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Go Retro with RetroMania Wrestling!

RetroMania Wrestling is inspired by classic arcade wrestling action!

RetroMania Wrestling is a “pick up and play” arcade wrestling game with beautiful 2D sprites, incredible backgrounds and fast-paced arcade style game play. The RetroMania Wrestling roster features wrestling superstars both from the past and the present, including names like the Road Warriors, Tommy Dreamer, Nick Aldis, Matt Cardona, and more.

RetroMania Wrestling was released in 2021 and is available now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox consoles, and PlayStation consoles.

19 unique, distinct playable wrestlers (with at least 5 more coming via DLC
2-8 player local multiplayer
Several match types including one-on-one matches, tag team matches, steel cage match, and the Retro Rumble
Over 50 different match variations
Story Mode and the Ten Pounds of Gold mode
21 different arenas
Ring entrances with entrance music
Multiple ring attires for each wrestler
Strategic gameplay that is easy to pick up and play
Spectacular 2D pixel art animated sprites with over 700 frames of animation and animated backgrounds
Crowd chants that react to the action on the screen
Match commentary from the team of Ian Riccaboni and Colt Cabana

Mike hermann, Team Lead

Mike is a long time wrestling and retro video game fan. Mike's background is in accounting and finance software having 13 years experience of managing teams on various levels of software implementations. Mike has a master’s in software engineering and an undergraduate degree in Accounting, and is the Owner of Retrosoft Studios, LLC. Mike's role in development of the game includes game design, QA, budget management, hiring manager and project management and an occasional edit to some pixel art. It was Mike's dream to make a sequel to the game he loved so much as a kid and now he is doing it!

Michael archer, licensing & business development

Michael is utilizing his business development experience as a gaming producer, brand developer, and lifelong devotee of action and sports-related concepts into robust strategies for RetroMania Wrestling. In his career, Michael has overseen complete product chain from initiation and development to production and sales. Michael combines high-profile licensees with established brands to expose product to new markets in this limitless industry. Michael's work experience in the gaming and wrestling industries include jobs with Acclaim Games Inc for over 7 years and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for over 14 years. Michael has worked on more than 50 games in some capacity throughout his career. Michael is helping guide the overall project and specifically utilizing his contacts in the wrestling industry to help with license agreements.

Mike Tiscione, Marketing

Charles webb, Lead Programmer

Charles is a co-founder of Faux-Operative Games. A UCSB Graduate, Charles has been active in the Game Maker community under the name ‘InsanelySpicyCrab.’ Charles works primarily with Game Maker Studio and is most known for his work on Ruin of the Reckless. He posts on this blog under the name ‘Stargrove.’. Charles is co-designing the game with Mike Hermann and responsible for the majority of the code base.

bill stanton, art director

Bill has been doing pixel art since the 90s. Bill has managed art departments, done a lot of design (written, game concept, layout and that sort in addition to drawn), met crazy deadlines, pulled 3 day sleepless crunchers and even done some newer console stuff. He designed Steel Harbinger on PS1 and Star Trek 25th Ann. on Gameboy (B&W), and did most of the art for both of those titles. He has even worked on EGA games for Britannica. He mainly textures and illustration/UI/pixel 2D but have worked on Maya, 3D Studio, ZBrush, done low poly models, vertex lighting and more. Bill is the most experienced artist on the team and is managing a team of 3 character artists.

Fran gonzales, illustrator

Fran is an art teacher in Spain that Mike Hermann has known for almost 10 years. Fran has worked on several published games. He is co-owner of Fu Essence design studio. Fran will work on any illustrations we use for the game. Fran created the illustrations that appear on this web page.

corey annis, animator

Corey Annis is a video game artist of 12 years. He has spent 5 of those years in the mobile games industry, working on titles such as Gun Bros and Super K.O. Boxing II, as well as contributed to dozens of other mobile games of the past. More recently, he has created character sprites for the game Wolfsong (on Steam), art for the mobile game Mutant Monster Balls, as well as contributed to a half dozen Spriter game art packs (also available on Steam and other stores). Corey is working on the environments, UI artwork, and character animations.

Salvatore pane, Writer

Salvatore Pane is the author of two novels and nonfiction book about video games -- Mega Man 3. He teaches creative writing and video games at the University of St. Thomas and can be reached on Twitter at @salpane. Previous games he's written about have appeared at the WordPlay festival and Bar SK. See more of his work at Salvatore-Pane.com.

wade kerford, quality assurance

Wade, along with Mike Hermann, are the resident experts of classic wrestling arcade games. Wade has a very diverse background and is a very detail-oriented tester. Wade is a super fan of old school wrestling arcade games and a jack of all trades. Wade helps out with concept art, documentation, and design but his main focus will be on testing.