Looking back at WWF Super WrestleMania & WWF Royal Rumble
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WWF Super WrestleMania and WWF Royal Rumble, two games that are part of the "LJN Trilogy" of wrestling games, were released in the early 90s for the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Each game, on each console, has a lot of differences with Super WrestleMania varying greatly from console to console, the Sega release featured a different roster, signature moves and a championship mode (signature moves and championship mode were completely missing from the SNES release).
Royal Rumble improved on Super WrestleMania in every way imaginable. With better graphics, more wrestlers, better gameplay, and of course the legendary Royal Rumble match type, WWF Royal Rumble on 16-Bit consoles made it's predecessor obselete upon it's release. Fans had to choose which console to play on though and this was important, as WWF Royal Rumble also featured different rosters depending on which platform you played on (for example, the Sega version had Hulk Hogan, whereas the Nintendo release had Ric Flair).
This video looks at both games on both consoles.
00:00 - Intro
02:26 - Super WrestleMania on SNES
08:28 - Super WrestleMania on Mega Drive / Genesis
10:54 - WWF Royal Rumble on SNES / Genesis
14:57 - Royal Rumble Game Modes
18:45 - Final Thoughts / Credits
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I remember lying to my parents one day by playing sick so I could stay home from school and play WWF Royal Rumble after renting it from Block Buster. The good old days 😅
You ain’t by ya self lol
Hell yeah! First time I ever played Royal Rumble was because Blockbuster had it. As a kid, we had 6 video stores in my city and blockbuster was the only one that had Royal rumble and Raw
Been there, done that😅
Can I report this comment for Misinformation lol
I did that
Spent soo many hours playing WWF Royal Rumble on the SNES. That 16 bit Crush theme was the best! 😎🤟
D-d-d-d-duuuuuuuuunn D-d-d-d-duuuuuuuuunn D-d-d-d-duuuuuuuuunn
duhnuhunuhnuh nuhnuhnuhnuh.
Theme slapped!
I spent many Saturday afternoons playing this game, but also, just listening to the themes over and over lol
Man, I have such great memories of playing WWF Royal Rumble as a kid with my best friend. Good times.
Same dude. Used to always battle over who would be the first to get the chair from under the ring and break it over the other person's head lol
Same man. On sega
Same here. We'd beat the hell out of a guy and do our own commentary. I mean, just work em over for like 20 minutes with chair on the outside
I used to play the Royal Rumble match solo over and over again even after my friends went home. The championship mode got plenty of time too! It was my favorite game for almost a year straight. That's an eternity for a 12 year old kid! lol
Same
When I was 12 years old my older sister hosted a booze-fueled New Years party I was present for and I hustled a couple of her wasted friends for like $50 in Royal Rumble on the Genesis. For that reason that game is always a 10/10 for me.
I could never play the game very well drunk, and you did it at 12? respect
Bro, u the man for that
@Bulgarian Daniel sarcasm, daniel
@@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers I'm from Northeast Wisconsin, it would be literal where I grew up.
One of the reasons I left.
@@tyrone5969 when Tyrone shows up is when joke threads get real
My Brother and I used to just boot the game up and listen to the music. Shawn Michael's in 16-bit was always our favorite.
Me too!
this is so cheesy but i remember one christmas, probably 94 and i was 7, we had family downstairs that i didnt want to see lol i just sat upstairs in my room with shawn michaels song from this game playing over and over, turned up very loudly.. i thought i was so cool for some reason hahaha his was my favorite too
I always liked the macho man and perfect 16bit tune :)
Faaaaacts
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It’s a great instrumental. The chiptune version is better than the original because it doesn’t have vocals.
I always got frustrated that different superstars were on different consoles
Honestly given the time. Those animations of the wrestlers are amazing to me
These games were actually Amazing when they came out. Played the Royal Rumble one mostly because my cousin owned it, i didn't have any of them at home but for a couple years i practically lived at my cousin's house taking care of them while their parents were at work. At the time these were the best looking and playing WWF games around.
😄👍
I just made almost the same exact comment that's awesome.
Used to find skinny Yokozuna hilarious. His Bonsai drop would sometimes see him flying like Jeff Hardy into the centre of the ring 😂
Royal Rumble! Took me back to saturday mornings playing it with my cousins and uncles. Think it was my first wwf game. Life was so good back then
Honestly I love the way it looks. To me it still looks good. Got great memories with SWM and WWF RAW.
Completed Royal Rumble on SNES on hard, tossing every wrestler over the top rope as Mr Perfect.....Now that's "Perfect"! I posted this just as the video started not realising that's exactly what what you did. Hilarious
Won't believe it untill we see them thumb blisters. Though that may have been from the old Sega controller, might be more forgiving on the Snes
I almost did it with Flair on the SNES but i did do it with Shawn Michaels on the Mega Drive/Genesis version
I loved how when you kept using & bending/breaking the steel chair on the outside, it would return/spawn back in the exact same spot but a totally different color! (Believe it was in Royal Rumble & Raw Only) They had like 3-4 different colors too lol! We learned to appreciate the small things if your were a gamer in the OG days! Totally agree! I've played them recently on emulators and you def might get a hard hit of nostalgia but after that initial feeling, You'll move on. But still Love it of course!!!
Remember playing this for hours back in 1994.
me too!
The only thing they were missing was the most devastating move of all time the Davey boy Smith chinlock
I loved these games as a kid. I remember throwing everyone else out of the Royal Rumble with Mr. Prefect.
17:40 - I wish someone would mod WWF Wrestlefest by adding Bret Hart, the British Bulldog, Ric Flair, Andre the Giant and the Macho Man.
And when you win the Royal Rumble, you have a cage match against Andre for the title.
Would be sweet.
I would love an MashUp of RAW, Royal Rumble and Rage in the Cage (for Sega CD). Those games are basically identical in gameplay and look and the Roster would be insane. 😎
I saw many insane things with the OpenBOR engine. I was hoping for some enthusiastic modders/coders to throw that games together. 😢
Still play these games in 2022! RETRO GAMER! CLASSIC! WWF#1
Definitely a huge jump from 8-Bit to 16-Bit! Very fun, different and entertaining. My friends would use the auto turbo controllers against me because I would beat them. Yet, they STILL couldn't beat me. 😅😅😅
Fireblaster here🤣🤣🤣
Finger bang bang, bang bang ..
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I played the hell out of these games as a teenager. Another great video!
There will always be time to go back to these games. If it wasn't for games like these, the Smackdown games wouldn't have happened.
WWF Royal Rumble & WWF Raw were my favorites. I used to fantasize about combining all three games from all of the 16-bit platforms (including WWF Rage in the Cage) into one game. All modes & all the wrestlers from that era.
Yeh Rage in the Cage was dope too
As a 2000's kid i imagine 90's must've been a heck of a time to live jumping from nes to genesis and snes to playstation/n64/saturn to dreamcast/ps2 all in 10 years
Born 1983 here. The 80's were a rly nice time to grow up. No smartphones, handys e.g. and then the rly nice nes+snes...was a nice time for sure ;) we +read+ more..bec. no internet..so you had to stick to magazines :D
I remember playing Royal Rumble with my neighbor around 1995 basically every day after he bought it. Prior to that, I occasionally watched the weekend WCW and WWF shows, but playing the game is what made me want to watch more wrestling as much as I could. I started watching a couple of months before the Monday Night Wars started and then I was completely hooked.
I remember doing the neighbors lawn to get some $$$, then going to Blockbuster to rent (saturday to sunday) Super Wrestlemania on the SNES... thanks Wrestling Bios for bringing back my childhood memories!
I love it when my favorite CZcamsrs shout out to each other. Laughin, Jokin Numbnuts indeed.
I still play all these games, loved them so much
Me too😁👍...
@@SegaDream131 champion
I absolutely kept every wrestling game for sure.
Something about them take ya just back to the friggin promised land ...
@@SegaDream131 These were the best of times thats for sure
i can feel the blisters on my thumb from mashing when i was a kid. lock ups with the lads sheesh
Super Wrestlemania and Joe & Mac were the first SNES games I played when my neighbor got one. I was blown away by both.
WWF Royal Rumble was the second Sega Genesis game I ever owned and the first multiplayer game I ever played. It was absolutely brilliant. Have so many fond memories of playing this game with friends and family. It never got old, and my opinion, is still a hell of a lot of fun today.
Your channel is a must for any old school wrestling fan.
This game was such a childhood gem for me, Royal Rumble Sega Genesis* was my fav (but also was jealous of my buddy who had it on ‘Super, and it WAS bc of the rosters. Although the genesis version made me a fan of some of those mid card’ers of that era lol, but I’d ultimately got Rage in The Cage and that had a massive roster. And the music was amazing on sega imho.
Super WrestleMania was one of my most played games. I'd say that image of Hulk Hogan on the cover may even be burned into my brain
The 1st 10 mins of the game for me and my mate from when we first got it and turned it on.... Listen to each one of the characters theme tunes..
What he says in the intro is absolutely true. I cried tears one day to my parents simply to rent WWF Royal Rumble. That's how hot it was at the time. I risked humiliation for that game.
I remember the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had different wresters unique to each respective console. Sega had-for the most part-wrestlers that had left WWF and Diet Super Nintendo had wresters from the contemporary era.
My dad bought me the Royal rumble game back when I first got my Genesis. I'll never forget it.
Loved these games even with the limitations at the time. But I wish he would do a video about Saturday Night Slam Masters and Natsume Championship Wrestling.
Slam Masters is the best
So much nostalgia from the MIDI theme version of Real American. I loved these games, although Ultimate Warrior's special was a massive pain to hit on Super Wrestlemania because of the taunt before it allowing your opponent to just walk off 🤣
The best way to hit Warrior’s special is throw them into the far ropes then press the buttons. If timed right, you’ll hit them on their way running back towards you.
I remember as a kid I owned Royal Rumble and I would speed run trying to eliminate people as fast as possible. You could easily throw everyone out immediately. I found it funny hearing you used to do the same.
I still play these now and I’ve even taken my Sega Nomad to work to play during my lunch hour. It was fun discovering the finishers without the manual. We rented it before buying.
I owned WWF Monday Night RAW on Genesis when I was six years old. Owen was my go-to. I rented these two games to see how good they were and to play as the Warrior and Hogan.
whether having and playing both of these games as a child, and of course playing with my Hasbro figures, it didn't matter about the graphics or engine or stuff we think about now in these much more advance (as well as horribly worse) times. To be in control of my favorite wrestlers was so cool and new and real feeling. I struggle in life nowadays. I have a beautiful girlfriend who loves me, and we do all these nice things together and have a good support group and some nice hobbies etc.... But I just miss the old days so much. Pre social media. Pre internet even. I wish I could rewind the clock all the way. If I could be 8 years old forever I would do it.
Hey mate, just wanted to say I completely understand how you feel and I too want nothing more than to go back to being a kid in the early 90's forever. 👍
I had some of my first gaming experiences on these games
Razor...Ramon!!!
Scott Hall: That's me, Chico and Chica.
WWF Royal Rumble was so damn good back in the day, i spent so many hours playing that game
I remember being in school and drooling over the preview pics of Super Wrestlemania in the playground. The large characters were mind blowing. We thought the arcade was truly coming home.
I played both these games when they came out.
I love the history, the nostalgia.
And how our wrestling opinions are alike.
I appreciate everything you do.
Keep up the awesome work. Always a fan.
I still LOVE these games. Especially Royal Rumble and Raw. Fantastic review
Me too.
I played a crazy amount of Royal Rumble as a kid, but it's a great reminder of why we loved No Mercy and Smackdown so much.
I loved the WWF Royal Rumble game, used to play into the late nights when i was young.
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet!
These games bring back so many memories. Of the days of playing my SNES and my brothers Mega Drive! Thanks very much
I had Royal Rumble on Super NES. Loved that game. I remember there was a hack I discovered by accident where you could have the same character twice (or even 3 times) in the same tag match, triple or regular.
It would happen after a one on one match, and you had the option for "rematch"... If you proceeded to pick triple tag-team all the way before character options, then when back to first options and picked rematch, the CPU would team your current character with the last characters you picked as your team mates in Triple or regular Tag-Team. And one of those characters could be the same current character you had at the moment.
So for example, if you were playing with Razor, and the last time you had a tag match, your second option was Razor, you would now be playing with two Razors as a Tag-Team. And you could do the same with the opponent options.
I can't recall exactly how to do it, but it was even possible to have, lets say 3 Razors. Triple Tag... Razor, Razor and Crush vs Bret, Shawn, and Razor for example. Good times.
That's awesome 😎👍....
By the way, what you described is considered a glitch, not a hack....
But nonetheless I appreciate your comment....
Just that intro song alone makes this a hit. *Dancing like Alex Wright*
🔥 Upload, Keep up the strong work … 💯
Guru Larry! I love seeing CZcams channels I enjoy referencing others I watch.
Laughing Joking Numbnuts! Love the AVGN reference.
Royal Rumble was where I 1st noticed Kona Crush's great theme song.
Laughing joking numbnuts? You were one of my favorite creators before, but now that i know you're an Avgn fan, i like you even more
Came to comment the same thing!
As a kid, all we owned growing up were these games and rpgs. As the parents and grandparents where huge wrestling fans. So we used to play them for hours and days on end. To this day with my own teenagers, They will challenge their old man to a match for extra money or a movie or what not if they win. I find them playing every now and then when I get home from work, getting that button mashing skill up.. it can lead to very intense yelling and flexing moments once the matches are done. LOVE the video.
ROYAL RUMBLE, 3 seconds first elimination. Then throw the rest over. I used to be able to eliminate all.
Ahh memories, I remember finding this in my parents room after school one day, it was a birthday present for my upcoming birthday. My parents were at work so I played it and put it back before they were home. I was blown away. I remember when I "officially" got it... me and my friend (God rest his soul) would just play Rumble after Rumble eliminating everyone with the Irish whip/hip toss combination, good times, thanks Wrestling Bios
I have so many memories with Royal Rumble. It was my first wrestling game.
LMAO @ the AVGN reference , you and James are two of my faves
I'm a NES, SNES, N64 kid.
These games were awesome as Hell.
I loved them, spent a TON of time with them.
Thanks for giving these games a look!
you have done some awesome vids, but this one is one of my favs , if not my fav. awesome job. keep up the good work.
Royal Rumble on SNES was a constant rental during my early childhood. My brother would gravitate toward Bret and ai always went Razor or Taker. It was just tons of fun honestly, presentation was great and my brother would often just let it stay on Bret to hear his theme. Good times...better times...
i love that this content genre is thriving on youtube.
Sweet avgn reference with the LJN name. Very nice 👍
I bought Super Wrestlemania for SNES and played a ton of it.
I had no idea that the Genesis version existed or had a different roster until I saw it in a shop while I was on vacation with my parents, on a trip where I'd brought my... GENESIS with me. I bought it immediately.
Loved this game growing up
I like how Royal Rumble has the stats of how many wrestlers each competitor threw out.
I like that little touch as well....
Mannme and my brothers would play these games ALL ni ght on the weekends...then when i was 11 my older bro went to college and it was just me and my little bro...but when ever my big bro would come back for a weekend we would play all weekend...such good memories
I see what you did there with the 8 bit Jake the Snake theme song in the background …the memories 🙂
I'm 90% sure WWF Royal Rumble is the game I played with my younger brother as a kid. As soon as I saw the first few clips in this video, I felt an absolute wave of nostalgia.
I have such great memories of playing WWF Royal Rumble on Sega as a kid
Thanks for the video….great memories of these games..remember being excited when the upgraded royal rumble came out with the special moves. As you say was better playing with a friend
OMG! I loved these games when I was younger!!! My brother and I would beg our dad to let us go rent them from the local video store. I remember both of us laughing until we were on the floor crying when we found out if you aimed it just right you could toss a guy into the ring bell and it made a big "clang"! We also "foretold" the NWO when we tagged together with Razor and Diesel to win our first tag tournaments (we weren't very good back then so this was a big deal). I loved this video, mate!
"My parents would tell me to go do one" 😂
Royal Rumble for SEGA is my favorite 16 bit WWF game.
Up there w WrestleMania 2000 on N64 as what we'll plug in and play at our yearly Mania Parties.
0:22 wow that game is realistic, Hawk no selling being suplexed
I remember playing the Monday Night Raw game on SNES. But one of my favorite wrestling games of all time is Raw is War on PlayStation.
Me and my brother played Royal Rumble religiously back in the day haha good vid!
Great research I love these vidoe game episodes 😊
The 16-bit theme songs was one of my favorite things about Royal Rumble when I was a kid
I used to play the hell out of Royal Rumble and RAW with friends back in the day, we had so much fun.
I played the hell out of RAW for the SNES. I swear that cartridge and I would be smoking a cigarette after the sessions we had.
Always laughed at how Mr.Perfect held the chair on the cover for WWF Royal Rumble.
Where photoshop was born lol
I’m 36 so I remember play both and raw. Picked up a snes classic had it modded with all 3 wwf games and me and the boys play it all the time ❤❤❤
Man, the memories. I also had WWF raw on game gear
I have such nostalgia for these games, I was 3-4 yrs old during the time that these games were popular, I remember watching my older brother[he was 11 at the time] my cousin Chris[he was 14 at the time] my cousin Brandon[ he was also 14 at the time] & my cousin Willie, my cousin Brandon’s oldest brother{rest in peace}[he was 16 at the time] play this game religiously in my brother & my shared room from the years of 1992-1994.
I remember when my cousin Chris had 1st brought BOTH of these games to my house, these game graphics were UNBELiEVABLE on how REALiSTiC they looked in 1992, the NES wrestling games graphics seemed like such an outdated console that my bro & cousins couldn’t believe that they use to play NES games😂
Seeing my brother & our cousins battle it out on LJN wrestling games was AMAZiNG, me being a toddler at the time, watching WWF Superstars on TV during the week then seeing my brother & cousins beat WWF Super Wrestlemania & WWF Royal Rumble on the weekends & summer break as well as US ALL playing with their WWF Superstars Wrestlers & wrestling ring created such a special time for myself in the early 90’s.
So many great times & memories.🧐🥹❤️
I grew up on these games. As a SNES owner, I was envious of the Genesis versions because of their rosters, and finishers on Super WrestleMania, even if the SNES version looked, played and felt better. There NEEDS to be somebody out there that loves these games as much as me, and has the ability to either mod or recreate a 16-bit WWF game for today. With technology the way it is now, you could have hundreds of wrestlers, moves, game modes and even a create-a- wrestler mode! It has to happen at some point. My dream will remain....
Loved these when I was younger. Looking forward to other older wrestling games being covered.
The blisters I got playing these games could wrap a chifforobe.
The computer in Super WM SNES will never give you that Savage vs Hogan match, because the game has a face vs heel system. The faces are Savage, Hogan, Sid and LOD. The heels are Jake, Undertaker, DiBiase and Natural Disasters. One on one, it will always make it be face vs heel. Your only shot at having faces or heels fight each other vs the computer is to do tag team or Survivor Series with a team mixing faces and heels.
I wait for HCTP, the best WWE game ever made with the including of WWF No Mercy
Htcp was the best
I like the ‘angry video game nerd’ reference there 🤣
I used to listen to themes on Royal Rumble all the time. I remember putting Rick Martels theme on and laying on my couch to nap!
What a great trip down memory lane remember playing these with my friends having loads of fun. Then having royal rumble for the og gameboy and taking it everywhere with me.
I wish you could combine the strengths and features of the SNES and Genesis versions of Wrestlemania to produce a stronger final product
Would ve been the dopest roster of them all
I thought I was a diehard WWF and video game fan at the time and never even knew that Super Wrestlemania or Royal Rumble existed.
I remember playing this non-stop when I finally woke up after fainting just from seeing the SNES Royal Rumble cartridge through the clear, see-through case from Main Street Video, one of two game rental stores in town. From that point on it was always so difficult to ever get my hands on it because every kid in town wanted to play it and was on the rental waitlist.