For well over a decade, the Fire Pro Series has sat dormant under the weight of ever-declining WWE games. Games like Contra and Metal Slug have never regained their former successes, but the Fire Pro series chugged away with its own cult following ever since. Many 2D game series never found their niche in the new world of 3D games. Games using 2D sprites fell out of favour with the release of the original Playstation, which led to low sales of 2D based games. There have been some 3D based spin-offs in the years following, but the games have largely found themselves on consoles such as the SNES and GBA.
Fire Pro Wrestling started life in 1989 and during its history it has largely been a 2D, sprite-based wrestling game. Wait, you’ve never heard of Fire Pro Wrestling? Well ,here’s a brief history lesson. Everyone has decided to forget that hideous Fire Pro Wrestling game which used the Xbox 360 Avatars – that’s a good move. The game was actually released much earlier in Japan, way back in 2005. The last time I had the pleasure of playing a Fire Pro game was Fire Pro Wrestling Returns on the PlayStation 2, which was launched in Europe in 2008 (bizarrely limited to Italy, Spain and Portugal). It’s been a while since we last saw Fire Pro Wrestling.
