Good work, as always! Feel like I need to step up my game. A few other thoughts: I think I would say that while Luna was an extremely talented wrestler (and a very nice lady, believe it or not, I was booked on a show with her in 2003, she was very kind), I think the big shift in women's wrestling in the US was probably Alundra Blayze/Medusa Miceli and Bull Nakano. Fun fact: you mentioned Cutie Suzuki, but the original Master System game we knew as Pro Wrestling (with amazing cover art) was known in Japan as Gokuaku Domei Dump Matsumoto. It was a licensed All Japan Women game featuring joshi legend Dump Matsumoto alongside Bull Nakano, the Jumping Bomb Angels and more! Finally, in answer to your question, I'm not SURE who the woman with Gorilla is, but I've speculated (with others) that it could be Stephanie Wiand. This would be a little weird, since she was more of a show host in the studio or backstage interviewer, and didn't last long in the Federation but the timeframe fits.

17:56 The woman with Monsoon is Stephanie Wiand. She was co-host of WWF Mania around that time.

Great video, as usual. Though I'm concerned that Hogan from the genesis splash screen stole my soul.

I beleive the women announcing in the 32X version is Stephanie Wyant, who was hosting WWF Mania with Todd Pettingal at the time (late 94 to 95)

I had the Sega version of Royal Rumble as a kid, and can always remember discovering a bug where you could never have a Lex Luger Vs Crush one on one match in the game, it would constantly crash the game. But I did love (and buy all the games) was so excited for Super Wrestlemania as a kid, I imported a US copy and sawed the sides off so it would fir in my PAL SNES. Didn't work though >.> Also, there's some great artifacts for an never included additional character in boh Royal Rumble games (might have been Acclaim's much loved "You" character in WWF games) and the 32X Raw also had Kwang as a final boss.

The female announcer on Raw is supposed to be Stephanie Wiand, who was the co-host for WWF Mania at the time. Kind of a forgotten personality and weird that they put her commentating with Gorilla Monsoon, but I believe I've seen this confirmed elsewhere. Neither Moolah or Sherri were commentators.

This was a great video! I always enjoy comparison videos for games that I either own, or might be looking to get into. Thanks for the care & quality that you put into this, and other videos of yours that I've seen as well. As someone who owns Super Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, and Raw on both Genesis & SNES, it's always interesting to go back and pick up on the little differences & improvements for each successive game. I'm thinking about differences like The Undertaker having a slightly paler skin tone as opposed to the others on the roster on SNES versions, or the steel chair changing colors whenever it's replaced after being bent over someone's skull (also on SNES). I also love the little improvements in WWF Raw, such as CPU controlled partners (which you can take control of anytime by pressing 2 buttons on your gamepad depending on the console), as well as health bars for the tag partners standing on the apron. This is especially useful for Survivor Series matches, so that you don't accidentally tag in someone who ends up having worse health than you do. These are some of the things that I didn't pay too much attention to playing these games for the first time at the age of 11 or 12, but have really come to appreciate as a 38 year-old gamer. Again, thanks for the great video, and I'll be keeping an eye out for future videos as a new subscriber!

Its been a long week here at work i am currently i am on my lunch break watching jenovi! This made my day 👌🏾👍🏽

A couple of magazine previews for Royal Rumble on SNES showed Kamala as part of the roster. He ended up being cut for unknown reasons, though he would appear in the spin-off Rage in the Cage. One of these previews also mentioned there would be 14 wrestlers in Royal Rumble, but the game we got has 12, so there was an additional unknown wrestler cut.

As usual, another excellent video from Jenovi. Thanks a lot, mate.

This was awesome, I really like the category screens you made that resemble the Sega 90s branding, welcome to the next level!

Counted frames to cross the ring... Legendary attention to detail brother!

You have a great selection of sports games in your videos. Whenever I`m in doubt whether I should go with the Mega Drive or a SNES port, I always end up here and find exactly what I`m looking for. ✌

Just here to comment and support my man jenovi! Most underrated channel on youtube!

When AVGN himself James Rolfe "reviewed" the 16-bit WWF games, all he did was bash them for being published by LJN, and claiming that "Vince McMahon should be ashamed for whoring out his product to such inept game designers". Come on, James, like Vince McMahon had time on his hands in 1992-1994 to tell LJN, Flying Edge, and Acclaim what he'd like to see in children's video-games based on his wrestling company. Around the time the 16-bit WWF games came out, Vince had bigger things to worry about, such as the 1994 steroid trial and Jesse Ventura's VHS royalties lawsuit. You see, not *EVERYTHING* that LJN did was bad, and certainly not the 16-bit WWF games or their action figures; those and the ThunderCats toyline were awesome.

Good video but I'm surprised you did not mention him that the Royal rumble game was the first WWF game to feature the wrestlers entrance music.

Great vid. These always felt so ropey because I wanted something that resembled the Technos arcades, but I still played them a lot because there was nothing else.

The female commentator in the 32X version was Stephanie Wiand. She's a very forgettable part of WWF history and wasn't around very long, but that's who the woman with Gorilla Monsoon is! I really enjoyed this video. I love all of these games and they were a huge part of my childhood and I still fire them up once or twice a year, though at this point it's mostly just RAW on Genesis or 32X (depends on the day) that I devote my time to when I feel the itch. I will say though, that I loved RAW on Game Gear as a kid solely because it was the only version that had Macho Man and Crush. I still can't figure out how they were left out of the console versions!

When I was a kid, I could win grapples. As an adult it seemed like a nightmare to win even one.

I think the female announcer was supposed to be Stephanie Wiand. She was a co-host on WWF mania around the mid-90s

Luna wasn’t in wwf in 1992 so there was no way she could’ve been in super wrestlemania

Great vid as usual, Jenovi! Keep up the good work.

I love the work you put into these comparisons!

That cheeky Mike Krow. He's probably got a copy of Raw for the Xbox up there too that he flaunts as Goldust.

Royal Rumble on Genesis and Snes remain my favorites. I didn't like the roster and goofy special moves they put in RAW. I was so disappointed with Rage in the Cage. I assumed tag team and rumble were included and they weren't. 20 man roster for nothing. I paid 60 for it and Kmart didn't accept Returns on opened software. I started renting at a higher rate after that.

I had wwf raw for the genisis and loved it. Get yourself a 6 button controller for it and that's the best possible experience.

It's weird how some wrestlers in wwf raw do a steiner screwdriver as a normal move. The game didn't even include the steiner brothers.

Accidentally running into guard rails and suplexing opponents too close to the ropes made for some hilarious fails when playing with a friend or two

very nice review, I never knew about the frame rate difference w/ super wrestlemania. I just wished super wrestlemania for Genesis had Undertaker instead of papa shango who really didn't last very long.

As a fan of video games and wrestling this is probably the best comparison yet. I may have missed it but aside from the 32x winning in audio it has the updated Luger theme. Also I agree the game gear version isn't so much fun it does offer special moves compared to Gameboy.

Great video. Should do a vid like this for something like the MK series 🥰

Well done brother

I was hoping you had Luger’s finisher from the handhelds. To this day I haven’t seen it.

18:00 im gonna say that's Sherri Martell Edit - completely forgot about Stephanie Wiand! Yeah it definitely resembles her more than Sherri

Was never much into wrestling video games but this was interesting nonetheless, nice job

Great video Jenovi, I really enjoyed/enjoy wrestlemania for the 32x. :)

Not having Hulk Hogan in the SNES version is one of the dumbest decisions I've ever seen.

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You're shitting me. I loved the Genesis soundtrack for Raw. :'( Also, still don't understand why you didn't include Wrestlemania the Arcade Game. Sure, it's different, but I think it's similar enough -- similar enough at least that I'll play Raw and Mania Arcade interchangeably when I have friends over that want to play a wwf genesis game. Anyway, sorry for my nitpicking. Nice video. Hooked me with the really well-done "unreleased" 32x videos. Am liking the other stuff on the channel. Surprised you don't have more subs. Wish I had discovered your channel sooner. Also, could've sworn the announcer opposite Jerry Lawler was supposed to be Vince McMahon, but I might be mixing it up with Wrestlemania Arcade. It was definitely mentioned in one of the manuals for those two games.

Royal Rumble is the only game you need. Royal Rumble was awesome!! I loved bashing people with chairs. Hey I’m in this video, crazy! 😜

I believe the lady commentating is Sherri Martel only one that makes sense to me in that time period

Man I wanted to buy some of these for the Genesis but learning that all the wrestlers are the same height really really bothers me. I HATE stuff like that. Huge pet peeve.

I absolutely love these videos! I would love to see a Spider-man or X-Men version

The female Commentator is Stephanie Wiand.

Awesome!!!!

Shit time to hook my 32x back up :) thanks again for such great content!

I always thought this games got a bad rap. Me and my buddy would beat the hell out of a wrestler for like 30 minutes after we could of pinned him so we could "end his career". I mainly played SNES Royal Rumble but I would of loved Raw/RitC.

Always impressive sir

I prefer Royal Rumble to Raw, because of the rosters (on both versions) and the pacing. I find Raw too chaotic, and the uniform height of the wrestlers stands out on Raw in a way it didn't on the previous installments. Also, Raw brings in unrealistic "mega moves" to a game that otherwise takes (dare I say) a simulation approach. I get it, Raw has the best graphics, the most modes, submissions and alternate pins, but it's always just been an un-fun mess to me.

Okay I know what we're doing next PRGE

I love how you pronounce Vachon!

Razor Ramon had the best music back in the day🙌🏾

Great video thanks 👍🏻

Did raw on sega have the super moves like snes?

Sculptured Software were bloody awful. I rented a couple of these games and was seriously unimpressed considering how rabidly interested I was in WWF at the time. The footage you've captured looks particularly horrendous without some sort of CRT filter with all that dithering. You can see how particularly lazy the devs were @10.26 not bothering to shade the announcer at all.

I like wwf royal rumble for the snes and wwf wrestlemania for the genesis because of the ultimate warrior my favorite wrestler of all-time

People who complain about WWE 2K20 never played NES WWF Wrestlemania.

Rage in the Cage was a total wasted opportunity.

Hey that's not jim Ross, that's Vince McMahon!

The few times LJN was good to us

17:55. This is most likely Johnny Polo, as Monsoon and Polo would do some commentary together.

Why does this guy look like Pasquale from Insomniac?! 😏😏

you're way better than console wars. good grief. I can't stand ConsoleWars stupid shtick and skits that are not funny and their crappy acting.

This review was too confusing & complicated to understand.

*This guy is old.*