PrinceWatercress plays WWF Royal Rumble (Super NES/Genesis) - Part 1 of 16

Oh, hey, a wrestling game. The only other thing I make blogs (or recaps) about ends up crossing over to here.

This Let's Play amazes me, believe it or not. I never expected this one to go anywhere near where it went, and it's one of my most successful Let's Plays ever. There are two other games in the LJN 16-bit series (WWF Super WrestleMania and WWF Raw), and maybe one day, I'll cover those two games if I can figure out how to make the presentation the same as (or even better than) what I did here. Anyway, enjoy.

Well, this Let's Play is interesting. It's wrestling, and (at this point) is the only time where I play a wrestling game, show off some wrestling knowledge on what the wrestlers who made the cut were doing in the first half of 1993, and explore this game front-to-back.

The controls are on the sidebar to the right, and every "page" on the controls is on-screen for ten seconds. I got the button for doing a drop kick on a running opponent wrong (it's C, not B) and turns out you can do the illegal moves outside the ring in One-On-One mode. The sidebar will reflect that in future episodes. Everyone controls the same way, but everyone has a unique special move, all of which have their own unique command in order to perform it. The commands for those will be in the sidebar, as well.

I start off with the Genesis/Mega Drive version first, followed by Super Nintendo. There are five exclusive wrestlers for Sega (Hulk Hogan, Irwin R. Schyster, Papa Shango, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, "The Model" Rick Martel) and five exclusive wrestlers for Nintendo (Yokozuna, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Mr. Perfect, Tatanka). Crush has a different photo on the player select screen depending on which version you're playing.

So about "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan...yeah, those two were on their way out at this point (with Hulk being gone for a year after WrestleMania 8 due to the steroid scandal), with Hogan leaving after dropping the WWF Championship to Yokozuna at King of the Ring and Savage leaving after Halloween 1994 (his last WWF match being against Crush in the Last Man Standing Match at WrestleMania 10). Hogan would be in World Championship Wrestling in the summer of 1994 while Savage would show up in December.

The game is what you expect. You kick, you punch, you whip the opponent into the rope, you slam the other guy into the mat, you jump off the top rope for a sick aerial move, you hit your finisher, and you get the pinfall for the win. Not much more to it than that.