Wrestle War (Arcade)

Wrestle War
Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Platform: Arcade (Sega System 16) Released in JP: February 1989 Released in US: April 1989 Released in EU: 1989 This game has unused text.

You may have clobbered countless Hulk Hogans and Randy Savages. Your belt rack may be full of victories against some of wrestling's greatest. You may have even taken a shot at the Japanese pro-wrestling scene. But have YOU faced the heavy hitters of the SEGA WRESTLING ALLIANCE?!

note: addresses are for the "wrestwar" set in MAME

Copyright Text?

At $1339, immediately after the "SEGA 1989" used for the screen shown after you insert a coin, is "ESCO 1989". This string doesn't appear to be used at all...

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.

The game doesn't seem to detect any special names for the high score table. "SEGA 1989" seems to be accessed using pc-relative addressing but IDA doesn't make that clear? Maybe I'm missing something... I don't know about other revisions, and I still don't have all the code disassembled. The actual title screen (shown above) and the "TRY FOR THE..." text before it seem to use a different encoding.

ESCO may refer to Esco Boueki, a company Sega bought back in the 1970s. There's research to be done on them that will come in time...and brief analysis shows similarities between the coding of this game and that of the Tetris/Flash Point/Bloxeed trilogy.