Well this is one of the biggest weekends on the pro wrestling calendar, collectively now known as Wrestlemaniaweekend.
Tons of events are taking place across New Orleans this weekend leading up to the big event its self,
Wrestlemania 34, So I thought i'd have a look at a few old wrestling games.
Now I was going to play the Smackdown games or No Mercy on the N64, Oh or even Wrestlemania 2000,
But I decided to go with Super Wrestlemania on the Sega Megadrive.
Now this reviews going to be shorter then most i will admit, purely because I can't really find much to say about it.
WWF Super Wrestlemania was released in 1992 for both the SNES and the Megadrive. Both games were developed
by Sculptured Software but published by different companies, Flying Edge published the Megadrive version and
those proprietors of garbage LJN, This may explain why each version got different rosters.
Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan and Ted DiBiase were on both games, other than that each version of the game got a unique roster. The Undertaker, Sid Justice, and Jake The Snake Roberts along with tag teams the Legion of Doom and Natural Disasters for the Super Nintendo and The Ultimate Warrior, Shawn Michaels, The British Bulldog, Papa Shango and Irwin R. Schyster for the Megadrive, This is annoying if you didn't care for some of the wrestlers on your respected
console, Also why did the SNES version get two tag teams and the Megadrive none. Weird.
The gameplay is what you'd expect for the 16 bit era, It had a kind of tug of war style of grappling system, where players grapple with the other players or the CPU and then beat them by tapping the A button more than your opponent to perform a move. Every wrestler has the same move set but only the megadrive has signature moves, Well that's what having different publishers does.
Each version has the same three exhibition matches, 1 on 1, tag team and a 4 on 4 match resembling the Survivor Series match.
Again the Megadrive had an extra mode. A WWF Championship mode in which the player can take any superstar through the ranks to win the WWF Championship. This wasn't to bad and was the closest the game got to a story or career mode.
Super Wrestlemania wasn't bad but there was better out there at the time and only a year later WWF Royal Rumble and soon after WWF Raw came out so it really only lasted the year as most sports games are.
If you find a copy for cheap give it a shop or just find a lets play on you tube.
Jason Tillotson
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