Descpription:
The Main Event was a professional wrestling arcade
game created in the late 1980s. Its gameplay is similar to many
other wrestling games of the time. A player selects two different
wrestlers as their tag team, and they wrestle another tag team.
If the player wins, his team moves on to another match. If he loses,
he can opt to continue. Every wrestler had essentially the same moveset:
all the basic wrestling moves; dropkick, body slam, pile driver,
brain-buster (or suplex), etc. Foreign objects could also be used.
Unlike other games of the time, certain maneuvers could not be pulled
off by lighter wrestlers on heavier wrestlers due to weight differences.
Matches were won with pins, submission holds, or out-of-ring timeouts.
For pins and submission holds, you had to press the Wrestle button
more quickly than your opponent, moving a status bar beyond a certain point.
