You spent most of the match running round after Ted Debiase, whereas in a real match he'd have left the ring with IRS for a count out defeat to keep the belts.
The orginal Wrestlemania game was the best! This is the first time I've remembered or ever thought of this game since I was a kid! Such a pleasant feeling during this time. Thank you so much for this!!!
Hogan: "see I'm not racist, my video game character is black" - 7:06 And you got Razor Ramon looking like Lord Farquaad - 11:02 Great videos dude, you do an amazing job bud. You touch parts of my childhood the priests wish they could reach.
I remember playing Wrestlemania with my brother when it was released. It was terrible even for the time. We went back to NES Pro Wrestling soon after. I never did buy another WWF game on the NES. Tecmo World Wrestling was great and WCW was decent. This came out at a great time, as I was just looking at picking up Steel Cage and King of the Ring the other day, as I never played them, but I now see that isn't a great idea. Great video.
Fun part about WrestleMania challenge is playing 2 player mode vs CPU. Teaming with brother. Then jumping in the ring and beating up tag partner. Pissing off brother irl
Yokozuna was bright yellow! Vintage games are hilarious and awesome but some dont age to well, I personally find it hilarious but some wont 🤣 Great content.
My experience of playing WrestleMania challenge as a young kid: Get thrown out of ring or leave by accident. Get back in by accident or get counted out. Repeat.
Wrestlemania Challenge was awesome because in tag matches you could order your CPU controlled tag partner to attack. I think the select button did it but I'm not sure how. I remember you could order them to jump in the ring and attack or go outside and attack the other partner. It was hilarious.
Another great video. Eastridge Technologies also did the Game Boy version of King Of The Ring and that one was also solid. It's quite literally the NES version in the palm of your hands.
I loved the music in this, and only recently realized that one of the songs I liked so much was actually the theme music for the tag team "Strike Force".
Wrestlemania Challenge was the first wrestling game I ever owned, I was 11 at the time it came out, I spent months playing it and for some reason loved it back then? It looks hideous now! Great video by the way mate and it brings back some good memories, love your channel and keep up the good work.
I laughed at that Roddy Piper / Undertaker cage match. I can imagine what the audience reaction would have been if that match had taken place in real life.
wrestlemania challenge had finishers. Andre did a turnbuckle crunch, rick rude had the rude awaking, beefcake had his sleeper, ultimate warriror had press slam, and hacksaw had the 3 point stance shoulder charge
It's funny how you mentioned that you wanted to see who would win the CPU King of the Ring tournament. When I was a kid and played WWF Attitude, if I was bored I would set up a randomised CPU KOTR tournament and they were quite often fun.
In Wrestlemania Challenge, there are some finishers. Rick Rude has the rude awakening finisher, hacksaw can do his tackle move, warrior has the gorilla press. For some reason, Savage does a knee drop, Hogan does an elbow drop lol.
I remember WrestleMania challenge having finishers and was my favorite of the bunch due to being able to call in someone to help you beat up your opponent.
Some of the wrestlers do have their signature moves amongst the moves they can do. Beefcake can do the sleeper hold, Rude has his Rude Awakening, Duggan can do his three-point stance into a tackle, Savage can do a flying elbow, Warrior has a press slam. Some of the wrestlers though don’t have an established finisher in their arsenal in the game. Hogan doesn’t have a leg drop, yet some other wrestlers do. Hogan does an elbow drop for his ground move instead, for some reason.
It's been brought up a few times before, but Razor Ramon in the last game is definitely a dead ringer for Ben from Full Throttle, which is kinda impressive considering Full Throttle came out two years later.
Sir, you definitely could do finishing moves on WrestleMania Challenge. I played as Rick Rude all the time and always went around giving people the Rude Awakening. The only one that you couldn't do it to was Andre the Giant because he was too big. My favorite wrestling game was Pro Wrestling but my friends and I had a blast with Wrestlemania Challenge back in the day.
I still have my original copy of Wrestlemania Challenge and all I can remember is that it was like running around in circles at times trying to pull a move off from behind the opponent when it was against the CPU as they were always moving. It seemed almost pointless having moves from behind since you couldn't stun them. Also the CPU was vicious and in the tournament mode after the first fight or two once they got a hold of you it was pretty much game over as they were relentless.
The original Pro Wrestling from Nintendo was way better than any of the WWF games for NES. I bet many remember that one more fondly. I thought the WWF games looked and played terrible (especially the first one.)
That Razor Ramon picture from the King of the Ring game totally looks like Ben from the LucasArts point-and-click game Full Throttle to me haha. The more I look at it, the more uncanny it is despite Full Throttle coming out 2 years after KOTR.
WCW Wrestling, or Superstar Pro wrestling inJapan (which had a fully different roster ) was by FAR the best wrestling game on the NES. It not only had finishers, but a ton of moves and was easy to play once you figured it out.
I mean honestly, I can't understand why couldn't they have just made WWF superstars for the NES? It's an Arcade game that was ported to the game boy. And the game play on the game boy version is better than all of these.. but it's so limited as far as roster, move sets, etc.. it could have been such a great game.. it frustrates me.
I agree. It's amazing how a lot of early Game Boy games were surprisingly better than their NES counterparts and WWF Superstars is an example of that. Even WWF Superstars 2, which wasn't as good as the first one, still had better gameplay than Steel Cage Challenge on NES. King of the Ring was a lot more even between the two versions with the NES version being slightly better.
Tecmo World Wrestling was the best NES wrestling game. You could build stats by working out and there were cinema scenes for the finishing moves. No WWF or WCW wrestlers but still fun.
I agree. Wrestlemania Challenge had an amazing roster with Hogan and Warrior and the most fun gameplay mostly due to each wrestler having their own movesets and special moves, like Jim Duggans three-point stance running clothesline and Rick Rudes Rude Awakening.
He was a good wrestler and very underrated, have a look at some of his old matches, He went by his real name Mike Rotunda in WCW and had some good matches back in the day.
WrestleMania Challenge. I was about 3 or 4 and my older brother had this. Funny how they had a character on the roster called " Yourself " who was like a generic New England territory wrestler like Tito Santana
Love your videos man, always look forward to watching the new content. Have been watching you from the start. Have you ever heard of a wrestling game on Mame it was by konnami it was called The Main Event, its basically a rip off of WWF, but certainly worth a play. Keep up the good work man.
😂😂 I know exactly who Razor Ramones picture reminded u of, because it’s the first person I thought of. It’s one of the actors, in the movie Tango and Cash from 1989.
I used to enjoy playing Wrestlemania Challenge against my mates as a kid, it's definitely not a great game but it had value then. I also thought the music was pretty good in it.
I played NEStroid for the first time a few years ago and I love that game! It's not like the best game in the franchise by any means, but it's way better than people give it credit for. Same goes for Metroid II.
As far as who won your King of the Ring tournament: Since your match ended in a double countout, the final match would be Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels. Shawn would apply the Sharpshooter and the match would immediately end. Hulk Hogan would come down to the ring to make sure that Bret was okay. Shawn issues a challenge to Hogan for his new King of the Ring crown, which Hogan accepts. Hogan wins and becomes King of the Ring despite being eliminated in the first round.
My brother got "King of the Ring" on Game Boy for his birthday. I remember adjusting the stats on the "you" character to try to make the best wrestler.
I played the hell out of WrestleMania Challenge on the NES back in the day...loved having my teammate enter the ring and beat up my opponent. think it's still the best of the WWF NES games, but the WCW Wrestling NES game was probably better (although Pro Wrestling was the best).
Your WRESTLING WWF ARCADE CABINET IS FREAKING AWESOME !!! WHAT ALL WWF GAMES DO YOU HAVE ON IT? CAN YOU FIND A WWF CABINET FOR 500 $ OR LESS ? IN GOOD WORKING SHAPE NOT ALL BEAT UP
Yes n64 took it to another level but snes wwf games were my favorite. Cool video thank you took me back. Edit....why does razor Ramon have like max speed on the king of the ring game lol....they didn’t even do their homework
I did enjoy Steel Cage Challenge for NES and I could play it now if I had an emulator. I thought Challenge was ok, used to play it a few years ago on the virtualnes website. I was annoyed that Hogan couldn't do a leg drop but Andre could.
You spent most of the match running round after Ted Debiase, whereas in a real match he'd have left the ring with IRS for a count out defeat to keep the belts.
A true villain
True.
And Hogan's power-up should have been a bag of cocaine.
The phrase "chasing Ted Dibiase around the ring" sounds hilarious in itself......
Very fond memories of playing Westlemania challenge. Thanks for the video it made me smile. The 8bit theme songs are brilliant.
Razor Ramon in King of the Ring, his image looks like Texas Pete from SuperTed to me :D
Oh hello larry
He looks like Desperate Dan
Awsome reference. Not many people will know what that obscure Welsh cartoon is. Nice one.
@Rydonattelo Thanks bud, loved SuperTed as a kid :)
Playing NES games on a huge flat screen is one heck of a life goal!! Great video and even better setup
I remember when I had my very first pro wrestling video game on the NES,WWF WrestleMania Steel Cage Challenge.
The orginal Wrestlemania game was the best! This is the first time I've remembered or ever thought of this game since I was a kid! Such a pleasant feeling during this time. Thank you so much for this!!!
Razor looks like the main character Ben Throttle, from the Lucasarts adventure game "Full Throttle."
Hogen job to Savage:
''Doesn't work for me, brother!''
''Hey, Freakshow! You ain't goin NOWHERE!''
In WM Challenge, Hulk looks more like Giant Panther from NES Pro Wrestling
Hogan: "see I'm not racist, my video game character is black" - 7:06
And you got Razor Ramon looking like Lord Farquaad - 11:02
Great videos dude, you do an amazing job bud. You touch parts of my childhood the priests wish they could reach.
Hogan doing the job to Randy Savage? That's unheard of lol
I remember playing Wrestlemania with my brother when it was released. It was terrible even for the time. We went back to NES Pro Wrestling soon after. I never did buy another WWF game on the NES. Tecmo World Wrestling was great and WCW was decent. This came out at a great time, as I was just looking at picking up Steel Cage and King of the Ring the other day, as I never played them, but I now see that isn't a great idea. Great video.
Would love to see an N64 version of this for both wwe and wcw
Fun part about WrestleMania challenge is playing 2 player mode vs CPU. Teaming with brother. Then jumping in the ring and beating up tag partner. Pissing off brother irl
Nice. I had WrestleMania Challenge. Good memories.
Yokozuna was bright yellow! Vintage games are hilarious and awesome but some dont age to well, I personally find it hilarious but some wont 🤣
Great content.
Ok I am totally in love with your console setup my bro.
My experience of playing WrestleMania challenge as a young kid: Get thrown out of ring or leave by accident. Get back in by accident or get counted out. Repeat.
Wrestlemania Challenge was awesome because in tag matches you could order your CPU controlled tag partner to attack. I think the select button did it but I'm not sure how. I remember you could order them to jump in the ring and attack or go outside and attack the other partner. It was hilarious.
YES! Love your game reviews!
Another great video. Eastridge Technologies also did the Game Boy version of King Of The Ring and that one was also solid. It's quite literally the NES version in the palm of your hands.
Oh my God, that razor Ramon reminded me of a dark-haired version of Brock from The venture Brothers
Yeah, it's definitely Brock Samson who Bios was thinking of.
I loved the music in this, and only recently realized that one of the songs I liked so much was actually the theme music for the tag team "Strike Force".
Been playing these on my custom arcade I built for my channel true classics, thanks for all the great videos love watching your stuff
I Love that your doing wrestling game review's! Great stuff!
Wrestlemania Challenge was the first wrestling game I ever owned, I was 11 at the time it came out, I spent months playing it and for some reason loved it back then? It looks hideous now! Great video by the way mate and it brings back some good memories, love your channel and keep up the good work.
Pro Wrestling was far and away the best wrestling game for NES. I have no idea why WWF didn’t just make their games like that one.
Absolutely! The best
Pro Wrestling was great, but Tecmo World Wrestling is an overall better game.
Razor Ramon on king of the ring game looks like Desperate Dan from the Dandy comics
I laughed at that Roddy Piper / Undertaker cage match. I can imagine what the audience reaction would have been if that match had taken place in real life.
wrestlemania challenge had finishers. Andre did a turnbuckle crunch, rick rude had the rude awaking, beefcake had his sleeper, ultimate warriror had press slam, and hacksaw had the 3 point stance shoulder charge
If anyone wants a wrestling game for NES thats actually good, go for Tecmo World Wrestling. It's by far the best wrestling game on the console.
servly underrated channel!
love your work! keep it coming!
Back in the days when i was a kid i remember having fun playing wrestlemania steel cage challenge I liked it a lot :))
AVGN has taught me not to expect anything good out of LJN games
They arent the Laughing Joking Numbnuts for nothing...
LJN is awesome... shut up!!
WWF King of the Ring was my very first WWF Game back in the day. What a fine memory
Bonus points if you actually look like “yourself” haha. That’s great. The razor Ramon looks like soda popinski from punch out
5:50 If I had to say who "Yourself" was I'd probably say Dino Bravo, looking at that image?
Uploaded 16 Seconds ago. *click*
It's funny how you mentioned that you wanted to see who would win the CPU King of the Ring tournament. When I was a kid and played WWF Attitude, if I was bored I would set up a randomised CPU KOTR tournament and they were quite often fun.
In Wrestlemania Challenge, there are some finishers. Rick Rude has the rude awakening finisher, hacksaw can do his tackle move, warrior has the gorilla press. For some reason, Savage does a knee drop, Hogan does an elbow drop lol.
"This is Ted Dibiase"
Me: "Which one???"
Talk about the nostalgia factor. The music at the very end I remember that on multiple Nintendo titles.
That million dollar man from the first game is a dead ringer for Michael Hayes
Doot doot doot
The only nes wwf game I played was steel cage challenge and I had pretty fond memories of playing it back in the day.
That's a cracking gaming set up. Good stuff.
I remember WrestleMania challenge having finishers and was my favorite of the bunch due to being able to call in someone to help you beat up your opponent.
Some of the wrestlers do have their signature moves amongst the moves they can do. Beefcake can do the sleeper hold, Rude has his Rude Awakening, Duggan can do his three-point stance into a tackle, Savage can do a flying elbow, Warrior has a press slam. Some of the wrestlers though don’t have an established finisher in their arsenal in the game. Hogan doesn’t have a leg drop, yet some other wrestlers do. Hogan does an elbow drop for his ground move instead, for some reason.
Everyone did the elbow drop from the top rope except Macho Man. He did a knee drop. Always pissed me off
I still got these on my NES. Even the WCW game.
It's been brought up a few times before, but Razor Ramon in the last game is definitely a dead ringer for Ben from Full Throttle, which is kinda impressive considering Full Throttle came out two years later.
Since it never got a NES release in the Uk i have always wanted a copy of king of the ring. Too expense on eBay
Wrestlemania Challange, what a game! I remember Hulk and his full on tan in that one
Sir, you definitely could do finishing moves on WrestleMania Challenge. I played as Rick Rude all the time and always went around giving people the Rude Awakening. The only one that you couldn't do it to was Andre the Giant because he was too big. My favorite wrestling game was Pro Wrestling but my friends and I had a blast with Wrestlemania Challenge back in the day.
Razor looks like American Dad that cartoon...??? A little lol
I just can't see the LJN logo now without thinking of Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts.
Would like to hope Macho Man won that tournament, return of the Macho King!
razor looks like the dude from full throttle
Bam Bam was so important in the late 80s that he made it to the first WWF game ever. That's neat
Didn't actually know there was ever a wrestling game featuring my man Rick Rude.
He's in WCW SuperBrawl for SNES, and he might be in the WCW game for the gameboy too.
As someone who grew up with these games, truly a dark time for wrestling games. We just didn't know any better.
love Wrestlemaina challenge! but if you toss out Aundre he can't get back in
I still have my original copy of Wrestlemania Challenge and all I can remember is that it was like running around in circles at times trying to pull a move off from behind the opponent when it was against the CPU as they were always moving. It seemed almost pointless having moves from behind since you couldn't stun them. Also the CPU was vicious and in the tournament mode after the first fight or two once they got a hold of you it was pretty much game over as they were relentless.
I love playing with myself! No tights or boots required lol
That 8 bit music is the best part
The original Pro Wrestling from Nintendo was way better than any of the WWF games for NES. I bet many remember that one more fondly. I thought the WWF games looked and played terrible (especially the first one.)
Absolutely. NES Pro Wrestling and Tecmo World Wrestling are a hell of a lot better then the WWF games.
That Razor Ramon picture from the King of the Ring game totally looks like Ben from the LucasArts point-and-click game Full Throttle to me haha. The more I look at it, the more uncanny it is despite Full Throttle coming out 2 years after KOTR.
Legend's of wrestle mania. Classic
WCW Wrestling, or Superstar Pro wrestling inJapan (which had a fully different roster ) was by FAR the best wrestling game on the NES. It not only had finishers, but a ton of moves and was easy to play once you figured it out.
I mean honestly, I can't understand why couldn't they have just made WWF superstars for the NES? It's an Arcade game that was ported to the game boy. And the game play on the game boy version is better than all of these.. but it's so limited as far as roster, move sets, etc.. it could have been such a great game.. it frustrates me.
I agree. It's amazing how a lot of early Game Boy games were surprisingly better than their NES counterparts and WWF Superstars is an example of that. Even WWF Superstars 2, which wasn't as good as the first one, still had better gameplay than Steel Cage Challenge on NES. King of the Ring was a lot more even between the two versions with the NES version being slightly better.
Tecmo World Wrestling was the best NES wrestling game. You could build stats by working out and there were cinema scenes for the finishing moves. No WWF or WCW wrestlers but still fun.
Owned a few of them, played them all and if I had to pick a favourite it'd be Wrestlemania Challenge.
I agree. Wrestlemania Challenge had an amazing roster with Hogan and Warrior and the most fun gameplay mostly due to each wrestler having their own movesets and special moves, like Jim Duggans three-point stance running clothesline and Rick Rudes Rude Awakening.
I was looking up who Irwin Schyster was since I didn't know him. He is also the father of Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas.
He was a good wrestler and very underrated, have a look at some of his old matches, He went by his real name Mike Rotunda in WCW and had some good matches back in the day.
@@1979mattant captain Mike Rotunda for awhile. Ha
I find it tough to dislike anything WWF. It's just so badass.
I got wrestlemania challenge for my birthday. 1st wrestling game I've ever had.
So did I, my first wrestling game too.
Best NES wrestling titles:
Pro Wrestling
Tecmo World Wrestling
Wish they used those developers.
3:58-4:02 I'm trying to imagine Ted DiBiase body pressing Bam Bam Bigelow halfway across the ring😂😂😂
WrestleMania Challenge. I was about 3 or 4 and my older brother had this. Funny how they had a character on the roster called
" Yourself " who was like a generic New England territory wrestler like Tito Santana
Love your videos man, always look forward to watching the new content.
Have been watching you from the start.
Have you ever heard of a wrestling game on Mame it was by konnami it was called The Main Event, its basically a rip off of WWF, but certainly worth a play.
Keep up the good work man.
No mention of the one redeeming quality of WWF Wrestlemania.....the great music!
😂😂 I know exactly who Razor Ramones picture reminded u of, because it’s the first person I thought of. It’s one of the actors, in the movie Tango and Cash from 1989.
I used to enjoy playing Wrestlemania Challenge against my mates as a kid, it's definitely not a great game but it had value then. I also thought the music was pretty good in it.
I think the Razor Ramon picture is probably reminding you of Desperate Dan, from The Dandy.
I had all these games, at the time I thought they were all awesome but looking back it’s not so good 😂 this video is hilarious 😂
I played NEStroid for the first time a few years ago and I love that game!
It's not like the best game in the franchise by any means, but it's way better than people give it credit for. Same goes for Metroid II.
I think the cartoon you're thinking in Royal Rumble for Razor Ramon is Super MachoMan from Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
Love it how you describe all the wrestling characters 😂😂😂💀💀💀10:46
Please do a bio on either Arn Anderson or Tully Blanchard. Two of the greatest workers and talkers ever and hands down the best tag-team of all time.
the best wrestling game for nes is pro wrestling, by a hundred miles
I've had the music stuck in my head since I was a child.
Tecmo World Wrestling was good too.
As far as who won your King of the Ring tournament:
Since your match ended in a double countout, the final match would be Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels.
Shawn would apply the Sharpshooter and the match would immediately end.
Hulk Hogan would come down to the ring to make sure that Bret was okay.
Shawn issues a challenge to Hogan for his new King of the Ring crown, which Hogan accepts. Hogan wins and becomes King of the Ring despite being eliminated in the first round.
My brother got "King of the Ring" on Game Boy for his birthday. I remember adjusting the stats on the "you" character to try to make the best wrestler.
Your comments are pretty funny. Well done
Nintendo pro wrestling in tecmo World Wrestling had better graphics and more moves and they were released roughly around the same time right?
11:02 maybe that reminds you of Ben, the lead from LucasArts' Full Throttle
Sounds VERY realistic to me, _Brother!_ 😆 12:36
I played the hell out of WrestleMania Challenge on the NES back in the day...loved having my teammate enter the ring and beat up my opponent. think it's still the best of the WWF NES games, but the WCW Wrestling NES game was probably better (although Pro Wrestling was the best).
Your WRESTLING WWF ARCADE CABINET IS FREAKING AWESOME !!! WHAT ALL WWF GAMES DO YOU HAVE ON IT? CAN YOU FIND A WWF CABINET FOR 500 $ OR LESS ? IN GOOD WORKING SHAPE NOT ALL BEAT UP
Yes n64 took it to another level but snes wwf games were my favorite. Cool video thank you took me back.
Edit....why does razor Ramon have like max speed on the king of the ring game lol....they didn’t even do their homework
Pro Wrestling was always my favorite NES wrestling game.
I did enjoy Steel Cage Challenge for NES and I could play it now if I had an emulator. I thought Challenge was ok, used to play it a few years ago on the virtualnes website. I was annoyed that Hogan couldn't do a leg drop but Andre could.
Wrestlemania challenge is great in my opinion I remember the first time I played it in my cousins
tecmo pro wrestling was the boss on NES back in the day