I watched wrestling shows regularly in the WWF Attitude era.
I know from back in the day that I was horribly bad in WCW/NWO Revenge's multiplayer mode against friends, since I had no idea how to pull off special moves. Apparently, they needed to have me as their punching ball, since they didn't tell me how to play the game. Now if you've got friends like these, you don't need foes, I guess.
But then, they were always complaining when I cleared all of them off the screen in Mario Kart 64's battle mode. I guess, that makes it even.
The first time I was more seriously into wrestling games was when a friend introduced me into the Smackdown Vs RAW games on PlayStation 2. At that time, I began to restart interest in watching the shows again. The games were fun, but the default control scheme put me off.
Later on, I got Smackdown Vs RAW 2010 for the Xbox 360, and now that is what I'd call my favourite wrestling game so far. The controls are spot on and easy to learn: Moving is done with the left analog stick (why oh why did it took so long for the develops to make this default instead of using the D-pad?), grappling with the right stick doesn't get old, the button configuration is well thought, and countering is as good as you're able to react.
What I've a lot of fun with aside from playing wrestling matches is the Create-A-Wrestler editor mode. I re-created the Mario Bros. from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show (Lou Albano was a wrestler anyway), Duke Nukem, Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, The Ram from The Wrestler movie, Simon Belmont, the Angry Videogame Nerd, Solid Snake, and some more. Including custom stage introductions with the music for each character.
If you're interested in seeing them, I think I could hook up my console to a cheap videograbber and record some footage.
