Found a great article about the Wrestle Jam game featuring Randy “The Ram” Robinson - the game Mickey Roarke’s character plays in the movie The Wrestler.
Wrestle Jam is a work of fiction, a faux NES game created specifically for the film by motion graphics artist Kristyn Hume and programmer Randall Furino. The brother and sister team created the game from scratch, taking influence from 8-bit fighting games like Nintendo’s Pro Wrestling and Acclaim’s WWF Wrestlemania.
It’s an actual, playable NES game engineered specifically for the movie. Brilliant. Hoping they make a version playable via Flash on the internet!
As an added bonus, the song composer created an original 8 bit “score” for the video. It even has drum fills. Pretty rad video game song, for a pretty rad video game, that doesn’t even exist. Enjoy:
Tags: mickey roarke, the wrestler, video games, wrestle jam
