Which Super Nintendo Pro Wrestling Games Are Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
Вставка
- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Games covered:
[1:01] WWF Super Wrestlemania
[1:56] WWF Royal Rumble
[3:18] WWF Raw
[4:22] WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game
[5:14] WCW SuperBrawl Wrestling
[6:04] Saturday Night Slam Masters
[7:15] Hammerlock Wrestling
[7:44] Natsume Championship Wrestling
[8:23] Zen Nippon/Zennihon Wrestling series
[9:04] Shin Nippon Wrestling series
[9:34] Super Fire Pro Wrestling series
New SNES-related video every Tuesday, and something else (Genesis, Game Boy, whatever) on Thursdays
Buy me a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/snesdrunk
Binge watch SNESdrunk: • All Reviews (Newest to... - Ігри
I still remember my dad picking me up and taking me to his house to spend the weekend with him only to find out that he got me a super nintendo with slam master... Man I ran back at him and hugh him for minutes.
Waiting for him to set up the console in the tv was eternal waiting time... Man I love my old man!
I loved slam masters. Everything you could want in a wrestling game then. Solid moves. Intuitive controls. Colour ,sound all hyped up. Loud audience. It felt like a wrestling game should feel. Something you'd not see again until the N64 WCW/Nwo games and Wrestlemania 2000/No Mercy.
Good game & good times.
@@Ozzy_2014 So true. U took the words out of my mouth. Many Nes n Snes Wrestling wwf games needed help. Slammasters was the best & all the chacarters were based on Wwf and Wcw icons. Like vader, macho man, the Giant,Rey misterio.
Exactly !!! The one thing I noticed is the respect you have for your dad. You waited for him to set it up. Because you wanted him to experience that first play with you.
I know this OP is old but it's a good story. I know it's a simple story and cliche to say that you really treasure those small memories more and more as you age but it's true.
Enjoyed the video but who can't love Bam Bam Bigelow!? RIP
Rest in peace Bam Bam
I met him in my hometown...was super laid back and pleasant
He's a legend
Bam Bam Bigelow was awesome- not only one of the best big man wrestlers, but a genuine hero, who once saved three kids from a burning building in his street, suffering 2nd degree burns to 40% of his body. The flame tattoos on his head weren't just for show.
This sounds like a "Mark" wrote this .
3:55 Bam Bam Bigelow is a legend, widely considered one of the greatest big men in wrestling history, and he (together with Luna Vachon) was featured heavily on Raw at the time of the game's release.
As for the 1-2-3 Kid and Doink, they were hugely popular at the time. When 1-2-3 Kid won against Razor Ramon it helped kick start one of the hottest angles of the early to mid 90s American wrestling: Razor's face turn (and taking the Kid under his wing and teaming up with him) and his feud with Shawn Michaels. The Kid starting off as a jobber and getting a win over Razor, arguably the biggest heel in the company at that time, did a great job of establishing Monday Night Raw itself as a must-see show for wrestling fans because it was broadcast live and it gave the impression quite literally anything could happen there: a jobber who looked like a 16 year old might just score a win over an established main eventer. Now babyface Doink was a bad idea, that's gotten even worse with age, but there's no question he got a huge pop whenever he showed up in 1994, so I understand why they made him part of the game's roster. I'd say this is a pretty good representation of their most popular active wrestlers at the time.
Sure, Jake the Snake and Ric Flair rank way higher as all-time greats than Doink or the 1-2-3 Kid ever will, but they weren't in the WWF anymore when this game came out. 🤷♂️
A lot of people still don't know rhat 123 Kid is Sixx / X Pac who later went on to way more success than Flair or Jake in the WWF. But those same folks likely also don't know that Flair and Jake were already over years before going to WWF either
They had the bucket in RAW because Doink (who was a huge babyface that started heel) use to bring it down to the ring. Sometimes he had water, sometimes confetti. You couldn't tell cuz of how they worked the camera.
On a side note, Tatonka, Bam Bam, and 123 kid DID A LOT FOR THE BUSINESS! AND THEY WERE ALL AWESOME!
TheGame MLL Yeah! Who could forget the Razor Ramon 123 Kid rivalry!
4 reals cool vid but def super casual fan
I thought Tatanka & Bigelow coulda been a great tag team if given the chance.
Make shift team? Yea. But if they worked for a promoter/Booker etc who loved tag teams, this team woulda been even better.
Doink was far better as a villain.
Also godwinns and the slop bucket
Saturday Night Slam Masters was my Jam! Loved that game!! They need a remake!!!!!!!!!!!
1-2-3 Kid is X-Pac and Bam Bam was a pretty good wrestler
I felt disrespected when he said who cares about them like huh blasphemy lol 😂
All those wrestlers are epic and legends.
Yeah you can tell he wasn’t really die hard wrestling fan
Bam bam! the beast from the east!
@@Menice1153 , i felt the same lol
Hogan is in the Genesis Royal Rumble.
The one on Sega genesis is way better
You got something against Bam Bam Bigelow son?
Doink rules too
The Beast From The East!
Bam bam is od, and even better when u hear him in interviews years later
@@twerkfromhome and the 123 Kid
@@justastrugglermovingforwar6209 x pac
Saturday Night Slammasters and WWF Wrestlefest are two of my all time favorite games!
Mine too.
@@Dyrewolfie I saw that game but saw nothing about acquiring the rights to _Wrestlefest_
@@Dyrewolfie yeah I saw the game and it looks pretty fun.. just haven't seen anything about the rights to the original game
@@Dyrewolfie that's cool.. also they acquired the characters from *Mat Mania*
That was the first arcade I bought, long before I knew anything about repairing them, and I ended up gutting it to make a _M.A.M.E._ cab 🤦♂️
Love slammasters. Scorp and stingr all day baby. Ooooh and Oni
Saturday Night Slam Master is really important for us in the Dominican Republic. The character "King Rashamom" is the first dominican character in a fighting game. He is based in "Jack Veneno" the greatest "lucha libre" fighter in the golden age of Prowrestling in DR
Slam masters was so great and WCW super brawl was so broken lol. Great video!
Wrestlemania the Arcade Game, despite its weirdness, was always my favourite.
Royal Rumble, Raw, and slam masters for sure. Loved all 3 of them back in the 90s!
I loved Fire Pro Wrestling. It was one of the first games I bought for the GBA. After playing it, I checked out the SNES games. They still hold up well.
Yeah they're all great games. The GBA Fire Pro games are probably the greatest time sink on the system, to me. Endless replayability thanks to the robust creation modes.
wrestlemania the arcade game is great for a quick game
Also bcuz mortal Kombat development made it
Right.and as arcade game that's about what you'd want. it was ported. did ok. was fun party game that's cool.
Bam Bam Bigelow was always my favorite character! his cartwheels were so great!
Bam Bam Bigelow was THE MAN SON!
As for the roster change from Royal Rumble to Raw. Ric Flair, Randy Savage and Mr Perfect had all switched to WCW at that time.
Bam Bam Bigelow, 123 kid and Doink were some of the most featured characters on the roster. At the time WWE only had a small roster of maybe 20 singles guys so this was probably the top 12 singles guys in the company at the time.
Luna Vachon was a strange inclusion being as the company didn't seem to have a proper women's division at the time but I agree that the rest of the roster made sense.
@@tempestfennac9687 By the time Raw on SNES showed up they were beginning to feature women's matches again, most notably Alundra Blayze.
I think the choice for Luna is mostly a consequence of her being so heavily featured alongside Bam Bam, though. You never saw Bam Bam without Luna, and she even tagged with him a couple times.
@@Jayce_Alexander That makes sense. I knew they had an abysmal match against Doink and Dink at Wrestlemania 10 but I wasn't aware of them having any other matches together.
I remember how excited I was to get super wrestlemania for Christmas but that joy went away by December 26 greetings from buffalo N.Y.
The best one is Slammasters had so much fun n made good memories with that.
Same!!! A lot of fun
I always picked the Lucha wrestler, he would do a standing middle drop kick. Same with Wrestlemania arcade, I always picked Shawn Michaels because of spinning back kick.
Standing missle drop kick*
I played as Luna Vachon and absolutely destoryed my friends in that game. They were pissed off. I still remember. She was so fast.
My first experience with wrestling was watching WCW Monday Nitro in 1994. Good shit back then
So you wonder why Crush, Luger and Tatanka are in the game but not I.R.S., Papa Shango and Luna Vachon...
love these videos, thanks for taking time to do them.
I have so many good memories of Royal Rumble with my brother and friends. Slam Masters was very good too...it was Final Fight/Street Fighter in a wrestling ring, and it worked.
This episode was amazing man. I recently have delved back into NXT and other WWE programming. It was nice to see those old rosters.
Thanks, SNES drunk for the info and memories!
I had the first WWF Superstars and I SO loved Royal Rumble. A friend and I would run over the ref and then team up to choke the life out of the other wrestler/s and do our finishers over and over on them even with no energy left. Cranium CRUNCH!!!
Also, my little sister could almost always beat me in button-mashing grapples. I could never seem to match that finger-speed. Good times! 🙂
Royal Rumble was my favorite WWF game on SNES as well. However, you scoffed at Doink the clown as most people do but his heel run when he first debuted was awesome! As a matter of fact, he was getting over so well as a heel that people were starting to cheer him. Because it was before the attitude era they felt the need to turn him babyface and it killed the gimmick. Also, Matt Borne (original Doink) was fired around this time so the character was never going to be the same even if they turned him back heel.
yeah the person who posted this seems like a very casual fan of wrestling. especially when talking about Bam Bam, Bryan Adams, Doink and 123
Thanks for doing these videos. SNES Has a special place in my childhood coming up!
Saturday Night Slam Masters is where I got my screen name. Been using it for years. Loved that game!
AlexanderTheGr8er tornado toss!
Great video. I'm not into wrestling genre, but you've done a really enjoyable video. Thank you.
awesome video bro! I love Saturday night slam masters it's such an amazing game
Great video. Enjoyed it thoroughly.
Omg I laughed out loud when I saw that bucket being hit repeatedly over and over someone’s head. It just looks silly. I also laughed once you picked up a steel chair and waited for Bret I think to get up only to hit him over the head with it just to see Bret fall back down.
u forget the point that between royal rumble ('93) and raw ('94) macho man , ric flair, ultimate warrior and others are no more on wwf
But they were better Legends.
I had (still have) Super Fire Pro from 1991. Loved that there are so many cheat moves, including the use of weapons such as forks.
pro wrestling for NES is hands down one of the best wrestling games. no lie.
love was put into that game.
Tecmo World Wrestling on NES was even better.
Foy's right. TWW makes everything else look like steaming horse shit.
kaltblut
But Fire Pro Wrestling World is the best ever.
I had that game when i was a kid and i loved the coolest wrestling game on NES for life !
Super FirePro X Premium was one of the greatest wrestling games of all time. Only eclipsed by FirePro D on Dreamcast, 6 man scramble on Saturn, the wcw vs on n64, and njpw series on PS. Your recognition of it literally just got you a new sub. Great channel.
special mention to ajpw on Saturn and dreamcast
Holy crap thanks for the video I spent a bunch of time back in the day playing royal rumble. I forgot totally i played it and it brings back good memories
The pure joy of smashing a bucket on someone's head in RAW was amazing!
Slam masters was my favorite as a kid
Slammasters and WWF Raw were a nice part of my childhood. Great fucking games.
Hell yeah, my friend and I rented this so much back in the day. The best
Ah I remember Natsume Championship Wrestling. Definitely one of my favorites
Jule Dildine , same here
I have it but slanmasters is way better
I recommend WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game for Sega 32X and MS-DOS because those versions are 100% accurate to the arcade port. And for the Super Nintendo, I recommend Saturday Night Slam Masters.
The bucket was from Yokozuna. In his real matches, Mr. Fuji would always bring a bucket of salt, which Yoko would ceremonially toss a pinch of...and sometimes throw some into his opponents' faces (ask Bret Hart about that one!).
SNSM is great cuz its Final Fight in a rasslin ring. I used to love all these games.
6:50 Freebird Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy vs The Patriot, Del Wilkes? Damn Japan is awesome sometimes.
Bam Bam Bigelow is the man
Great video man! Super Informative. Love the work you are doing with the channel in general.
I am going through the entire '95-'01 Nitro Episodes now, and it's really cool to look at some of these old games. Any chance you'd review some N64 and newer stuff in the future? Love to hear your thoughts on the classic Aki games as well as the SDvR stuff. Maybe even throw a Def Jam in there?
Thank you! Awesome video!
Doink was legendary ! Informative review though on this genre
I was really hoping that you'd cover _Funaki Masakatsu Hybrid Wrestler: Tougi Denshou,_ as it really is a fantastic gem of a game. Each wrestler has a diverse moveset, there are some wild match types that are unlike anything else in any wrestling game, and there's even a CAW mode that involves learning moves, getting married and fostering a prodigy, and having to retire because you start losing stats and moves due to the ravages of time. It isn't as complex as the _Fire Pro Wrestling_ games, but it is a damn good alternative. It also has an English patch available, which makes it more accessible than most games from Japan... although an instruction manual for some things would still be nice.
My buddy and I would stay up all night playing SlamMasters together trying to beat it. So much fun!
When he poked the ref in the eyes, I lost my ass laughing!
Holy crap! That has got to be hands down the undertakers very first video game appearance
I mean it has to be the black coroner gloves the grey boot covers that glorious mullet
That's debut undertaker right there folks
Nope. It’s superstars 2 on game boy is his first
Funny, the announcer's history of wrestling fandom was pretty much just like mine. First tuning in the late 80s (mostly WWF, a little NWA/WCW), tuning out by the early 90s (after Hogan and Warrior left), checking into WCW in the mid 90s when Hogan and Savage joined, hating the Attitude Era, tuning back in the the late 90s for the Monday Night Wars (pretty much WCW-only), then back out again when WCW went under.
R.I.P. Crush, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Doink, all of whom were gratuitously insulted in this video. :(
Great video. One criticism. Bam Bam Bigelow, 1-2-3 Kid, and Tatanka were all great wrestlers. They weren’t obscure in the least.
3:13...way he waits looking all excited with that chair then BOOM 💥 I died 🤣
Me and my best friend used to have a blast playing Royal Rumble way back in the early 90's. After an hour or two of kicking each other's asses, our fingers eventually got tired from all the mashing. At that point, we'd up the difficulty to max, pick our least favorite character, intentionally get thrown out of the Royal Rumble, and then spend the next 20 minutes watching the computer duke it out and rooting for our favorites. In April, I bought him a CIB copy and put it in a protective case to give him. He doesn't own a SNES, but that game is on display in his house.
Lex Luger was a highly accomplished wrestler early in his career so actual wrestling fans care. And we didn't care about how slow Super Wrestlemania was we played it cause it was fun
The bucket was used by the tag team The Godwinns as a weapon.
Doink the clown used one to with confetti in it most of the time
great video!
I think in the last Zen Nippon game you are given the ability to create wrestling cards. The neat little feature to that is during the earlier matches the seats aren't full. But the closer you get to the main event the seats gradually fill with fans. I love little details in wrestling games they used to deliver.
Super Fire Pro Wrestling series is Human Entertainment venture, always seem to find my way to them either pre, prime or post defunct.
Also Goichi Suda aka Suda51 directorial début was with Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Final Bout, and also did directing & scenario writing for Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special. People now know him as the rather wacky director behind Killer7, No More Heroes, and many other games with his studio Grasshopper Manufacture. Apparently he also written directed Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse aka Fatal Frame IV on the Wii.
Awesome Video, like always ;)
+Wo0zy Thanks!
That ass kicking with the bucket had me in tears of laughter.
I have good memories for playing WWF Raw with friends back in the day.
Tho I think I recall WWF Raw being 4 player compatible... but I could be wrong.
Yes! 6:04
Saturday Night Slam Masters is Awesome. My friends and i Loved playing that game.
😄👍
Raw for Genesis was the first wrestling game I ever played with outside interference. There are hidden super moves as well. I once through Doink the clown up in the air and off the screen as Diesel.
I subbed because you showed footage of Matsunaga vs. Sabu on Fire Pro X Premium.
What made WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game the joke that it was was not only were there only 6 wrestlers, the game was produced and released in 1995; during that entire year, the WWF World Heavyweight Champion was Diesel and the Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, for much of 1995, was Double J Jeff Jarrett and neither were featured on the game.
Saturday Night Slam Masters was my favorite.
The presentation of WWF Raw was by far the best of any wrestling game on SNES. Though the controls and speed of the game were a lil' slow. Still tons of fun!
We had a small video store in my town with limited games... 1 that was always rented was royal rumble... I alone rented it like 10 times. But that Saturday night slam masters game was in the store and always sat unrented... For whatever reason it was always there and you had played every other game but nobody wanted to ever rent slammasters and nobody had played it. That's why I clicked when I seen it... I spent so much time looking at the cover but never rented it
Just wondering, what you mean by patches for the Super Fire Pro Wrestling game for english? Because that game looks dope.
I remember playing WWF Raw all night at my friends house. We had so much fun. Saturday Night Slam Masters is great too.
Super Wrestlemania was the cover game of my first ever subscription issue of Nintendo Power. I subscribed with a deal where you got the year's earlier issues as well (an important bonus, since this was the year of the Super Mario World and Link to the Past comics), but THIS issue (April, I think) was the first I got. I was a loyal subscriber until the magazine ended.
The rosters in Royal Rumble and Raw reflect the rosters of the day. Macho Man and Ric Flair were not active WWF talent at the time, Bam Bam was a big deal and Doink was getting a big push.
WWF RAW for the SNES was such a kickass Super Nintendo game. I remember my thumbs going numb from playing it so much. One of the best SNES games EVER made!
If you like brawling in the last game, it's even better here because this game has a BUCKET.
LOLOL I died.
The combos on the arcade one is what makes it a good game
Solid work has usual
I think isometric for a wrestling game really makes sense...
Back when these games were new I loved Royal Rumble, me and my brother played the actual Rumble match constantly.
I know this video is about SNES wrestling games but I just want to say that I think the best wrestling games ever made were Wrestlmainia 2000 and No Mercy on the N64, the graphics nowadays are pretty terrible but they’re both still really fun games to play
Royal Rumble & RAW were FANTASTIC.
For a non wrestling fan this guy knows what he's talking about, awesome channel.
Of those WWF games. The one I think was the absolute best was Rage in the Cage. Sega CD exclusive. Cage matches. Can't beat em.
I remember playing Super Wrestlemania and Wrestlemania the arcade game a lot as a kid. The genesis port of Wrestlemania Arcade had Yokazuna and Bam Bam, good game a mix of MK and Wrestling.
My top list: wwf arcade wrestling, wcw nwo revenge, slammasters, no mercy, wrestle mania 2000, wwf raw, 🔥 pro wrestling. Good 2 c wrestling game vids. Also slam masters was incredible!! U gota give it more credit it's why I clicked this
Sad part is like 75% of the wwf wrestlers passed away in those games...
You greatly undersold the great gameplay and move set of Slam Masters
I used to play an arcade game called "Wrestle War." I don't know if it was ever released as a home-port for any console during the SNES/Genesis era but, it was a damn good game.The wrestlers were all based on real-life wrestlers only with crazy ass names. I think it might've been released on the "Neo-Geo" console.
If you've never done any of the secret moves in Monday Night Raw you need to go back and play it immediately. Shawn Michaels jumps in the air and spins horizontally and kicks, if the opponents near the ropes they go flying out of the ring. Yokozuna jumps off the ropes and cannonballs, any wrestler in the ring gets knocked to the floor from the earth quake. Every character has a specific move and they're all hilarious.
It’s all about graphics evolution. Super WrestleMania was a leap up graphically and movement-wise from the NES WrestleMania. Royal Rumble is great, a step up in motion from Super WrestleMania, but it was also undercover a lot of the same graphics as Super WrestleMania.
I had to subscribe after watching this one omg the flashbacks 🤣🤣🤣.
Its good to get feedback from someone who isnt a true wrestling fan. You need these types when you create a game too.
I have Royal Rumble but wasn't aware there was a follow up game... featuring a freaking bucket!! Mother of god, I laughed so loud during the gameplay shown here. As if beating/knocking out the referee wasn't awesome enough.
the godwinns tagteam (spelling maybe off) they had a bucket. the slop bucket.. def hit many people in the late 90s lol
Nice reviews, though I think it'd have been best if you kept the wrestling opinion piece down to "I was really into it in the early 90s, so I have experience with a lot of these games" :P
I loved playing WWF Royal Rumble and Monday Night Raw back in the day! The rosters were spot on for that period in the WWF, although I will say having Luna Vachon as a selectable character in Raw was a weird choice. It was even weirder that they had a guy do her SFX - the sound effect when she gets punched is still hilarious today! One thing that did bother me about both of these games, however, was that the characters pick up/swing chairs upside down. I know both of these games came out prior to the attitude era, but even in the golden era no one took a chair shot legs first!