This magazine advertisement is for the video game Rock ’n Wrestle, developed in Melbourne by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House. It reproduces the game’s brightly coloured cover art, showing a punk wrestler with a mohawk throwing down his opponent.

The art has a retro charm, dating back to the mid-’80s, when wrestling was becoming a mainstream phenomenon in the US. Marketed as the first 3D combat sports game, you could avoid your opponent by moving up or down the screen as well as left or right. It’s a reminder of simpler times when wrestling games didn’t need complex mechanics to entertain their players.