Would love to see this series be revived. Bring back everyone from both games, throw in Zangief, R. Mika, Hugo, Alex, and El Fuerte for good measure. Gameplay would be a mix of the first game and SF4, with a "revenge meter" inspired mechanic that builds up based on how often you introduce new moves into the match. The idea would be to replicate the ebb and flow of a real wrestling match. Meter would build slowly, and the only way to win would be through pinfall or ring out. Supers would essentially just keep your opponent down even longer. Being back that over muscled, 80's anime look. I'd be there. Maybe have some sort of cross-promotion with WWE, with The Rock showing up as a guest. It'd be rad.
Great video as always, and always glad to get shoutouts to Darkstalkers! Hope the Patrons want Nightwarriors: Darkstalkers Revenge and Vampire Savior videos soon!
I think it's really cool to hear you cover wrestling games. Considering your background in pro wrestling, we can get a unique perspective on the games in the genre.
I wish I got to play this one growing up. But boy did I love the first Saturday Night Slam Masters growing up. Also would be dope to see Black Widow in a future Street Fighter
Yeah I think the first one was alot more fun as this one does resemble the Street Fighter mechanic too much but still they could've done a third version of the game that had elements of the first game and as cool as, I would of called the third one Super League Action Masters and introduce a new tag team mechanic with a 3 on 3 match and like Marvel V Capcom 2 Do a Super special with all 3 picked players, the final boss would be against 3 opponents at once and they would be a acronyms of SLAM with a fourth hidden recruitinging the last 3 guy's •Slaughter Maxwell. A hockey mask character with characteristics of the Vader but the physique of Andre the giant •Lieutenant Vice Harper. A Sergent Slaughter esc type but would look more like the Big Boss Man •Angry Russell Harriet Harrietville. A Doink looking clown wrestler but add a mecha cyberpunk to him •Madness Macho Mike. A mix of Macho man Randy Savage and Crush together looking character but would be a Gold Dust costume YEAHHH!!!
The backgrounds and updated music are my favorite parts of this game. I really wish Capcom would try to do another wrestling game like the first one. Imagine Slam Masters 3, With all of Capcom's wrestlers, some new characters, and maybe even a Create-A-Wrestler mode?
Capcom, please make a new combination of old arcade games similar to beat em up collection. Please include both Saturday night slam masters, red earth, and the cyberbots fighting game! Also a remaster of this game with zangif added would be so sick!
Saturday Night Slam Masters was my absolute favorite game to play during its run. I was severely disappointed when the sequel completely changed the game play format. I know some people liked it, but I just couldn't get into it.
Me too. I felt like having to get pinned was more fair then just regular fighting game which has cheap spaming of super moves till you die. Another reason I cant play to many fighting games because once you get to about the 3rd opponent then you can't win because they block everything and spam super moves.
This game seemed like a step backwards by Capcom, they had developed a very unique game and instead of building upon that they did what felt like a more obvious first step in the franchise. and when i saw the double health bars i immediately assumed it was a tag fight or that you could choose 2 fighters but i guess that was giving the game too much credit
i dont think they would be able to make a tag game with that system. you gotta remember, arcades didnt have that much memory to spare. so they basically used as much as they could already. well, looking it up, the system could handle tag-ins, but it took them a while to get used to the system enough to pull it off. i belive their first tag game came 2 years after this one, which is actually a long time when talking about gaming development.
"Were the playtesters ignorant about geography?" Well, if you watch American films or talk with an American about international subjects, the answer is obvious...
@@Titus921 yeah, but translation still done in Japan. Not disagreeing though, I got to work with uneducated morons every day. If trump wins reelection I'm seriously moving. Can't take his and his followers stupidity anymore.
Honestly, I never even knew about this. It wasn't in any of the 3 Times Square video arcades around at the time nor was it at the Penn Station arcade. Only stating that I'm surprised that I never saw it.
This game does set in the same universe with SF2 and Final Fight. The events in this game took place way before SF1 and Final Fight1. It's speculate that Gunlock is Guile's Brother and I can't remember which character from this game but Birdie was a tag team partner with one of the characters. Alex from SF3 was somehow inspired by the character Biff
This looks more fun than Street Fighter. I never even heard of this. I loved the first Slam Masters and I don't mind the genre switch. I wanna play this!!
I think a slam masters 3 now would work. so many cool wrestlers from the capcom Universe now between Final Fight and Street fighter to add in there. Both men and women. Fun times growing up on Muscle Bomber 1 & 2 (Gotta love the Fist of the north star artist character designs too)
The rate of your content release is so impressive. and you have a flair for highlighting good analysis, so ive gradually warmed up to your vocal style and writing. I am on the "say the names right train' for your pronunciation... so that is why i have to call out the pot kettle black over your geography rant... its the same thing. Get it right, or dont get it right. IF there is a real location to have correct, there is also a language specific correct way to say the names of a character, as it was intended and used in that native area. Even though you wont change. Kudos to your heel persona.
SF story nerd here. Some nitpicks/corrections: 1) Gunlock (Lucky COlt in JPN) isn't Guile's brother. He and Biff (Aleksey) trained under Haggar. Biff knows Cody, who allegedly beat the crap out of him for hitting on Jessica. On this note, if looking up fighting game stories, SF in particular, be wary of the source. Capcom USA used to make things up or leave out things pre-SFIV, though since then they've been a lot better. 2) Haggar has *always* been from New York. Yeah, he was Metro City mayor and Metro City is basically a stand in for NY, but in all his JPN bios, Haggar has always been stated to come from New York. Oh, and FYI: Muscle Bomber series takes place before Final Fight. Haggar goes on to become mayor of Metro City after the series.
I can see something like this coming back. Something with this style but with an AKI engine feel. Do away with rounds but keep the double lifebar. I'd modify some of the moves with hitstun though. Also, like 3rd Strike, taunts would not only build up spirit meter (I'd have a spirit meter and a health gauge that would act like the AKI engine games, except the higher your spirit, the more moves you can do) but give defensive/offensive buffs. Also, the crowd should play a role, but I havent figured that out yet, but different crowds should act differently based off of where they are.
I get why a lot of people didn't like the changes made to SM2, but i honestly thought the game was great. And yea it's probably due to me being a huge fighting game fan and not so much of a wrestling game fan. But yea, i think the game is awesome, always have.
Too be fair, in case of Biff, it was not the developers but Cap USA localizers that messed up the Geography. If I recall correctly, Biff (or Alexei, as he is known in the Japanese version) is stated to come from Moscow in the original Japanese version of the game. For some reason, Capcom USA changed a lot of the fighters names and background/country for the SM series.
I always wish the Wraith would show up in an SF game. He's a neat twist on the evil sorcerer with him being so bulky and muscular; and with his voodoo powers I can see his Supers being summoning dead villains (Belger, Retu, and General Black) to attack his foes.
A bit like Golden Axe: The Duel, don't make a sequel and change the game genre! This is like making a sequel to Wrestlefest and taking out tag team and royal rumble and making the whole game one on one. Unforgivable I'm afraid. More features to a game, not less.
i agree...this game should have focused on being more wrestling based like the first game. jumping from the top rope, getting thrown out of the ring and fighting on harder floors, ring side weapons etc...💪
Capcom sucks at writing game plots. That's probably why *Haggar & Zangief* haven't appeared in the same game. How would they explain that, the same move sets? 😀
Top Hat Gaming Man, here are my suggested fighting and beat 'em up games that you should cover for future videos on your channel. Fighting games: Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64) Mortal Kombat II Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix Samurai Shodown II The King of Fighters '95 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger X-Men: Children of the Atom Battle Arena Toshinden Art of Fighting 2 Real Bout: Fatal Fury Tekken (original) Virtua Fighter 2 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Double Dragon (Neo Geo) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Arcade) Sonic the Fighters (known as Sonic Championship in North America) Street Fighter V Persona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Bloody Roar Savage Reign East of Eden: Kabuki Klash Waku Waku 7 Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale SoulCalibur Mega Man: The Power Battle Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters Beat 'em Ups: Battle Circuit The King of Dragons Die Hard Arcade Dynamite Cop Knights of the Round 64th Street: A Detective Story River City Ransom Double Dragon Double Dragon II: The Revenge Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone River City Girls
If this game gets a remake in Unreal Engine, I would love to see the crossover of Zangief, Rainbow Mika, El Fuerte, Hugo from Street Fighter. As well as crossover of King, Armored King, Marduk and Jaycee of Tekken, Ralf, Clark, Heavy Duty, Brian Battler, Raiden, Tizoc, Jack and Mickey for KOF.
"Calgaly" is the result of a mistranslation common to the Japanese language (Nihongo) - technically speaking, their language and character sets do not contain any equivelent for the letter "L". Nihongo makes almost zero distinction between the "L" and "R" consonant - they're commonly swapped for each other, without their knowledge. Following that concept, "Calgaly", "Cargary" and "Calgary" are all the same words to a Japanese speaker.
The "Calgaly" typo is a common mistake in japanese translations at the time. Japanese language has no pronounciation of some letters like "L" or "V", so they replace them with phonetic aproximations such as "R" and "B", so it's quite common to have mistakes in localization of japanese games, specially in words with more than one of these letters. You'd often get "Ridia" when it's originally supposed to mean "Lidia". Or "Baru" when it's supposed to be "Val" or even some graver mistakes such as "Valery" being translated as "Barely". It's extra confusing because Japanese people do use english words from time to time for effect.
I played this game once. I dont have a solid or vivid memory of me playing it but i know i did. And from looks and sounds of it it seems pretty decent. It may not be what the first Slam Masters is but it looks good. Also i wanna inform you respectfully that Samus was not the first woman to do the gender reveal. There was a woman from a game called Baraduke (Alien Sector in the west) named Toby "Kissy" Masuyo who in the end of the game reveals that she is a woman. She also is the ex-wife of Dig Dug and mother of Mr. Driller.
I continue to watch your content above the many, many other similar channels as I find your obvious love for fighting games enough to inspire me to revisit old classic games. An the amount of factual information cramed into a short video doesn't overwhelm it simply endears me to you more. Keep it real and honest and hope you can earn a crust in utubes new algorithm
I played this game this game at a giant arcade in Chicago it is really fun but definitely is age Street Fighter cologne I agree with top hat gaming it was different for the wrestling games at the time
Calgary error makes sense. The Japanese don't have a separate L or R. It's all one so they have a hard time distinguishing when to use which. I've seen a famous restaurant state on the menu "harf & harf". In terms of the geography, Japan is better than the US. We have people thinking Canada is in Europe. Different continent. At least kiev and Russia are in the same continent. A lot of them really don't make games with people other than the Japanese in mind. People in Japan don't really know all the Eastern European countries. Ditto for us Americans. Forget countries in a different continent, there's probably far too many of us that believe every country south of the border are all Mexicans. Much like how far too many think everyone in Asia is Chinese. It's really frustrating
Beeing a huge fan of the original I was sad that they never ported the game to consoles, well now I see that I would have been disapointed , never knew it was more in the line of a traditional fighting game
It's decent 2D fighter bit hard to control, but you'll really miss the wrestling gameplay top rope drops, ring out, pins, weapons...etc. The only good part we get here is that Hagar canonically beat Victor Ortega before becoming again the mayor of Metro City, in the game's case New York
You could try SNK's answer to Slam Masters, titled "3 Count Bout" (Fire Suplex in Japan) or "Blazing Tornado", made by the makers of the Fire Pro Wrestling series.
Wraith makes me think of the Congolese style of Catch(sp?) fatiche, in which pro wrestling is mixed with African superstitions and voodoo. You can be the best grappler there is, but unless you're able to harness the power of the spirits then you're pretty much proper fucked.
Speaking of minor things, you pronounced Wraith as "Wrath". It's pronounced Wraith, rhymes with strafe. Well sorta, you know what I mean. Also I remember in WCW vs NWO: World Tour there's a woman named Black Widow that's surely also based on that female Japanese wrestler you mentioned. I didn't know it was a real person. Are you going to cover the THQ wrestling games at some point? I know you're doing a lot of Capcom games, but eventually you'll run out.
this game is, ironically, what modern fg devs want, an easy to learn fighting game, because the combo system is simple and theres no such thing as a long learning curve aside from obvious infinites and techniques you can learn fast just for playing the game with no training at all! if you have time, check this game, you can set matches with friends on Fightcade since it seems that the only way to play this with online.
Titanic is a ripoff of T-Hawk and Saber of Rolento. Capcom was recycling their own characters. This game looks great but I like the original over it. This isn't a proper wrestling game as the first one was. it really feels like a big downgrade. I hope someday they make a new game in this franchise, going back to the roots. maybe adding wrestlers from the Street Fighter franchise as well.
I love how he completely ignores the fact that these game came out at before dlc was a thing and that the only way to update a game was to make a whole new game.
To simply put it it was from those laziness that eats capcom here & there,a most recent case is RE3 remake that had in their hands the RE engine and worked on a really butchered version of the original.They had in the past the system capable to work on a more impressive sequel based on their only wrestling based game,but instead work to make another big time memorable game they left it as simple as it gets!
Would love to see this series be revived. Bring back everyone from both games, throw in Zangief, R. Mika, Hugo, Alex, and El Fuerte for good measure. Gameplay would be a mix of the first game and SF4, with a "revenge meter" inspired mechanic that builds up based on how often you introduce new moves into the match. The idea would be to replicate the ebb and flow of a real wrestling match. Meter would build slowly, and the only way to win would be through pinfall or ring out. Supers would essentially just keep your opponent down even longer.
Being back that over muscled, 80's anime look. I'd be there.
Maybe have some sort of cross-promotion with WWE, with The Rock showing up as a guest. It'd be rad.
YES😎🙌💪!
The dream, although the WWE part may be a bit of a stretch. I could see AEW or NJPW doing something though
@@thepassingstatic6268 Since Capcom knows Kenny Omega, They'd do a Crosspromotion with AEW.
Also put Abel, Hakan, E. Honda, & Laura to the mix.
The truth is alot famous pro wrestlers visited the capcom building, they even has a photo book of them with the wrestlers.
World Heroes is another Street Fighter clone that I liked.
Rasputin was a bit much though. You know the move I'm talking about. 💋
There's a pirate that has a shark for a projectile, best game ever
@@Next-xm2dh *SHARK KNUCKUU!* 🐳 👊
Loved World Heroes series
World Heroes all day, Fuuma is my Character
Great video as always, and always glad to get shoutouts to Darkstalkers! Hope the Patrons want Nightwarriors: Darkstalkers Revenge and Vampire Savior videos soon!
I think it's really cool to hear you cover wrestling games. Considering your background in pro wrestling, we can get a unique perspective on the games in the genre.
I wish I got to play this one growing up. But boy did I love the first Saturday Night Slam Masters growing up. Also would be dope to see Black Widow in a future Street Fighter
This game really has a lot of Samurai Shodown and World Heroes' death match mode elements. I haven't had the opportunity to play this one.
We need a current home console drop of this and the 1st one. Long over due
Arcade Archives should release this along with original. Maybe someday.
Saturday night slam masters is out on the 22nd at least
Slam Masters 2 looks pretty lit. Seems to be more like a beat em up in terms of movement.
Exactly
which makes it completely not like street fighter 2 at all...
The rumble fish is a fighting game I wish I knew more about. The visuals look so good
THAT NAME
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Yeah I think the first one was alot more fun as this one does resemble the Street Fighter mechanic too much but still they could've done a third version of the game that had elements of the first game and as cool as,
I would of called the third one Super League Action Masters and introduce a new tag team mechanic with a 3 on 3 match and like Marvel V Capcom 2 Do a Super special with all 3 picked players, the final boss would be against 3 opponents at once and they would be a acronyms of SLAM with a fourth hidden recruitinging the last 3 guy's
•Slaughter Maxwell.
A hockey mask character with characteristics of the Vader but the physique of Andre the giant
•Lieutenant Vice Harper.
A Sergent Slaughter esc type but would look more like the Big Boss Man
•Angry Russell Harriet Harrietville.
A Doink looking clown wrestler but add a mecha cyberpunk to him
•Madness Macho Mike.
A mix of Macho man Randy Savage and Crush together looking character but would be a Gold Dust costume
YEAHHH!!!
The backgrounds and updated music are my favorite parts of this game.
I really wish Capcom would try to do another wrestling game like the first one. Imagine Slam Masters 3, With all of Capcom's wrestlers, some new characters, and maybe even a Create-A-Wrestler mode?
Also it should play like a wrestling game and not one-on-one fighter
Seeing as how one of the wrestler’s name is Victor Ortega, I wonder if someone at Capcom was a fan of American Ninja.
Capcom, please make a new combination of old arcade games similar to beat em up collection. Please include both Saturday night slam masters, red earth, and the cyberbots fighting game! Also a remaster of this game with zangif added would be so sick!
Capcom had so many great classics from it's arcade era. Hoping we see another beat em up collection as well on the new systems.
Saturday Night Slam Masters was my absolute favorite game to play during its run. I was severely disappointed when the sequel completely changed the game play format. I know some people liked it, but I just couldn't get into it.
Me too. I felt like having to get pinned was more fair then just regular fighting game which has cheap spaming of super moves till you die. Another reason I cant play to many fighting games because once you get to about the 3rd opponent then you can't win because they block everything and spam super moves.
This game seemed like a step backwards by Capcom, they had developed a very unique game and instead of building upon that they did what felt like a more obvious first step in the franchise. and when i saw the double health bars i immediately assumed it was a tag fight or that you could choose 2 fighters but i guess that was giving the game too much credit
i dont think they would be able to make a tag game with that system. you gotta remember, arcades didnt have that much memory to spare. so they basically used as much as they could already.
well, looking it up, the system could handle tag-ins, but it took them a while to get used to the system enough to pull it off. i belive their first tag game came 2 years after this one, which is actually a long time when talking about gaming development.
The real reason why its 2 Bar its because of the limitless super throws that cause more damage and hight combos.
@@marcosdheleno
I could’ve sworn the first game allowed tag in matches..
Who is your favourite⭐ character ⭐
I owned the 1st one and never knew about this 2nd one but i see i would of been disappointed as my younger self about part 2 😢.
"Were the playtesters ignorant about geography?" Well, if you watch American films or talk with an American about international subjects, the answer is obvious...
It was japanese developed
@@buckeyechad1 but when it translate into the west the american writers change the story of the characters and the game.
@@Titus921 yeah, but translation still done in Japan. Not disagreeing though, I got to work with uneducated morons every day. If trump wins reelection I'm seriously moving. Can't take his and his followers stupidity anymore.
"... SUCH AS..."
@@buckeyechad1 thanks for injecting politics that no one asked for
"Who like Triple Bloody Haitch uses a shovel as weapon" Perfection.
right? for get that sledgehammer
Do the Elevator Action series...particularly the sequel
u sir are a legend!
Gotta love those long-winded "yeeeaaah!"s!
I had no idea this game existed. Thanks for the video!
Can you look at Primal Rage🦍🔥🦖
I used to like playing this game, imagining Hagar was my man Rick Rude, with his tache and all.
Ooooh the secuel of these jewel classic, too bad Is never one versión for snes or Megadrive only in arcades,nice work Man greetings from mexico 😃😄😃
Orale!
When I see how much details they made on the game, its no way snes and megadrive can take it but maybe PS1 and Sega Saturn.
Man, now i REALLY want to play this! It's beautiful!
You did it! Thank you Mr.
How is it a clone since it's actually made by the same people?
Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?
Honestly, I never even knew about this. It wasn't in any of the 3 Times Square video arcades around at the time nor was it at the Penn Station arcade. Only stating that I'm surprised that I never saw it.
You're so talented, amazing video!
Thanks for informing me about this game Top Hat Gaming Man, if I could only pull my head out of my arse I could see the day of light.
It'd be nice if you covered more obscure series like power instincts, or any licensed property fighting game from the snes era.
God, the art by Tetsuo Hara is GLORIOUS
"Rick Saber, who like Triple bloody H, wields a shovel as his main weapon" LMAO!!
MORE WRESTLING VIDEOS!!
This game does set in the same universe with SF2 and Final Fight. The events in this game took place way before SF1 and Final Fight1. It's speculate that Gunlock is Guile's Brother and I can't remember which character from this game but Birdie was a tag team partner with one of the characters. Alex from SF3 was somehow inspired by the character Biff
This looks more fun than Street Fighter. I never even heard of this. I loved the first Slam Masters and I don't mind the genre switch. I wanna play this!!
I think a slam masters 3 now would work. so many cool wrestlers from the capcom Universe now between Final Fight and Street fighter to add in there. Both men and women. Fun times growing up on Muscle Bomber 1 & 2 (Gotta love the Fist of the north star artist character designs too)
Hey alright this is cool and all but when you gonna cover JoJo’s bizarre adventure
Updoot
your titles always leave me perplexed, but the vids are always good
Haa!
Friggin loved SlamMasters on SNES back then, never realized they made another one. This should be an interesting video.
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Thank you, Top Hat Gaming Man!
The rate of your content release is so impressive. and you have a flair for highlighting good analysis, so ive gradually warmed up to your vocal style and writing. I am on the "say the names right train' for your pronunciation... so that is why i have to call out the pot kettle black over your geography rant... its the same thing. Get it right, or dont get it right. IF there is a real location to have correct, there is also a language specific correct way to say the names of a character, as it was intended and used in that native area. Even though you wont change. Kudos to your heel persona.
Slam masters got us abel and el fuerte who were inspired from their characters.
And Ring of Destruction influenced SFV wrestlers Super Throw finish.
Capcom should do a new Slam Masters game. In the same vain as street fighter 4 and 5 mix with WWE all-stars or battleground or no mercy
Black Widow and Chun Li must have the same workout regimen. Every day is leg day.
Please go back to starting your videos with “Helloooo ladies and gentleman, big daddy top hat here”. The newer intros seem out of place :(
I always thought Cammy's stage in Super Street Fighter II seemed more like Scotland than England.
@@blacksunshine7485 looks like Bamburgh Castle, set in the Lake District actually. Minus the Northern Lights of course.
SF story nerd here. Some nitpicks/corrections:
1) Gunlock (Lucky COlt in JPN) isn't Guile's brother. He and Biff (Aleksey) trained under Haggar. Biff knows Cody, who allegedly beat the crap out of him for hitting on Jessica.
On this note, if looking up fighting game stories, SF in particular, be wary of the source. Capcom USA used to make things up or leave out things pre-SFIV, though since then they've been a lot better.
2) Haggar has *always* been from New York. Yeah, he was Metro City mayor and Metro City is basically a stand in for NY, but in all his JPN bios, Haggar has always been stated to come from New York.
Oh, and FYI: Muscle Bomber series takes place before Final Fight. Haggar goes on to become mayor of Metro City after the series.
Thank you for making this! Please consider reviewing duo and it’s differences if it is warranted I believe it is thank you.
This game is amazing.. I love street fighter and this Game. This is perfect for competition
I can see something like this coming back. Something with this style but with an AKI engine feel. Do away with rounds but keep the double lifebar. I'd modify some of the moves with hitstun though. Also, like 3rd Strike, taunts would not only build up spirit meter (I'd have a spirit meter and a health gauge that would act like the AKI engine games, except the higher your spirit, the more moves you can do) but give defensive/offensive buffs. Also, the crowd should play a role, but I havent figured that out yet, but different crowds should act differently based off of where they are.
I get why a lot of people didn't like the changes made to SM2, but i honestly thought the game was great. And yea it's probably due to me being a huge fighting game fan and not so much of a wrestling game fan. But yea, i think the game is awesome, always have.
Too be fair, in case of Biff, it was not the developers but Cap USA localizers that messed up the Geography. If I recall correctly, Biff (or Alexei, as he is known in the Japanese version) is stated to come from Moscow in the original Japanese version of the game. For some reason, Capcom USA changed a lot of the fighters names and background/country for the SM series.
Saber reminds me of Corporal Kirchner, from WWF. Anyway, thanx for reviewing these excellent but often forgotten games!
I always wish the Wraith would show up in an SF game. He's a neat twist on the evil sorcerer with him being so bulky and muscular; and with his voodoo powers I can see his Supers being summoning dead villains (Belger, Retu, and General Black) to attack his foes.
A bit like Golden Axe: The Duel, don't make a sequel and change the game genre!
This is like making a sequel to Wrestlefest and taking out tag team and royal rumble and making the whole game one on one. Unforgivable I'm afraid. More features to a game, not less.
If you asked me Slam Masters II could've been a spin-off
I remember seeing ads for this game in magazines.
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I wonder why Capcom has never released a collection of the Slam masters. It'd be cool.
i agree...this game should have focused on being more wrestling based like the first game. jumping from the top rope, getting thrown out of the ring and fighting on harder floors, ring side weapons etc...💪
Capcom sucks at writing game plots. That's probably why *Haggar & Zangief* haven't appeared in the same game. How would they explain that, the same move sets? 😀
Wow, this game is really obscure, pretty sure I only read on it on Wikipedia and now it was the first time I have ever seen it.
Top Hat Gaming Man, here are my suggested fighting and beat 'em up games that you should cover for future videos on your channel.
Fighting games:
Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64)
Mortal Kombat II
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Samurai Shodown II
The King of Fighters '95
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
X-Men: Children of the Atom
Battle Arena Toshinden
Art of Fighting 2
Real Bout: Fatal Fury
Tekken (original)
Virtua Fighter 2
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
Double Dragon (Neo Geo)
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Arcade)
Sonic the Fighters (known as Sonic Championship in North America)
Street Fighter V
Persona 4 Arena
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Bloody Roar
Savage Reign
East of Eden: Kabuki Klash
Waku Waku 7
Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
SoulCalibur
Mega Man: The Power Battle
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
Beat 'em Ups:
Battle Circuit
The King of Dragons
Die Hard Arcade
Dynamite Cop
Knights of the Round
64th Street: A Detective Story
River City Ransom
Double Dragon
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone
River City Girls
If this game gets a remake in Unreal Engine, I would love to see the crossover of Zangief, Rainbow Mika, El Fuerte, Hugo from Street Fighter. As well as crossover of King, Armored King, Marduk and Jaycee of Tekken, Ralf, Clark, Heavy Duty, Brian Battler, Raiden, Tizoc, Jack and Mickey for KOF.
gotta love that Tetsuo Hara artwork!
If you want obscure but absolutely great, ninja baseball batman is at the top of that list
"Calgaly" is the result of a mistranslation common to the Japanese language (Nihongo) - technically speaking, their language and character sets do not contain any equivelent for the letter "L". Nihongo makes almost zero distinction between the "L" and "R" consonant - they're commonly swapped for each other, without their knowledge.
Following that concept, "Calgaly", "Cargary" and "Calgary" are all the same words to a Japanese speaker.
Then how do you explain Akuma's epic *FELL* how weak you truly are? 😂
The "Calgaly" typo is a common mistake in japanese translations at the time. Japanese language has no pronounciation of some letters like "L" or "V", so they replace them with phonetic aproximations such as "R" and "B", so it's quite common to have mistakes in localization of japanese games, specially in words with more than one of these letters.
You'd often get "Ridia" when it's originally supposed to mean "Lidia". Or "Baru" when it's supposed to be "Val" or even some graver mistakes such as "Valery" being translated as "Barely". It's extra confusing because Japanese people do use english words from time to time for effect.
I wished they same game play from the original. How much better would the game have been if it kept the four player mode.
Couldn't agree more
I remember the first from arcades...
The second was SO DIFFERENT
The Fist of the North Star art was confusing me for a while!
You are Already Pinned.
@@conradojavier7547 WHAT !?
I remember playing this Muscle Bomber in the arcade but either I couldn't understand how to play it or the arcade rigged it up too hard.
I played this game once. I dont have a solid or vivid memory of me playing it but i know i did. And from looks and sounds of it it seems pretty decent. It may not be what the first Slam Masters is but it looks good. Also i wanna inform you respectfully that Samus was not the first woman to do the gender reveal. There was a woman from a game called Baraduke (Alien Sector in the west) named Toby "Kissy" Masuyo who in the end of the game reveals that she is a woman. She also is the ex-wife of Dig Dug and mother of Mr. Driller.
Like always great content!
Woo. Thanks you dapper man.
I continue to watch your content above the many, many other similar channels as I find your obvious love for fighting games enough to inspire me to revisit old classic games. An the amount of factual information cramed into a short video doesn't overwhelm it simply endears me to you more. Keep it real and honest and hope you can earn a crust in utubes new algorithm
I played this game this game at a giant arcade in Chicago it is really fun but definitely is age Street Fighter cologne I agree with top hat gaming it was different for the wrestling games at the time
Calgary error makes sense. The Japanese don't have a separate L or R. It's all one so they have a hard time distinguishing when to use which. I've seen a famous restaurant state on the menu "harf & harf".
In terms of the geography, Japan is better than the US. We have people thinking Canada is in Europe. Different continent. At least kiev and Russia are in the same continent.
A lot of them really don't make games with people other than the Japanese in mind. People in Japan don't really know all the Eastern European countries. Ditto for us Americans. Forget countries in a different continent, there's probably far too many of us that believe every country south of the border are all Mexicans. Much like how far too many think everyone in Asia is Chinese. It's really frustrating
Beeing a huge fan of the original I was sad that they never ported the game to consoles, well now I see that I would have been disapointed , never knew it was more in the line of a traditional fighting game
It's decent 2D fighter bit hard to control, but you'll really miss the wrestling gameplay top rope drops, ring out, pins, weapons...etc.
The only good part we get here is that Hagar canonically beat Victor Ortega before becoming again the mayor of Metro City, in the game's case New York
Haggar didnt beat Ortega he wasnt the protagonist of this game.
Biff did beat him.
You could try SNK's answer to Slam Masters, titled "3 Count Bout" (Fire Suplex in Japan) or "Blazing Tornado", made by the makers of the Fire Pro Wrestling series.
Wraith makes me think of the Congolese style of Catch(sp?) fatiche, in which pro wrestling is mixed with African superstitions and voodoo. You can be the best grappler there is, but unless you're able to harness the power of the spirits then you're pretty much proper fucked.
Speaking of minor things, you pronounced Wraith as "Wrath". It's pronounced Wraith, rhymes with strafe. Well sorta, you know what I mean. Also I remember in WCW vs NWO: World Tour there's a woman named Black Widow that's surely also based on that female Japanese wrestler you mentioned. I didn't know it was a real person. Are you going to cover the THQ wrestling games at some point? I know you're doing a lot of Capcom games, but eventually you'll run out.
Slam Master 2 gameplay is much different than just regular street fighter 2
Man, Zubaz would have been a great fit for this game.
Darkstalkers is more than just a new coat of paint.
Superstars and Wrestlefest! Love the arcade classics.
this game is, ironically, what modern fg devs want, an easy to learn fighting game, because the combo system is simple and theres no such thing as a long learning curve aside from obvious infinites and techniques you can learn fast just for playing the game with no training at all! if you have time, check this game, you can set matches with friends on Fightcade since it seems that the only way to play this with online.
Ring of Destruction also has the run canceling mechanic
Hi mate , an upload on Fighters History (Dynamite) , blatant SF2 clone , even think Capcom took the developers to court
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Great video, bruv.
Gunloc was not Guy brother, he was the guy who tried to flirt with Jessica but got his ass handed by either Haggar or Cody.
Would be nice if capcom did a Saturday night Slammasters and Final fight collection and yes wrestling games would be awesome
Capcom should do a Saturday night slam masters game in this generation would be awesome
Titanic is a ripoff of T-Hawk and Saber of Rolento. Capcom was recycling their own characters. This game looks great but I like the original over it. This isn't a proper wrestling game as the first one was. it really feels like a big downgrade.
I hope someday they make a new game in this franchise, going back to the roots. maybe adding wrestlers from the Street Fighter franchise as well.
Titanic Time debut 1993 befor T. Hawk
And Saber is befor Rolento gameplay style on SFA.
@@phantomgamer4463 I thought super SF II came out before Slam masters. interesting. so they must have used the design of titanic for T-Hawk.
OMG!!! I’d forgotten about this game. 😢
That Titanic sure looks alot like T.Hawk.
I love how he completely ignores the fact that these game came out at before dlc was a thing and that the only way to update a game was to make a whole new game.
The N64 wrestling games would keep you busy for a while. Lots of good stuff there.
AWESOME MATE 🎩!!!!
Hit it out of the park again THGM!
The music in this game is awesome
To simply put it it was from those laziness that eats capcom here & there,a most recent case is RE3 remake that had in their hands the RE engine and worked on a really butchered version of the original.They had in the past the system capable to work on a more impressive sequel based on their only wrestling based game,but instead work to make another big time memorable game they left it as simple as it gets!
Create a cash grab in less than year and removing Bosses monsters and areas and thinking people will not dislike it.
Definitely on board for more wrestling games