Mat Mania

Mat Mania
North American arcade flyer
DeveloperTechnōs Japan
Publishers
PlatformsArcade, Atari 7800, X68000
ReleaseArcade
  • JP: September 1985
  • NA: December 1985
Atari 7800
1990
GenresSports (professional wrestling)
ModeMultiplayer

Mat Mania, known in Japan as Exciting Hour: The ProWrestling Network or simply Exciting Hour, is a 1985 wrestling video game developed by Technōs Japan and published by Taito for arcades. It is a spiritual successor to the 1983 arcade game Tag Team Wrestling, also developed by Technōs Japan, but published by Data East. The arcade game was a commercial success in Japan and North America, becoming the highest-grossing arcade conversion kit of 1986 in the United States.

An updated arcade version with a two-player competitive mode was released in 1986 as Mania Challenge. Atari Corporation released an Atari 7800 port in 1990, Mat Mania Challenge, which includes features of both games and lacks others. It was ported to the X68000 by Denpa with Shusse Ōzumō (1984). Mat Mania was re-released by Hamster Corporation for the PlayStation 4 as part of their Arcade Archives series in 2015 and the Nintendo Switch in 2019.