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Fire Pro Joshi - All Star Dream Slam © 1994 Human Ent.
Fire Pro Joshi: All Star Dream Slam is a landmark entry in the legendary Fire Pro Wrestling series. This title was the first in the franchise to secure an official licensing agreement with a professional wrestling promotion, specifically All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling (AJW). It brings the deep, timing-based grapple engine of the Fire Pro series to a strictly female roster, offering a technical and highly realistic representation of the 90s joshi wrestling scene.
GAME ID: SHVC-J4
BARCODE: 4959143600140
Players: 4
Control: 8-Way Joystick
Buttons: 4
=> [Y] Weak strike/grapple, [B] Medium strike/grapple, [A] Strong strike/grapple, [X] Run
Licensing Milestone: As the first officially licensed Fire Pro game, it marked a significant shift for the series, moving from purely fictionalized or "inspired-by" rosters to incorporating the real-world personas and likenesses of the era’s biggest stars.
The AJW Roster: The game features 24 wrestlers in total. 18 are officially licensed AJW performers, including:
Bull Nakano
Aja Kong
Akira Hokuto
Kyoku Inoue
Yumiko Hotta
Takako Inoue
Toshiyo Yamada
Manami Toyota
Suzuka Minami
Bat Yoshinaga
Sakie Hasegawa
Debbie Malenko
Mariko Yoshida
Kaoru Ito
Etsuko Mita
Mima Shimoda
Infernal KAORU
Chaparrita ASARI
Their in-game move sets are meticulously crafted to mirror their real-world signature maneuvers, a hallmark of the Fire Pro dedication to authenticity.
The Generic Roster: To fill out the 24-wrestler limit without exceeding the licensing scope, Human Entertainment included generic characters—Red Woman, White Woman, etc. However, these characters are legendary figures from rival promotions, with their move sets and stats precisely modeled after their real-life counterparts, allowing players to simulate dream matches that were often prohibited by the corporate barriers of the time.
Red Woman = Mayumi Ozaki
White Woman = Jaguar Yokota
Black Woman = Devil Masami
Green Woman = Dynamite Kansai
Yellow Woman = Shinobu Kandori
Pink Woman = Megumi Kudo
Multiplayer Innovation: The title supports up to four-player simultaneous action, allowing for chaotic tag-team matches and battle royals, which was a significant technical achievement for a wrestling game of this complexity on 16-bit hardware.