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    RETRO MANIA WRESTLING

    Jan 21, 2021 7 minutes
    Words by Hareth Al Bustani

    IN THE KNOW

    » PUBLISHER: RETROSOFT STUDIOS

    » DEVELOPER: RETROSOFT STUDIOS

    » RELEASE: 2020

    » PLATFORM: SWITCH, PS4, XBOX ONE, PC

    » GENRE: BEAT-’EM-UP

    When WWF WrestleFest first graced arcades three decades ago, all across the world gamers and pro wrestling fans lined up with pockets full of coins, desperate for a turn. None, perhaps, were as taken as a young Mike Hermann. “I had always dreamed of adding additional wrestlers to WrestleFest and was surprised that there were no hacks out there,” he reflects. Even as he embarked on a career as a business software developer, the game never escaped his mind.

    Ten years ago, he attempted to break into the game’s code, only to discover it was “not so easily hacked”. After spending seven long years developing his own clone of the WrestleFest engine, Hermann finally decided to “do things right” and hired a lead programmer. “The first thing he did was start over,” he laughs. Hermann and his growing Retrosoft Studios team rebuilt the engine from the ground up, transforming it from a clone into “something much more” – an official sequel.

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