note: The PC version did indeed have the same speech, although it was hard to hear through the PC speaker.)

**The Bad**
Well, the subject matter was not a big hit with me at the time (still isn't.)

**The Bottom Line**
Just a cool little game.

The Good
There's not much good to say about this game, to be frank. It could, however, be fun to throw a few matches with a friend occasionally. As a multiplayer-game it had a some short, but good, times to offer.

The Bad
What the games lack the most is variation. It gets boring extremely quickly when playing in single-player. All the wrestlers look about the same and act the same and the graphics are not very good at all.

The Bottom Line
It's a wrestling game. As simple as that. There were lots of wrestling games for the Commodore 64, and this is not one of the better. A mediocre fighting game, only fun for a short period, and only in multiplayer.