Muscle Nes and other Related games

In honor of the grand reopening of MPS, I am gonna go through time, and give you some information on the MUSCLE/Kinnikuman/Ultimate Muscle video Games. What are those things, you ask? Well, Muscle is a toy line of Little Rubber Guys who where the Pokemon of the 80's, except not as milked as those Little Monsters Nintendo made. Kinnikuman is the Original Japanese version of Kinnikuman, and Ultimate Muscle is the re-release of the series in 2002

First off, MUSCLE, for the NES was a wrestling game where you could play as some of the MUSCLE characters. This game ended up giving some of the wrestlers their names. One for example, is Terry man, who in the original Kinnikuman was the best friend of Kinnikuman(Muscleman in the USA) Anyway, Because of Terryman, Terribull had to be changed into his original Japanese name, Buffalo man. Did you know that in the original version of the MUSCLE game, there was a character that was replaced by Geronimo? You Kinnikuman fans may know him as Blocken man. Apparently, because of his relation to the Nazis, he had to be taken out in the American version. Geronimo and Blocken man both have the projectile special move, Geronimo throwing axes, and Blocken man throwing Strange blobs.

MUSCLE (sort of) made a return in America as Ultimate Muscle, Where Muscle man's/Kinnikuman's (Now known as King muscle) son takes his place on the wrestling ring. The Ultimate Muscle game, which plays like the original SNES game, but better, was released sometime during 2002. I remember playing a demo, and realizing that instead of translating it, the original Japanese voices where kept in! They probably thought it was not necessary, as it is only a demo.
I remember playing The game a few days ago, and getting credits to buy toys, both new and old. If you're a fan of Muscle then you may recognize a few of these little rubber guys. I gained my dad's childhood favorite, the Fox, and I realised that the name did not seem right. His name, rather than Fox man, was Forks man! That was quite a funny mistranslation If I say so myself. Also in the game, was recruit wrestlers, some created before they first appeared in the Anime! You use them as parts for the somewhat disappointing yet acually fun custom character mode.

Also, if you look in the Audience in certain levels, you may spot some familiar faces from the past and present series. Some of the characters included are Cubeman, a Rubik's cube like wrestler, Sgt. Kinnikuman, a brother Kinnikuman/King Muscle, Tape recorder man, whose name speaks for itself, and Monsieur cheeks, a disturbing wrestler with a butt for a face.

I know that there are Japanese releases that I have obviously never played, but if I ever find some way to play them, I will give out some info.

Well, that's all for now...