Professional Wrestling legend, Hulk Hogan, actual identify, Terry Bollea, handed away on Thursday, abandoning a considerable legacy that formed the Professional Wrestling business as a complete.
By way of his relationship with wrestling and his well-known pursuit of performing, he got here into contact a number of occasions with the world of video video games, offering his likeness in addition to voice-acting work for a number of properties, most notably WWF/E, the place he grew to become a family identify.
Hulk and wrestling video games
Hulk Hogan featured in over two dozen WWE video games. The star ‘babyface’ (good man) within the first-ever WWF online game, Hulk was the attraction of the sport entitled ‘MicroLeague’, in 1987 for Commodore 64. The person who made WrestleMania well-known additionally featured within the Wrestlemania period of WWE video games. When Hulk infamously moved to WCW, he moved to the WCW video games, however later returned to WWE video games in the identical vein.
In 2012, separate from the WWE, ‘Hulk Hogan’s Major Occasion’ was launched, which made use of Xbox’s Kinect expertise to provide the participant management by shifting their physique.
Hulk stays a part of the latest WWE 2K franchise, the place he seems as a legend. The truth is, he seems 5 occasions in 2k25 resulting from a number of representations of Hogan showing to replicate his completely different eras in Skilled Wrestling.
Reddit person Hulkster01 put collectively a picture displaying all depictions of Hogan in video video games from the preliminary Wrestlemania sport till 2k22, displaying how far video video games got here, with Hogan remaining a well-liked and culturally iconic component of the world of Professional Wrestling.
Non-wrestling Hulk Hogan video video games
Players could also be shocked to know that Hulk Hogan’s online game appearances weren’t restricted to WWE, in reality, removed from it. Whereas pursuing an performing profession, Hogan starred in an interactive video, Thunder in Paradise interactive, a online game adaptation of the tv present, launched on Philips CD-i and MS-DOS in 1995. Hogan additionally launched his personal slot/on line casino sport known as Hulk Hogan’s Hulkmania in 2013.
The Hulkster additionally supplied strains as ‘Sub Commander’ in 2019’s World Struggle Z, and for Liquid Leisure’s RTS, Battle Realms (2001). Most notably, in Saints Row: The Third (2011), Hogan performed Angel De La Muerte. On account of the position, Hogan additionally attended the Spike TV Video Recreation Awards (VGAs), the place he launched a video asserting the winners of sure classes.
Darragh Harbinson is an esports author specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports Information UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.
