What's Your Favorite Old School Wrestling Game?

Mine happens to be from a franchise that has no ties to WWF or WCW, its brought to us by Capcom and features Mike Hagger of Final Fight/MVC3 fame. The game is called Saturday Night Slam Masters. The title featured crazy gimmick characters, and a very good combat system that still holds up today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCYsZqqDOXs


Kris Jones
TLR

Smackdown 1 and 2 for PS1.

Back then they were amazing.

"Ropebreak!" lol

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Originally Posted by ThelegitReview Tlr

Mine happens to be from a franchise that has no ties to WWF or WCW, its brought to us by Capcom and features Mike Hagger of Final Fight/MVC3 fame. The game is called Saturday Night Slam Masters. The title featured crazy gimmick characters, and a very good combat system that still holds up today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCYsZqqDOXs


Kris Jones
TLR

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First off welcome to the forums. Next that guy who lost the first match reminds me a lot of Blanka.
Also No Mercy was always one of my favorite old games. You could do a lot in it at the time and some stuff we need back in new games

-Smackdown Mall
-Storymode for EACH title in existence at the time
-After you won the title, you can play the story mode again and get a different angle where you defend the belt
-Losing actually affects the story, and in order to complete the story 100% for each belt, you have lose some matches to trigger different angles
-Each wrestler got 4 attires (you could alter their attires as well so if you want the Rock to dress as Stone Cold then do it)

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Originally Posted by VanHooliganX

Smackdown 1 and 2 for PS1.

Back then they were amazing.

"Ropebreak!" lol

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This^^^^^^

Smackdown 2. No wrestling game has come close since IMO

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Originally Posted by Subject Zero

Smackdown 2. No wrestling game has come close since IMO

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YES!
I loved playing that game! Played it endlessly with my brother.

No Mercy, all day long.

And even though it's a little bit of a stretch, Def Jam: Fight for NY. It plays just like the awesome N64 wrestling games (World Tour, Revenge, 'Mania 2000 and No Mercy) and remains one of the pinnacles of the entire genre (in my estimation, at least).

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Originally Posted by Iron Ape

No Mercy, all day long.

And even though it's a little bit of a stretch, Def Jam: Fight for NY. It plays just like the awesome N64 wrestling games (World Tour, Revenge, 'Mania 2000 and No Mercy) and remains one of the pinnacles of the entire genre (in my estimation, at least).

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I totally back this up 100%.. All the N64 THQ/AKI games were amazing (WWE & WCW versions), which the spiritual successors (The first two Def Jam games) followed suit in putting out addictive wrestling games with the addition to the most stiff and brutal finishing maneuvers in wrestling game history.. Here's a vid to share those very finishers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAlyVZh0Y0




To the thread creator: Saturday Night Slam Masters was on my list of favorite games of all time.. I used to spend lots of quarters playing that at the arcades..

1. WWF No Mercy
2. WWF Wrestlmania 2000
3. WcW vs. nWo: Revenge
4. WcW vs. nWo: World Tour
5. WWE '12

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Originally Posted by samoan619

I totally back this up 100%.. All the N64 THQ/AKI games were amazing (WWE & WCW versions), which the spiritual successors (The first two Def Jam games) followed suit in putting out addictive wrestling games with the addition to the most stiff and brutal finishing maneuvers in wrestling game history.. Here's a vid to share those very finishers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAlyVZh0Y0

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That video is chock full o' awesome.

Man, I really wish I knew what went wrong with Icon, as it's probably one of my bigger gaming disappointments from this current generation. They desperately need to get this series back on track.