In 2004, World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE) began it's own fantasy wrestling game on-line. The game featured superstars throughout the promotion that were selected as part of team in which points were accumulated based how they did in storylines. However, the roots of fantasy wrestling actually date back to wrestling boom of the 1980s.
Also known as E-Wrestling, the game reached popularity in the mid-1980s in the form of play-by-mail. The genre-based and statistical game are set in professional wrestling companies that have several variations of play. Transmission is the most popular way the game is played which is either by face-to-face, postal mail, e-mail, websites, or message boards. The storylines are determined by either roleplay, angles, strategy, and statistical use. Rosters are either made up of "real" wrestlers or original characters created by an owning player or another owner.
In the 1990s, the internet made it easier to play the game because of communicating by e-mail, the message boards, or on another website. The internet allowed websites and other communities to reach a wider audience which saw an enormous increase in game-play.
The term E-Wrestling came to be after the advent of e-mail. Players, also commonly known as handlers, creates characters or used "real" wrestlers in which they manage their entire career in the fictional promotion known as the E-Federation. The handler would send a created wrestling move that often determined the success of the wrestler in which they would mail to an adjudicator who then made the decision of the outcome of the moves sent to him. After the internet evolved, handlers would communicate their moves on-line with the decision coming down to the adjudicator.
After the WWE launched it's own fantasy game in 2004, they started to send out letters to those who used names or close variations to the WWE superstars. The game is no longer available to play on their site.
More information about E-Wrestling can be found here:
E-Wrestling Encyclopedia
7/16/2008 02:09:00 PM
David Funk
1 comments:
I wasn't hip to fantasy wrestling.
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