Which game led you to TEW

[goldendragon]

I was just clearing some crap off an old hard drive and came across Adam Jennings Promotion Wars 1.2e so I put it on a flashdrive and borrowed a laptop that still runs on XP to have a retro sim session.

 

I was still in school when he released this and I remember everyone in my school seemed to find Promotion Wars first then they'd see if they were missing any other games and find EWR. Hardly anyone I've spoken to over the years managed to find EWR before PW. I remember resisting the urge to jump from Team Jennings to Team Ryland just because I liked the auto win on PW as it could test you more with not being able to book ahead (e.g. intentional Austin vs EZ Money squash match which EZ Money went and won so he got a push).

 

So did anyone here find EWR before PW? How many of you had your first wrestling sim taste with TEW? Who found one of the endless sims that tried to copy the big 2 back in the days of PWSE.net?

[juggaloninjalee]

I didn't know of Promotion Wars until after I played EWR. I think it was EWD 2000 or something back in about the year 2000 or so. Then EWR got me hooked.

 

I've never played PW or any other wrestling sim outside of Rylands.

 

I think I found EWD when looking for some kind of role playing wrestling game. The thing that made me search for that was seeing something about EFeds in a ESPN magazine or something.

[Kainlock]

Technically it was TNM 7 that started it all for me. TNM led me to EWR which then lead me to TEW 2007.

[Jaysin]

TEW 07 was the first game I found.

[ChrisKid]

I think Promotion Wars led me to TEW 08

[soxfan93]

My first wrestling sim was TEW 2005 after it was made free last January. It got me to buy 2010, so I guess it did its job.

[denzil85]

TEW 2007 was my first game

[Bull]

Found EWR somewhere on the internet, and thoroughly enjoyed the game so I decided to look up Mr. Ryland and see if he had made anymore games, low and behold I find Greydog Software, and I've been playing TEW ever since.

[joehelmer]

First I got EWR and then I got the free TEW 2005 and then I bought TEW 2010.

[Stennick]

My first game was Extreme Warfare 9000, then Promotion Wars 1 and then finaly Revenge. I didn't buy a TEW until 05 though. My brother had 04 and at the time it seemed to complicated for me compared to EWR

[JackKnifed72]

First I got EWR and then I got the free TEW 2005 and then I bought TEW 2010.

 

This ^

 

[franticloser]

ewd was my first then every verision of ewr but being in high school and not having a job i waited well even till a couple years after high school and working and started with 07 and have owned every tew since, though i did play pw alot kinda sad he never kept it going would be nice to see a little compatition just to see how they make each other up their game

[Blake Trask]

I originally played EWR, but it was quite a long time after I got bored of that before I came to TEW, so I think it's probably fairer to say that I was led to TEW by TEW (05).

[mitsukaikira]

Found EWR somewhere on the internet, and thoroughly enjoyed the game so I decided to look up Mr. Ryland and see if he had made anymore games, low and behold I find Greydog Software, and I've been playing TEW ever since.

 

Exactly the same for me.

[Emark]

I took a totally different path in that I bought and played the heck out of Wrestling Spirit thinking that a booking sim would be boring. Downloaded the demo and once I got the hang of it, I was hooked. Have bought all of Adam's wrestling sims from GDS and look forward to the next incarnation of the series.

[Harmor]

I started playing EWR during my efedding days and have bought every TEW game since. I did play TNM though, years before I even knew of EWR, but I wouldn't link it - and I tried PW but didn't like it. There was another booking sim (free) that was made a few years ago but it was bug ridden and overall just not that great and on top of that I forgot its name ^^

[OctoberRaven]

Started with EWR. After many years of doing crazy fantasy booking things (like Raven kidnapping Stephanie McMahon and brainwashing her into leaving Triple H for him), utterly silly ideas that turned out awesome (like Undertaker and Shark Boy as a tag team called "Davy Jones' Locker"), and generally funny moments (a throwaway interview with Francine and John Zandig of all people getting 100%, yet nobody got Unique from it), eventually tried TEW05 when it became freeware, and now in the glory that is TEW2010.

 

I can't go back to EWR anymore. It'd be like trying to light a fire with two twigs when I can just use a pocket lighter.

[dormammu]

The first thing I ever used was TNM, and that was more to book an efed I ran a long time ago. (Yes, I was one of those lazy as hell fed heads who'd paste TNM output into the shows and insert a few comments here and there.) It should also be noted the only reason I even looked for a Wrestling Sim int he first place was because I'd been playing a fairly obscure soccer management sim called One-Nil by Wizards of Scotland. I wondered if there were any wrestling management sims out there as well.

 

Anyway, eventually I thought, "TNM is sort of cool, but I'd be much happier if it had a financial side." I searched for something and came up with one of the Extreme Warfare games. This was actually before EWR. EW7500, maybe? I can't remember for sure. After that, I decided I really liked wrestling sims and found Promotion Wars and a few others. There were a ton of them being made for a while. I even created my own (in VisualBasic) called WrestleSim, though I never did very much with it.

 

I remember hearing about TEW2004 coming out, but decided it couldn't be any better than EWR and never got it. Then TEW2005 came out, and I still thought it couldn't be better than EWR. A friend of mine (who played sims as well) spent about a month telling me how much better TEW2005 was than EWR. It's funny because I remember saying, "EWR has every feature I could possibly want. There's no reason for me to try anything else." I finally did buy it and almost immediately thought, "Yeah, this is way better." and I've bought every TEW game since then.

 

Wow, that's probably way more than you wanted to know.

[Warhawk8492]

I got started with SVR 06 GM mode, later I discovered EWR, then TEW 05 finally moved on to TEW 2010.

[ZMAN]

Promotion Wars for me. I went back to that game about a year ago just for fun, and it looks soooooo shitty. After that, EWR, then TEW.

[Remianen]

Neither, honestly. Story time!

 

Y'see, there used to be a company called .400 Software Studios. They produced a game called 'Total Pro Football'. Being the ridiculously huge pro football fan I am, I played that game like it was my last meal. Shortly thereafter, they started talking about some dude doing a pro wrestling sim (yeah, like that was possible! These developers and their mindless, unfounded hype!). I think it was around this time of year in 2004 that TEW04 came out. So, being curious, I bought it and tried it out.

 

OMG!

 

Something happened and a split occurred where some folks left and started some new company out of their mom's basement or something. So, again, being curious, I went and checked it out and as it so happens, they had come out with a sequel to that impossible pro wrestling sim. By this time, TPF was on the outs with me and so I played TEW05 like a virgin Powerball lottery winner in a brothel (seriously!).

 

I didn't learn about EWR or TNM or anything until after I was already waist deep into TEW05.

 

 

 

Note to the unaware: the above post is largely facetious, with facts interspersed where necessary.

[Teh_Showtime]

EWR

 

messed around with that and then found out about 2008

 

Man the hours I used to kill in EWR. But ironically I can probably book the same exact show in TEW much faster.

[MJStark]

A random on a wrestling forum popped up in the Videos Games section and posted about TEW05 now being free. So I checked it out.

 

Once I got to grips with it I was hooked. I'd recently got into the idea of modding games with the Civilisation & Star Trek: Armada series' of games and loved the idea of a moddable wrestling game. Got the demo of TEW 2010 and played a LOT of first months! Finally got the full 2010 when I got involved in the community mod and really needed the full game to mod properly

[Hive]

My first wrestling sim was TEW2008. How I found out, though, I honestly cannot remember... but I imagine that I was playing Football Manager and thought "wouldn't it be cool with a similar game but with wrestling?" and then found my way here through google...

[Tiberious]

I only found out about TEW a few months ago when I saw someone mention TEW 2005 being free on another forum.

 

I downloaded 05 and messed around with 21CW and CCCC I downloaded the demo for 2010. I started playing as ZEN in that since I've always enjoyed the wacky Chikara style of wrestling and when the time limit on the demo ran out I decided that I would buy the game.

 

I was a little worried I might get tired of the game because I have a tenancy to start games and not finish them, but the fact the forum community for this game is so active has kept me interested in the game.