WWF Wrestlemania Challenge (NES) Playthrough

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  • Опубликовано: 12 мар 2024
  • A playthrough of LJN's 1990 license-based wrestling game for the NES, WWF Wrestlemania Challenge.
    This video shows all of the single-player modes:
    0:55 1 Vs 8 Super Challenge mode played as "Yourself"
    10:15 2 Vs 2 Tag Match played as The Ultimate Warriors and Hacksaw Jim Duggan
    12:11 3 Vs 3 Survivor Series played as Big Boss Man, Macho King Randy Savage, and Hulk Hogan
    WWF Wrestlemania Challenge is the second wrestling game produced for LJN by Rare and the direct follow-up to 1989's WWF Wrestlemania ( • WWF Wrestlemania (NES)... ).
    A lot of people, including me, have fond memories of the first NES Wrestlemania, but it's no secret that the game was more than a little rough around the edges. Thankfully, Rare was quick to turn things around for this amped-up sequel.
    WWF Wrestlemania Challenge overhauls every aspect of the original game. The controls are better laid out and far more intuitive, the isometric perspective and smaller character sprites make the ring feel less claustrophobic, and the music improves on the already excellent tunes of the first game.
    And that's before we get to the excellent roster. Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Big Boss Man, "Ravishing" Rick Rude, "Macho King" Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, The Ultimate Warrior, and the inimitable Hulk Hogan are all playable across a range of gameplay modes, including championship ladders, tag-team match-ups, and a 3v3 survivor matches, and each wrestler gets his own special move.
    The speed of the game and the controls take some getting used to thanks to the shift in perspective, and the roster would've benefitted from the inclusion of a few more wrestlers, but WWF Wrestlemania Challenge feels like a game with a lot more effort and refinement poured into it than its predecessor. It may not be the top wrestling game on the NES, but it is a very good one, and it's easily the best to bear the WWF license.
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Комментарии • 62

  • @NintendoComplete
    @NintendoComplete  4 месяца назад +27

    WWF Wrestlemania Challenge is such a massive improvement over the original game!

    • @danalong1237
      @danalong1237 4 месяца назад +2

      After this game, development switched to Sculptured Software/Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City, until THQ acquired the WWE license from Acclaim in 1999.

    • @ElephantMariotheRHDNhater3293
      @ElephantMariotheRHDNhater3293 4 месяца назад +3

      And quite an achievement cosnidering it's from LJN!

    • @soullessoutcast
      @soullessoutcast 4 месяца назад +3

      I did like the first one's soundtrack, though. 8bit remix of entrance songs. The gameplay of this one is better.

    • @solarflare9078
      @solarflare9078 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ElephantMariotheRHDNhater3293 It's actually from Rareware

    • @MattyIcecubes
      @MattyIcecubes 4 месяца назад +2

      True, but that's not saying much. WCW's game is better than this one. Tecmo World Wrestling is the best wrestling game on NES.

  • @BenJabituya
    @BenJabituya 4 месяца назад +16

    RIP to the following WWE legends
    “Ravishing” Rick Rude
    Big Boss Man
    The Ultimate Warrior
    Andre The Giant
    And “Macho King” Randy Savage

  • @danalong1237
    @danalong1237 4 месяца назад +10

    14:04: “The irresistible force meeting the immovable object.”-Gorilla Monsoon.

  • @jam2007
    @jam2007 4 месяца назад +14

    Love the 8 bit sounds of the wrestlers themes

    • @danalong1237
      @danalong1237 4 месяца назад +3

      They were all arranged by David Wise, who was no Jim Johnston.

  • @donaldsmith8648
    @donaldsmith8648 4 месяца назад +6

    Old school Wednesday

  • @Davidcorvelo38
    @Davidcorvelo38 4 месяца назад +5

    "Step Into The Ring If Your Tough Enough For This Challenge Oh Yeah!!!

  • @DerivativeWorker
    @DerivativeWorker 4 месяца назад +3

    When Jim Dugen charged NC and he immediately jumped out the ring, I laughed.

  • @tosspot1305
    @tosspot1305 3 месяца назад +2

    The 8bit sound design from Rare in the era is outstanding. Snake Rattle and Roll had amazing tracks aswell

  • @wattaara
    @wattaara 4 месяца назад +7

    i still love the detail and perspective you give for each game in your video descriptions.

    • @NintendoComplete
      @NintendoComplete  4 месяца назад +4

      Thanks! 😊

    • @oxygeninterface
      @oxygeninterface 4 месяца назад +2

      as do i. his reviews are always so extremely well thought-out and beautifully constructed.

  • @TheLightShow2
    @TheLightShow2 4 месяца назад +7

    The intro theme still🔥

    • @ValiantWrestling
      @ValiantWrestling 4 месяца назад +1

      WWF Legends Challenge 64 No Mercy mod has an excellent remake of the title music.

  • @francisjosephmanuel4923
    @francisjosephmanuel4923 4 месяца назад +4

    0:07 R.I.P. Ultimate Warrior and 10th death anniversary.

    • @danalong1237
      @danalong1237 4 месяца назад +4

      And the spirit of The Ultimate Warrior will run forever!

  • @danalong1237
    @danalong1237 4 месяца назад +7

    All 8 of the featured WWF Superstars are in the WWE Hall of Fame.

    • @moviemetalhead
      @moviemetalhead 4 месяца назад +5

      All but 3 are still among the living, as of March '24.

    • @francisjosephmanuel4923
      @francisjosephmanuel4923 4 месяца назад +3

      @moviemetalhead Hulk Hogan, Hacksaw Jim Duggan & Brutus 'The Bareber' Beefcake are still around.

    • @chadkennedy7855
      @chadkennedy7855 4 месяца назад

      That also include Andre the Giant because he's dead, stupid!

  • @VahanNisanian
    @VahanNisanian 4 месяца назад +7

    AVGN: Trying to hit a guy here is like trying to hit a grain of sand with a tennis racket while Andre the Giant farts directly into your nostrils.

  • @CMmeows
    @CMmeows 4 месяца назад +2

    That moment you know its Wrestlemania season when you see a notification saying a playthrough of wrestling games come in like Hulkamania running wild, brother!

  • @aaronbruceladner1983
    @aaronbruceladner1983 4 месяца назад +5

    I Want to Play as Hulk Hogan

  • @drez0352
    @drez0352 4 месяца назад +2

    The character select screen music is 🔥

  • @DerivativeWorker
    @DerivativeWorker 4 месяца назад +1

    Ultimate warrior is more intimidating than any final boss Ive seen.

    • @NintendoComplete
      @NintendoComplete  4 месяца назад +3

      Cocaine is one helluva drug, ain't it?

    • @johngavalas74
      @johngavalas74 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@NintendoComplete😂😂😂

  • @FuckYourFeelings88
    @FuckYourFeelings88 4 месяца назад +4

    Bossman walking over like Alright son

  • @NM-so8kh
    @NM-so8kh 4 месяца назад +2

    This game was awesome

  • @sp8715
    @sp8715 4 месяца назад +3

    Love this game

  • @tommymorgan73
    @tommymorgan73 3 месяца назад +1

    Unbelievable!!! So good!!

  • @Gambit17
    @Gambit17 4 месяца назад +1

    I remember talking about this game with a couple of friends of mine. We were all like "Wait, THIS was LJN? But it's so good!" Not to mention it was one of the few wrestling games where the manual actually tells you how to try to kick out if you're pinned.

  • @clover831
    @clover831 4 месяца назад +1

    Bruti "the barber" BEEEFFFFFF-CAKE.💪💈

  • @johngavalas74
    @johngavalas74 4 месяца назад +1

    5:12 what athleticism from andre the way he hopped over the top rope with ease

  • @WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo
    @WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo 4 месяца назад +2

    Man the memories my first ever wrestling game i got my nes December '89 & this not long after i always pretended the guy was Marty Jannetty because for some reason he was my favourite when i was 7 😂

    • @Bhughe4
      @Bhughe4 2 месяца назад

      My brother and I were 8 & 10 when this came out. We pretended the Yourself character was Barry Horowitz 🤣 none of the neighborhood kids wanted to play that character. We wanted to be the WWF superstars.

    • @WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo
      @WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo 2 месяца назад

      @@Bhughe4 haha pat on the back for the best jobber there ever was, I think I pretended to be Piper if memory serves me he wasn't there. I literally this moment just bought a WWF Hasbro bundle with all the tag teams together 🤣

  • @SomeOrangeCat
    @SomeOrangeCat 4 месяца назад +4

    These old licensed wrestling games make me sad, as most of the roster are either no longer with us, or went on to become absolute disgraces.

  • @RacingPoint-io8yk
    @RacingPoint-io8yk Месяц назад

    this legendary character selection sountrack. 0:54

  • @renatmamyshev159
    @renatmamyshev159 3 месяца назад +2

    Некоторые музыкалье фрагменты до боли напоминают Battletoads&Double Dragon .

  • @RoyStantz
    @RoyStantz 4 месяца назад

    I remember getting this for Christmas 1991, and then watching Kendo Nagasaki play it on the first series of GamesMaster the following year.

  • @bigduke5902
    @bigduke5902 3 месяца назад

    In the brief period of my life when I and most other people my age watched professional wrestling, and before I learned the term "jobber", I used to refer to those kinds of wrestlers as "Yourself" much to my own amusement.

  • @chapingaryjr
    @chapingaryjr 4 месяца назад

    I always loved it played the theme of who you were wrestling throughout the match

  • @Dorian_Scott
    @Dorian_Scott 4 месяца назад +1

    Wrestlemania Challenge is... a game. It's most certainly a game.😂

  • @xGodofAcidx
    @xGodofAcidx 3 месяца назад

    Do other people not know the easy way to beat Duggan? Just go to a corner, let him run at you, move, go to the other corner and repeat

  • @Viprz
    @Viprz День назад

    WWF games for the NES were terrible. This one was a slight improvement over it's predecessor, which was released a year earlier, but they were so bland with bad graphics (even for that time) and all the characters had the exact same moves. If you want to see what I mean, play Tecmo World Wrestling which was released in 1989. It was light years ahead of the WWF games and is actually still fun to play to this day. Still one of my favorite games on the NES.

  • @areallg17
    @areallg17 2 месяца назад

    Weird I remember the 1st game but not this wtf

  • @JuraIbis
    @JuraIbis 4 месяца назад +1

    No rope action? This is pretty disappointing.

  • @alabdel1388
    @alabdel1388 4 месяца назад

    Good grief the wwf games sucked back then...even during that time. The generic "pro wresting" on the NES was leagues better than this garbage. Smh lol

    • @jonathanturbide2232
      @jonathanturbide2232 4 месяца назад +1

      Pro Wrestling was indeed awesome, but how was it better than this game dude? It's basically the exact same game and gameplay/controls, but at least Wrestlemania Challenge offers a roster of real wrestlers and some tag team action. 🤔

  • @Surfer041
    @Surfer041 3 месяца назад

    Awful game

  • @calfong1030
    @calfong1030 Месяц назад

    It's another trash from LJN.