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In 8 days Wrestling is Respect presents The Quest to Be Best live in Boonton, NJ at 4 PM! It's a single-elimination pro wrestling tournament featuring yours truly and to celebrate I'm counting down Ten of my personal favorite Quests each day leading up to June 30th!

7.) Quest 64 

Quest 64 is a semi-known video game that came out for the Nintendo 64 in 1998. It's regarded for being a simple RPG and one of the most diligent role-playing games ever to be released on a cartridge rather than a compact disc. This made load times non-existent. In a world where RPG games were being defined by Final Fantasy and Pokemon at the time, Quest 64 doesn't get lot of praise. It was seen as too simple for long time role players to enjoy and not in depth enough for new gamers to invest in. I think this is because there was a lot of reading and the game felt like plodding around inside an amusement park for most of the levels. This didn't keep me from enjoying the game for it's most compelling aspect, the story. Quest 64 is about a young Mage named Brian. He's learning how to control the elements to be just like his father, who was a legendary mage in is own right. Brian's dad goes missing and for a month we haven't heard a word back from him, hence Quest 64! You set out to find where your father went and hopefully bring him back home, but along the way you learn of a demonic force named Mammon who has been seeping off of the world's negativity for a long time and your father's intent to destroy the monster. The game ended with a climactic battle, but you never did see your Dad. I was hooked on the motive. I wanted Brian to get his father. If he does find him in the end I will never know, but if it's one thing I learned from Quest 64 it's not about where you wind up but about the road you take to get there.

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There are only 9 days left until Wrestling is Respect's "Quest to be Best" tournament! It's an 8 man, single elimination tournament featuring myself and 7 other wrestlers being held in Boonton, NJ on Sunday, June 30th at 4 PM! Follow them on Twitter!

8.) The Quest (1996)

In 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme made an action movie called Bloodsport which put him on the map in Hollywood. It was inspired by the story of martial artist Frank Dux who found himself entered into the "Kumite," a vicious martial arts tournament. While the truth of this story has seen controversy over the years, implications of fraud were raised, one thing is for sure and it's that Jean-Claude Van Damme loved the idea that a bunch of guys from around the world with different fighting styles would face off to see which one was superior.

Aside from the UFC being a fledgling organization at the time before MMA was a thing, people like myself only had Hollywood to turn to when it came to inter-martial arts action! Enter The Quest. The real Frank Dux worked together with Jean-Claude Van Damme to basically remake the concept of Bloodsport into this cheesy and slightly more kid-friendly version of a tournament featuring a variety of martial arts styles from around the world. The Japanese representative is a Sumo wrestler who makes this great jiggling noise when he plops around by the way. While this film might not be anywhere near as cool as Bloodsport, it is called "The Quest" and it co-stars Roger Moore and James Ramer, which makes this movie my number 8 Game Changing Quest!

Highlights from the Tournament: http://youtu.be/WajUTt8466Y