The Video game industry continues to boom as the decades have passed, and when it comes to wrestling-based video games the genre generates millions yearly. Things have definitely changed since the WWF’s (now WWE) WrestleMania Challenge, which was released for the original NES in 1990. Throughout all of the Wrestling games that have been released, we can only think about, what could have been on many missed opportunities for the WWE in the video game industry, But what if I told you we could have been playing a superhero game Based around the beloved Blue Meanie character?
Well according to Brian Hefferon better known as his in-ring persona of “Blue Meanie” in the early 2000s, during his time with the WWE the company evidently shot down the idea of a game using his character, based on a Japanese video game that was released in March of 1999 that was called Pepsi Man. Pepsi Man was an action game that consisted of four stages, each divided into smaller segments, and each involving the superhero Pepsiman saving a person who is dehydrated, such as a military man in the middle of a desert, by giving him a can of Pepsi.
True Story. In 2000 I had been approached about doing a video game based on the Blue Meanie that would be an American version of a Japanese game called Pepsi Man. I was all set to do it and was told by WWF I couldn’t. I was released a couple months later.
Unfortunately, as Hefferon stated, not long after the WWE shot down the idea he was released from the company. Now we can only think of what could have been. Who knows maybe since The Blue Meanie has now made an appearance for AEW they might feature him as a special character in their upcoming videogame.
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