Oh, it was my return to gaming. My brother had an N64, and I was the good brother that got him this for some sort of gift giving holiday, I’m sure. And oh boy, did we play the heck out of this one. WCW/NWO Revenge was certainly from the height of the company’s dominance over WWF. You had the NWO, Goldberg, Raven, and a whole slew of WCW wrestlers. While all of my friends were having a great time with WWF Warzone creating characters and versions of our crew, I was playing the best damn wrestling game there was, and there was a reason for that. This game was one the the early wrestling games put out by THQ, the company that would later bring us the fantastic WWF/E Smackdown series we still enjoy today. Luckily, this version made the Playstation renditions of WCW Nitro and Thunder look like a joke.
Wow, almost looks like a new game from a certain company...
The game was not without it’s faults. Due to the unfortunate size limitations, while our friends were getting CD quality DX theme music, we were stuck with some generic digital entrances. WrestleMania for the NES at least had custom themes! Also, in what seems like an attempt to expand the roster, there were inclusions of several fake feds (at least I’ve never heard of them). This may be a hold over of the WCW vs the World/World tour games with awkwardly large, and Japanese, rosters. All of the characters were cheasy, and you’d avoid them, except the ninja.
But the rest of the game was great. You didn’t have a custom wrestler mode, but you did have the ability to arrange the wrestlers in factions as you’d like and swap wardrobe amongst the roster. I recall making great strides to divide up the NWO at the proper point, and turn Hogan back to the Red and Yellow. Also, I think I turned The Giant into Big Show when that change occured. The game had fun weapons, that came from the crowd, a good battle royal mode, and decent enough title modes. And venues for all of the major PPVs of the era! All this, and the quintessential representation of the NWO, The Flock, cruiserweights, and tag teams. I’d dare say this was the best WCW game ever done.
Of course, the Asmik Ace/AKI engine that was known for a great grappling system, was carried over when THQ took on WWF in WrestleMania 2000, and the epic No Mercy.
But while this game didn’t have all the fancy CD-quality features, it did have this sweeeeeeetttt intro…
I recall back in the day, I had maybe a year’s worth subscription to the good old WWF Magazine circa 1992. This was where you heard of great things like those sweet wrestler ice cream bars, or, of course, WWF Arcade games! I once happened across a machine for WWF WrestleFest, and it was wrestling fan Nirvana. The characters were large and colorful. This was likely one of the first appearances of the Royal Rumble, ring entrances, actual people in the crowd, and the only showing of Saturday Night Main Event that I know of.
Glad to see the guest of WMS 204 in a video game!
I had a chance to revisit this one, taking the aforementioned Saturday Night Main Event Tag Team mode the distance, beating the unplayable Legion of Doom with my team of Ultimate Warrior and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. The button mashing was to be had! Then the Royal Rumble mode, the only other mode in the game, is great. Six guys start off, and after pinning, yes pinning, you see the entrance of the next. This, and digitized Mean Gene Okerland! This is easily the most fun game of one of my favorite eras in wrestling. There’s even a page dedicated to bringing the game back to Xbox Live!
Next week on the Wrestling Mayhem Show 204, we are greeted by the return of one of our favorite in studio guests. He’s a former IWC Tag Team Champion, toured in Japan, beats people up at baseball games, and, from what we hear, is a tender lover…But we’ll confirm all those facts, and more, as Marshall “The Bull” Gambino joins us in Mayhem Studios to tell us how he’s been since he’s “left town” from International Wrestling Cartel, what he thinks of the NEW IWC days removed from the reboot show, IWC Kickoff, and what else is going on in the life of a Bull…
Also, marvel in the return of Doc Remedy to the Wrestling Mayhem Show!! All this and much more!
Leave your questions and comments for the show at goodtimes@wrestlingmayhemshow.com or 412-206-WMS0 (412-206-9670)!
It’s episode 203 with Sorg, wrestlefan, and Mad Mike. We are joined this week by Ryan Mitchell as we discuss his training days with Rocky Johnson, experience with the Funkin’ Conservatory, his time in WWE developmental, Florida Championship Wrestling, working with All Japan and in Canada, Florida indies vs Western PA area indies, and what’s going on with this past week’s CWE/PWO and upcoming Far North Wrestling and NWA East shows!
Also on the show, the crew discusses the Awesome Kong controversy, Royal Rumble, Wrestlicious, and Hulk Hogan’s toilet pleasures.
This is Episode 202 for Tuesday, January 26, 2010. You can get the episode here on Talkshoe, subscribe, and as always, stay tuned towww.wrestlingmayhemshow.com for the latest! The Wrestling Mayhem Show is recorded live and can be heard/viewed from 8 PM to 10 PM Eastern on Talkshoe.comand Ustream.com. Let us know what you think of the show, and your thoughts on the wrestling world by emailing us at goodtimes@wrestlingmayhemshow.com! Don’t forget you can find links related to the show’s news stories and more at our Delicious Links Page for Episode 203!
Well, you guys call in, we can sort of do what we like with it. And since I still am a big fan of his enthusiasm, here is this week’s collected four call ins by the one and only Big Freaky.
This edition, we get a lot of opinions about how the Independents are run, and a pretty comprehensive review of the Pro Wrestling Ohio/Championship Wrestling Experience show from this past weekend that included Johnny Gargano and Ryan Mitchell from last week and this week’s shows.
I wasn’t on the cusp of technology in the early ’90’s. I found that the best way was to wait until a console was in it’s later years and clean up at the used game store, ebay, etc. One of the best things I found, and something that had been on my wish list for some time: WWF Rage in the Cage.
It was the quintesential wrestling game. It had all of the colorful graphics we came to expect of the Super NES and Sega Genesis WWF games of this era. The huge 16-bit graphics. Man. This was good stuff. On top of that, that Sega CD delivered on the major promise of CD-Rom: Full. Motion. Video. Watch as your favorite bigger than life wrestlers actually move on the screen in glorious 16 color palettes in the quarter center of your screen!
It wasn’t all good in Mayhem Land for this installment, though. We had the cage. We had the video. We had the Fink giving digitized ring announcements, as well as digitized voices of the roster. We even had a tag team representation in the Headshrinkers and the Nasty Boys! But no tag team option. Ouch. But still, for 1993, this was the best game in town, and this week we celebrate it!
It’s Wintereenmas time! Long time listeners of the Wrestling Mayhem Show may recall the song we’ve made about the upstart holiday, but this week, it’s time to celebrate video games!
WrestleMania was my introduction when I had my NES. While I never owned a wrestling game until Steel Cage Challenge, but I’ve rented this one. A lot. A day and age where we didn’t have customizable wrestlers or storyline mores. Heck, we only had 6 wrestlers! Oh, the digitalized versions of those beloved theme songs. The limited move repertoire. The side missing from the ring! All of this brought to you by the now bankrupt Acclaim!
We of the Wrestling Mayhem Show and Sorgatron Media have been ennamered with your recent issues with NBC and your departure from one of the most prestigious positions on television. We have been adament about our hand shake-at-a-strip-club deal at a strip club in albequerquee to take over Late Night when you took the mantel as the flagship.
We already have a small framework for reaching international audiences.
We have issues with bears we can surely come to a compromise to your Masturbating bear can have a comfortable position in our organization
In Pittsburgh, you would have access to the mildest of weather patterns. We are away from the Great Lakes snow belt, and there is enough overcast, sometimes for weeks at a time, that your pale complexion should never be under the threat from big Mr. Vitamin D in the Sky like it is in Los Angeles. Also, no earthquakes or wildfire. And our governor couldn’t pop your head off.
We can’t pay you more than in WMS t-shirts, but you should be good for a while, right?
I hope that these terms would be serviceable for you, sir. What we can’t give you in the terms of money, we can make up for in internet television history making camaraderie!!!!
This week, the Wrestling Mayhem Show welcomes “Steel City Prodigy” Ryan Mitchell to the air! Mitchell has been a staple in NWA East where he is set to challenge Ashton Amherst for the NWA East Heavyweight Title on January 30 in McKeesport, PA, he’s worked at the Funking Conservatory, All Japan, Florida Championship Wrestling, and more!
Also, we continue to grow in our new segments, the WMS Sweet Tweet (trademark pending) and the return of the Fan of the Week! All this Mayhem now in Mayhem-Scope!
Leave your questions and comments for the show at goodtimes@wrestlingmayhemshow.com or 412-206-WMS0 (412-206-9670)!
But the rest of the game was great. You didn’t have a custom wrestler mode, but you did have the ability to arrange the wrestlers in factions as you’d like and swap wardrobe amongst the roster. I recall making great strides to divide up the NWO at the proper point, and turn Hogan back to the Red and Yellow. Also, I think I turned The Giant into Big Show when that change occured. The game had fun weapons, that came from the crowd, a good battle royal mode, and decent enough title modes. And venues for all of the major PPVs of the era! All this, and the quintessential representation of the NWO, The Flock, cruiserweights, and tag teams. I’d dare say this was the best WCW game ever done.![[del.icio.us]](http://sorgatronmedia.com/wrestlingmayhemshow/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
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