WWF SmackDown! was the result of this collaboration.īased on the prime time UPN WWF television show that made its debut in September of 1999, WWF SmackDown! tries to capture all elements of the typical WWF broadcast. THQ then went to the respected Japanese wrestling game developer Yuke's Co., Ltd, who produces the Toukon Retsuden series, and told them to make a game worthy of The Rock. THQ managed to wrest the WWF license away from Acclaim for no less than ten years (as of 2000).
