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is a long-running professional wrestling video game series originating from Japan, started in 1989 by Human Entertainment and continued by Spike in 2000. The series is distinguished by its grappling system, which is primarily based on timed button presses and strategy. Another signature feature of the series is its Edit mode, a character creation feature with many options to customize appearances, wrestling moves and A.I. behavior. Unlike many other pro wrestling games, most ''Fire Pro'' games are not licensed by any major professional wrestling promotion, but do feature likenesses of real-life wrestlers under different names. Games in the series generally utilize 2-D sprite-based graphics, with some later games incorporating 3-D graphical elements. The spin-off ''King of Colosseum'' series features polygonal 3-D graphics. Most of the titles in the ''Fire Pro Wrestling'' series have been released exclusively in Japan, although some of the games have seen releases in North America. ==History== Beginning with the first title in the series from Human Entertainment, ''Fire Pro Wrestling Combination Tag'' for PC Engine in 1989, the ''Fire Pro Wrestling'' series eventually produced editions of games for many systems, notably the Super Famicom, Sega Saturn, Game Boy Advance, Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2. Human also released a wrestling game outside the ''Fire Pro Wrestling'' series in 1989 for Game Boy. Titled ''Pro Wrestling'' in its native Japan, it was released internationally as ''HAL Wrestling''. Most of the titles in the ''Fire Pro Wrestling'' series have been released exclusively in Japan, although some of the games have seen releases in North America. The series became popular in Japan, but did not see an international release until after Spike took over the franchise in 2000. Early games in the Fire Pro Wrestling series were popular outside of Japan with import gamers, and at least one game, ''Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium'' for Super Famicom, received an unofficial fan translation through video game console emulators. ''Fire Pro Wrestling A'' for the Game Boy Advance was released internationally as ''Fire Pro Wrestling'' in 2001, and was one of the titles initially available when the Game Boy Advance was launched in Japan and North America. Three editions of the game received official English translations: Fire Pro Wrestling (2001) and Fire Pro Wrestling 2 (2002) for the GBA, and Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for PS2 (2007). At the 2010 Tokyo Game Show, it was announced that a 3-D avatar-based version of Fire Pro Wrestling would be released for the Xbox 360 in 2011. 〔("Fire Pro Wrestling Coming to Xbox 360" (1up.com) )〕 However, it was not released that year. The Xbox 360 edition of Fire Pro Wrestling was released on September 21, 2012.〔("Fire Pro Wrestling Dated" )〕 This game uses a button-mashing minigame instead of the traditional timing-based grappling system, in hopes of appealing to a more casual audience. 〔("Xbox Live avatars can grapple in upcoming Fire Pro Wrestling" (gamertell.com) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fire Pro Wrestling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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