Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game
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- čas přidán 15. 09. 2022
- It's the Mortal Kombat Wrestling Game! I also go over some of the cut stuff from the game like finishers and how they ended up getting used in the sequel game In Your House.
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All that happened for me was I heard the Shao Kahn sound effect of "Raagh!" from the end of the videos. Only unlocked a sound test... 😒
I heard Dave from math class say you can fight Shadow Old Man if you KO Robert Cop 2 while Sub-Zero is on the 3rd frame of his pirouette move in the background
@@jamesduncan6729 I unlocked concept art for his house..
Stoooopid
Imagine a Galaxy Warriors fighting game in the MK style, with digitized actors in makeup, it’d be amazing!
I love that Paul Bearer was just incapable of half-assing anything he did. In-ring, on TV, in these stupid promo games, or in the WWE: All Stars story mode: the man could just turn it on and be entertaining. Oooooh YES!
"Now, let's say you select Lex Luger..."
"In that case, what you want to do is press the reset button."
Ah, just like his main event push.
My brain: *accidentally hears Lex Luger as Lex LUTHOR* 😂
@@gracekim25 Try to think of it this way:
Lex Luger had a feud with Yokozuna.
Lex *Luthor* had a feud with John Cena.
@@swordhunter12 🤣 *plays epic theme*
If you do that, he goes immediately back to the Lex Express.
Considering how awful the Midway fighting game inputs are, I wouldnt be surprised.
Oh Phelous, we were all like that one time or another combining ideas with characters we all liked while growing up.
Indeed
I never really stopped honestly.
P
John Cena and Donatello vs. a SpongeBob kids meal toy and Cloe in a TLC match was such a 5 star classic!
Meowthkind was never the same after Mewtwo pushed him off the cage at Victreebel In A Cell.
I’m not sure if it’s a good or a bad sign when Doink getting almost everyone in the arena trampled to death by elephants is one of the more normal endings…
I think it’s very important that you filled us in on Meowth-Kind Phelous !
*_MEOWTH-KIND!!!_* THE GREATEST PHELOUS CHARACTER!!! FOR ALL MAN-KIND!!!
12:22 the scream would fit well as Bret’s death sound for Mortal Kombat.
That arcade cabinet kicked Bret's leg out of his leg! HE WAS TOO DAMN SELFISH!!!!
Learning that Phelan was a Mick Foley fan makes heightens my already high level of respect for his opinions
I remember this arcade game for one reason and one reason only. Gather round, for I shall tell you a tale of woe...
I was 9 or 10 years old and I took a trip to South Carolina one summer with my mom, older brother, uncle, and cousins to visit family over there. On one particularly hot night, just us kids went to some boardwalk type place with a bunch of little arcades lining the streets. In one such arcade, I was playing WrestleMania with some rando I didn't know while my brother and cousins disappeared into the back to fuck around with the air hockey tables and/or those basketball hoop shooting things. I'd lost sight of them because the place was so packed but I didn't care. I was just too absorbed in trying to figure out how this game worked.
That's when a foul, foetid odor swept through the place. At first I thought it was merely a fart, the stench amplified by the sweltering heat and the crush of bodies, but it soon became apparent that it was something far worse. One voice rose above all the others, a Hispanic youth who loudly proclaimed that "someone done shit they pants!"
And there I was, rendered speechless due to my attempt at fighting back the roars of laughter that threatened to tear my sides asunder while simultaneously gagging from the septic aroma.
The kid next to me asked, in a distinctive southern drawl, what smelled so bad in there. Digging deep, I finally managed to choke out, "I think someone done shit they pants."
WrestleMania long forgotten, we'd both howled with laughter until some frantic teenage arcade attendants ushered us and everyone else out of the arcade, screaming "OUT!" and "WHERE'S THE FUCKING MOP?"
As everyone rallied outside as though we'd just stumbled through a school fire drill, I saw a boy far younger than myself waddle towards a woman who was clearly his mother. His once blue Bart Simpson-esque shorts were almost entirely brown, fecal matter running down both of his legs. It looked as though he'd sat upon an entire tray of fudge brownies.
For it was he who done shit they pants.
I do believe in every childhood there's at least one memory like this.
The memory of something that you only remember because something else either far more traumatic or far more ridiculous or far more awesome happened along the way.
I can't remember a specific story like this off the top of my head but I know I've had experiences so random and ridiculous people would have a hard time believing it actually happened at all. Life's like that.
I thought you were gonna say it was a stink bomb. 🤮💩
Sounds like something that would happen in an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode.
I call BS..... Warrior would NEVER sell for HHH's perfume finisher.
Maybe if it was replaced with a mix of steroids and cocaine.
He certainly didn't for the Pedigree.
Rick Martel needs to sue somebody
THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR DOES NOT WISH TO BE SPRAYED WITH WHITE DIAMONDS!
"THE ONLY SMELL OF THE WARRIOR IS HIS FOKE ON THE STARS TO DELIVER THE POWER OF THE WARRIOR ON THE PLANE OF REALITY! Also Chanel."
For someone who never followed wrestling (it was a weird thing I saw a few times on Eurosport but never really followed) things like the Undertaker's weirdly wavy voiced Addams family sidekick are just strange mysteries...
Thank you for sharing MeowthKind he was adorable and I will never forget him. Also I legit laughed out loud when Todd says" and here's what to do when you play as Lex Luger" cut to Phelan " you hit reset on your console".
This is starting to give me some nostalgia for Midway’s *Into The Outworld: The Making Of Mortal Kombat 3* which I wish had a more widely available VHS promotional tape similar to this. Which now a days you can still find the 15 minute version in Midway Arcade Treasure 2 on Xbox, PS2, & GameCube. Although you can find the longer version on CZcams.
Yeah, I remember watching the version on Arcade Treasure 2.
@@phelous me too. I would watch it all the time after playing MK3 for a little bit. to this day, it's still one of my personal favorite game compilations since it has so many awesome arcade games on it. it's also the last time we ever got an official release of Primal Rage which, along with MK & KI, is one of my favorite fighting games ever made.
@@EpicJasonX9000
Yeah that generation was the best when it came to nice juicy collections of games.
Just an avalanche of good stuff and impressive collections just given away for what these days would seem like a total steal.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu in deed. It’s why I still love the older generations of gaming. Great stuff that are still fun decades later. ^-^
@@EpicJasonX9000
Yeah I would honestly say PS2 was probably the last generation that was really so generous like this. (Okay maybe the 360 as well) but yeah the last couple generations have been pretty meh and I end up going back more times than not to simpler games which are also still as addictive and fun as they always were. The new generation has a place but it's more like fast food as opposed to a relaxing family dinner.
I like how the In Your House game seems to show the stars of the New Generation fighting to the death in front of about 8 people.
I attribute this game as being why Doink The Clown became so ingrained in the cultural zeitgeist despite the character never being booked or handled well, and the only good incarnation of the character not existing for that long.
this game was really popular as a rental, and Doink really stood out alongside the Undertaker.
Please make more wrestling related content. It's great.
Indeed😊
Indeed INDEEED!!!!!!! Lol
Yes! Harder! Faster! More! Ohhhh yeah!
BRET HART: THE MOST EXCELLENT MIDWAY EMPLOYEE
I loved Paul Bearer in the early days. His character was played perfectly!
OMG that segment with Meowthkind reminded me of when I sent a drawing of Pikachu as a buff cyborg with a gattling gun for a hand to Nintendo Power. They mailed me back saying it was "... interesting."
Haha, amazing!
WOW! That sounds badass, mate
@@phelous I called him Pikastein's Monster, and his proportionally tiny head had stitches and bolts on his neck.
So yeah, he looked a little Warhammer 40kish lol
I absolutely 100% would rent this tape from my local video store. I still love when Todd Pettengill makes WWE cameos. I always felt more arcade games needed to get a Russian Legsweep from Bret Hart in their ads.
"This match is scheduled for the Phelous Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship. Goron Austin & Road Dogg SIRO vs Cactus Wabuu & the Old Man-taker."
Vader is the long-lost Super Duper Sumo
Hunter Hearst Helmsley's signature weapon indeed was a perfume atomizer. He'd carry a perfume atomizer so he could spray the ring, and sometimes used it as a weapon.
If only it shot out hundreds of sledgehammers.
Sledgehammer: a new fragrance by DX
Damn this brought back some serious nostalgia, pal.
So, I never saw the video, but they did play that "Bret Hart: Programmer" segment on an episode of Game Nation. I haven't thought about that show in a long time. A forgotten Canadian classic.
The bit can be found on CZcams, and it's hilarious on its own.
Also, this part features what seems to be the only footage of Yokozuna on the tape as it seems they don't have him (nor the host for that matter) give the combos to perform his special moves. He is the one who's skipped, not Lex Luger as Phelous implies (maybe joking at Lex Luger's expense is funnier to wrestling fans ?).
I was a huge Lex Luger mark back in like ‘93, when he was doing the Lex Express thing. I watched out the window of my house, on a dead-end road in the middle of nowhere. I was sure he’d come down my road…..He didn’t.
That is why he failed.
@@phelous commandeer the old Lex Express, drive it down my road….I’ll be waiting. I have a wind breaker you can borrow.
@@phelous well he did go to wcw and steal macho man’s girl irl, so he has that at least
Ah yes, Razor Ramon, the Most Handsome Tarkatan.
RIP Scott Hall.
Please cover more weird wrestling content like this! your Rodman Down Under review is honestly one of my favorites. Thank you for everything you do buddy.
EH😊 I discovered that on Thursday
Seeing some wrestling content from Phelous made my afternoon.
Seeing some Wrestling content from Phelous made my life 🥹 lol
The fact it's gaming content too is an extra special treat. I remember when the arcade was still king, sadly that would not last much longer.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Fortunately arcades are still alive and well in Japan.
@@fearsomemanic
Alive and well may be a strong term to use. Seeing is how Sega has sold their famous arcade building and everything recently. The arcade scene is definitely a lot more alive there than it is anywhere else that's for sure. Not that big of a surprise really.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Yeah, I was sad when I heard about SEGA selling it. I'm glad there are still arcades at least. Better than pachinko parlors.
21:19 Ah, the fabled "Rooftop Casket Match". The way it works is that the losing competitor will fall off the roof of Titan Towers into a casket the Undertaker has on standby, and then they go to H- oh, sorry, a "local purgatory".
I thought it would work like when the Underfaker killed Crush on a rooftop in an Indian film.
10:20 Phelous, from the top turnbuckle slams 'em with a MST3K!
Phelous + WrestleMania = Pure Awesomeness.
Thank you for this magnificent video, Phelous! You never fail to showcase the most fascinating things on your channel. I love that I never know what to expect, but knowing that whatever it is, it’s going to be incredible. Keep on being amazing! 🖤
0:29 “This *is* the Mortal Kombat wrestling game”
Aaaaside from the Netherrealm-developed WWE Immortals mobile game that was basically just the mobile MKX game but with wrestlers. But iirc the game also let you play as Johnny Cage as well as Xavier Woods dressed up as Raiden with a more PG version of his moveset from MKX! It’s been officially shut down, but you can find gameplay of it and the surprisingly well-done finisher animations on CZcams. Seth Rollins throwing dudes off of a helicopter and curb stomping them on the way down still goes hard I don’t care what you say
Seeing Owen Hart saying, "Anything can happen up there." Made my heart hurt. 😭
RIP Owen.
OOF
The marriage of old school wrestling and Mortal Kombat. Love this game! Sweet nostalgia! Undertaer should have tossed Pacman ghost for another tie in. 👻 R.I.P
"That was a real hoot" was used so much, I almost expected a Rocko's Modern Life opening theme clip.
Monday night is a very dangerous night!
I thought they were saying "THAT WAS OUR HOME!" at the end of the theme when I was little, when I was watching the show on Nick on Demand.
10:50
Midway Employee, gesturing to the other wrestlers: So, who are they?
Bret Hart: Scientists, like myself...
1:09- Reminds me of one of my Pokemon-style superhero drawings I made in middle school around that time. One of the PokeHeroes I made was Meowthwoman, which is a combination of Meowth and Catwoman. And I still have those drawings in a folder in my closet. Other PokeHeroes included was Zubatman, his sidekick Pidgy-Boy, Machampion, and Spinarak-Man.
14:44- Paul Bearer looks like a burnt-out, overweight version of the MyPillow Guy, and with said guy's retribution, I'm pretty sure this is what he'll look like in a few years from now.
18:12- Nice use of George C. Scott in Man Getting Hit by Football.
I used to draw Pokémon combined with musicians. When I started to follow WWE I drew a "Word Life Pikachu" dressed as Cena. It was wearing jorts, and a backwards cap, brass knuckles and holding a mic.
We need more of Phelous’s kid memories in these videos, they’re always my favorite part
Your Bret Hart impersonation is hilarious and spot on! I lost it when you were pitching the ideas of Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon's ending in his voice! Fucking awesome dude!
I never saw this video when I was a kid, but played a whole lot of WWF WrestleMania The Arcade Game and loved it. When I finally saw it, I cringed hard. That was the 90s in a nutshell
This video... Was a real hoot! 🦉
**Does the Boomer jig to that song.**
I love the wrestling videos Phelan! Thanks so much! I can't believe your still this good after watching you for over a decade lol.
20:48 Good thing Owen Hart's not in a Blue Blazer outfit when talking about things happening "up there".
As a person that appreciates both Meowth and Mankind/Mick Foley, I approve of Meowthkind.
The largest store in Berlin has a Mortal Kombat 3 arcade and kids were playing it. Oh how times have changed, the game was banned here (and probably still is when noone objected to this day). I was kinda frustrated that I didn't know any of the Fatalities to pretend I'm a cool guy.
Power Punch sounds like an energy drink
OH you're right XD
11:12 Bret Hart was willing to work with computers, unlike Shawn Michaels.
the joke about bret secretly being hulk hogan got me laughing. especially when you know that during bret's early days they were pushing him to be the next hulk hogan (well, face of the wwf and having hogan lose to him to get him over as a main eventer).
given that plan did go through until the hart foundation era when he became a bitter heel.
Lex Luger's finisher is based on an actual finisher he had, working a metal plate in his forearm from a surgery as a "secret weapon." In some matches he was forced to wear a sheath over his arm to shield opponents from it.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. Showing us that Meowthkind was essential and blessed us all.
100% agree👍
11:26 -11:29 Did that guy in the back just slap the dude with the glasses on the back of the head just because Bret Hart made his speech lmao daaaaamn lol
It took me WAY too long to realize the hands and chair that Mr Perfect have in the Royal Rumble game are photoshopped
Phelous and the promo tapes, imagine him changing the thumbnails for that 😂
I love that idea 🤩
I find it really interesting what you show us in this review of the game. I even learn something. Because when this whole WWF wrestling had come out big at the beginning of the 90s, I perceived the whole thing as totally brutal and antisocial. (In my defense, back then I was still a prepubescent little kid who also thought that metal music was something evil and forbidden).
This is a really fun game to play. Best character? Of course, it's The Undertaker. He even has a fatality like finisher in this. :D
I hate that we got Heel Doink's character select avatar, but he ended up being Face Doink.
Imagine Matt Borne as Heel Doink in this game, I still can't believe Bam Bam got him fired over a joint.
The first wrestling game I ever played was Wrestlemania on the NES. After that, it's a wonder I ever played another wrestling game, let alone any video game, ever again.
That game was always a good couple minutes of confusion before you switched to another game.
“True to life.” Razor can pick up Yokozuna and piledrive him. How realistic is that?
One thing I always hated about wrestling games why is Rey Mysterio picking up the big show over his head and throwing him out of the ring
Only Lex Luger can be able of doing that!
5:45 Well, i guess that fits more with his Blue Blood phase.
I do hope "Power Punch" becomes another running gag. It's just so kooky.
Wow! A mint-condition Meowthkind!
Finally got around to watching this one. Nice!
I've never played this "Wrestlemania" game, but I have heard of it. Talk about a batshit insane wrestling game. Really looks like a blast, gonna keep an eye out for this one, hopefully the Sega Genesis port, as it has both Yokozuna and Bam Bam Bigelow. So it did seem appropriate that such an insane game should also have an equally insane promo video, I think the novelty of that speaks for itself.
Also there was a "WWF Royal Rumble" pinball game!?! They used to make a pinball game out of anything back then...and still are today. Weird.
Wrestler Meowth could've been in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue if it was made in the 90's with Meowth wrestling the sinister smoke themed supervillain from that PSA
And that's the story of the roof. Phelous, you fucking slay me
Had this on PS1. Played it a ton. Doink the Clown was my go-to
Pretty sure the blue royal blood Hunter Hearst Hemsley-version didn't use the sledgehammer at the time so I guess perfume makes sense because it's "elegant and fresh" =P
Great Bret hart impersonation!! That shit was funny!
I remember playing some Wrestling game on Genesis when i was a kid, and phrase "Lex Luger versus... Lex Luger" stuck with me since.
Vhs promoting video games are truly an insane ascetic.
I am so happy i learn so much from phelan's videos.
indeed, he's like a youtube history professor in a incredibly fun way :D
Phelous, it’s thanks to you that I recognised the word Wrestlemania when I watched Groundhog Day yesterday 😂
So Thank you 😊
I have never heard that music in my life without singing "Drink milk, love life"
I remember Paul Bearer having a high voice but didn't remember it being that high, I thought you were doing his voice as a joke for a second haha
Big Win, McMahon!
I need JR "Aw sonuvabitch!" popping up Toasty!-style as a running gag now.
All the edits in this video were done by a Hower Power, I swear they're just too damn good.
Haha, thanks.
@@phelous I’d like to imagine this type of marketing during peak ruthless aggression lol, imagine Cena Batista, Orton,Matt Hardy edge, Jeff etc. Taking time to show people the science of a Smackdown vs raw. And then halfway through Matt and edge start fist fighting for real lol
As a HUGE wrestling fan, I love when you talk about anything to do with wrestling, Phelous. We're around the same age, so we definitely started watching wrestling around the same time.
My first wrestling game that I played extensively/owned was the one on PlayStation that had Steve Austin on the cover. Was that WWF Attitude or WWF RAW? I can't remember. Anyway, I remember getting that game and seeing Bret Hart in it, but I didn't understand why he was, as I started watching WWF *right after* Survivor Series, '97. Maybe around Royal Rumble '98. But anyway, I remember thinking "Who is this guy? Why is he never mentioned on WWF?"
lol. Yeah, I didn't know anything about wrestling or Montreal at the time. I was like, 12 years old. Didn't discover all that stuff until we got the Internet a few years later.
Yeah that was Warzone you're thinking of, I was always really glad Bret was still in that game, haha.
1:26 Hope he didn’t get banned like the actor of Johnny Cage did with the mortal kombat one
"Brett Hart was an average fighter but he was a BRILLIANT scientist!" always makes me crack up
Man this was Awesome I've still got these videos from coliseum videos they were put in with wrestling matches that were on the tapes. Wrestlemania the Arcade memories man hearing about all the stuff from wrestlers an all removed from the game WOW. Amazing Vid
Can we all agree that Razor Ramon and Undertaker would have been hilarious cameos but it is still amongst the top 4 promotional videos for video games
But Brett Hart's best promo work ever and I only thought he was the best for physical capability at pro wrestling
Your videos always brighten up day thank you.
There’s a mortal Kombat arcade game?!🤩
Today I learned Bret was in to Science
Wooo! Go mewthkind!🥳
Thanks again for sharing it✌️
Originally saw 21.7.22
29.7.22
first WWF game memories and i love that you cover this
I had a really crappy day today but watching your video cheered me up more. Thanks for making content as always Phelan. *Thumbs up*
Glad it helped!
@@phelous It definitely did! ^^
I'm upvoting this video for Meowthkind alone. That is just amazing.
The nostalgia is strong with this one, thank you.
Anyone else notice that the Undertaker put Yokozuna & Razor Ramon in the grave are wrestlers who've passed away?
That's a dead on Bret Hart impression.
1:04 your drawing is one of a Kind
😎aw yeah
I love when you cover wrestling stuff. 👍
"..Throwing fireballs around.."
I was listening to a episode of "My Brother, My Brother and Me" the other day and they were talking about how it would be cool if they had a "wizard" wrestler. I mean fuck yeah man, why not? It's all theatrics anyways, so let's get crazy. I want some DBZ style fighting and monologuing going on here. Get a practical and special effects team in there for stuff like magic and energy based attacks.
Great video Phelous
At this point you're my favorite ytp creator
Underrated CZcamsr !!
Yep, that’s why I keep sharing his videos with my friends ✌️
This was one of the games of my childhood. For some reason I used to think that Doink was entirely made up for this game.