Remember that time where Hogan Fought a human sized bee? Boy that was something. Heard Hogan kept getting stung a Whole lot.😂 Cause of the flying bees.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 My whole comment is a reference at WCW booking numerous disrupted matches and schmozes for Nitro. Hence the "Interference defaulted on" part.
Heading? You mean where it had already *_BEEN_* since the very first episode of WCW Monday Nitro back in 1995! Honestly, WCW Monday Nitro on TNT[¹] _itself_ was literally like a TV show version of pro wrestling match-interference! Bischoff & *da boys* repeatedly cumming Back In Town to metaphorically run-in on WWF's Monday night timeslot and commit metaphorical interference on Vince McMahon & WWF's metaphorical ratings-battle matches, lololol! But also the vice-a-verse-a is also a-true-a as whale! ^-^ 😋 ([¹]SIDE-NOTE: There has seriously *_GOT_* to be _ZERO_ doubt amongst _anybody_ who hath put even the _slightest_ amount of patented WCW-Thought into it that WCW Monday Nitro was a name _deliberately_ chosen because of how easy it would be to mix it up with the already established & worldwide-known WWF Monday Night Raw - Monday Nitro & Monday Night Raw; Monday Night Ro & Monday Nitrawe. Which is _also_ probably part of the raisin h'why Vince moved Raw from The USA Network to The National Network aka TNN. Monday Nitro on TNT, Monday Night Raw on TNN. C'mon!)
Seeing the Sting rant is super bizarre, because by the time this game came out Sting hadn't spoken a word on WCW programming in well over a year (if I'm correct, Sting's legendary "You're a dead man" to Hogan didn't happen until the build up to SuperBrawl VIII, which would be AFTER this game first came out), and the fact that it's early Crow face paint (from, like, late 1996) makes it even more odd. I almost would have preferred for Sting to simply stare at the player, point his bat at the screen, and then walk away without saying a word.
@@christophernicholson20 someone Actually made a parody of it on here Which was hilarious. It had shawn Michaels and others. It was done with WWE caws.
In 1998 I was 8 years old and a huge Stone Cold WWF mark, you would never catch me watching WCW. So of course for Christmas that year my parents got me the WCW Nitro game, my first ever wrestling video game. I was so sad, even more so when I tried to play the game.
My grandmother came home one day in the late '90s and had bought me Flintstones Bedrock Bowling on the PS1. Think I got ya beat, bud. God I miss her...
I remember renting this game and benig sorely dissapointed after 5 minutes. When I rented WCW vs NWO World tour, I stayed home "sick" the next day from school. Big difference.
I tried my absolute ASS off to find ANY way to make this game enjoyable after I got it for Christmas for N64. There was no way to find any sort of fun in this game, because there is none.
They could’ve got you almost any other n64 wrestling game except this one and you would’ve had without a doubt a more fulfilling childhood. When you put them in a home tell them this is why.
The endings are amazing mainly for the wacky characters and also the super sack triple threat slam which is done by teaming up Santa 🎅 and the snowman ⛄️
This was the first game I owned with a modding community. On the PC version, you could edit everything, rather easily, too. We had Eric Cartman and Homer Simpson on commentary while Steve Austin and Batman Powerbombed each other 836 times.
The thing about Stings rant in that game was it was in the very beginning stages of his crow gimmick. He wasn't sure how he was going to do it and he cut that rant when he thought he would just change the face paint but still cut old school Sting promos. It was before he dawned the full Crow get up and didn't talk.
Yeah when I got the codes to unloack everything, I played the HELL out of this on PS1. It was honestly a good time if you didn't know any better as a kid lmao
The best thing about the PC version was that you could edit the .raw files and create any wrestler or arena you wanted. There was a whole forum dedicated to it back in the day
Tony Schiavone screaming “IT’S STEVIE RAY!” when he runs out and the wrestler promos are legendary. I always loved using Rey Mysterio to powerbomb The Giant 😂 also this game looked a lot better on shittier TVs in the 90s.
I sadly owned both this game and WCW Thunder. I had a PS1 and all of my friends had n64’s at that time so of course they were livin large with WCW World Tour, WCW/NWO Revenge, WWF WrestleMania 2000 and the GOAT WWF No Mercy. I had WCW Nitro, WCW Thunder and WWF WarZone. So let’s just say depression was unavoidable at that time
Cut this game some slack. It released TWENTY SIX years ago on the PlayStation One. PS1!!! Sure, the gameplay kinda sucked a bit, just spam mash the pile driver buttons and 1, 2 3, but it was still awesome to play as all WCW and NWO guys. I can still hear The Brain say, “ Aww, he kicked out!!!”. LOVE this game, even still today. Double you see double youuu, NITROOO!!!
You reeeaaally think you're ready for the Stinger? You really think you're ready for the Scorpion Deathlock? YOU THINK YOU'RE READY FOR A FATAL ENCOUNTER?????????
bruh!! that cemetery level was creeping me out because a dude I went to school with had died by a train accident, and that kid just standing in the cemetery kinda looked like him 😟
This one has such a special place in my heart. I love The Giants taunt so much, and DDPs little promo during the character select screen is classic! Also, when MachoMan does his little promo he says "1, 2, 3!" But his hand counts "1,2,4!" 😂
A friend of mine borrowed this. He returned it with the manual torn in half and the case broken. It remains a cautionary tale on sharing things although, with hindsight, he might have been trying to do me a favour.
You can do that with the other games too also. I think you can do that with WWF Attitude and Warzone too. If I remember correctly you can listen to the music on a CD player
Is it possible that the "Turbo" ring was an attempt to give the game an arena with less components to render, so as to try and allow for a "turbo" match with less/no slowdown? Or is that giving too much credit?
WCW Nitro and Thunder were once of my favorites on the PS1. The buttons you need to press will get usual once you get to play this game more often. I loved it when you all the time play the tournament with a different character and unlock a new character afterwards. WCW Nitro 1995 till 1998 were good times as a kid to watch on TNT.
12:12 is basically what it feels like to watch WWE these days with all the LED screens and lights on every conceivable part of anything they can possibly put one on.
The graphics of this game were really great, and the way the moves were performed here is really unique. If only they made the camera static in the traditional way, paid attention to the gameplay, added more moves, and made the ring floor bounce instead of being fixed, it would be one of the masterpieces of wrestling games.
I had the PC Port of this game. To give you an idea about how it plays, here's Hogan's commands: F,A,A-Knee Bashes D,D,D-Big Boot (Opponent running towards you) Up,S,S,F-Hollywood Leg Drop (Opponent on mat with health flashing red)
This was the game that introduced me to the world of wrestling. I've had a demo version for pc. It was 98-99, imagine my confusion when I didn't found mostly all of the game roster on the show. But that was a mind blowing non the less
There are so many hobby game designers and modders out there. Someone should re-create WCW Nitro and make it playable. Same graphics, but more realistic arenas, more moves for the wrestlers, easier controls etc.
I think I remember renting this game once.....the only WCW game I ever actually owned was Mayhem. I liked WWF Warzone, but played WWF Attitude to death.
It was fun enough to rent and unlock everything. And the combos were kind of strange but satisfying, because all the buttons in the chains were next to each other, so you could roll your finger over them. Like from X to square to triangle.
I remember when you completed it with an nWo member it would play a different version of the nWo theme. I thought at the time the theme was created just for the game, but years later I learned that it was possibly the nWo Japan theme.
Usually in other UA-camrs videos, sometimes the developers of the games pop up into the comments section, I noticed that happens in Civvie11s - so I really hope some developers come into here Ryan and talk about what they were thinking. Also, I only became a subscriber last year or so, and I regret the wasted years of my life not following your channel, you’re awesome mate, thanks for being a bright light in this murky world.
The one thing about this that sticks out that you didn't comment on was the "Chico" on front of Scott Hall's tights. I'm shocked that the WWF didn't somehow get that gone.
everything going at break neck speed, going to the top rope without any reason, and no one gets hurt when taking a bump outside the ring... this game was 25 years ahead of it's time.
Based on the main (re: not ridiculous) roster of wrestlers, Inland/WCW settled on who they did between January-July 1997. Jacqueline debuted on camera in January and Madusa's last match before her 1999 comeback was in July, and as far as I know, every other real wrestler/on-air personality was on the books in that time period. That said, as roster goes, it aged pretty well compared to a game like WWF War Zone (which had Bret Hart and Davey Boy Smith almost a year after Montreal). Of the actual roster of WCW wrestlers and on-camera talent, I believe the only three who weren't used on camera by WCW in 1998 were Syxx, Madusa, and Jacqueline
Them hidden unlockables and the arenas, man the developers must have been smoking something when they decided to put a alien, a dinosaur, ghost and some other crazy characters not to mention the areans especially WCW Turbo the ring with no crowd no stage sped up speeding real fast lol
It’s actually funny. This was the game that got my mother to buy me an N64. My mom was also a gamer and we had a PlayStation and then all my other friends had N64 and one of my friends brought in 64 over and we played WCW World Tour and my mom loved it, so when Nitro came out, she figured since THQ made it, that it would be the same. We had Nitro for 3 days and my mom couldn’t get the hang of it and we went and got a N64 and a copy of World Tour
I remember around the time this game came out I was like 10 or 11 at the PX and this dad wanted to buy a wrestling game for his kid he knew nothing about wrestling so he asked me because I was looking at the games and I told him I knew nothing of WCW because I was Team WWF and I told him this game is new maybe he would like this and months later I ran into the dad somewhere he recognized me and thanked me because his kid “loved this game” I still think about that moment from time to time
WCW Nitro had great graphics for its time and those rants on the character select screen were epic. Modern pro wrestling games should steal that concept. Where WCW Nitro fell drastically short was gameplay. Idk if it were possible at that time but THQ should’ve collaborated with the AKI team to create their type of gameplay engine. That would’ve made this game perfect. And I had hope that WCW Thunder, the sequel to Nitro would be better. In a few minor ways it was. But both games fell short of any standards set by the AKI n64 games. Honestly, WCW vs the World or WCW Mayhem would be the best ps1 games which is a real shame because the n64 got much better games.
Different taunts refilling your health the longer they last was the biggest "strategic" move you could make with your character selection. Taunts like The Outsider's crotch chop gave you a small health boost you could throw out whenever you got the chance, but Ric Flair's entire strut-into-WOO gave you back like half a lifebar.
Admittedly I was a mark for WCW in its heyday but the idea of wrestling a bee in a beehive, when I am allergic as hell to them, yeah, that doesn’t work for me, brother. Not even the power of Hulkamania could save that as something I would ever want to do. Thank God I ended up playing WCW/nWo Revenge instead.
The gaming industry in 97 was a lot different to today. Developers were still in the arcade mindset due to how popular Mortal Kombat was so that would explain the decision to go with button combos. I don't think quality was a concern. WCW just wanted a product to put on shelves, in the hope that there would be enough blind purchases to outweigh the smaller game budget. It worked. WCW Nitro on the original Playstation actually got a Greatest hits release (green label) this means that the original game actually sold well eventually selling well enough for a sequel WCW Thunder. It's a shame WCW didn't make into the PS2 era by this time it would have been interesting to see how good a WCW game could have been but I'm at least glad WCW got a good wrestling game in Revenge when the company was still at their peak.
In the PC version of Nitro vs NWO there was a very rare glitch, seriously a 1 in a billion chance of the following. In the game you could press C on pc to cheat and get a random wrestler to interfere. In rare cases the wrestler would attack you but in EXTREMELY rare cases a glitch would occur where the skins didn't load correctly! What happens? You see their entrance, you see the camera angle moving, the announcer announces said wrestler but he's COMPKETELY INVISIBLE! I can't tell you how hard I laughed in 99 when I essentially got my ass thrown out of the ring, frog splashed and pinned by an o visible wrestler!
When you saw the gameplay on a display screen in K-mart it looked so good you couldn’t wait to get home and see what the perceived sequel to World Tour felt like.
I don't think the FMVs were possible on the N64. The only reason they could do that on the playstation is that CDs have a capacity of around 700 MB whereas N64 cartridges topped out around 64 MB. Those short video files probably ate up about 1-2 MB each. There isn't even enough storage space on the cart for the promos alone. That's why you didn't see FMV on the N64. The cartridges simply didn't have enough storage capacity.
I was an N64 kid until i started working so i had world tour. I remember seeing pictures of the gameplay in magazines and being blown away with how much better looking it was than World Tour.... Im sure you noticed the key would their- Pictures. for example, compare and contract Ric Flair's sprite in nitro vs World tour with his flat face. Not til the Ps3 era did i play Nitro and you know what happened. The Grass was not greener on the other side.
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"Interference defaulted on" the developers knew where WCW's booking was heading.
I did annie mae on WWE 12 and
She came out perfectly.👍
Remember that time where Hogan
Fought a human sized bee?
Boy that was something.
Heard Hogan kept getting stung a
Whole lot.😂
Cause of the flying bees.
That skeleton vs ghost fight was
The strangest match in WCW.
Not sure who won that one?
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 My whole comment is a reference at WCW booking numerous disrupted matches and schmozes for Nitro. Hence the "Interference defaulted on" part.
Heading? You mean where it had already *_BEEN_* since the very first episode of WCW Monday Nitro back in 1995!
Honestly, WCW Monday Nitro on TNT[¹] _itself_ was literally like a TV show version of pro wrestling match-interference! Bischoff & *da boys* repeatedly cumming Back In Town to metaphorically run-in on WWF's Monday night timeslot and commit metaphorical interference on Vince McMahon & WWF's metaphorical ratings-battle matches, lololol!
But also the vice-a-verse-a is also a-true-a as whale! ^-^ 😋
([¹]SIDE-NOTE: There has seriously *_GOT_* to be _ZERO_ doubt amongst _anybody_ who hath put even the _slightest_ amount of patented WCW-Thought into it that WCW Monday Nitro was a name _deliberately_ chosen because of how easy it would be to mix it up with the already established & worldwide-known WWF Monday Night Raw - Monday Nitro & Monday Night Raw; Monday Night Ro & Monday Nitrawe. Which is _also_ probably part of the raisin h'why Vince moved Raw from The USA Network to The National Network aka TNN. Monday Nitro on TNT, Monday Night Raw on TNN. C'mon!)
Seeing the Sting rant is super bizarre, because by the time this game came out Sting hadn't spoken a word on WCW programming in well over a year (if I'm correct, Sting's legendary "You're a dead man" to Hogan didn't happen until the build up to SuperBrawl VIII, which would be AFTER this game first came out), and the fact that it's early Crow face paint (from, like, late 1996) makes it even more odd. I almost would have preferred for Sting to simply stare at the player, point his bat at the screen, and then walk away without saying a word.
That would have been a badass rant video.
The little boy in the graveyard was a
Kid that got crushed in the crowd
When going to see WCW.🤣
Poor little guy. R.i.P.
It's sad that the only thing good about this game is the rants. The rants are cool the game and graphics are trash
@@christophernicholson20 they had
Two tries and failed us miserably.
Thank goodness THQ fixed this with
WCW vs NWO and revenge.
@@christophernicholson20 someone
Actually made a parody of it on here
Which was hilarious.
It had shawn Michaels and others.
It was done with WWE caws.
Nitro Nash: Pick me
Thunder Nash: Don’t pick me
Both Nashes: I’m getting paid either way
Nash's promo clips were the single best thing about both games.
“Nash said don’t pick me?! Fine! Cuz I can smash nash!”--Hot Rod
Even video game Kevin Nash doesn't want to work Thunder.
Yeah that was funny 😂
This game makes WCW Mayhem look like Here Comes The Pain lol
G1. LMMFAO 😂
Both I regretted even renting back in those days of Blockbuster lol
Renting??? lol try buying both 🤣🤣🤣 and new at that!!!!
All of the worst WCW games:
WCW superbrawl
WCW nitro(what you watching
Now)
WCW Thunder
WCW backstage assault
WCW Mayhem
Wrestling empire too.🤣
That little kid stood beside the gravestone is clearly the make a wish kid who died at Wembley before Hulk could wrestle in the main event.
That somehow makes it’s far worse and very disturbing
😂😂😂
Hulk really is a true champ 🏆💪🏼.
Damn, that's a freaking pull of a reference. We'll done mate
3:36 this is the first time Sting speaks in his crow gimmick :D
So basically, if you want to wrestle as a ghost vs a dinosaur in a beehive, this is the game for you.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The bumblebee finisher is the final sting drop
The T Rex has the Jurassic crush as his finisher, the ghost 👻 has the finisher called to hell and back which is a triple chokeslam
I hope in the interference section , it's Jim Brunzell and Brian Blair who show up.
I don't know why, but the thought of seeing Tony Schivone fight a giant Grizzly Bear made me laugh.
Grizzly bear finisher is simply The bearhug
In 1998 I was 8 years old and a huge Stone Cold WWF mark, you would never catch me watching WCW.
So of course for Christmas that year my parents got me the WCW Nitro game, my first ever wrestling video game. I was so sad, even more so when I tried to play the game.
lol clueless parents…gotta love ‘em
I was 18 and would be watching Nitro with my boys drinking beer, smoking weed, and making BBQ outside.
Good times. 😂
@@nWoPorViDa damn that sounds awesome
My grandmother came home one day in the late '90s and had bought me Flintstones Bedrock Bowling on the PS1. Think I got ya beat, bud. God I miss her...
Tried lol
I remember renting this game and benig sorely dissapointed after 5 minutes. When I rented WCW vs NWO World tour, I stayed home "sick" the next day from school. Big difference.
My parents caught on eventually, but still let me do it.
I tried my absolute ASS off to find ANY way to make this game enjoyable after I got it for Christmas for N64. There was no way to find any sort of fun in this game, because there is none.
Sad Christmas present.😭
They could’ve got you almost any other n64 wrestling game except this one and you would’ve had without a doubt a more fulfilling childhood. When you put them in a home tell them this is why.
Nitro 64 is actually a different game than the original Nitro for PS1. It's updated, but manages to be even worse (and is missing the cool FMVs)
@@TRJ2241987 I may be wrong, but N64 Nitro was PSX Thunder albeit reskinned.
The endings are amazing mainly for the wacky characters and also the super sack triple threat slam which is done by teaming up Santa 🎅 and the snowman ⛄️
I watch the rants at LEAST twice a year.
Same lol
This one strange kid I hung out with would watch the rants over and over again while laughing hysterically.
I just forget I watched them already. That's how I found liking vids help me remember.
This was the first game I owned with a modding community. On the PC version, you could edit everything, rather easily, too. We had Eric Cartman and Homer Simpson on commentary while Steve Austin and Batman Powerbombed each other 836 times.
“Hey hey hey monkey boy! What do I look like a a joke here?!?”- DDP! I still remember his promo 😂😂😂😂😂
He actually says: "Like there's a choice here?" after the monkey boy part. I'll see myself out.
The thing about Nitro and Thunder is they have a stacked roster of wrestlers, but the controls literally make it unplayable.
I played it for hours. One thing that I loved about Thunder was that you could switch factions and it would change the attire of wrestlers.
The thing about Stings rant in that game was it was in the very beginning stages of his crow gimmick. He wasn't sure how he was going to do it and he cut that rant when he thought he would just change the face paint but still cut old school Sting promos. It was before he dawned the full Crow get up and didn't talk.
The 2nd layer of unlockable characters, the snowman and such, is honestly kinda awesome
Whoa and the wacky ring environments!
Yeah when I got the codes to unloack everything, I played the HELL out of this on PS1. It was honestly a good time if you didn't know any better as a kid lmao
I actually like WCW Nitro and WCW/nWo Thunder
The best thing about the PC version was that you could edit the .raw files and create any wrestler or arena you wanted. There was a whole forum dedicated to it back in the day
Yeah, that was fun. I remember downloading .ZIP files with all of the edited files necessary to make a complete WWF conversion of the game.
Tony Schiavone screaming “IT’S STEVIE RAY!” when he runs out and the wrestler promos are legendary. I always loved using Rey Mysterio to powerbomb The Giant 😂 also this game looked a lot better on shittier TVs in the 90s.
Truth! Anything before PS2 NEEDS a CRT. Sony flat panel ( with the Huge Backs that stick out like 20 inches, are the best for Pi's.
I bought this as a kid, instant regret.
I got a demo version first, I was not a fan of this, warzone and attitude were way better, then smackdown 1 killed all of them lol
@Gary_UA-cam1 Smackdown was a game changer and I played the hell out of the game and still emulate it time to time.
@@Gary_UA-cam1Toukon 3 is older and better than smackdown
@@moescredriver5486 ok, I've never even heard of toukon lol
The best part of this video is when a ghost lifts a dinosaur with one hand.
Vince Russo booked that match lol
I sadly owned both this game and WCW Thunder. I had a PS1 and all of my friends had n64’s at that time so of course they were livin large with WCW World Tour, WCW/NWO Revenge, WWF WrestleMania 2000 and the GOAT WWF No Mercy. I had WCW Nitro, WCW Thunder and WWF WarZone. So let’s just say depression was unavoidable at that time
Yeah but still, I'd take Warzone over both Nitro and Thunder any day, screw those rants, you want a "rant"? Check out Ahmed Johnsons in Warzone. 😉
Cut this game some slack. It released TWENTY SIX years ago on the PlayStation One. PS1!!! Sure, the gameplay kinda sucked a bit, just spam mash the pile driver buttons and 1, 2 3, but it was still awesome to play as all WCW and NWO guys. I can still hear The Brain say, “ Aww, he kicked out!!!”. LOVE this game, even still today. Double you see double youuu, NITROOO!!!
I can tell you get the kind of person that likes trash games😂
You reeeaaally think you're ready for the Stinger? You really think you're ready for the Scorpion Deathlock? YOU THINK YOU'RE READY FOR A FATAL ENCOUNTER?????????
Damn sting is pale, he better work on his tan.
The finish doesn't work for me, brother
bruh!! that cemetery level was creeping me out because a dude I went to school with had died by a train accident, and that kid just standing in the cemetery kinda looked like him 😟
Okay, but seeing Tony Schiavone wrestling a bear is something I didn't know I needed.
This one has such a special place in my heart. I love The Giants taunt so much, and DDPs little promo during the character select screen is classic! Also, when MachoMan does his little promo he says "1, 2, 3!" But his hand counts "1,2,4!" 😂
7:41 Oh the authentic Nitro experience.
A friend of mine borrowed this. He returned it with the manual torn in half and the case broken. It remains a cautionary tale on sharing things although, with hindsight, he might have been trying to do me a favour.
All I remember about this was that you could put the disc in a cd player and listen to the metal music.
I still listen to it when I play WWE 2K. Someone posted it on UA-cam.
You can do that with the other games too also. I think you can do that with WWF Attitude and Warzone too. If I remember correctly you can listen to the music on a CD player
Around this time Jerico called Dean Malenko, "Stinko Malenko", and ive laughed at that for almost twenty years
"Stinko Malenko" and his Dad "Bore Us". lol
@@jeff-ds2prHis dead dad, can't forget that part.
He use Rey Mysterio leg to kick Dean's brother too.
Buzz was 100% a character that got pitched for the Dungeon of Doom
Even as a kid I knew this game sucked lol
Is it possible that the "Turbo" ring was an attempt to give the game an arena with less components to render, so as to try and allow for a "turbo" match with less/no slowdown? Or is that giving too much credit?
11:48 this turns into a CHIKARA-Game years before CHIKARA or the CHIKARA-Game.
The anime girl's name is Annie Mae. I don't know if I wanna applaude the devs or slap them...
WCW Nitro and Thunder were once of my favorites on the PS1. The buttons you need to press will get usual once you get to play this game more often. I loved it when you all the time play the tournament with a different character and unlock a new character afterwards. WCW Nitro 1995 till 1998 were good times as a kid to watch on TNT.
12:12 is basically what it feels like to watch WWE these days with all the LED screens and lights on every conceivable part of anything they can possibly put one on.
There's also a few oddities hidden on the disc itself, like an unused model for Jeff Jarrett, and a really bizarre ending credits song!
The graphics of this game were really great, and the way the moves were performed here is really unique. If only they made the camera static in the traditional way, paid attention to the gameplay, added more moves, and made the ring floor bounce instead of being fixed, it would be one of the masterpieces of wrestling games.
I remember unlocking all of the hidden wrestlers… what was I thinking? It was such a grind.
Its ironic that a video about a weird wrestling game shows on my feed when I'm fresh off of playing Galactic Wrestling featuring Ultimate Muscle.
As a PlayStation kid, this was the best it got lol. I used to rent this one all the time.
I had the PC Port of this game.
To give you an idea about how it plays, here's Hogan's commands:
F,A,A-Knee Bashes
D,D,D-Big Boot (Opponent running towards you)
Up,S,S,F-Hollywood Leg Drop (Opponent on mat with health flashing red)
ah yeahhhh i had the game on PC, was a huge dissapointment lol
"6 or 7 times out of 10 someone will interfere in your match" so they're staying true to the whole WCW experience.
I would've preferred Sting to simply stare and brood then do a promo that was absolutely pointless because he just transitioned into Crow Sting
I remember having a demo of this on my family PC when I was a child. Trying to play a wrestling game on a keyboard was a nightmare
The only positive thing is the appearance of the promos when you select the wrestler.
This was the game that introduced me to the world of wrestling. I've had a demo version for pc. It was 98-99, imagine my confusion when I didn't found mostly all of the game roster on the show. But that was a mind blowing non the less
There are so many hobby game designers and modders out there. Someone should re-create WCW Nitro and make it playable. Same graphics, but more realistic arenas, more moves for the wrestlers, easier controls etc.
9:23 Bobblehead mod 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think I remember renting this game once.....the only WCW game I ever actually owned was Mayhem. I liked WWF Warzone, but played WWF Attitude to death.
Bobby Heenan giving Frankenstein a "belly to belly" was class...
It was fun enough to rent and unlock everything. And the combos were kind of strange but satisfying, because all the buttons in the chains were next to each other, so you could roll your finger over them. Like from X to square to triangle.
I remember when you completed it with an nWo member it would play a different version of the nWo theme. I thought at the time the theme was created just for the game, but years later I learned that it was possibly the nWo Japan theme.
I actually loved this game. I was new to wrestling and it was one of my 1st ever wrestling games, possibly even my 1st.
Could the empty Turbo level be intended to give you a chance to play without the lag? Means there's a lot less to be rendered
Usually in other UA-camrs videos, sometimes the developers of the games pop up into the comments section, I noticed that happens in Civvie11s - so I really hope some developers come into here Ryan and talk about what they were thinking.
Also, I only became a subscriber last year or so, and I regret the wasted years of my life not following your channel, you’re awesome mate, thanks for being a bright light in this murky world.
Ich bin etwas enttäuscht, dass du nicht die deutsche Promo von Alex Wright gezeigt hast. Alle Bratwürste sind jetzt traurig.
Ja ich habe auch vergebens darauf gehofft 😞
Maximaler Schwanzmove...
Große Bratwurst! Bin auch enttäuscht.
Ah big bratwurst!!!
The one thing about this that sticks out that you didn't comment on was the "Chico" on front of Scott Hall's tights. I'm shocked that the WWF didn't somehow get that gone.
THIS game was the introduction for a 7 year old boy into the world that is WWE. THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERING!
I think we picked it up for cheap at Funcoland, there was a reason it was on sale though 😂😂
I found this amusing as a kid.
Syxx's finisher was the Buzz Killer
The giant bee's finisher was the Syxx Killer
What you should be playing:
WCW vs the world
WCW vs NWO world tour
WCW vs NWO revenge
Mayhem was dog dookie though.
@@LobsterPuncher just like EA now.🤣
"PILEDRIVER!!!"
"POWERBOMB!!!!"
They are engrained in my brain... help me..
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The Pain... The Pain!
No Not The Bees, Not The Bees AHHHHHHHH It's in my EYES EYESSSS.
everything going at break neck speed, going to the top rope without any reason, and no one gets hurt when taking a bump outside the ring... this game was 25 years ahead of it's time.
Based on the main (re: not ridiculous) roster of wrestlers, Inland/WCW settled on who they did between January-July 1997. Jacqueline debuted on camera in January and Madusa's last match before her 1999 comeback was in July, and as far as I know, every other real wrestler/on-air personality was on the books in that time period. That said, as roster goes, it aged pretty well compared to a game like WWF War Zone (which had Bret Hart and Davey Boy Smith almost a year after Montreal). Of the actual roster of WCW wrestlers and on-camera talent, I believe the only three who weren't used on camera by WCW in 1998 were Syxx, Madusa, and Jacqueline
If you held down all top ps1 buttons at the same time, everyone would immediately stop and do the WMCA
"WCW Turbo" sounds like WCW trying to invent WWE Speed by a good couple of decades.
As a kid who got into WCW after Sting became crow sting, this was the first time I ever heard Sting talk!
This was a great game. Esp for it's time. One of my favs. Can't compare what was then vs what we see now
Them hidden unlockables and the arenas, man the developers must have been smoking something when they decided to put a alien, a dinosaur, ghost and some other crazy characters not to mention the areans especially WCW Turbo the ring with no crowd no stage sped up speeding real fast lol
That’s dedication, I had this game and knew nothing about developers putting themselves into game or “nameless suit and tie guys”
It’s actually funny. This was the game that got my mother to buy me an N64.
My mom was also a gamer and we had a PlayStation and then all my other friends had N64 and one of my friends brought in 64 over and we played WCW World Tour and my mom loved it, so when Nitro came out, she figured since THQ made it, that it would be the same. We had Nitro for 3 days and my mom couldn’t get the hang of it and we went and got a N64 and a copy of World Tour
I LOVED this game as little kid...the first wrestling game I ever owned.
"7 times out of 10 someone will interfere with your match." So, this is very accurate to WCWs actual booking?
The Buzz level used to freak me out too
big show : sell this move * suplex scott*
scott : nope
I remember around the time this game came out I was like 10 or 11 at the PX and this dad wanted to buy a wrestling game for his kid he knew nothing about wrestling so he asked me because I was looking at the games and I told him I knew nothing of WCW because I was Team WWF and I told him this game is new maybe he would like this and months later I ran into the dad somewhere he recognized me and thanked me because his kid “loved this game” I still think about that moment from time to time
For me I liked WCW Nitro a lot because I only had a ps1 but with its limitation using the cheats helped a lot in replay value. AWESOME VID
WCW Nitro had great graphics for its time and those rants on the character select screen were epic. Modern pro wrestling games should steal that concept. Where WCW Nitro fell drastically short was gameplay. Idk if it were possible at that time but THQ should’ve collaborated with the AKI team to create their type of gameplay engine. That would’ve made this game perfect. And I had hope that WCW Thunder, the sequel to Nitro would be better. In a few minor ways it was. But both games fell short of any standards set by the AKI n64 games. Honestly, WCW vs the World or WCW Mayhem would be the best ps1 games which is a real shame because the n64 got much better games.
man...
some real old memories unlocked here
once revenge and the wwf games came out i never looked back but i remember putting some time into nitro
Different taunts refilling your health the longer they last was the biggest "strategic" move you could make with your character selection. Taunts like The Outsider's crotch chop gave you a small health boost you could throw out whenever you got the chance, but Ric Flair's entire strut-into-WOO gave you back like half a lifebar.
I remember as a kid being so desperate for wrestling games in 98-99 that I had convinced myself WCW Nitro on N64 was a good game.
Admittedly I was a mark for WCW in its heyday but the idea of wrestling a bee in a beehive, when I am allergic as hell to them, yeah, that doesn’t work for me, brother. Not even the power of Hulkamania could save that as something I would ever want to do. Thank God I ended up playing WCW/nWo Revenge instead.
The gaming industry in 97 was a lot different to today. Developers were still in the arcade mindset due to how popular Mortal Kombat was so that would explain the decision to go with button combos. I don't think quality was a concern. WCW just wanted a product to put on shelves, in the hope that there would be enough blind purchases to outweigh the smaller game budget. It worked. WCW Nitro on the original Playstation actually got a Greatest hits release (green label) this means that the original game actually sold well eventually selling well enough for a sequel WCW Thunder. It's a shame WCW didn't make into the PS2 era by this time it would have been interesting to see how good a WCW game could have been but I'm at least glad WCW got a good wrestling game in Revenge when the company was still at their peak.
In the PC version of Nitro vs NWO there was a very rare glitch, seriously a 1 in a billion chance of the following.
In the game you could press C on pc to cheat and get a random wrestler to interfere. In rare cases the wrestler would attack you but in EXTREMELY rare cases a glitch would occur where the skins didn't load correctly!
What happens?
You see their entrance, you see the camera angle moving, the announcer announces said wrestler but he's COMPKETELY INVISIBLE!
I can't tell you how hard I laughed in 99 when I essentially got my ass thrown out of the ring, frog splashed and pinned by an o visible wrestler!
I actually enjoyed this game 25 years ago. The gameplay in vs the world is better but the graphics in that were poor.
I played the character screens so much I remember every word they said
When you saw the gameplay on a display screen in K-mart it looked so good you couldn’t wait to get home and see what the perceived sequel to World Tour felt like.
Steve's coffee quote is legendary. I can't hear it enough.
I thought it was a decent wrestling game when it released, but given how awesome wwf games were at the time, it just couldn't hold up.
WCW 👍
Gone but never forgotten
I don't think the FMVs were possible on the N64. The only reason they could do that on the playstation is that CDs have a capacity of around 700 MB whereas N64 cartridges topped out around 64 MB. Those short video files probably ate up about 1-2 MB each. There isn't even enough storage space on the cart for the promos alone. That's why you didn't see FMV on the N64. The cartridges simply didn't have enough storage capacity.
11:50 Wait, you mean that Dweeble, Annie Mae and Greyling weren't WCW wrestlers? Damn, I was anticipating the RTW video showing their debuts...
I wish Herb Abrams and UWF still alive on that time and make a game like this. We would love to hear Herb rant 😆
Fuckin random 😂
I was an N64 kid until i started working so i had world tour.
I remember seeing pictures of the gameplay in magazines and being blown away with how much better looking it was than World Tour.... Im sure you noticed the key would their- Pictures.
for example, compare and contract Ric Flair's sprite in nitro vs World tour with his flat face.
Not til the Ps3 era did i play Nitro and you know what happened.
The Grass was not greener on the other side.