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Bret and Shawn took this so seriously because they knew to alot of people this would be their introduction to the WWF. This game is what got me watching wrestling around this time and all of my friends were obsessed with this game. Great stuff!
The coolest thing about In Your House, I could take my saturn disc, put it in a CD player, and listen to wrestlers themes while playing with my rasslin toys
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries 9:40 Jajajajajajaja, Hi Patman, until now I realized that you had made a video about a video game that I loved in my childhood, you never cease to amaze us Patman, right now I am going to watch and enjoy this video, thanks once again PatmanQC.
WWF WrestleMnia: The Arcade Game needs to be remade under the name "WWE WrestleMania: The Arcade Game" with an updated roster, online play, downloadable content, no freeze-ups, a create-a-wrestler option, a create-a-move-set option and the ability to be compatible with arcade sticks.
I just really enjoy Midway arcade games. They had a certain chaotic nature to their games that I don't think has ever truly been replicated. Whenever you throw some quarters into a midway arcade cabinet you're in for some pure sensory overload many modern games wish they could replicate! Even their sports games had a certain insanity to them! Speaking of, I'd love to see a video on Smash TV in the near future. Also, I don't know if anyone remembers it but The Grid was an excellent multi-player game in the spirit of Smash TV and even had the announcer guy from it! I've only played it once ever and apparently it's almost impossible to emulate! sad...
I remember hearing a rumor that you needed to beat world champion mode and intercontinental champion mode with each wrestler and then you could unlock Adam Bomb. One thing you didn't mention was the arcade game had rankings and a login like NBA Jam did. So, I spent hours at the arcade with my login trying to beat each mode with all the wrestlers, I remember being at the very last match and finishing it and just so let down he did not show up... I felt like I had failed 😞
An employee at my work went home sick this morning, with a sore throat, dizziness, and a fever. Pretty scary stuff, I bet that there's a lot more people with the virus, than only the ones tested, confirmed and reported about. They also shut down our local school district until further notice. This is Salt Lake City, Utah, btw, if you want to look it up.
I saw this notification and immediately watched it one of my favorite games ever and the fact that Undertaker demanded Jack Daniels makes me love him even more he’s the Greatest big man ever and he’s still going 2 decades later
Me and my cousin once played this game from 10pm until 6am when we were in our teens, we kept laughing all night long not knowing why it was so hilarious 😂 good times.
This is easily in my all time top 3 favorite games. I still play it to this day. It's just sad Midway didn't continue this and I wish there were more wrestlers in the roster. Each character's unique move sets and styles make this so much fun. Thank you for the video!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Interestingly enough this all sounds very similar what happened with Street Fighter The Movie The Arcade Game developed by Incredible Technologies for Capcom, made in 1995 and Jackie Chan' the Kung Fu Master & its revised follow up: Jackie Chan' in The Fist of Fire by Kaneko, also both made in 1995. All those games also used live action digitized sprites. Street Fighter The Movie the Game also had an actor that was supposed to show up on set to record. That actor was Greg Rainwater who played T-Hawk in the movie, but he too was difficult to work with and didnt show up at all. The games filming was also done in like 2 days during the filming of Street Fighter the Movie.; same with Jackie Chan the Kung Fu Master, which was recorded in Japan during the filming of Jackie Chan's movie: Thunderbolt. Jackie used actors and members of his stunt team from his movie to be characters in the game. Developer/publisher Kaneko even got to be advertised in the movie as they helped sponsor the movie in return for their request to Jackie to make a fighting game. The follow up game: Fist of Fire, was released to arcades that same year because gamers playing the first game, could not play as Jackie Chan as he was relogated to a boss character. Fist of Fire not only made him playable, but had three different versions of him each representing characters from three of his previous movies. Wheels On Meals, Operation A, and Drunken Master 2. To help promote the Street FIghter Movie game in Japan, Capcom put in a Japanese character named Sawada in the movie who was not a Capcom character but played a small bit in the movie as one of Guile's soldiers as a playable character. They also made one of Major Bison's soldiers a playable character called blade. Interestingly enough, it was rumored he was going to play as Fei Long but that didnt happen. Also interesting to note was Kylie Minogue, who played as Cammy in the movie, wore a video game costume accurate wardrobe for Cammy in the game (the green leotard one piece) which was not present in the movie. Ernie Reyes Sr, a Philippinan stuntman, (father to Ernie Reyes Jr who was in The Last Dragon/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Surf Ninjas) was not an actor in the movie, but he was used in the game to play as Akuma. For whatever reason (maybe bad rpublic eception to the arcade game as that version had some very over the top combo mechanics and finishers with some broken gameplay), Capcom made a home port of the game for the PS1 and Saturn, much like Midway did for WWE Wrestlemania, but instead of a direct port of Incredible Technologies work (who were a team of Western game developers), they instead took the game engine from Super Street Fighter II and just pasted the digitized actor sprites and backgrounds over it. The result was an odd makeover of Super Street Fighter II which just made people scratch their head and ask ('why? I could just play Super Street Fighter II then')'. Years later, Bandai Namco would do something similar with the PSP release of Dragonball Evolution, the game based on the badly received live action movie, which used the game engine for their previous DBZ PSP game: Dragonball Z Shin Budokai, and just made new 3Dc character models to replace the original ones and made them look like the actors from the movie. That didnt go over well either. Both Jackie Chan fighting games however never got a port to home consoles. Though with MAME emulation they can be played on PC and Raspberry Pi mini pcs. Also interesting note for both games; Both Street Fighter the Movie the Game (arcade version only) and Jackie Chan The Kung Fu Master/Fist of Fire actually had fatalities much like Mortal Kombat and Wrestlemania's one fatality from the Undertaker. Seems like both SF the Movie game , Jackie Chans the Kung Fu Master, and Wrestlemania (Undertaker only) were chasing after thar Mortal Kombat hype with fataiities. But of course as mentioned, this was not in the home console version of Street Fighter game because that used the Super Street FIghter II engine.
I absolutely loved this game as a kid (Playstation)...it's just something about real actors like in this game/MK trilogy that I love so much. Graphics have come a long way but I still prefer this.
I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I’ve been binge watching ever since. I just wanted to say you have some awesome content that brings back some awesome memories.
Another great video deep diving into what has progressively become a rather obscure entry in the pantheon of wrestling themed video games. Excellent to enjoy with the morning coffee. Keep up the great work
I always suffer from a rather sad twinge when I watch 80s and 90s era wrestling content, due to the fact so many of my childhood heroes never made it to my age 😔 They really did put everything on the line to entertain us, and sadly the industry chewed them up and spat them out. Anyway, to be less maudlin, may I just congratulate Patman on yet another damn fine retrospective! Oooooh Yeaaaaaah!!!!
You do a great job on these videos. Very thorough. To be honest, I had forgotten about this game completely, but didn't play it much in the arcade or on Playstation, so it makes some sense that it had faded into the ether.
9:40 Jajajajajajaja, Hi Patman, until now I realized that you had made a video about a video game that I loved in my childhood, you never cease to amaze us Patman, right now I am going to watch and enjoy this video, thanks once again PatmanQC.
Just love arcade games and your channel for all the best arcade reviews and to see what the cabinets for the games look like if people haven't see them or found them in arcade seaside resorts or if you'll lucky enough to have a local arcade place.
This is one of my favorite arcade game of all times! Thanks for this amazing video about it Pat. Sal DiVita confirmed that Adam Bomb is in the game but sadly never divulged how to obtain it.
He has said in interviews that the character was nowhere near complete so it doesn't even pay to try to find it. I would still love to see the sprites for it though
This is hilarious. Just last night I was watching some replay vids of this game and idly wondered to myself if you might cover it someday, and lo and behold, here it is. And as always, you did an awesome job with the vid. Not one of my most-played games, but it was always a good one to just drop a few quarters into it and have some fun seeing how far I could get. “Quiet pjw, I’m trying to watch this!” Sorry Jerry. Carry on!
LOL, I had to be really good at this game being able to beat it on the most difficult level with only one $0.25. . Thanks for the nice words, glad you enjoyed it
Great video! I loved this game. I remember playing it in the arcade and picking it up on PS1(I think, I know I rented it a few times at least) . It was one of the first games I bought when i got back into PS1 collecting around 2010-11. The I stumbled upon In Your House at a local Disc Replay for like 5 bucks CIB so I picked it up. Yeah, its flawed, but I did enjoy the kinda oddball roster. Gotta love that they put "The Hart Dungeon" as a level.
When I worked as an arcade tech at Chuck E Cheese's, we got this game straight from the factory. The game is the reason The Undertaker is and always will be my favorite wrestler. I was the only one that knew how to do Taker's full chain combo and his fatality.
I loved this game when it came out on the Genesis. I never played the arcade machine but it looks amazing. I just recently bought the in your house one on the ps1. I can't wait to try it out. Awesome job with the vid! 👍
I just discovered this channel and subscribed. You, sir, are incredible. Great information. You speak clearly without any of that god awful vocal fry nonsense. This channel is great and takes me down memory lane!!!.
I got to meet Mark Turmell back in 2016. He also mentioned that Mr. Fuji was a hardcore drinker and could legit drink the entire crew (and the wrestlers, including Yoko!) under the table. He also said that Luger did his job as he was supposed to, but was the most arrogant, self important person he'd ever met.
I can believe that about Lex Luger but maybe he was just staying in character? Maybe not though because at the time he was not known as the narcissist but all American. Thanks for the info
Great video:) I have this pcb, it's such a great game, thanks for the info and the review. Btw this pcb can be converted to UMK3 by the way of a rom swap.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries That's par the course for the Super NES. People rag on the Sega Genesis for having bad audio and generally muddier, darker graphics but the Super NES had a slower CPU and greater tendencies towards slowdown. The audio wasn't always better on SNES, either. Audio samples were limited by cartridge size constraints and the samples could be tinny if they were compressed too much. Out of all the console systems I've owned, I think the Super NES had the worst slowdown issues. There were also quite a few games that had to be scaled down on Super NES because of memory/sprite issues. The Super NES version of Samurai Shodown reduced the character sprites by over 50% and took out the scaling effect altogether I remember correctly. It was still better than the Sega Genesis which lost a character altogether but wow were the graphics small on the SNES port! This is coming from a guy who generally appreciated the Super NES more than the Sega Genesis! There were still entire categories of games that played better on the Sega Genesis for CPU performance reasons (sports games, side-scrolling shooters) and the odd dual-platform game (Earthworm Jim) that was better on the Sega Genesis. I liked most arcade game conversions better on the Super NES for the better audio and color reproduction but even those weren't 100% better knowing the SNES had 16-bit audio and a wider color palette. There an even better 16-bit console out there (the SNK Neo Geo AES) but it was so expensive and focused almost solely on arcade parts from the arcade version, the Neo Geo MVS. I like fighting games, personally, but wouldn't buy a system solely for fighting games. I like variety!
Kudos to you my friend. It seems that you actually lived that time and now have a lot of knowledge to pass! I myself was 14~17years back in 1994~1998 and have few things to pass to the people here and I guess I already did the majority I could. I will still be here waiting for the latest news as long as my poor health allows me to.
I definitely remember playing this game WWF WrestleMania the arcade game and having it for my home console I also still have for the Sega Saturn WWF in your house they were weird wrestling games I definitely felt like it was Mortal Kombat but in a wrestling ring and of course with the wrestlers.
This was the precursor to the In Your House game. It was an insane game with fatalities and stuff. It was nuts. I loved these games. They were so over the top with the combos and the graphics.
of course bret heart and shawn michaels were awesome. we all knew that was going to be the case :) i still remember watching wrestling in the 90s. it was a different time. it was also a lot better than it was post 90s.
People rag on the New Generation way too much, and forgive the Attitude Era for its goofy shit. I loved watching in 93-94-95. Razor was my dude. That first Ladder match blew my mind. My buddy had a charter box so we watched all the PPVs over at his place, also watched Raw every Monday night.
I gotta say, I don't usually care much for digitized graphics, but I think this actually looks really good. It seems a lot faster than in other games that use that style of sprites, and the more over-the-top animations/sprite manipulation really help sell everything better. I also like fighting games much more than "straight" pro-wrestling games (or whatever nonsense 2K considers a "simulation" that they've turned the WWE games into now), so I'm super interested in any games that seek to make them more like fighting games. Games like Def Jam Fight for NY, WWE Brawl, Saturday Night Slam Masters, etc. are my jam. I totally ignored this when this came out since I wasn't a fan of wrestling until the Attitude era a little later, but I think I have to hunt down the PSX port for my retro collection now!
The animation is really smooth and the character models are well defined. They look terrible in my opinion in the in your house game but again that wasn't done by midway. Glad you enjoyed the video
I know the feeling... I remember being so excited for In Your House and even went to my local video game store to buy it the day it came out... If I am not mistaken the very first Tomb Raider for PlayStation also came out because I remember holding it in my hand and thinking, this game looks interesting, if we only knew then how that game exploded. Anyway, In Your House basically went backwards in every day, the movements, the moves, the commentary, everything just didn't work. The roster was great but the gameplay and those stupid specific backgrounds made the game completely unbearable. I remember playing it the first day I got it and just knowing it wasn't good but didn't want to admit it, but i remember the next day, just playing wrestlermania again and left in your house on the shelf. I wish Midway would have done in your house instead of Akklaim.
Pat, I’m so glad you covered this game! It doesn’t get the love it should it the wrestling game community. I must have played a week’s worth of hours on this game. While Wrestlefest remains my favorite wrestling arcade game, I loved the speed and silliness of this one. Glad you mentioned the Icon, Sal Davita too! These games informed my artwork in a really powerful way and everytime I draw a wrestling ring, I pull from my visual mental index of video games for reference.
The PC version was the first i knew and played. I played it very intensively alone and against a friend of mine. I always took Bret Hart and my buddy took Sean Michaels. Many years later i noticed there is an arcade version, via MAME. The MAME version is now my favorite. It is quite harder and more colorful.
This game is the gold standard for arcade games. It was super loud, great voice sand sounds all mixed together, lots of flashes and movement. Easy to play, super fun, great colors etc etc.
