Appoooh

Arcade Video game published 40 years ago:

Appoooh - The Pro-Wrestling Game (c) 1984 Sega Enterprises, Limited.

A hilarious wrestling game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Zilog Z80 (@3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips:
SOUND: (3x) Texas Instruments SN76496 (@3.072 Mhz)
SPEECH: OKI MSM5205 (@384 Khz)

Players: 2
Control: 8-way joystick
Buttons: 3

- TRIVIA -

Appoooh was released in June 1984 in Japan only.

Each in-game wrestler is a parody from a real-life wrestler :
* G.Babu - 'Giant Baba' (Shohei Baba) (1938-1999)
* H.Hogen - 'Hulk Hogan' (Terry Bollea)
* A.Inoke - 'Antonio Inoki' (Kanji Inoki)
* S.Hanson - 'Stan Hansen' (John Stanley Hansen)
* Tigerman - 'Tiger Mask' (Satoru Sayama)
* A.Giants - 'Andre the Giant' (André Roussimoff) (1946-1993)
* U.Uma - 'Ueda Umanosuke' (Ueda Yuji) (1940-2011)
* A.Buchie - 'Abdullah the Butcher' (Larry Shreeve)

- STAFF -