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!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I literally almost fell on the floor. But the real question...were they (The Genetic Jackhammer)Vince McMahon's??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔
I was a fan of Kevin Nash back in the day and he is certainly a fan of himself. As a kid I found diesel to be a snore. Did Nash ever draw money? I found Hall to be the more compelling character of the outsiders. He played second fiddle to Michaels. Solo he was just vanilla imo.
Rumor has it that diesel was a lowest drawing champion in history. When he went to WCW as Kevin Nash it was like somebody turned a charisma switch on and he became too cool for school.
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.
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...
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.
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 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 😞
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.
@@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.
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 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.
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!
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
@@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!
Used to bug the hell out of me that the PS1 version didn't have in game music, to the point I genuinely thought there was something wrong with my disc. Also, one weird thing about the roster, Doink had never had a Wrestlemania match when the game was released, and wouldn't for the next two wrestlemanias either. But you've done three of the four WWF arcade games now, will you complete the set? :D
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!!!!
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.
@Slipknotpimp 666 I think it was them just cheaping out. The Genesis version use smaller sprites with less color so you can fit them on smaller eproms (the memory chips, carts use). They probably cut out the two biggest guys to use smaller chips or use one less. I think it was a bad call, they should have shrunk them or even take out more of the dialogue like the genesis did.
I prefer In Your House to Wrestlemainia Arcade because Ultimate warrior was my favorite wrestler in my childhood and I'm still very fond of him. In Your House was the only PS1 WWF game I owned though I played others belonging to friends or family.
Was Matt Bourne playing Doink at this time? I heard he could be difficult to work, so it wouldn't surprise me if he was the one giving the crew a hard time.
Wwf Wrestlemania arcade game and WWF in your house on playstation 1 still fun wrestling games than 2k garbage games of wwe All Stars and wwe Battle ground they sucked badly .
They had some good games as well but the last one I didn't even bother buying so bad which was a first for me. I have been buying their game since wrestlemania on the super Nintendo
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.
If it had turned out to be a straight up wrestling game with digitized graphics that would have been awesome. It was still fun despite it being just mortal kombat with wrestlers.
I’m surprised that they didn’t use a cart or something to move Yokozuna to the back of the facility. As far as Razor and Doink goes, it doesn’t surprise me they were tough to work with due to their personal demons. And of course Bret & Shawn were good to work with they were on top of the card at that time and didn’t want backlash. Personally I would’ve love to seen Mr. Perfect (one of my faves) and Adam Bomb in the game.
Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels are absolute professionals and want to help the business as much as they can. They were both carrying the company at the time.
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
I really did enjoy the game though, I never watched WWF/WWE. I grew up watching Georgia Championship Wrestling, which became WCW at some point. Actually, when WCW aired their last show, it was the last wrestling I ever watched, until AEW rolled around (Still haven't watched WWE). But, I did love the games, this one in particular, was very fun. Once again, amazing video, enjoyed every second.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The Horsemen were amazing! One of the first teams I 'Loved to Hate' haha. I started out as a Tommy 'Wildfire' Rich fan and when he and The Junkyard Dog teamed up, it was my first ever dream team. Georgia Championship Wrestling use to come on early Saturday mornings here and the show was 2 hours long. It was a family thing too, my whole family would get up nice and early on Saturdays and watch it together and when it went off, well, it was Saturday morning cartoon time haha :D
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.
...But where did the Ultimate Warrior wrestle? In parts unknown??? xD ps. Great video as always! As an retro gaming and wrestling fan since the 80s, I really appreciate your work!
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
Loved the Video. I never Knew Mr Perfect was booked to be in the Game. Shame he didnt show. Has the reason ever been told about why Adam Bomb was never put in the final game?
No, I had an interview set up with designer of the game but he stopped responding to my emails for some reason. That was one of the questions on the list.
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries that’s a shame. Least you Got a foot in the door and not just copy and paste your information from Wikipedia like so many others.....
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries yea it would be really worth it like they could blend it with all generations of wrestling I remember on NBA live 06’ they had an hidden arcade basketball game from way back in there it would be a joy if they do things like this again I even wouldn’t mind marvel vs capcom go back to how it was with more superhero’s in the new outfits and all
I always loved the game, I played it in the arcade, and I would always rent it for Super Nintendo.. I just remember always thinking how much better the game would have been if there was a bigger roster of wrestlers. It makes sense about the Steiners because they had left. It makes zero sense that they would leave out Adam Bomb, and you could definitely imagine Mr Perfect no showing cause he believed it was childish, but there were other guys that easily could have been in this game! Tatanka, Owen Hart, 123 Kid, Hacksaw Jim Duggan (OG from the original games)
I remember this game just wondering where hogan, Savage, warrior and the rest were and being disappointed! These guys were intercontinental level guys back in the golden era.
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries yeah they were definitely hurting from the steroid trial and losing guys like Hogan and Savage at this point. Thankfully they had guys like Bret, Undertaker, Razor and HBK keeping them afloat
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.
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 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 would love to get a modded in Atom Bomb. I remember seeing promotional stills with him in the game in an issue of EGM and was disappointed he never made it in. By that time Vince had moved onto a new shiny toy. It's unfortunate as Bryan Clark had a lot of steam.
Odd that Matt Borne, who played Doink in this game, was fired in 1993 and was replaced by Ray Apollo and didn't return until the late 2000s for one match.
Awww no ZX Spectrum comparison? 😂 Actually I still need to get the game. On my long list of MD games to pick up. I think visually it looks the most interesting of the 16bit WWF games.
I had the CD Rom of this game and is an exact copy of the actual arcade with Jerry Lawler and the dark ending texts intact! Unlike the other hime consols, the winner isn't seen with a belt.
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.
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!
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it
Sal Divita also produced the spiritual sequeal WWE All Stars which was also really fun.
Fantastic, did not know that
One of my all time favorite Wrestling games!
Mine as well
Thanks patmanqc for the great work!!
Thank you very much :-)
"So take your vitamins"
*shows syringes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL, thank you :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I literally almost fell on the floor. But the real question...were they (The Genetic Jackhammer)Vince McMahon's??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔
I was a fan of Kevin Nash back in the day and he is certainly a fan of himself. As a kid I found diesel to be a snore. Did Nash ever draw money? I found Hall to be the more compelling character of the outsiders. He played second fiddle to Michaels. Solo he was just vanilla imo.
Rumor has it that diesel was a lowest drawing champion in history. When he went to WCW as Kevin Nash it was like somebody turned a charisma switch on and he became too cool for school.
I was so pissed. I was Yokozuna and going to beat the game and my friend unplugged the machine....
LOL, that sucks
I ❤️ whang
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
That's a good idea :-)
Hahaha I did the same thing.
Lol rasslin. I used to say it like that too lol
@@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.
I loved this damn game as a kid
So did I
Same! I really miss it!
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 could not agree more. That's exactly how I feel
Dude, I first saw this game at a gas station in St Louis. I was freaking out! It looked so good, and it had alot of good wrestlers.
It's amazing how good the graphics are considering it was 25 years ago
8 wrestlers were "lots" of Wrestlers?
I am also from saint Louis and saw this game in an arcade called the tilt
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.
That would be fantastic don't know if it's feasible though
If Coronavirus makes me self isolate at least I’ll always have PatManQC to keep me entertained.
LOL, that's awesome of you To say :-)
PatmanQC your channel is great buddy. While I can’t support via pateron I watch every single video for sure.
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.
Lol I've been living in isolation since 2016. Welcome to the show.
@Don Avan Nope
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 😞
This game (arcade version) looks awesome! I love the supernatural and comical additions to their moves. The shock buzzer really shocks!!!
I always enjoy the game even though wasn't a straight up wrestling title
I'm still butt-hurt about In Your House. I loved the arcade game, but IYH was a complete dumpster fire!
Looking back on it now I agree it's not very good but apparently I enjoyed it as a kid :-)
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.
Loved this game back in the day ! Played the hell out of it on Sega Saturn. Great video as always.
Thank you very much
@@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.
If I'm not mistaken, the Saturn version is widely regarded as the best port.
I really enjoyed that game. The gameplay, combos and counter were amazing!
Absolutely, I always enjoy the game
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.
Absolutely
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 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 always preferred the arcade game but the PlayStation was close
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.
If I remember it correctly this was one of the rare cabinets you could play with 4 people along with X Men and Simpsons Arcade.
Good times.
Childhood nostalgia in these dark times. I can sit back n relax, n think about the good old days watching this
Thanks, glad I could take your mind off of it for a little while at least
It's been a rough day, but these videos make days like these so much better. I'm so proud to be a Patreon supporter of this wonderful channel!
That is very kind of you to say, glad I could help out in some small way
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!
Yes I agree, I would've loved to seen a yearly update with different rosters. Thanks for watching
How do u play it
@@speedgoat7496 Fusion emulator on PC
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
LOL, I've always read stories about him and Jack Daniels so I wasn't surprised when I read about his demands :-)
Thanks for doing these videos for us all!! Extremely awesome!!
Thank you very much, glad you liked it
Jesus, Pat... I LOVE your videos but why in the world would you ever advocate crack!?
Meth is WAY better
LOL, because I can't afford meth :-)
im suprised they actually did a good job on most of the conversions
They did except for the super Nintendo which were missing a couple of characters
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries and slow as hell
@@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!
Great episode, ya ham & egger! :)
Thanks you pencil neck geek :-)
Used to bug the hell out of me that the PS1 version didn't have in game music, to the point I genuinely thought there was something wrong with my disc.
Also, one weird thing about the roster, Doink had never had a Wrestlemania match when the game was released, and wouldn't for the next two wrestlemanias either.
But you've done three of the four WWF arcade games now, will you complete the set? :D
I've already had requests for Royal rumble but that Won't be for a while.
Doink had a Wrestlemania match at WM9 against Crush before the game came out. Though he was Heel at the time.
And a weird Tag match with Bam Bam Bigelow at WM10 I believe.
@@unforgivenwrestlemaniac favorite doink moment was the survivors series of doink vs lawyer 😂
10 years old me loved this game. 90s, great time to be a kid.
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!!!!
I agree, you look at a game like wrestlefest were half the roster are gone. Thank you for the nice words, glad you enjoyed it
Listening to Crime In Sports about the wrestlers is heartbreaking.
The attitude Era was the shit!
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.
I didn't know that, thanks for the tip
I got the genesis one and I hear the king in mine
same
Remember this well 🙌🏻 please keep the awesome content coming PatmanQC!!!
Thank you so much
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries no thank you sir, newish subscriber but I have thoroughly enjoyed all your content!!
I remember how disappointing the SNES version was. It was slow and missing characters. Years later I pick up the 32x version, so much better.
It was a really good conversion
@Slipknotpimp 666 I think it was them just cheaping out. The Genesis version use smaller sprites with less color so you can fit them on smaller eproms (the memory chips, carts use). They probably cut out the two biggest guys to use smaller chips or use one less. I think it was a bad call, they should have shrunk them or even take out more of the dialogue like the genesis did.
Every console conversion was arcades ruled
The genesis version was way better.
@Slipknotpimp 666 the super Nintendo would always the the better looking version but the genesis versions would have the better gameplay and controls.
"Just like a crack pipe"
That comment killed me
💀💀💀💀💀
LOL, thank you :-)
Well he ain’t lying lol
"Just like a crack pipe! "
LOL :-)
Great video. Narrating was excellent, but not Perfect. Only Curt Hennig can pull that off.
LOL, thank you
I prefer In Your House to Wrestlemainia Arcade because Ultimate warrior was my favorite wrestler in my childhood and I'm still very fond of him. In Your House was the only PS1 WWF game I owned though I played others belonging to friends or family.
I much prefer the roster of in your house that's for sure :-)
Was Matt Bourne playing Doink at this time? I heard he could be difficult to work, so it wouldn't surprise me if he was the one giving the crew a hard time.
Yes that is him. I had never heard he was difficult to work with before
Wwf Wrestlemania arcade game and WWF in your house on playstation 1 still fun wrestling games than 2k garbage games of wwe All Stars and wwe Battle ground they sucked badly .
They had some good games as well but the last one I didn't even bother buying so bad which was a first for me. I have been buying their game since wrestlemania on the super Nintendo
Loved this game in the arcade! Imagine a new version of this? Man, how cool that would be!!
It would be fantastic considering the technological advances of the last 25 years
Fatalitys would of been funny now. Almost wish someone could hack them into the game. Lol
LOL, no kidding :-)
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.
That's exactly what it felt like to me as well
If it had turned out to be a straight up wrestling game with digitized graphics that would have been awesome. It was still fun despite it being just mortal kombat with wrestlers.
I agree, I would've liked to have seen a straight up wrestling title with digitized graphics
sounds like they all had a good drink and a good time
LOL, it sure sounds like it
Lol more than drink I bet
I’m surprised that they didn’t use a cart or something to move Yokozuna to the back of the facility.
As far as Razor and Doink goes, it doesn’t surprise me they were tough to work with due to their personal demons.
And of course Bret & Shawn were good to work with they were on top of the card at that time and didn’t want backlash.
Personally I would’ve love to seen Mr. Perfect (one of my faves) and Adam Bomb in the game.
That was my first thought, why didn't they have a card or something to take them back.
I agree with all of your points 1000%
@@petef9042 Yes that's what I meant, my voice to text mode doesn't work that well sometimes
Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels are absolute professionals and want to help the business as much as they can. They were both carrying the company at the time.
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
Wow! I read your Gamefaqs review back in the day!
Hope you enjoyed it!
I really did enjoy the game though, I never watched WWF/WWE. I grew up watching Georgia Championship Wrestling, which became WCW at some point. Actually, when WCW aired their last show, it was the last wrestling I ever watched, until AEW rolled around (Still haven't watched WWE). But, I did love the games, this one in particular, was very fun. Once again, amazing video, enjoyed every second.
Thank you for the nice words. I started watching WCW right around 1986 when the horsemen were in full swing :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The Horsemen were amazing! One of the first teams I 'Loved to Hate' haha. I started out as a Tommy 'Wildfire' Rich fan and when he and The Junkyard Dog teamed up, it was my first ever dream team. Georgia Championship Wrestling use to come on early Saturday mornings here and the show was 2 hours long. It was a family thing too, my whole family would get up nice and early on Saturdays and watch it together and when it went off, well, it was Saturday morning cartoon time haha :D
Super Nintendo fat shamed Bam Bam and Yokozuna. 😄
LOL
Great video dude keep up the good work, always welcome!!!
Thank you very much
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.
That is very kind of you to say. I'm glad you enjoy my content so much. Cheers
i think i could have bought a house with the number of quarters i gave this game!
You and me both my friend
Razor got beat up by 4, not 3 guys
...But where did the Ultimate Warrior wrestle? In parts unknown??? xD
ps. Great video as always! As an retro gaming and wrestling fan since the 80s, I really appreciate your work!
Good question! Thanks a lot my friend I appreciate the nice words
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries You deserve it!!
Ive got WWF wrestlemania the arcade game PS1.snes
I have it for PS one and MS-DOS along with Saturn
My favorite wrestling game next to WrestleMania 2000
I always enjoyed it and wrestlemania 2000 as well :-)
YES! Great upload, LOVE this arcade game! 🤘
Thank you so much. Hope you enjoyed it
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries i did! Crazy about Adam Bomb and Mr.Perfect not being in the game.
Please do fire pro wrestling! I love your narration and videos. Thanks for all your hard work!
I will get to it eventually. Thanks for the nice words
I loved the undertaker multiple chokeslams
One of those games you can never forget. Thank you for doing this. All of your videos are Awesome. I have watched all of your video games histories
Fantastic, thank you very much for watching
This was MMYYY shit back in the day.
Mine too my friend
I need to find a WrestleFest Arcade machine.
That would be the ultimate one for me to own
Besides, they were rather tame for fatalities. :p
I agree
I had this game on genesis. I liked it.
It was a pretty good conversion I thought
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
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Exactly. Just to see him throw some punch or kick would be amazing.
Love the arcade game. I got the PC version
I had the super Nintendo and MS-DOS version
That Undertaker combo was the only combo I learned on this 😂😂😂 this was a great game. They should definitely think about doing one like this now
The only one I ever learned was Shawn Michaels combo, I agreed they should redo it
Me and my cousins used to practice on big combos. I could do one with every character. Good memories lots of fun.
What a games why never on console ps5 should consider this games are so great
They would have to get the license for each individual WrestlER and I'm sure it would cost too much
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries we paid fot it you know how many games they will sell plus merchanduse
Loved the Video. I never Knew Mr Perfect was booked to be in the Game. Shame he didnt show. Has the reason ever been told about why Adam Bomb was never put in the final game?
No, I had an interview set up with designer of the game but he stopped responding to my emails for some reason. That was one of the questions on the list.
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries that’s a shame. Least you Got a foot in the door and not just copy and paste your information from Wikipedia like so many others.....
Thank you, it is one thing I hate is people doing straight up so-called Wikipedia videos.
I wouldn’t even mind if they did this today in this style but a lot more wrestlers
I think it would be great on modern technology
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries yea it would be really worth it like they could blend it with all generations of wrestling I remember on NBA live 06’ they had an hidden arcade basketball game from way back in there it would be a joy if they do things like this again I even wouldn’t mind marvel vs capcom go back to how it was with more superhero’s in the new outfits and all
I dont remember the genesis version looking that bad yikes
Back in the day I didn't either
I always loved the game, I played it in the arcade, and I would always rent it for Super Nintendo.. I just remember always thinking how much better the game would have been if there was a bigger roster of wrestlers. It makes sense about the Steiners because they had left. It makes zero sense that they would leave out Adam Bomb, and you could definitely imagine Mr Perfect no showing cause he believed it was childish, but there were other guys that easily could have been in this game! Tatanka, Owen Hart, 123 Kid, Hacksaw Jim Duggan (OG from the original games)
Remember playing this as a kid, takes me down memory lane. Good stuff.
Thank you for the nice words
My childhood 💜💜💜💜💜
Thank you
I remember this game just wondering where hogan, Savage, warrior and the rest were and being disappointed! These guys were intercontinental level guys back in the golden era.
I agree, the WWF was in a transition phase
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries yeah they were definitely hurting from the steroid trial and losing guys like Hogan and Savage at this point. Thankfully they had guys like Bret, Undertaker, Razor and HBK keeping them afloat
@@AFBN razor and lex lugor eventually left wwf as well and went to wcw.😖
Same as attitude era guys... all of them were mid card wrestlers that WCW dumped
10:25 I can't man!😂😂 Tyrone Biggums!😂😂😂😂😂
BRO THAT PART KILLED ME😆
LOL :-)
LOL, thanks :-)
@@MrCalverino Yess! I kept repeating it!😂😂😂
Damn, I used to skipped my school to play this with my friends 😁
LOL, that's hilarious
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.
That''s awesome
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 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 would love to get a modded in Atom Bomb. I remember seeing promotional stills with him in the game in an issue of EGM and was disappointed he never made it in. By that time Vince had moved onto a new shiny toy. It's unfortunate as Bryan Clark had a lot of steam.
I would love to see what His digitized sprites would look likeBut according to the art director Sal DiVita The character was nowhere near complete
:D Undertaker for MK11!!!
Absolutely, that would be fantastic
Primal rage was another game in which neither home port was arcade perfect
I agree,Although I guess the PlayStation version was pretty close
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries true . the arcade port is on midway arcade treasure 2
Razor Ramon was actually the hardest guy to beat. Don’t know why, but I always had problems beating him.
I had this on Sega Saturn.
For me it was Yoko for some reason
Midway was so
awesome back in the 90’s.
The 80s and 90s :-)
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries No doubt. I believe the grid was their last arcade game?
Odd that Matt Borne, who played Doink in this game, was fired in 1993 and was replaced by Ray Apollo and didn't return until the late 2000s for one match.
We need this games on ps5 on ps4 this are master pieces
Wouldn't that be cool
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries it will
This game was fun back in the day.
It sure was
22:20 I just realized that Brett Hart looks exactly like a beefier version of Adrian Paul (Duncan MacLeod from the Highlander series)
Duff Duffington Bret and HBK looked like the Highlander
Awww no ZX Spectrum comparison? 😂 Actually I still need to get the game. On my long list of MD games to pick up. I think visually it looks the most interesting of the 16bit WWF games.
I had the CD Rom of this game and is an exact copy of the actual arcade with Jerry Lawler and the dark ending texts intact! Unlike the other hime consols, the winner isn't seen with a belt.
Thank U👏🏾.....
vids like dis takes me bac to da better dayz😁.....always share wit my kidz let dem kno where we come from🤣👌🏾
Thank you my friend I appreciate the nice words
"just like a crackpipe" lmfao
LOL, thank you :-)
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.
Thank you very much :-)
This already my favorite episode
Thank you very much :-)