European Rampage has such a great opening presentation. The music (the first WWF game with real themes), the Sean Mooney segments. But “then the bell rang.”
I’ve noticed that about a lot of Amiga ports, they go all out on the intro and the actual gameplay is very unsatisfying. Of course the Amiga centric mags seemed to give these games good reviews regardless.
Had an Amiga 500 in 1991 and can recommend games such as Shadow Of The Beast II (for adventure), Cannon Fodder (for strategy), Pinball Dreams (for an addictive pinball game), Dino Dini's Goal! (for football), Ilyad (for shoot-em-ups). Man, I had over 500 games on floppy disks for this machine and loved every minute of it.
Cannon Fodder! Great game...naming your little soldiers after your mates from school and watching them being bazooka'd to smithereens...oh how we laughed :D
Ultimate Maniacs where in fact a tag-team. They wrestled a few matches in the fall of 92 mostly against Nasty Boys (televised ! summerslam 92 pre-show (aired a night before the event) and also against Money Inc. Warrior left WWE in november 92 because of money issues.
@@ShadowAngel606 Concept was great, it was never realized. A few matches and a preshow that next to no one saw, like I said: great concept that never got off the ground. Never heard of a turn of phrase?
Love these videogame reviews. Weirdly enough, those were the videos that brought me to this channel. you would think as a lifelong wrestling fan it would be reliving the war showing up on my feed first but nope. Videogames it is. Either way, love this one. Always fun to look at obscure old school games I have never heard of.
Never owned an amiga and it makes learning about all these games super interesting. I was too busy looking up every super nintendo and sega genesis game back in the day so the fact there was even more on the Amiga and pc88 systems blows my mind still. If you're looking for something weird an interesting check out Dark Seed. It's a point in click adventure/horror game with visuals made for it by H. R. Giger. It came out on other platforms but i discovered it looking up amiga games. There's an odd Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on the Amiga too.
Get a mate round and go through the The Chaos Engine in 2player (co-op shoot-em-up)...fuken classic! Mood, atmosphere, decent graphics and music. Also, cheers for all your work on the channel - you possibly don't know how much it means to many of us. All the best for the new year!
I was like you I used to be a big collector of games up until a few years back when the prices went up it just killed my enthusiasm for doing it so I started using mini consoles too. I only played the C64 version of Wrestlemania as a child and it used to ruin joysticks. The CPU was also way too hard and won grapples all the time. Although I worked out a glitch that got them locked in the bottom right corner so you could just keep knocking them out the ring and they would get tapped in that corner and you could repeat. It made it equally as rubbish as playing it and getting killed all the time. Also if you want Amiga games It Came from the Desert and Ruff 'n' Tumble are two of my favourites
Dude seriously thank you so much for all the content you dropped in just the last weeks alone , also when you said Chin Lockery i almost spit my drink out lmaooo
It was terrible! I had played the wrestlefest arcade at the local cinema and was mesmerized by it. When I bought Wrestlemania and played it the first time it was one of the biggest gaming let downs ever!
Davey's quote should have been: "There's no bull in this Bulldog..." Rampage seems like one of those games that someone got it as a kid and they forced themselves to like it b/c it was one of a few games they had, and they were gonna play it and beat it come hell or high water.
Actually, the third championship thing really was considered a big deal, and it was a calling card of Hogan's through mid '91. That blurb looks like it came straight out of the WWF Superstars mag that year.
Oh boy, nostalgia strikin me hard, Amiga was my machine. Try to find the following games: Hostages, The Chaos Engine, Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions, Turrican I+II, Giana Sisters, Bubble Bobble, Silkworm + SWIV, Rick Dangerous, Speedball 2, Super Hang On, Pit Fighter, Chambers of Shaolin, Panza Kickboxing, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 2, Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Those are imo the best games from the kinds of genres I used to play.
Top tip - when you lock up, pause the game and swap the controller for a mouse. Unpause and shake the mouse like a maniac, win the clinch. Pause, swap the mouse for controller/joy stick and carry on. Yes, I seriously did this back in the day to beat the game!
To be fair, I grew up as a foreigner in the US and I like a somewhat slightly delayed subtitles. It gives me some time to look and understand better the context. 🙂🙂🙂
You mastered the art of the subtle but hilarious little jokes. The Street Fighter 2 part had me rolling! It was like you were fighting MK Acade version of Goro in Street Fighter form.
the amiga had some amazin' games: speedball2, stunt car racer, hybris, buggy boy, sidewinder, ik+, turrican, off road, swiv ...and i also liked the demoscene.
My first system was the Amiga 500. Ports of Call, legends of Fargoal and just about anything hockey related were my favorites. They didn't have any WWF stuff, but did have some wrestling. Thank you for yet again triggering old memories in the best way possible. Happy new year.
7:39 You can in fact bring the chair into the ring. You have to stand with it in the right place and "glitch" it further up the screen and eventually it will end up in the ring where you can use it as much as you like.
I was sooo looking forward to European Rampage on my Amiga. My friends at school lied to me, said they already had it, and basically described the best wrestling game ever. Imagine my disappointment when getting it on my birthday 😂
Over here in the United States, the NES pretty much dominated the home console market during this time, with some competition from the Atari 7600, Sega Master System, and of course the Genesis later on. Many of these other platforms either never saw the light of day here or they were in very limited quantity.
Serious credit for the amount of time of spent on these games man... Plus did anyone think the big picture of the British bulldog in the background looks more like stephany ????
In European Rampage Tour, at least they allow you to pin opponents Kamala style. Yet based on the footage, the only time the ref didn't bother to count was when the AI was being pinned the traditional way.
As a kid I never got to play these but saw them in magazines, and I was fascinated by WrestleMania looking like WrestleFest (well, like Superstars at least). I wish they'd used the arcade games as the graphical and gameplay basis for all of the SNES/MegaDrive WWF games. I played the hell out of them at the time, but looking back, the only decent wrestling game I had in that era was Saturday Night Slam Masters.
A great video Wrestling Bios as always but Street Fighter 2 on the Amiga was US Golf not Ocean One of my favourite Amiga games was Speedball 2 and Kick Off 2
You've probably played some on other platforms but Sleepwalker, Sensible Soccer, Sensible Golf, Syndicate, Dreamweb, Cannon Fodder, Chaos Engine, Ultimate Soccer Manager, European Champions, Speedball 2, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Police Quest, Skidmarks, Dynablaster, Super Tennis Champs, Desert Strike... are some I remember being pretty good back in the day.
On the Amiga I used to love playing Gods, Assassin, Batman, James Pond 2: Robo Cod, Magic Pockets, Zool, Blues Brothers, Addams Family, Crash Test Dummies, Chuck Rock, and many more.
I saw super spike verbally and I was like... this dude has good taste. I keep hoping one day the Nintendo switch online will put that game on it. I want to play it again
Pro Wrestling is still the best wrestling on NES. Even though it has fictional characters. At least its gameplay is competent. especially for such an old game.
Looks like Superstars arcade, plays like a broken down car. I remember Christmas day and playing this on both my friends C64 and another's Amiga. We had such high Hope's, and they were absolutely destroyed.
