Hipoonios plays (and beats) WWF European Rampage Tour for Amiga

I saved the best for last.

Here's the manual, by the way.

Also, RIP Randy Savage, Hawk and Earthquake.

 

Even though this is a much older WWE game, it hasn't aged well compared to future games. It doesn't really seem exciting, even though there are a couple of awesome moves you can do such as evasive rolls to avoid attacks. At least the entrance music for the wrestlers, while looping samples that start over after a couple seconds, are really accurate. The biggest flaw is that the game feels monotonous, since most of time time, you're doing as much damage as you can before you have to tag your partner in. More often than not, this involves doing enough damage before the same happens to you, and then knocking your opponent down and running to your partner to tag them.

 

There are also some interesting things worth noting about this game. This is probably the only WWE game where you can pin wrestlers while they're lying on their stomach, and both characters have separate 10-counts in case both are out of the ring. You could have been outside the ring for eight seconds while the opponent would have only been there for five. Since there isn't one count for both players, this can prove frustrating if you're on the receiving end of the in-ring punishment. There also isn't much in the way of AI for the computer players, so you can win by pinfall very quickly simply because the opponent's partner refuses to budge from the apron. The game even goes so far as getting Brian Knobbs and Jerry Saggs confused. The blonde one is Knobbs and the brunette Sags, but the game mixes them up somehow.

 

Anyway, you pick two of four playable characters - Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Bret "The Hit Man" Hart - to make up your tag team. Then it's on to face your first team. You have to face three tag teams:

"The Nasty Boys" - Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs

"Money Inc." - "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster aka IRS

"The Natural Disasters" - Typhoon and Earthquake

You'll have to do this three times in three different locations, neither of which look any different from one another: the Britannic Arena in London, England; the Deutsche National Arena in Munich, Germany; and the Palaise Omnisports in Paris, France.

It's pretty easy to beat everybody up. Just beat them down until their energy is low, then pin them. Simple enough. Just be prepared to do this until you're bored out of your skull.

When you beat the first nine fights, you'll finally take on the Legion of Doom, Animal and Hawk, at Madison Square Garden. Beat them, and you'll get the WWF World Tag Team Titles and an underwhelming ending involving Jimmy Hart. How wonderful.