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!!!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
If you picked Andre for WrestleMania Challenge... good luck. Once he was out of the ring, he was the only wrestler who couldn't get back into the ring.
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.
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 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 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
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.
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.
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.
Raise your hand if you used to take your boom box, record the entrance songs to each wrestler on a tape, and then play that entrance song while you were playing with your Hasbro wrestlers. All while recording all the matches in a spiral notebook.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Only Hulk, Brutus, Hacksaw, Bret, Taker, Sid, Lex Luger, and Mountie are left now! daym! I'm still trying to get over Randy Savages death... He went way too soon.
The weird publisher for king of the ring probably had to do with Nintendo's licensing agreement Publishers were limited to how many games they could release in a year, so the big boys would spin of a department as a lone game publisher to get around the limit.
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 stayed away from all wrestling games on the Nintendo. I didn't start dealing with wrestling games until the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis Monday Night Raw and Royal Rumble
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 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.
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.
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.
12:42 seriously. This has been my pet peeve with some wrestling games that don't bother simulating the finish to tournaments or battle royals when the player is eliminated. Last year's WWE Battlegrounds also did this; in the middle of a Royal Rumble once the player was eliminated the remaining wrestlers would immediately stop fighting and celebrate as if they won. It's so stupid.
