Play Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling - Fight da Pon! (Japan) Online

Game Overview

Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling: Fight da Pon! is one of those SNES games that makes you wonder why it never left Japan. The second you start a match, it’s pure chaos—wrestlers bouncing off the ropes like cartoon characters, suplexes that send guys flying halfway across the screen, and this weirdly satisfying "thwack" sound every time someone eats a clothesline. It’s not trying to be a realistic wrestling sim at all, and that’s what’s great about it.

The roster’s full of these exaggerated, almost goofy-looking fighters (one guy’s basically just a sumo wrestler in a leopard print loincloth), and the controls are simple enough that you’ll be pulling off piledrivers within minutes. Matches feel fast and messy in the best way—like you’re playing an arcade cabinet someone somehow crammed into a SNES cartridge. No English? Doesn’t matter. You’ll figure it out after a couple of rounds of getting tossed into the turnbuckle.

If you’ve ever wanted to see what happens when Japanese developers take pro wrestling and dial the craziness up to 11, this is your game. Just try not to laugh when your character starts flexing after a pinfall.