Playboy should love this thread!!
If anyone is a true fan of wrestling games there can be no doubt that this arcade game that came out in 1991 was absolutely the greatest wrestling game ever made!!!! Nothing comes close even today! Who didn't want to be Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Jake Roberts, Earthquake, Big Bossman, Mr. Perfect, Ted Dibasie, Smash and Crush of Demolition and Sgt. Slaughter?? And all of them had their signature moves which was unheard of at the time. I spent literally hundreds of dollars worth of quarters to play this thing and try to defeat the tag team champions, the Road Warriors (LOD) who also had their tag team finisher, the Doomsday Device Clothesline
. And who could forget the Royal Rumble??? I was simply in awe when this hit the arcade and seeing tons of people around it in heated match ups were awesome.
In Saturday Nights Main Event, the tag team mode (that also had that traditional WWF blue steel cage on level 3) I was always the Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan!! In the Royal Rumble I was Hogan going for the glory. It was just too much for me as I even used to lose sleep about it at night and try to con my mother to take me to the arcade as I looked all over town for quarters. Hell, even when I didn't have any quarters I would just watch people play (I even remember staring at the opening credits for hours). Crazy, yes. But it was a crazy ass game and I've never seen anything like it before.
Today, I have this on my PC and still find it fun as hell!! Plus I have the code to be the Road Warriors and playing my idol Road Warrior Hawk still puts a smile to my face.
Just check out these links if you don't know about this game because this is what wrestling will always be to me in, what I think is the best time. The only knock on this game is that it didn't have Ric Flair, who came to the WWF two years later.
Check this out (watch the whole thing to see the LOD clothesline, it's worth it)! Anyone else have some fond memories of this game?
