80s Mania Wrestling Returns

Checkmate Creative LLC

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About this game

80s Mania Wrestling Returns is a totally radical pro wrestling manager game and wrestling booker game presented as a collectible card game! And it's set in the 1980s and 1990s!

Hundreds of amazing characters flesh out this old school wrestling universe including wrestlers, tag teams, managers, commissioners, interviewers and more! Each character is totally original while also inspired by the two greatest decades in pop culture history! It’s piledriving parody at its finest!

Wrestling game fans looking for a pro wrestling GM mode or booker game will love 80s Mania Wrestling Returns!

Do you have what it takes to be an elite GM? Not only will you run your own fantasy wrestling league full of awesome weekly shows using your collected wrestlers, you'll host a supercard every month where all your biggest feuds can settle the score!

Full-blown stat tracking for all of your wrestlers Wins and Losses, Title History for each of your Championship Belts and even Year End Awards make this the best wrestling simulator of any mobile wrestling game out there!

80s Mania Wrestling Returns might just be the best wrestling game in the business!

Ratings and reviews

I absolutely love this game. I've played it for quite some time and it never gets old. There is a challenge to it, trying to get those 5 star matches, but it's enjoyable. I find myself trying to push certain characters to make them the ultimate babyface. No ads and purchases are 100% optional, but not necessary. I also love the quirky names they give to the obvious 80s and 90s wrestlers.

Too much has changed. New artwork. Worse soundbites. Are they avoiding getting sued over a type of satire? I don't know the answer to that. The gameplay is simple enough to allow multi-tasking, and the lack of ads combined with it's nostalgic charm has kept it on my phone long after others get deleted. That said, it was a better game before the aesthetic changes, and the lack of coherent consistency on advancing wrestlers or getting higher ratings on matches/shows makes it repetitive and stale.

UPDATED: I've now played through once and am on my second. It's funny, nostalgic, creative, engrossing, and takes me back to 1980-ish when I was a 6th grader and never missed the local weekly wrestling show out of Dothan, Al. I made a game with cards and notebook paper back then - and this game is what I would have wished for. I love the stats, the ratings, the ridiculous number of championship titles, and the different feds - just a fantastically entertaining game all the way around. Thanks from the bottom of my childhood for all of your hard work, developer(s)!

What's new

*2 New Wrestlers
*2 New Tag Teams
*3 New Feuds
*New Manager Focus
Patch:
*Overshock art fixes
*Ad Reward track enhancement