WWE legend Hulk Hogan recently sat down with the Miami Herald to talk about his return to the company that made him famous. At one point in the interview, Hogan recalled his opinion on older wrestling games and discussed what wrestling games were like at first.
"They were pretty rough brother. It didn't even look or move like I did. I actually have Hogan's Beach Shop where I have all the memorabilia," he said. "We have the old school stuff, brand new T-shirts and other things we sell. We also have the old Sega games, the original games. It's almost barbaric. It's almost like the old Pac-Man games. It was so animated and weird."
WWE superstar John Cena also talked to the Miami Herald this week about the wrestling company's upcoming game "WWE 2K!5" and spoke about admiration of wrestling games growing up.
Coincidentally During the interview, Cena also related that he has an affinity for the 8-bit video game era where games were much more simpler.
"I have a sweet spot for the 8-bit generation athlete. It kind of got a little too complicated for me around the tail end of the PlayStation 2 when you have a million buttons. I'm a D-pad, A and B guy. Genesis was also cool...I had, believe it or not, the old 'Wrestling Challenge' stand-up [arcade game]," he said. "I loved 'Nintendo Pro Wrestling' and played the hell out of 'Tag Team Wrestling', which was a horrible game where the Ricky Fighters always fought the masked superstars a hundred million times. I loved it. The WWE games were okay, but I thought for an 8-bit standpoint that Nintendo did it best."
Cnea also praised the game's developer Visual Concepts for improving the game and putting a great effort into the game.
"It's so much different. It just goes to show how far games have come," he said, "Even the differences between last year and this year, 2K has really stepped it up. This is the best effort ever for the video game series."
The game is set to be released on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 28 in North America and October 31 internationally.
