Looking Back at WCW/nWo Revenge - The Greatest WCW Game
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WCW/nWo Revenge was the sequel to WCW vs nWo World Tour on N64. Developed once again by AKI, the game added a lot of improvements over it's predecessor including updated character models, better graphics, new arenas, the edit mode (that was available in Virtual Pro Wrestling 64) and a ton of new wrestlers. nWo Hollywood, nWo Wolfpac, Raven's Flock, WCW and the Cruiserweight Division were all represented in the game, and players could take control of favourites such as Sting, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Scott Hall, Lex Luger and Hollywood Hogan.
Revenge would turn out to be the best ever video game released under the WCW license, and this video looks at everything that made it special.
#WCW #nWo #N64 - Sport
I remember giving Jericho Ravens outfit and calling him Kurt Cobain
Well, he used a Pearl Jam ripoff for his WCW entrance music, so the grunge fit 😆
…
Smells like gimmick infringement, brother!
Kurt Cobain would’ve loved the buckshot lariat
Did the exact same thing.
4 player Revenge and Goldeneye on Friday nights, so much fun
This!!! Both games had a solid chance of a match ending in a wrestling brawl irl
Those were the days 😂
Playing as Oddjob was a potential friendship killer.
@@eveningstar4543No wonder some friends of mine had a no Oddjob rule. Even the developers admitted choosing him is cheating
The Reveng equivalent was no starting with Sting, because it meant you wouldn’t get to see him come down from the rafters with the bat
The AKI games on the N64 were legendary, One of the greatest wrestling games of all time.
Eh no because they were only on the n64
@@reddhead2948 um ok? Sony fanboy?
You'd be correct
So true…. When I first played world tour I was literally blown away
I was a PlayStation kid until I played Revenge at a friend's house. This is the game that got me to ask for a N64 for Christmas in 1998. I played it from the moment midnight struck and I was allowed to open my presents, all through the night and pretty much the entire Christmas day.
I could not believe the intro with Sting! I was 14 at the time and it was probably the greatest intro I had ever seen on any game up until that point. I still remember the exact moment I discovered by accident that you could steal your opponent's finisher. My friend and I were _literally_ screaming and hollering like we'd just discovered the cure for cancer LOL. Great memories.
man i used to love when my mates begged me to tell them how to steal opponents finisher 🤣
Christmas 1998 with Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time and Banjo Kazooie. What a time.
Gaulet Legends, with expansion pack. Repetitive but fun and boring
Yes such nostalgia. Man the world sure is different. Games are so high tech now but nothing was as fun as that
Man.... You did not just bring up Ocarina of time! Hell yeah lol
I opened this game a week early. My parents went to the store, I quikcly unwrapped the game, I put another game inside the box and rewrapped the package... I couldn't wait, my parents never found out until I broke down and told them years later!
Probably the best year in gaming next to 01 17 and 07
Such an iconic game. Spent many a summer afternoon at my friend's house playing matches for hours.
The last WCW game.
Nonthing happened after that.😂
4 controllers with 1 great player, 2 decent players, and 1 weak player. One of the decent players would rage quit because of something the great player would do. Funny memories 😁
Growing up in Dublin, this game was my one and only exposure to WCW, and I absolutely adored this game. I sank hundreds of hours into it.
Just looking at the thumbnail is enough to replay the opening cinematic in my mind. This game was life ❤
Let's not forget how you could kick out of any pin by taunting. I was the only one in our group of guys who knew this trick, but I only used it with Raven so everyone thought he was indestructible.
My cousin and me both knowing that trick made for some crazy long matches. 😆
Today I learned
I thought that was in World Tour only
I used the thumb stick to do that. Never knew about the taunt cheese
@@tj2nasty4ya83iirc the thumb stick was how you taunted.
I couldnt agree more with you, here. This, ladies and gentlethems is THE king of wrestling games for me personally. Back when I first got to play it, I had no N64. I was at my cousins place who had no console at all, but our parents decided to let us loan out a N64 from a videostore. We got Revenge and since I was a bit WCW Mark during that time, my mind was absolutely blown when I saw that roster and my head filled with all these dream-matches I wanted to do. One moment I remember very particularly. After the first bunch of them with my cousin I wanted to do a cruiserweight-match, I hadnt read the manual (who did?) and I through my cousin outside of the ring and I thought to myself (I was probably Rey or Juvi) "Hm, in reality they'd do a springboard move or suicide dive now. No clue if they are possible in the game." So I ran at the ropes and pushed the right button and bam - springboard move. I couldnt believe it. One thing I also remember that I never experienced afterwards in any game was, that you never could be certain if you finished your opponent with that last finisher you did. So many incredible WTF-Moments were created where you couldnt believe that you didnt get the 3-count after your move and with the opponent being so beaten down. Also, sure Nash and Hall arent in the same group per Roster-Menu, but you could just give Nash the red Outsiders attire, choose them both for a tag match and they'd come out with a tag-entrance that looked real enough to the Outsiders. Incredible. God, I love that game. Once I got home from that trip to my cousin I sold my SNES to buy a N64, a second controller and Revenge. I never bought another N64 game. It was all I needed. (Also you could just loan out games from videostores back then, but in the end I would always go back to playing Revenge.)
I was a junior in highschool when this came out. Tons of us would gather at a friend's house and play this for hours, if not days and often for money.
Man..what a time to be alive played this game for hours back in the day so many memories
Anyone else remember that bug in No Mercy that would just randomly wipe your save? Still an incredible game!
Yep. It was a bummer.
those cartridges are worth a lot of money now. I took mine back to the store, as many of us did
Circa '99 this was the go-to game for me and my high school pro wrestling buddy. No matter what we were doing, and regardless of what other new games we may have been playing, "play Revenge?" was always uttered to finish the day.
I played this at friend's houses when it came out. The battle Royale mode was very fun. It as a whos who of wrestling back then.
Sure it didn't have barry Horowitz or the Public enemy but it remains a great game to this day
In year 9 in school sometimes me and my two mates would bunk off school so we could go to one of their houses and play WCW/NWO Revenge! Good times
In year 9, you would bunk off school? Are you from the U.K.?
I grew up playing this so much! Still one of my favorite wrestling games.
The roster, the aestetic, the music, and the memories makes Revenge my personal favorite of the 64 games.
I put countless hours into this and World Tour. Good times.
This game is my favorite as well. Just the legends on this roster. Also the tag teams on this wow
Hart foundation, mega powers, Harlem heat, sting/luger, Steiner, outsiders, horseman, Alex/disco. Just so many.
Will forever be my favorite THQ game of all times. World Tour set the tone, WrestleMania 2000 was greatness and No Mercy mastered the engine but Revenge was groundbreaking. So many memories and endless hours of burning out playing this. Still undefeated with Psicosis at Bash at the Beach! Never had more fun with a wrestling game and that includes HCTP! Honestly wish Fight Forever would've been half as good.
'Groundbreaking' is such a great way to describe this game, because it was exactly that. In terms of atmosphere, especially with regards to the music and the various arenas, this game does it best.
@@Joe_Parmesan such a time capsule
This video best sums up why WCW/nWo Revenge is held in higher regard than games that are objectively better like Wrestlemania 2000.
It was the best wrestling game up to that point, released at a time when WCW was on fire, and the roster had everyone you could ever want to see in a ring.
The roster being divided into factions is something that I never see get brought up as a big deal, but I remember my friends and I marking out hard over being able to go all nWo wolfpac.
Been on a mad binge of these AKI games recently.
As a kid, I owned World Tour and Warzone. And despite being primarily a fan of WWF, I barely touched Warzone.
I’ve introduced my son to these games on my old original hardware and over the years I’ve purchased them all.
Revenge is something special. I’m currently playing the English patched VPW64 and VPW2 on RetroArch. I was still sat in my work clothes on Friday night til about 11:30pm.
I’m a sucker for nostalgia.
There's just something about this game that takes me back to childhood. I usually play it more than the superior No Mercy. I think it does such a great job of capturing the feel of WCW during its peak, in the middle of the biggest boom in wrestling history. This game is such a joy to play.
Best intro of all time ❤ it felt like a movie, I had "friends" borrow the game for too long and beat them up for it 😂 no regrets if you wanna keep it then buy it pal 💪🏿
That end note is why RtW is so quintessential for me! Your hard work gives me relief from the daily grind of adulting and truly makes me feel like a child again. Best channel on CZcams!
1:25 "Let's not forget about WCW Nitro for the PlayStation" actually, let's ALL forget that that game, along with Thunder, ever existed
there is one thing worth remembering from them though
the rants
@@DimkaSulegnaa agreed... if only they'd put that feature in any games that were worth playing lol
rayperez7936 well unless you went back and played the N64 games you didn't miss out at all, both Mayhem and Backstage Assault were total ass as well lol
@@DimkaSulegnaai was about to comment this lol i used to run through each of the wrestlers rants before playing a match.
Promos were good too on the character select screen
This game got me back in to wrestling in early 1999
me too. I stopped watching wrestling in 94 then when Revenge came out I saw the intro video in a games store and was intrigued why pretty much the entire wwf roster of the early nineties had jumped over to wcw, which back then was a cheap Temu version of WWF. After playing Revenge non stop for weeks I turned TNT on to watch some WCW. The episode... the finger poke of doom.
Many nights and weekends with friends playing this game. Such a great time in life.
Revenge was so good
It is but to me it's not perfect terrible gameplay I mean glitch when you dominate them do finshers they kick out like nothing it takes three times to beat them
And in tag team match your partner don't come in to stop the opponent partner
@@joelramnarine yea I’m sure it doesn’t hold up as much today, but like I said “revenge WAS so good”… guess you had to be there when it first dropped.
@@iBMcFly it ruled
I feel u wb i was big into this and and all the games made by wwf( wwe) and wcw. Im 37 and love ever wrestling game that camed out. Im glad to be a fan of wrestling as well as a wrestler when i was younger. I go back evey now and then and hook up the n64 and play these game.
🐺 pac for LIFE
I like how I've been watching vids from this game alot lately. Then this is uploaded. 😮😍
Also everything you've said at the end is REAL AF
For me No Mercy was my favorite rassling game. Revenge was my 2nd favorite, then 2000.
I completely get what you mean about the power of nostalgia. WWF Attitude looking back, is really one of my most disliked WWF games from my childhood. However it holds such a strong place in my heart as me and my buddies used to do Lumberjack matches and simply spend the whole time fighting the Lumberjacks (or running away from them as one friend was appalling at the game!). Got to say I also get that same hit sometimes by jumping onto Pro Evolution Soccer 6, that game was and is still, streets ahead of most football games. Another excellent video man, hope you had a fantastic time at Mania!
This is still easily one of my top 3 wrestling games of all time. An amazing roster, the right balance of fun and difficulty... and RANDY ANDERSON AS REF!
I remember me and my best friend growing up walking to Blockbuster to rent the game, reading the game manual on the way back. So many great memories.
My favourite Aki experience is by far the Forever Indy mod for No Mercy. It's got all the mid 2000s Feds and wrestlers. Any game that let's you play Super Dragon vs Nick Mondo, I am all for.
This is the wrestling game I have the most fond memories with. I've always been super grateful that you chose to use music from the game in your videos because in some way it always brings me back to those good times when I hear those tunes. Also, it has in some small way made the game's legacy live on that much more. I can't even imagine how many hours myself, my brothers and my friends spent playing this game over the years. On the odd occasion I still end up busting it out with a friend of mine to this day for a good old fashioned 40 man battle royal. It often sees us making an alliance temporarily with one another only for one of us to suddenly turn on the other and go for an elimination attempt. Chaos in and out of the game. Revenge is such a timeless classic. Modern video games just don't make me feel the same way as they used to when I was younger.
This was the second game my dad bought for me after I bought NBA Courtside in 98. Here Comes The Pain is my favorite wrestling game but prior to that it was this game
Man these were the days....i loved all the AKI wrestling games and owned all of them....nothing better than racing home after school and playing this for hours on end with your boys...
Inever played a wcw game...i still have my original Nintendo 64 n have all wwf games..😅😅..love ur channel..👌👌💙
The music from the intro video to this game has played in my head nonstop since 1998.
I always thought the referee was nick Patrick I guess not you just cleared that up I'm watching the video now
I loved using Scott Steiners screwdriver. You could spam it so fast, and it did a lot a damage!
Something really fun to do, using every character to steal Macho Man's Finisher to hear what they shout for "OH YEAH!".
Also when anyone tries to steal DDP's Diamond Cutter, they do the bootleg version XD.
This game is awesome!
My brother changed his name to Eric Bitchoff and i always picked Han Zo Mon
I used to have a notebook that I kept with this game. I would write down all the ppv and shows I would create. Keep track of the winners and losers. My own story mode. Had a lot of fun with this game. Great video as always ya animal!
Hope you've been keeping up with Ultra Pro Wrestling! They're making a modern AKI-style game with a demo coming later this year.
My 2K24 universe mode is heavily inspired by the Revenge era of WCW. Amazing roster and just a very special time to be a wrestling fan
I have to say though, it's an absolutely dreadful game but Thunder has the best WCW roster IMO. Everyone from Revenge plus Flair, Wrath, AA, Ernest Cat Miller and a heap of others
Mine in 2K24 is based around World Tour. the best.
I was in the 8th grade when this game came out, me & my friends would stay up until 2 in the morning playing this 😂😂
Me too man!!!
Great times!!!
Thank you for your effort to make that awesome video about that gem of a game. Fine memories indeed. You are doing great content and i appreciate your personal opinion on all wrestling related very much. Fantastic work! 💛
I Love lookin at this channel especially lookin at the WCW episodes
I was in high school when this came out and Holy hell my friends Ana i spent probably hundreds of hours playing it. The music is forever burned into my brain.
My god that opening sequence brings back so many great memories, getting up early on a Saturday morning with my best bud. I really don't think there's any argument that Revenge was and always will be better than No Mercy
this is the game that got me into wrestling in the first place, I was about 8 years old, my parents didnt let me watch the show but I had the game and the toys
Who were your favorite wrestlers to be? Interested in who you picked with no frame of reference for their characters
@@robgesualdi206 Thanks for asking! logically, as a kid who didn't know about wrestling, I was more interested in the visually impressive ones, those who looked like superheroes, so I remember picking Ultimo Dragon a lot, Rey Mysterio, La Parka, Sting... Some were brought to my attention by my friends who watched the program, like Hogan and Goldberg. I couldn't really grasp the difference between all the wrestlers with more generic gear, but there's on that caught my attention for some reason, that was Jeff Jarrett lollll I don't know if it was the name or the haircut or the guitar, maybe all three, but he was a favorite of mine.
This game will forever hold a spot in my heart. It is literally the form of media that introduced me to wrestling.
So many happy hours spent playing these n64 wrestling games loved aki man turnbuckle special and swapping the finishers remember doing that
First wrestling video game I ever played. It was outdated by the time I got to it, the alliance angle had ended, so it was cool to see the guys in the game that I knew from the alliance.
Revenge as a kid is an irreplaceable memory. My brother and I dominated the tag division tournament like 12 times every night.
Regular viewer here, though I rarely comment. I just want to say keep up the great work. Like you, I see retro wrestling and retro gaming as an escape from the stress of middle-aged life and I enjoy your humorous and good-natured take on it all.
Revenge was the first game I actually had friends come over just to play 4player mode. So many great memories. I still play No Mercy to this day
Thank you for remaking this video and really doing a great job illustrating why WCW/nWo Revenge was such a soft spot for many of us who grew up in this era playing games with friends. I am an old school Nintendo guy, but the one console where my favorite game isn't a 1st party Nintendo game is N64 - Revenge is that game for me. When this game was new, it was something else. I remember being Juvi in the battle royale mode and how exciting it felt to not only to play as him, but to see the roster depth and alt attires everyone had as they came out. The game kept impressing over and over again. I only wish we got N64 style sound font themes for the wrestlers. That would be the icing on the cake, along with maybe like a hidden Saturday Night arena or unlocking manager selection mode after getting however many high scores. Little things like that would've added more reason to play the game solo so you could show your buddies the cool extra stuff. But, as you stated, the game is fun enough to go back to and play to this very day. It captures the height of WCW before the fall, and I fully agree - it is a time capsule of a simpler time.
Thank you for this video.
I was a huge WCW fan back then and I still remember going to the video game stores in my city every single day looking for this game.
The day I finally got a copy was one of the happiest days of my whole life.
This was the best game.growing up.
Just want to say I loved your video and your feelings of nostalgia for this game are shared by many. The way you put it -- a little "time machine" inside a cartridge is perfect. I still pop it in now and then and get taken back to a world when I was 8 years old, playing with my older brother. I love this game and I still believe if a company like AEW or WWE was able to perfectly transport the gameplay into something with a modern roster, it would still hold up very well.
I think this is my favorite video game in depth review you've done. Your personal stories about this game makes it that much more special. Thanks Bios 🤘
The Best WCW Game EVER
Not just best wcw game was the best wrestling game of the 90s because it's the huge roster the great intros the huge options that forced wwe to make no mercy and go above and beyond.
Only real ones had to let that into go all the way through before we got an 8 our session with the boys 💪
Cheers for sharing that Revenge mod! It goes to show how much love there is for these games, and also how much demand there would be for a new game in the same (or a similar) engine.
God, the games intro brought back so much nostalgia of me and my brother playing this game, even the funny memories of me being upset for losing to him then trying to hit him with my N64 controller lol
This was the first of the AKI games I owned so it always holds a special place. Not to mention the unparalleled sets and mat logos that the WWF couldn't compete with; nothing beats the pair of Halloween Havoc and Bash at the Beach from Revenge.
this brings me back! being Goldberg and literally spearing my opponents for 10 minutes straight(the whole match) was so much fun. this game was great.
Nice to see someone get AKI Man some love. I loved his ground and pound “submission”
I share your enthusiasm for this particular wrestling game. When I had my n64 as a kid, the only two wrestling games I ever bought with my allowance money were WWF War Zone and then WCW/NWO Revenge. I played World Tour over and over at a friend's house, and when I saw Revenge in the store I had to have it. Despite the lack of modes, I played it so, so much.... it almost never left the console for a good long period of time.
It's my favorite wrestling game of all time, and yes, I let the intro play almost every single time lol
Thunder has a much bigger roster, especially once everything is unlocked. Not a better game, but it has basically everyone.
Not to mention all 12 ppv arenas from 1998 including the 2 Thunder rings.
As much hate the game gets, it has it's charms.
You dont have to explain why is this your favourite game, the fact than Glacier is a selectable character speaks volumes.
This was a great review, I feel the same way about this game! I thoroughly enjoyed this👍🏼!
Me and my cousin used to play this and Goldeneye all the time!
Used to make our own storylines and then play them out in the game. So many weekends of fun.
This brings back memories. I'd like to know how many hours my college buds and I put into the battle royal of thsi game. I also just liked squashig eric bischoff in this game since it was fun watching the physics of this game when I'd chokeslam him and such.
I used to have a scrapbook which i used to book my own wrestling cards with this game. I loved it so much and kicking out and putting new members into the nwo or wolfpac was super fun. Good times!
Absolutely loved World Tour and Revenge. These games pulled me in to watching WCW in the late 90s. Fond memories.
This and Wrestlemania 2000 are 🐐 status
True but they still couldn't get the weapon thing down right and the intros lie to us
To me both games are good but not perfect enough
I really think these AKI games actually introduced gamers to WCW and possibly may have increased the company's appeal. They were that good. Revenge was fantastic, Wrestlemania 2000 was another leaps and bounds improvement but No Mercy is still the best wrestling game ever made in my opinion.
So many weekends with my friends and this game. And all summer the year it came out. Great times and memories.
Me n my friends took it all serious (for fun)! Best moments ever with childhood friends. Still to this day have two friends always argue about their match! 😂its great!
Correction* Some* of the best moments.
You're right.... just a bit of nostalgia goes a long way with being so busy these days
Thank you. Seeing 👀 my childhood memories i was a n64 guy when it came wrestling games
I have a cart with every name vandalized and everyone shown in the intro video in either Mortis, THQ/AKI man, or Frank outfits depending on body model, all in florescent colors.
this game is awesome the gameplay is so much fun I'm so glad this game is being covered in this video.
I didn’t have n64 but I played this game a lot whenever I went to hang out at my friends out. It was definitely a fun game to play and the matches were really good.
Oh man, this brings back so many memories. My friends and I would sit around and play this for hours. It fell by the wayside when Wrestlemania 2000 hit, because Create A Wrestler was just too strong, but damn did we get our money's worth and then some. Thanks for the nostalgia hit!
I used to love playing this game, the way you could change colors of outfits were awesome. I had Nash and Giant as my tag team champs, like an NWO Skyscrapers. I also ended up making red & yellow tie dye pants for Hulk Hogan, years before he had that look in his 2002 WWE return.
Saturn was my Ace. The standing side kick, gargoyle Plex, DVD, and Rings. He could also do springboards.
Kanyon and Saturn were fun to use
WCW/NWO revenge was the wrestling game of my childhood, one of the best control systems somehow mapped onto the N64 pad, huge roster, lots of fun multiplyer, ramping up the difficulty just to make matches last longer and the soundtrack, wish someone would post it up on spotify.
Will have to look into the mod scene as I have a USB N64 contoller around here somewhere.
Revenge was the one me and my brother played the most also. No Mercy came out very late in the N64’s lifecycle and i’ve had moved on to the Dreamcast by 2000.
I wasn’t a WCW guy, WrestleMania 2000 and No Mercy were my games of choice, but a kid across the street from me had this game and we played the hell out of it, even once the aforementioned WWF games were released.
The memories of staying up past my bedtime as a 10 year old, playing WM 2000 with the sound off, my dark bedroom illuminated by the flickering CRT screen. It’s enough to make me cry tbh 😅
Great video man love your comments about nostalgia, I totally agree
Ultimo Dragon was the most fun to play with for me. Benoit or Malenko were a close second. The variety of submission moves made them feel like it was easier to score variety points while still limb focusing for a tap out.
What's funny is that I listened to the Starrcade theme from this game hours ago and did not expect this video explaining the deep dive into the game😅. I downloaded a N64 emulator nearly 2 years back and flooded with legendary N64 games and among those were WCW/nWo Revenge. As for someone who was not born during the Monday night War and only began playing this game just two years ago, I gave me glimpse into what WCW was in the past. This game, No Mercy, VPW2 And WM2000 are some of my favorite N64 wrestling games I've played and Revenge is undoubtedly The definite WCW video game of all time