WWF King of the Ring (NES) Playthrough
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2024
- A playthrough of LJN's 1993 license-based wrestling game for the NES, WWF King of the Ring.
This video shows all of the single-player mode played on the medium difficulty level:
0:15 One-on-One, Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Lex Luger
3:00 Tag Team, Yokozuna & Randy Savage vs. Bam Bam Bigelow & Hulk Hogan
5:17 Tournament as "You"
23:10 King of the Ring as Hulk Hogan
Released fourteen months after WWF Steel Cage Challenge ( • WWF Steel Cage Challen... ) at the end of 1993, LJN's WWF King of the Ring was the fourth and final WWF game for the NES.
WWF King of the Ring marked the end of an unrelenting, seven-year-long campaign of terror the company had waged on the NES, and like someone who just dropped a hot fart in a crowded elevator, LJN fled the NES scene and never looked back. While the watery-eyed people left behind in that elevator certainly weren't pleased with the gift, once the air had cleared, they collectively breathed a sigh of relief. The nightmare was over.
But credit where credit is due: at least LJN hadn't downed half-a-dozen Taco Bell bean burritos before stepping into that elevator. King of the Ring didn't go easy on the senses, but it also didn't leave people dry heaving like Steel Cage Challenge's cropdusting did.
WWF King of the Ring was produced by Eastridge Technology, the people who created Gauntlet II for the NES and Paperboy 2 for the Game Boy, and the art was outsourced to Grey Matter. The game borrows heavily from Steel Cage Challenge - the controls and movesets are the same, including the lack of finishers - though King of the Ring's wrestlers differ in terms of strength, speed, and endurance, and the flow of the gameplay is a bit more fluid.
It won't hold your interest for long, though. The CPU doesn't put up much of a fight, success is based on your ability to button mash through grapples, and everything the game has to offer can be seen within a half-hour of turning it on for the first time. The gameplay isn't substantial or compelling enough to justify a weekend rental, let alone a purchase.
The unique look makes it stand out, but graphics don't impress. The stylized sprites are huge and feature better animation than Steel Cage Challenge's, but they lack detail, and the heavy lines and garish colors give the game a crude, amateurish look.
WWF King of the Ring is better than the game that preceeded it, but it can't hold a candle to Rare's WWF Wrestlemania Challenge ( • WWF Wrestlemania Chall... ) or any of the good, non-WWF wrestling games on the NES.
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The background sprites are amazingly detailed for a NES game
WWF King of the Ring was the last game LJN published for the NES, and it was far from their worst, but...
It's worth playing ahead of the 2024 King & Queen of the Ring PLE in less than 3 weeks.
As was the case of LJN’s previous WWF game, WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge, 8 of the 10 featured WWF Superstars are now in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Wow I remember this on the mega drive, never saw it on the nes. Love it.
This is one of those games of which I'd say "Imagine getting this for Christmas!" after renting it once and never again.
In all seriousness, this looks to be the best LJN game ever made!
As Macho Man Randy Savage would say "OH YEEEAH!!!"👍👍😎
This game was my birthday gift in 2001 when my local video store was clearing all NES titles to make room for Gameboy Advance, XBOX, & PS2 titles. And Gamecube was 7 months away.
I always chose Undertaker and the cream of the crop himself, Macho Man Randy Savage.
It sure is an LJN game.
Hulkamania running wild
Macho Man looking like an unmasked Kane. LoL
Decent End to the WWFs NES run.
The only issues this game hsd was 1 - the game was kinda slow and 2 - Every Wrestler had the Exact Same Moves.
In the history of Wrestling video games, and Wrestling in general, could that pin count have been any slower?
Have you seen The Rock try to work as a ref? It was slower than that.
I remember wrestlemania challenge was my first WWF wrestling game I’ve ever bought. I remember it being the first Nintendo game I bought that was like perma glitched where my characters would freeze in tag team mode. It was so bad I had to return it. I was so sad.
This game is so weird! Undertaker was 28 when this was made. And those canned grunts.
I have the Gameboy version of this game and I play it on occasion. 😊
I do own all WWF Nes games and to be honest i prefer WWF steel cage challenge and WWF king of The Ring Nes over WWF wrestlemania challenge .because they are easier to play. Wrestlemania challenge nes is pretty hard
I remember playing the Gameboy version of this.
Good times.
I cant go back to these games. Another game with no finishers. Are you doing the snes and genesis games? Super WM on Genesis actually has finishers.
1🇺🇲🌈🎄☄️🏈🥷🏽 MAT., NO. THAT... BOUNCE SPIN JUMP GRAB ROPE LEAVE RING...💪, DOOM ...
There are many great wrestling games on the NES.
This is not one of them.
Pro Wrestling. Tecmo World Wrestling. Hell, even Wrestlemania Challenge ain't half-bad.
But this... yeah, let's just pretend this doesn't exist.
Wrestlemania Challenge sucked, but the other ones yeah.
certainly not the best for the NES. Play for a rental and bring it back soon after
Kinda sucks that every WWF game for NES are terrible.
Wrestlemania Challenge was pretty good, though! Not as great as Tecmo Wrestling or WCW, but still fun! 😊
I'll bet half of these wrestlers in this game are dead