Tag Team Wrestling (0)

Tag Team Wrestling
First release date
1983-12-31
Platform
Commodore 64 Nintendo Entertainment System Arcade PC
Developer
Data East Corporation Technos Japan Corp. SAS Sakata
Publisher
Data East Corporation Namco
Aliases
The Big Pro Wrestling! Tag Team Pro Wrestling

Overview

Tag Team Wrestling was originally developed by and released to the in late 1983. It was followed by home versions for the PC in 1985 and a C64/Apple II version in 1987. The version maintains the same gameplay as the Arcade original, but expands to fill a full TV screen, as opposed to the vertically oriented monitor used for the Arcade version, though with downgraded graphics overall.

The opposing tag team was referred to as either Strong & Bad or Strong Bads, depending on the version. This name would later find a resurrection with the Chapman Brothers, creators of the web comedy series Homestar Runner and, more specifically, the character known as . In a twisted turn of freakish events, Strong Bad and the cast of Homestar Runner began appearing in video games in August of 2008 in an episodic adventure series from Telltale Games known as .