Biff Slamkovich was originally named Aleksey Zalazof in the Japanese version. And looks just like Alex from Street Fighter 3. Both were inspired by Hulk Hogan. And Alexander the Grater is modeled after Big Van Vader.
LOVE IT! I have this game. If you push attack and the jump at the same time while pushing down when you grab them from the front, you can do their special move.
I don't remember this on Genesis. Oh man, I can't imagine how much fun this game must have been as a kid with friends sleeping over and playing this all weekend! Thanks for your hard work Aaron. Another short but sweet retro game review!
I gotta say that Pro Wrestling on the 8-bit Nintendo is still my favorite wrestling game. My brother and I used to have SO MUCH FUN! This was in the 90's, of course. Hahaha!
I discovered this game in a little video game store in Guthrie, OK, back in '95. One of my great blind buys from back then, had a lot of fun with friends playing this game. WWF Royal Rumble and Monday Night Raw were my other favorite 16 bit wrestling titles. Awesome vid Aaron. 🤘
That's awesome. Love to hear stories like this, thanks for sharing, Alex. I've heard a lot of people say Raw on SNES was excellent but never got a chance to play that one. I do have Royal Rumble and it's fun. I need to do an all wrestling games episode. We played the crap out of WWF Attitude on N64. We'd spend an hour just watching wrestler intros and then making stupid versions of ourselves with the create-a-wrestler.
Attitude was good on 64 but I preferred the THQ wrestling games WCW/NWO World Tour, WCW/NWO Revenge, Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy. Creating wrestlers was the coolest.
This is one of those games i discovered recently but wish i knew about when i was a kid. It'll probably take a series a videos to properly do this era in capcoms history there was so much going on
I played this on the Genesis and always wondered what it was like on the Snes. I was never really into wrestling but the games were always fun. Damn man, the graphics are really good on this port. You know, seeing all this run on the Snes makes me really wonder if they truly could have made those SNK ports pop more. It always felt that Takara (the company that did most of those ports) seldom used any of the 16-bit consoles strengths when porting games. For example, both the Genesis and Snes should have been more than capable of- A. Having large sprites and B. The zoom features. Further, cutting down on the rosters was ridiculous as well. Games like this always made me wonder what if...;)
Things you forgot: 1. You mention all the roster except scorpion and jumbo. 2. on snes you can choose scorpion and jumbo only in Battle Royal, by Sega Genesis you are available to choose scorpion and jumbo in single player. 3. FM Town Marty port and the differnces. 4. "Ring Of Destruction:Slam Master 2" the arcade exclusive sequel which is more into fighting game combine with wrestling element.
I was aware of all of these things... I've learned over the years when making these videos that if I tried to include every single factoid in a video, the videos will never actually get done or if they do, they'll be incredibly long and dull. Sometimes less is more.
"*GASP!* Cheeseburger!" This is one of the better non-Street Fighter fighting games for the SNES, in my opinion. It could have used some more fluid animations and more wrestling moves, though.
At the end, you said invite some friends over, have a few beers, and play the game... When I invite friends over and we drink, we usually fight each other :/
The "team battle royal" mode isn't a battle royal at all. It should actually be called a Tornado Tag Elimination Match. Whoever called it a battle royal obviously doesn't watch wrestling.
Genesis version has the better single player experience since the computer doesn't cheat as much and you're able to actually use the grappling moves. In the snes version regardless of difficulty level after the second match grappling becomes useless since the computer will beat you to it and win every time thus devolving the game into nothing but punches and kicks like you noted.
This game is less based off WWF and more off of American Territories, Luchadores, and Japanese wrestlers of the 1970s and 1980s. The only real hard link to WWF at the time was the intro. : The guy who tears his shirt off Victor Ortega was based on Superstar Billy Graham. The wrestlers are all based upon those who wrestled the Japanese circuits and the US territories. They are as follows: Biff Slamkovich: Based on Kerry Von Erich of the Von Erich "family" of NWA, WCCW, SLWC, USWA, and GWF fame. Gunlock: Based upon Chris Benoit of Stampede NJPW, WCW, ECW, and WWE. The Great Oni: Based upon The Great Muta of WCCW, NWA, NJPW, AJPW, and Wrestle-1. Titanic Tim: Based upon "Big Titan" (Rick Bognar)of Frontier Martial-Ars Wrestling, WAR, ECW, WWF, AND NJPW. El Stingray: Based Upon Mexican Luchador Lizmark (Juan Baños) of EMLL, AAA, CMLL, and the indie circuit. Mike Haggar: Very Loosely based upon Macho Man Randy Savage of ICW, AWA, WWF, WCW and TNA. Alexander The Greater: Based upon Big Van Vader (Leon White) of AWA, CWA, NJPW, UWA, WCW, UWF, WWF, AJPW, and TNA. King Rasta Mon: Based upon Bruiser Brody of CSW, WWWF, SCW, DSW, CWF, AWA, WCCW, NJPW, AJPW, and FSCW. Jumbo Flapjack: Based upon Earthquake ( Big John Tenta) of Sumo, AJPW, WWF, UWF, and WCW. The Scorpion: Based on Tineblas of WWA, comics, movies and was one of the first Luchadores to tour japan's wrestling circuits.
Haggar wasn't based on Savage, they just gave him a couple of nods in the Slam Masters game for the sake of it being a wrestling game. Haggar was actually based on Paul Pons more than anything, along with other American influences. Outside Slam Masters, you'd be hard pressed to find any similarities between Haggar and Savage.
@@ShinobiNeon I agree. but I am mostly going off the old Capcom notes from their artbooks and such, it is a VERY loose connection but it was attributed to such. If Saturday Night Slam Masters came about 4 years later one could see a lot of Dan Severn in Mike Haggar just by appearances. Haggar really is the most "original" of all the characters presented in the game as he's quite a few influences rolled into one.
You just knew it was gonna be good. If you could only rent one game for the weekend and it came down to a Capcom game or a different game, you wanted the Capcom game regardless of what it was.
Saturday night on Friday night ohhh yeaahh!
lol 😆
Biff Slamkovich was originally named Aleksey Zalazof in the Japanese version. And looks just like Alex from Street Fighter 3.
Both were inspired by Hulk Hogan.
And Alexander the Grater is modeled after Big Van Vader.
LOVE IT! I have this game. If you push attack and the jump at the same time while pushing down when you grab them from the front, you can do their special move.
Nostalgiasm! I completely forgot about this awesome game. I usually picked Scorp.
Just recently got my copy played it when I was a kid.
I remember that one my cousin and I grew up on that game, had blisters and ours thumbs but had awesome fun
I don't remember this on Genesis. Oh man, I can't imagine how much fun this game must have been as a kid with friends sleeping over and playing this all weekend! Thanks for your hard work Aaron. Another short but sweet retro game review!
Love this game a lot of fond memories playing this one as a kid
Wow, I've never even heard of this one before. Capcom could do no wrong in the 90's.
My cousin and I used to play this all the time on SNES. SNES featured 2 player tag matches that Sega did not have.
You absolutely should do a comprehensive review of the various Capcom games that were on the SNES! That would be awesome!
I gotta say that Pro Wrestling on the 8-bit Nintendo is still my favorite wrestling game. My brother and I used to have SO MUCH FUN! This was in the 90's, of course. Hahaha!
That's awesome - thank you for sharing.
Wrestlefest was one of my all time favorites, alone with this game
I discovered this game in a little video game store in Guthrie, OK, back in '95. One of my great blind buys from back then, had a lot of fun with friends playing this game. WWF Royal Rumble and Monday Night Raw were my other favorite 16 bit wrestling titles. Awesome vid Aaron. 🤘
That's awesome. Love to hear stories like this, thanks for sharing, Alex. I've heard a lot of people say Raw on SNES was excellent but never got a chance to play that one. I do have Royal Rumble and it's fun. I need to do an all wrestling games episode. We played the crap out of WWF Attitude on N64. We'd spend an hour just watching wrestler intros and then making stupid versions of ourselves with the create-a-wrestler.
Attitude was good on 64 but I preferred the THQ wrestling games WCW/NWO World Tour, WCW/NWO Revenge, Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy. Creating wrestlers was the coolest.
Nice. Yeah the only bad thing about WWF Attitude was that all the characters were the same height. X-Pac was just as tall as Undertaker lol.
Lol, yeah I remember that. It's like how are X-Pac, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Taker all the same height?
Never played this one. Thanks for bringing a review to us!
This is one of those games i discovered recently but wish i knew about when i was a kid.
It'll probably take a series a videos to properly do this era in capcoms history there was so much going on
Yeah that video would end up being at least an hour... but maybe that's not a bad thing. Thanks for sharing!
I played this on the Genesis and always wondered what it was like on the Snes. I was never really into wrestling but the games were always fun. Damn man, the graphics are really good on this port. You know, seeing all this run on the Snes makes me really wonder if they truly could have made those SNK ports pop more. It always felt that Takara (the company that did most of those ports) seldom used any of the 16-bit consoles strengths when porting games. For example, both the Genesis and Snes should have been more than capable of- A. Having large sprites and B. The zoom features. Further, cutting down on the rosters was ridiculous as well.
Games like this always made me wonder what if...;)
I dont think that fence was exploding rather, I think that's supposed to be electricity.
Back then, if it had the Capcom name on it you could be pretty sure it was an awesome game. The good old days!!
One of my favorites ever
THE BODY EXPLOSION
THE ROCKING RUSKIE
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Things you forgot:
1. You mention all the roster except scorpion and jumbo.
2. on snes you can choose scorpion and jumbo only in Battle Royal, by Sega Genesis you are available to choose scorpion and jumbo in single player.
3. FM Town Marty port and the differnces.
4. "Ring Of Destruction:Slam Master 2" the arcade exclusive sequel which is more into fighting game combine with wrestling element.
I was aware of all of these things... I've learned over the years when making these videos that if I tried to include every single factoid in a video, the videos will never actually get done or if they do, they'll be incredibly long and dull. Sometimes less is more.
5. Characters art was drawing by author of Fist of the North star
Keep making good video
Thank you for your support -- means a ton.
Awesome video, one of my favorite games of all time. Keep up the great work
Thanks, AJ!
You're like that kid from King of the Hill, only all grown up.
lol I'm not sure how to take that but I do love that show
@@FridayNightArcade sincere admiration lol
Oh this game had lots of wrestling holds and slams. You just had to know the controls.
Which one do you like more "Slam Masters" or "Muscle Bomber"
Omg, this game! It was all about the team matches, Scorp and Stingray all the way!
😃
Loved this game
I loved this game!!
"*GASP!* Cheeseburger!"
This is one of the better non-Street Fighter fighting games for the SNES, in my opinion. It could have used some more fluid animations and more wrestling moves, though.
Yeah it seems like the people who programmed the movesets didn't know a ton about wrestling.
Loved renting this game back in the day. Also MUSCLE 💪BOMBER BODY EXPLOSION 💥 might be the best name for anything ever lol 😂
I can see Muscle Bomber, but... "body explosion"? This is wrestling, not Mortal Kombat!
It might be called that because the art work is done by the guy who did Fist of the North Star
Imagine if capcom made a "wrestling" game in 2019. I would buy it. Haha
At the end, you said invite some friends over, have a few beers, and play the game... When I invite friends over and we drink, we usually fight each other :/
Wanted to see Haggar wrestle.
The "team battle royal" mode isn't a battle royal at all. It should actually be called a Tornado Tag Elimination Match. Whoever called it a battle royal obviously doesn't watch wrestling.
also on fmt Marty and Sega Genesis
You just sorta blew my mind... I'm ashamed to admit this is the first I've heard of the FM Towns Marty.
@@FridayNightArcade really
@@FridayNightArcade I forgotten I was first an arcade
how to download
plz tell
The one name you could count on for great games was Capcom! I loved old school rasslin’ and this game was the best of a TON of mediocre ones!
Genesis version has the better single player experience since the computer doesn't cheat as much and you're able to actually use the grappling moves. In the snes version regardless of difficulty level after the second match grappling becomes useless since the computer will beat you to it and win every time thus devolving the game into nothing but punches and kicks like you noted.
See and I thought I was just bad at the game lol...
@@FridayNightArcade The kicker is that the snes version's presentation is awesome in comparison. If you're playing with friends it's snes all the way.
This game is less based off WWF and more off of American Territories, Luchadores, and Japanese wrestlers of the 1970s and 1980s. The only real hard link to WWF at the time was the intro. : The guy who tears his shirt off Victor Ortega was based on Superstar Billy Graham.
The wrestlers are all based upon those who wrestled the Japanese circuits and the US territories. They are as follows:
Biff Slamkovich: Based on Kerry Von Erich of the Von Erich "family" of NWA, WCCW, SLWC, USWA, and GWF fame.
Gunlock: Based upon Chris Benoit of Stampede NJPW, WCW, ECW, and WWE.
The Great Oni: Based upon The Great Muta of WCCW, NWA, NJPW, AJPW, and Wrestle-1.
Titanic Tim: Based upon "Big Titan" (Rick Bognar)of Frontier Martial-Ars Wrestling, WAR, ECW, WWF, AND NJPW.
El Stingray: Based Upon Mexican Luchador Lizmark (Juan Baños) of EMLL, AAA, CMLL, and the indie circuit.
Mike Haggar: Very Loosely based upon Macho Man Randy Savage of ICW, AWA, WWF, WCW and TNA.
Alexander The Greater: Based upon Big Van Vader (Leon White) of AWA, CWA, NJPW, UWA, WCW, UWF, WWF, AJPW, and TNA.
King Rasta Mon: Based upon Bruiser Brody of CSW, WWWF, SCW, DSW, CWF, AWA, WCCW, NJPW, AJPW, and FSCW.
Jumbo Flapjack: Based upon Earthquake ( Big John Tenta) of Sumo, AJPW, WWF, UWF, and WCW.
The Scorpion: Based on Tineblas of WWA, comics, movies and was one of the first Luchadores to tour japan's wrestling circuits.
Haggar wasn't based on Savage, they just gave him a couple of nods in the Slam Masters game for the sake of it being a wrestling game. Haggar was actually based on Paul Pons more than anything, along with other American influences. Outside Slam Masters, you'd be hard pressed to find any similarities between Haggar and Savage.
@@ShinobiNeon I agree. but I am mostly going off the old Capcom notes from their artbooks and such, it is a VERY loose connection but it was attributed to such.
If Saturday Night Slam Masters came about 4 years later one could see a lot of Dan Severn in Mike Haggar just by appearances.
Haggar really is the most "original" of all the characters presented in the game as he's quite a few influences rolled into one.
It is not 20 dollars anymore..😥
I like your videos, but you obviously had no idea how to play the game. It's definitely not a slap fest...
Back then, if it had the Capcom name on it you could be pretty sure it was an awesome game. The good old days!!
Yea, i don't think i ever played a bad Capcom game back in the day
You just knew it was gonna be good. If you could only rent one game for the weekend and it came down to a Capcom game or a different game, you wanted the Capcom game regardless of what it was.
@@FridayNightArcade i agree. my childhood was all about final fight, street fighter, and megaman, lol all capcom games
Chris Champion - and all games I play on my Switch more then any “new” game I own. ;)