Fantasy wrestling (also referred to as "e-wrestling") is an umbrella term representing the genre of role-playing and statistics-based games which are set in professional wrestling companies. In roleplaying, participants adopt and act out the Role of characters, or parts that may have personalities motivations and backgrounds different from A game is a structured activity, usually undertaken for Enjoyment and sometimes also used as an Educational tool Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional Sport, where all matches are scripted by the promotion's booking staff Several variants of Fantasy Wrestling exist: segregated both by the way they are transmitted (through websites, message boards, e-mail, postal mail, or face-to-face), the method in which the storyline is determined (via roleplay, "angles", strategy- or statistics-based systems, etc. ) and how the roster was composed ("real" wrestlers or original characters created by the players. A roster can be a list of people and the times when they are required to work )
Fantasy wrestling's roots lie in the play-by-mail wrestling games that became prominent in the mid-to-late 1980s during one of professional wrestling's boom periods. In the early 1990s, the advent of national bulletin board services like Prodigy, AOL, and Compuserve allowed players to use e-mail and bulletin board to more easily trade information and post roleplay. This article refers to the now defunct Prodigy Communications Corporation that was purchased by SBC Communications Inc CompuServe, ( CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS) was the first major commercial Online service in the United States As technology progressed and the internet evolved, fantasy wrestling enthusiasts took advantage, using websites and newsgroups to connect and build broader communities for gameplay. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks
E-wrestling
E-Wrestling is an internet variation on creative roleplay, based on the world of professional wrestling. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks In roleplaying, participants adopt and act out the Role of characters, or parts that may have personalities motivations and backgrounds different from Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional Sport, where all matches are scripted by the promotion's booking staff The basic premise is that the player (also called a handler) creates a character, and manages his or her career in a fictional professional wrestling promotion, called an E-Federation (or E-Fed). A player of a Game is a participant therein The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in Game theory and in ordinary recreational Games
Much like the term "e-mail" became the abbreviation for electronic mail, the term "e-wrestling" became common in the early-to-mid-1990s as fantasy wrestling began to move from a primarily play-by-mail format and instead began to use online bulletin boards, then internet service providers (ISPs) and ad hoc webpages.
In earlier versions of the game patterned on play-by-mail formats, a handler often controlled his wrestler’s success by creating a move and then e-mailing it to an adjudicator. Based on this the adjudicator would then decide the outcome. [1] As e-wrestling moved from individual ISPs to the World Wide Web beginning in 1994, the roleplay format used on PRODIGY and other services began to eclipse the turn-based system.
In 2004, World Wrestling Entertainment began its own fantasy wrestling game focused on selecting WWE Superstars as part of a team and receiving points based on their involvement on the WWE television shows. WWE singled out "real wrestling" E-Feds who used the names and likenesses of WWE Superstars and began sending them cease-and-desist letters. [2]
References
- ^ "The Best and Worst of 1994 and Predictions for '95 (extract)", The Internet Magazine, 1994. Internet Magazine was a monthly print title launched in October 1994 by the UK publishing house Emap. Retrieved on 2007-03-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
- ^ "WWE shutting down fantasy feds, Ross rips on Bash, Smackdown ratings (extract)", WWE News, 2004. Wade Keller is a wrestling columnist He runs the Pro Wrestling Torch newsletter widely regarded as one of the most influential newsletters in Professional wrestling Retrieved on 2007-05-08. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo 1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen
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