WWEhas been closely tied to video gaming since the 1980s, when video games were made based on the professional wrestling company. Whereas the WWE stars of the 1980s grew up in a world basically without video games, though many of the stars of today were kids when the video game industry really got big, and so it’s no surprise that they have stayed fans as adults. This includes WWE wrestler Asuka, who recently took to Twitter to reveal an impressive collection of retro video games.
Asuka has a lot of Famicom andSuper Famicom(the Japanese names for the NES and SNES, respectively) games in her collection. The must-have games likeSuper Mario WorldandMega Manare part of the lineup, but there are plenty of obscure titles as well. Asuka’s video game collection also seems to have representation from virtually every video game genre, indicating that she likes all different kinds of games.
Besides Famicom and Super Famicom games, Asuka has decided to show off other items in her video game collection. This includes a Nintendo 64 with the 64DD, a variety of Sega games, a Game Gear, old-school PC games, and even old manuals for things like Nintendo’s failed Virtual Boy console. What makes Asuka’s video game collection even more impressive is that it doesn’t seem as though she has even revealed everything she has, as she has continued to post pictures of it as recently as half an hour ago (at the time of this writing).
Asuka isn’t the only WWE wrestler that’s big into video games. Frequent Asuka opponent Ember Moon is also a gamer, with her Nintendo Switch recently being part of a storyline.Ember Moon also attended E3 2018, where she came away most impressed bySuper Smash Bros. UltimateandThe Last of Us: Part 2.
WWE wrestlers have continued to attend E3, withAJ Styles, Xavier Woods, and Tyler Breeze appearing at Microsoft’s E3 2019 press conference to help promoteGears 5. Considering how there are more and more members of the WWE locker room that are gamers, it’s a safe bet that they will continue to have a presence at E3 and in the video game industry in general.
