These videos legit make me wanna cry lol I just remember sitting there in front of the TV for hourssss playing this with my brothers and cousins every weekend at my grandmothers house. As a die hard wwf fan as a kid these games really were a dream come true lol
@@jonathanwashington3065 all the finishers were correct. Shawn Michaels was using a teardrop/slingshot suplex before he started using Sweet Chin Music.
Always hoped someone would mod this, all the Royal Rumble characters and all the RAW characters into 1 game. Probably just can't happen but would be so cool.
I'm pretty sure there are 30 different characters between the 3 games and the different consoles they were on. You got 20 characters in this game. Plus Hogan, Flair, Duggan, and Papa Shango from Royal Rumble is 24. Diesel, Owen, Luna, Doink, and 123 Kid from Raw is 29. And Kwang from the 32x version of Raw is 30.
I used to love this style of WWF games. I didn’t play this one, but I had royal rumble. There was something so satisfying about doing Lex Lugers forearm 😂 the smacking sound followed by your opponent flying was great
Yeah, a massive one of 20 wrestlers. Trouble is, they had two match options. You could have a single, or a single in a cage and that was it. What idiot made that decision whilst simultaneously having the Nasty Boys, Money Inc and The Headshrinkers in the game, I don't know. I also thought it was idiotic not having Perfect and Yokozuna's finishers not having a pin mechanic incorporated into them. That was a feature of WWF arcade games as far back as Wrestlefest in 1990, so there was no excuse for it not being here. Or a submission mechanic for the sharpshooter.
I would love if someone made a WWF game that featured everyone from every 16 bit LJN game and had the steel cage in it + Royal Rumble and Survivor Series. Imagine.... Ultimate Warrior Hogan Macho Man Ric Flair Mr Perfect Undertaker Brett Hart Owen Hart British Bulldog IRS Papa Shango Ted DiBiase Fatu Samu Jerry Sags BRyan Knobbs Boss Man Rick Martel Lex Luger Kamala Razor Ramon Diesel Doink Bam Bam Bigelow Tatanka Hacksaw Jim Duggan Yokozuna Jake The Snake Crush Hawk Animal Psycho Sid EarthQuake Typhoon 1,2,3 Kid Imagine a Royal Rumble with that roster. The game would randomly select 5 wrestlers on the roster to not participate as it would have 35 wrestlers in total. Why hasn't anyone done this yet? I would play the fuck out of that on SNES or Genesis if it could even be put on a cart. I would buy a Sega CD just for this game if it had to be made on that.
Awesome idea, but two problems. Animal sued the WWE, so they most likely won't do business with him again. Owen Hart will almost certainly NEVER be on any new WWE product. The best we can hope for is a new non WWE Legends game or Firepro Wrestling World :-)
@@jamesbyersmusic Thats why you get talented fans and do it anyway. Who said anything about taking this the official route? Rip the guys from every game and put them in one.
I wish someone would rom hack one of these style of wrestling games (Super WrestleMania, Royal Rumbe, Rage in the Cage or Raw) to make current wrestlers. I'd love to see how some modern wrestlers would look in this style.
He didn’t drop it immediately even after the new gimmick though; he still used the elbow smash around this era as “made in the USA” until around wrestlemania X or so I think before going back to the torture rack full time.
Only negative is I wish they added doink to this roster. Also warrior and flair, and Shango. You think they would do this being all those superstars were in other wwf games like wrestlemania. Any of you ever play the arcade meme version of wwf? It's freaking awesome
Could have added Ric Flair, Doink, Desil, Hacksaw Duggan, Ultimate Warrior, Brittish Bulldog, Rick Martel, Jake the Snake, Sid Justice, Hawk, Animal, Hogan. 1,2,3, Kid, Owen Hart, Earthquake, Typhoon, Luna Vachon. Well Basically ALL of the Superstars that had been on all versions and Platforms.
The game gear version of raw had those rules in the one fall matches. Bret's sharpshooter finished the opponent when no life energy was in the bar. Yokozuna's banzai drop had a count while he was still on his opponents chest and the guy could still kick out.
Ironically Raw had only one submission finisher (sharpshooter) lol while this and Royal Rumble had a good variety. It’s why I always used a brawl mode back then for all matches that had a submission wrestler, it made it a bit more realistic. Lack of auto pins for perfect plex and banzai drop sucked as well.
There were multiple NES wrestling games that let you pin or submit your opponent with a finishing move, this was just a classic case of LJN being awful.
I think so. I never played this one but I had royal rumble- and yea, pretty much you’re right. All they did was added the cage match and some new characters.
As a kid was fortunate enough to have both Genesis and Super Nintendo and had both WWF games. Then I see this on Sega CD with the steel cage and the different roster members and it killed me not to have it. Didn't have the nerve to ask my parents for a 3rd system for just one game that is almost completely similar. Still every time I saw it at Toys R' Us along with Sega CD it was painful lol wondered how it was for years.
The wrestler animations and game graphics are a surprising boost over the Genesis versions of these games. Most Sega CD games were just lifted Genny games with enhanced audio.
I disagree; the graphics/animations for Rage In The Cage are largely lifted from the Genesis Royal Rumble, with the addition of the SNES' Royal Rumble's soundtrack (in slightly downgraded form) and SFX plus exclusive characters.
hunter371 The audio and animations are near identical to the SNES version (the SNES sound was slightly better actually). They also removed the tag team mode which the SNES Royal Rumble game had.
This video just appeared in my recommended feed randomly and I'm glad it did! I really wanted this game back in the day because of the cage match but did not own a Genesis nor Sega CD.
Trail Cysper Raw was thanksgiving weekend 1994 Rage in the Cage was Christmas 1993 Royal Rumble was summer of 1993 Super Wrestlemania was the week before Wrestlemania 8
Wrestling movesets have come a long way since this game was released. Most of the finishers on this list are simple, and would be used as transitional moves in today's wrestling. The only finishers on this list that are still viable finishers are the Razor's Edge and Tombstone Piledriver.
I loved this game. The only thing I didn’t like was there were no tag matches. You couldn’t have The Nasty Boys, The Headshrinkers, and Money Inc. in any tag team matches.
Such a huge roster but only 1-on-1 matches available. I so wanted this game as a kid (I only had the SNES games), but now playing it as an adult, it really hasn't aged well. The matches are just button mashers. And all the wrestlers are exactly the same with the same moves except for finishers. WWF Raw did give them different moves and characteristics.
This was released in late 1993. Warrior had been gone for over a year (He was fired in October 1992 along with the British Bulldog) and Hogan left the company in August of '93
Man Sculptured Software were lazy as F#CK when developing WWF games. Rage in the Cage, Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Raw, Steel Cage Challenge, Superstars 2 were the same game just different roster of character's for most of them.
When I was in the Army me and a bunch of buddies had a virtual WWF. We had our wrestlers we would control go for titles, etc. I used to troll my friends hard when I had the belt, I would let them totally dominate me in the match and then I would get myself counted out on purpose. I would do it every time till they demanded a cage match lol.
@@dalethechipmunk3873 right but this game was produced in 93. By that time, he was using the Super Kick as his finisher. There was a story about why he changed it from the tear drop suplex but I'm foggy on the details. Doesn't make sense since he changed it long before the game was released. Guess because this is pretty much the full edition of WWF Royal Rumble with the rosters of both the snes/genesis ports.
These videos legit make me wanna cry lol I just remember sitting there in front of the TV for hourssss playing this with my brothers and cousins every weekend at my grandmothers house. As a die hard wwf fan as a kid these games really were a dream come true lol
IRS's write-off is sick! Best finisher of the game.
+Jonathan Turbide Undertaker's Tombstone Was Sick In This It Was Undertaker's Actual Finisher
The write off was IRS' actual finisher. lmao. You don't have to capitalize the first letter of every word.
All i can say is .................. OW!!!
Very true
@@jonathanwashington3065 all the finishers were correct. Shawn Michaels was using a teardrop/slingshot suplex before he started using Sweet Chin Music.
Always pissed me off you couldn't use the perfect Plex to pin
I agree, geez it’s more like a fisherman suplex
And yokozuna should be a pin as well.
yokozuna's move was a pin move too, also all the submission moves didn't win either. Bret Hard, DiBiase Etc.
Totally agree!!!!
That was crazy
The logo on the turnbuckles look eerily like the Attitude Era spray paint logo, nifty!
I read that on the internet a few years ago
Oh yeah!! It does!?
Always hoped someone would mod this, all the Royal Rumble characters and all the RAW characters into 1 game. Probably just can't happen but would be so cool.
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I was just thinking that
I'm pretty sure there are 30 different characters between the 3 games and the different consoles they were on. You got 20 characters in this game. Plus Hogan, Flair, Duggan, and Papa Shango from Royal Rumble is 24. Diesel, Owen, Luna, Doink, and 123 Kid from Raw is 29. And Kwang from the 32x version of Raw is 30.
@@petesmooth7860 it was pretty ingenious & cynical to split the roster up encouraging fanboys with multiple consoles to buy every version
I used to love this style of WWF games. I didn’t play this one, but I had royal rumble. There was something so satisfying about doing Lex Lugers forearm 😂 the smacking sound followed by your opponent flying was great
My favorite was IRS his finisher was brilliant
easily the best finisher in the game.. you have excellent taste
sadiq kamran The Write-Off!!
@@lightboxes9940 nah it waz lex Luger to me
This clearly is the best. Such a forgotten finisher!
Best animated for sure.
3:55 Rikishi did that for the Rock.
He sure did!
Best size roster of any wwf early.
I agree!
Lol
Loved this game, always played as Bam Bam Bigelow.
I like Breat Hart!
Wow this is actually an amazing version of this game, I had the SNES and Genesis versions but dang, they had a great roster on here
Yeah, a massive one of 20 wrestlers. Trouble is, they had two match options. You could have a single, or a single in a cage and that was it. What idiot made that decision whilst simultaneously having the Nasty Boys, Money Inc and The Headshrinkers in the game, I don't know. I also thought it was idiotic not having Perfect and Yokozuna's finishers not having a pin mechanic incorporated into them. That was a feature of WWF arcade games as far back as Wrestlefest in 1990, so there was no excuse for it not being here. Or a submission mechanic for the sharpshooter.
I used to love this game as a kid...
Played for hours on end
Same!
Love how the video starts with knocking out the ref. Gets me excited.
Nice drop kick by Yokozuna
I would love if someone made a WWF game that featured everyone from every 16 bit LJN game and had the steel cage in it + Royal Rumble and Survivor Series. Imagine....
Ultimate Warrior
Hogan
Macho Man
Ric Flair
Mr Perfect
Undertaker
Brett Hart
Owen Hart
British Bulldog
IRS
Papa Shango
Ted DiBiase
Fatu
Samu
Jerry Sags
BRyan Knobbs
Boss Man
Rick Martel
Lex Luger
Kamala
Razor Ramon
Diesel
Doink
Bam Bam Bigelow
Tatanka
Hacksaw Jim Duggan
Yokozuna
Jake The Snake
Crush
Hawk
Animal
Psycho Sid
EarthQuake
Typhoon
1,2,3 Kid
Imagine a Royal Rumble with that roster. The game would randomly select 5 wrestlers on the roster to not participate as it would have 35 wrestlers in total.
Why hasn't anyone done this yet? I would play the fuck out of that on SNES or Genesis if it could even be put on a cart. I would buy a Sega CD just for this game if it had to be made on that.
I'm with you one hundred percent I would play the shit out of it myself on Sega CD or Genesis and SNES
Awesome idea, but two problems.
Animal sued the WWE, so they most likely won't do business with him again.
Owen Hart will almost certainly NEVER be on any new WWE product.
The best we can hope for is a new non WWE Legends game or Firepro Wrestling World :-)
@@jamesbyersmusic Thats why you get talented fans and do it anyway. Who said anything about taking this the official route? Rip the guys from every game and put them in one.
I wish someone would rom hack one of these style of wrestling games (Super WrestleMania, Royal Rumbe, Rage in the Cage or Raw) to make current wrestlers. I'd love to see how some modern wrestlers would look in this style.
If the developers made a modern version of this game using the same engine just with more enhancements it would be top seller.
Rather than the camera adding pounds in Yokozuna’s case it took many many away and he looked great
Lex should of had his torture rack, since he dropped the narcissist gimmick with the elbow finish
He didn’t drop it immediately even after the new gimmick though; he still used the elbow smash around this era as “made in the USA” until around wrestlemania X or so I think before going back to the torture rack full time.
@@EMK19 correct
Only negative is I wish they added doink to this roster. Also warrior and flair, and Shango. You think they would do this being all those superstars were in other wwf games like wrestlemania. Any of you ever play the arcade meme version of wwf? It's freaking awesome
crunchshark87 they may have been in wcw at the time.
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Flair left like January 93. Warrior was gone in 92. Shango was not pushed in 93. Doink was a newer character at the time this was made.
Could have added Ric Flair, Doink, Desil, Hacksaw Duggan, Ultimate Warrior, Brittish Bulldog, Rick Martel, Jake the Snake, Sid Justice, Hawk, Animal, Hogan. 1,2,3, Kid, Owen Hart, Earthquake, Typhoon, Luna Vachon.
Well Basically ALL of the Superstars that had been on all versions and Platforms.
Never knew this game existed. Great list of wrestlers.
Nice size roster for an early game.
Yep!
I take it Shawn wasn't using Sweet Chin Music yet
Back in the day it was a set up to his suplex
He started using the "Side Suplex" when they broke up the Rockers
I remember the his side suplex finish
It was also known as a "Teardrop Suplex"
Shawn Michaels' Teardrop Suplex is immortalized in a video game.. Crazy...
the lack of submission rules in the game is baffling, well at least they put it in wwf raw
The game gear version of raw had those rules in the one fall matches. Bret's sharpshooter finished the opponent when no life energy was in the bar. Yokozuna's banzai drop had a count while he was still on his opponents chest and the guy could still kick out.
Ironically Raw had only one submission finisher (sharpshooter) lol while this and Royal Rumble had a good variety. It’s why I always used a brawl mode back then for all matches that had a submission wrestler, it made it a bit more realistic. Lack of auto pins for perfect plex and banzai drop sucked as well.
@@EMK19 million dollar dream...boston crab...
why was lex luger a Puerto rican ?
LMAO!!!!
Wow there were alot of guys on this game. Never played sega cd I had Monday night raw on super Nintendo. I used to like 123 kid
Nintendo 64 WCW video game was one of the best games ever.
Yesh, if you liked staring at polygons
Yeah *
Just imagine this game running on a updated engine with modern graphics game would be sick as fuck
Yeah!
Yeah look, they bring those out every year and they suck ass in a big way.
I remember knocking out the referee so you could get a steel chair and crack it over your opponent's head like a true heel!
That was so fun to knock the referee out!
@@dalethechipmunk3873 he always quit on me lol.
@@jimmys8492 Yeah that was so funny! LOL!!!
is that ref Rugged Ronny Garvin? lol
I still remember renting this game from Blockbuster💯😂
Same, I rented the shit out of this game before I finally bought it.
There were multiple NES wrestling games that let you pin or submit your opponent with a finishing move, this was just a classic case of LJN being awful.
The Write-Off! As kids we took turns being I.R.S. just for the finisher.
This looks exactly like Royal Rumble
The running forearm was excellent from Lex Luger
There was a whole lot of Splash finishes back in the day.
One of the earliest playable appearances of Rikishi
Man I wish this game had Royal Rumble and Tag match variations in it!
GREAT WWF RAGE IN THE CAGE 1993 GAME !!!
This game must use the same engine as royal rumble. The sound effects are the same I think too.
I think so. I never played this one but I had royal rumble- and yea, pretty much you’re right. All they did was added the cage match and some new characters.
Bossman slam looks like the rock bottom.
Thats what i said to myself lol
This game had a sick roster
The ref always looked confused after a finisher 😂
So many hours spent trying to unlock Kamala in WWF: Royal Rumble because of a wrongly attributed screenshot from this game...
Yokozuna doing a dropkick could be a finishing move 😆
Was always satisfying to knock out the referee.
As a kid was fortunate enough to have both Genesis and Super Nintendo and had both WWF games.
Then I see this on Sega CD with the steel cage and the different roster members and it killed me not
to have it. Didn't have the nerve to ask my parents for a 3rd system for just one game that is almost
completely similar. Still every time I saw it at Toys R' Us along with Sega CD it was painful lol wondered
how it was for years.
The wrestler animations and game graphics are a surprising boost over the Genesis versions of these games. Most Sega CD games were just lifted Genny games with enhanced audio.
I disagree; the graphics/animations for Rage In The Cage are largely lifted from the Genesis Royal Rumble, with the addition of the SNES' Royal Rumble's soundtrack (in slightly downgraded form) and SFX plus exclusive characters.
hunter371 The audio and animations are near identical to the SNES version (the SNES sound was slightly better actually). They also removed the tag team mode which the SNES Royal Rumble game had.
The only thing this game has over the other WWF games from that era are short video clips of each finisher.
This video just appeared in my recommended feed randomly and I'm glad it did! I really wanted this game back in the day because of the cage match but did not own a Genesis nor Sega CD.
Same here I remember seeing the game box at Blockbuster video, I always wanted to play it because of the cage and Bam Bam Bigelow
I remember those running dropkicks Yokozuna used to throw.
:O I had no clue there was a newer one from version raw! I need to play this asap!
Lovetohatehatetolove this is an updated version of Royal Rumble
Raw came out over a year after this
@@TheCooterpuppet this game came out on 1993 and RAW came out 2 years after
Trail Cysper
Raw was thanksgiving weekend 1994
Rage in the Cage was Christmas 1993
Royal Rumble was summer of 1993
Super Wrestlemania was the week before Wrestlemania 8
@@TheCooterpuppet ah okay
Trail Cysper it is silly that they released the same game with minor improvements aside from rosters (and grapple locking) 4 times in 2 1/2 years
I could never figure out how to do the finishers in the old games
most consisted of pressing R after the opponent was in red on the meter
If only there was a way to combine this and wwf royal rumble for a massive roster and game
Wrestling movesets have come a long way since this game was released. Most of the finishers on this list are simple, and would be used as transitional moves in today's wrestling. The only finishers on this list that are still viable finishers are the Razor's Edge and Tombstone Piledriver.
Banzai Drop? Sharpshooter? Million Dollar Dream? All of those are finishers
And yet Wrestling in the 80s, 90sand Early 2000s was 100X More entertaining when compared to todays trash
@@Brickstyles2 the modern games are fun for their CAW memes but I find the controls so janky
Use to play the genesis version alot
I use to have this on my sega CD!
Ahhhh yes.. Yokozuna with the signature dropkick
This game has a great roster.
Razors Edge was the best looking finisher in the game. IRS crossbody was the most deadly....... and hilarious
You like that suplex into the ropes...style points for knocking the ref out in the beginning lol
You hit the ref XD
I did this all the time. You can get a steel chair from outside the ring too and hit the guy with it. But you have to do it before the ref wakes up.
Dang it, one I never got a chance to play. Only played Royal Rumble and Monday Night Raw for Genesis
I had two finishing moves. In 1991 it was the Stock Market Crash. That changed to the Write-Off.
Is this the real I.R.S? So cool!!!
Thanks for the details, IMO both finishers were perfect fits for your character.
@@fszron He also used the nasty STF submission hold, he called the Tax Penalty.
This was the WWF arcade main event accade game. I still remember playing this at the arcade!
Wasnt man, this was the home console version.
This is the WWF Wrestlefest game
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I loved this game. The only thing I didn’t like was there were no tag matches. You couldn’t have The Nasty Boys, The Headshrinkers, and Money Inc. in any tag team matches.
I spent half my time trying to knock out the referee.
Main reason Grandma got me Sega CD. Thanks again Grandma. She RIP'ed 9 days before my birthday years later in June 2001.
I loved that kamala splash
Razor was the main reason I wanted this game
Yokozuna throwing a dropkick like a young 160 pound man
nice you could play as many wrestlers. In the game iRS had one of the cooler finishers.
hubertgreen yeah the animation on it is brilliant!!
IRS RULEZ!!!
My favorite HBK god damnit
I only played the 1st version in the sega megadrive system. Didnt know theres this version
I wish Shawn had used Sweet Chin Music as his finisher right off the bat for his singles career and not the teardrop suplex.
I remember Shawn doing the teardrop suplex as a finisher!
Wow if Yoko could hit a Drop Kick in real life. B.I.P OG. BSK
My childhood right here.
2:47 CRUSH BRAH!
This game needed the Royal Rumble!
and Tag Team
Very good roster; Kamala's splash looks great!
Such a huge roster but only 1-on-1 matches available.
I so wanted this game as a kid (I only had the SNES games), but now playing it as an adult, it really hasn't aged well. The matches are just button mashers. And all the wrestlers are exactly the same with the same moves except for finishers.
WWF Raw did give them different moves and characteristics.
Satisfying. Miss these games.
where is Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior?
This was released in late 1993.
Warrior had been gone for over a year (He was fired in October 1992 along with the British Bulldog) and Hogan left the company in August of '93
In Royal Rumble (another game), I remember you could hit many opponents at once with Luger's running forearm.
That would have been could if fatu did the drink face way back then. So they could put it in the game
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Drink face?
Never knew the headshrinkers actually made it into a video game. I’ll be damned.
Thank you Fatu! You made a difference
Rest in peace Kamala
Man Sculptured Software were lazy as F#CK when developing WWF games. Rage in the Cage, Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Raw, Steel Cage Challenge, Superstars 2 were the same game just different roster of character's for most of them.
Kill em with the super nes Narcis lex luger steel running elbow 💪 😄
Awesome. Didnt know Yoko can do a dropkick
I’ve never heard of this game and I’m amazed that I missed it. Was a fan of both Royal rumble and Raw is War for the sega genesis
When I was in the Army me and a bunch of buddies had a virtual WWF. We had our wrestlers we would control go for titles, etc. I used to troll my friends hard when I had the belt, I would let them totally dominate me in the match and then I would get myself counted out on purpose. I would do it every time till they demanded a cage match lol.
By this time Shawn Michael was using the Super Kick, why didn't they just program it in?
Because in the early 90s Shawn Michael did the teardrop suplex as the finisher! But on the late 90s that's when the Sweet Chin Music was born!
@@dalethechipmunk3873 right but this game was produced in 93. By that time, he was using the Super Kick as his finisher. There was a story about why he changed it from the tear drop suplex but I'm foggy on the details. Doesn't make sense since he changed it long before the game was released. Guess because this is pretty much the full edition of WWF Royal Rumble with the rosters of both the snes/genesis ports.
Ah!! The days of button mashing to kick out of a pin or lock up. Kinda miss those mechanics
best wwf game
That game looks like it would still be fun to olay now
Shawn Michaels.... at first, "sweet chin music", was just a setup move for the teardrop suplex.
This game had 20 wrestlers but no Royal Rumble feature. Such a miss.
Or Tag Team, which was insane considering you had The Nasty Boys, The Headshrinkers AND Money Inc as part of the roster!
The Good old days
Bray Wyatt's father was awesome
Agreed, you tax cheat...
Shawn would punch out the referee