Spider2024
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Post by Spider2024 on Mar 26, 2019 20:38:06 GMT -5
(Besides the Fire Pro game series.) It seems like the NES/SNES/Genesis weren't full of wrestling games that too many people like, especially in retrospect. I for one loved and still love the 16-bit WWF games that made up Super WrestleMania/Royal Rumble/Raw/Rage In The Cage. But I guess eventually that needed to hit the wayside once gaming in general went to 3D games and WWF needed to do that (the two MK-style games from '95 and '96 were a nice filler to tide us over, I felt). So they went as far as they could go with that particular engine, though it's too bad they couldn't do essentially a Rage In The Cage 2 for a CD console like the Sega CD or Saturn (not the PSX because Sony wanted as few 2D games on that console as possible) with even more characters and, you know, more than 2 match types.  |
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Post by CMPunkyBrewster on Mar 26, 2019 20:59:45 GMT -5
Royal Rumble is legit one of my of favorite games ever.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 21:00:05 GMT -5
I put in many hours on TECMO World Wrestling for NES and WWF Royal Rumble for SNES.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 21:03:57 GMT -5
Tecmo World Wrestling is amazing. I loved Pro Wrestling too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 21:04:17 GMT -5
Saturday Night Slam Masters on the SNES was amazing, god knows how many hours I put into that game.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 26, 2019 21:13:35 GMT -5
NES-TECMO,Pro Wrestling and WCW.
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Post by Heeltown, USA on Mar 26, 2019 22:15:05 GMT -5
Well since Fire Pro is off the table, this becomes pretty obvious that Saturday Night Slam Masters is the gold standard.
As much as a kid I did love playing all the NES and SNES/Genesis offerings, they tried and failed to capture the essence of pro wrestling.
Slam Masters said f*** it, lets make a fighting game with pro wrestling as the aesthetic. It just worked.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 22:26:52 GMT -5
I had Natsume Championship Wrestling for the SNES that I really liked a lot. It felt like a mix between the AKI games and Fire Pro, had timing based grappled but felt a bit weightier like No Mercy. Didn't have a very big roster or have much move variety though.
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Post by BorneAgain on Mar 26, 2019 22:34:43 GMT -5
WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest were arcade godsends back on the day, and its a shame no console game ever really tried to emulate them that much.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Mar 26, 2019 23:05:51 GMT -5
WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest were arcade godsends back on the day, and its a shame no console game ever really tried to emulate them that much. Those games took sooooo many quarters from me. Royal Rumble and Raw aren’t brilliant, but they’re a lot of nostalgic fun. Couldn’t tell you how many times I rented Royal Rumble as a kid, own it now. It wasn’t til years later I found out the Mega Drive version had a slightly different roster |
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Post by agent817 on Mar 26, 2019 23:25:34 GMT -5
For some reason, I kind of enjoyed Mat Mania.
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Post by SmashTV on Mar 27, 2019 12:39:28 GMT -5
For some reason, I kind of enjoyed Mat Mania. Was this the one also known as Exciting Hour with Insane Worrier and Coco Savage? If so I played that game a lot in my local arcade circa 1988. Coco Savage was a pain in the arse to try and beat, and he wasn’t even the champion! |
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Post by anglarite on Mar 27, 2019 14:06:05 GMT -5
I personally loved both WWF Wrestlemania (1995) and WWF In Your House (1996) for PC.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 27, 2019 14:54:36 GMT -5
WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest were arcade godsends back on the day, and its a shame no console game ever really tried to emulate them that much. There was a remake on iOS in 2012 with then current stars. Pretty fun stuff. |
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 27, 2019 16:23:20 GMT -5
If we’re counting arcade games, Wrestlefest.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Mar 27, 2019 17:25:26 GMT -5
Saturday Night Slam Masters on the SNES was amazing, god knows how many hours I put into that game. Yaaaaaasss. Loved that damn game |
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Post by MrElijah on Mar 27, 2019 18:28:12 GMT -5
Saturday Night Slam Masters on the SNES was amazing, god knows how many hours I put into that game. The Genesis ver. had that awesome Death Match mode. |
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Mar 28, 2019 2:17:27 GMT -5
I put in many hours on TECMO World Wrestling for NES and WWF Royal Rumble for SNES. Those are my picks as well. I also have to give some love to the original Pro Wrestling on NES. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2019 6:54:47 GMT -5
the Tecmo announcer was always pandering to the dirt sheets
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Mar 28, 2019 6:59:34 GMT -5
Saturday Night Slam Masters on the SNES was amazing, god knows how many hours I put into that game. |
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