SATURDAY NIGHT SLAM MASTERS - The Secret Street Fighter Wrestling Trilogy

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Today's video looks at all three games from the Saturday Night Slam Masters series. From the original Muscle Bomber game to Ring of Destruction, let's look at all these Capcom wrestling titles from the Street Fighter & Final Fight Universe. Mike Haggar is even here!
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@jessemersier5499 Жыл бұрын

I STILL play Saturday Night Slam Masters to this very day! One of my top 5 all time wrestling games ever!

@Thor-Orion Жыл бұрын

It’s the best non-3D engine Wrestling game. The only wrestling that gets any better are the AKI engine games.

@user-mu9dh3nm5f 2 ай бұрын

Been playing it recently. Was lucky enough to have my mom buy me this as a kid

@BJH0380 Жыл бұрын

Capcom really needs to release a Final Fight/Slam Masters Collection and include all of the ports.

@FreaKzero Жыл бұрын

Retroarch Its the same thing basically what "big companies" are doing - you just "insert coin" for even poorer emulation.

@mikejonesnoreally Жыл бұрын

How many games would that be? Final Fight and Saturday Night Slam Masters are in the CAPCOM arcade collection.

@BJH0380 Жыл бұрын

@@mikejonesnoreally There’s Final 1, 2, and 3 and there’s 2 Slam Masters games. The Genesis version of Slam Masters has an exclusive Death Match mode.

@WaldoBagelTopper Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Gunloc and Guile from Street Fighter are cousins, as written by the Capcom background storylines.

@Thor-Orion Жыл бұрын

This makes no sense. The dude NOT in the wrestling business has the crazier hair? Unheard of.

@khandrasheed9202 Жыл бұрын

It's non canon

@loboneiner1034 10 ай бұрын

Only in the American version. The original Japanese version didn't acknowledge that.

@lordrayden3045 Жыл бұрын

This series, especially the first one is criminally under rated

@KaitouKaiju Жыл бұрын

It is criminal that we still haven't had Haggar in a SF game

@richardburton4625 Жыл бұрын

Correct

@pauldesigncomics2625 Жыл бұрын

Wasn’t he in last Marvel vs Capcom game?

@robertmatthews9650 Жыл бұрын

@@ShinzoUchihaX aren’t we splitting hairs here? One could argue MVC3 is a street fighter game since they had SF characters in it. Just like Marvel super heroes vs. SF and X-Men Vs Sf. They just expanded the roster so the latest ones are covered under the capcom franchise.

@2Dee4ever Жыл бұрын

@@robertmatthews9650 I feel you, but it’s not the same thing by a long shot. Haggar being in SF would also give the character more chance of being fleshed out vs MVC games being “dream matches”. Myself personally await the day the trio of Cody/Guy/Haggar are playable in a fighting game that isn’t final fight revenge

@TopHatGamingManChannel Жыл бұрын

It's like when Sting never appeared in WWE for years.

@JeremyPeeples Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love seeing Slam Masters get some love - the world needs something like it now

@mikejonesnoreally Жыл бұрын

it IS available now. It's part of a Capcom Arcade collection. :3

@Smoothie_The_Gamecat Жыл бұрын

@@mikejonesnoreallyHence, Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium

@TonyWilliams27 Жыл бұрын

I’ve played this wrestling fighting games on my SNES during my childhood days during renting videos and games at Blockbuster!

@xDTHECHEMISTx Жыл бұрын

I always wanted a sequel that added in New wrestlers and others from the SF series like Alex. Hugo. Zangief. R Mika. El Fuerte, Abel and others. A solid SNSM (Muscle bomber) 3 would work. Scorp of Slam masters would be cool to have in SF6 if not Haggar

@dpo5000 Жыл бұрын

i'd buy the fuck out of that

@Jamessmith-xk3fh Жыл бұрын

It would have been best to keep what made part 1 great and just add new wrestlers and stories instead of turning it into more of just a fighter. I loved the wrestling aspect of the first game. I rented the crap out of the SNES version. Just imagine taking everything the first game did and adding new game concepts and a lot more characters but keep the wrestling in it instead of making it a fighter

@tonware Жыл бұрын

This. Id go one step further and add 3rd party characters like Wolf Hawkfield from Virtual Fighter, The Armstrong’s from Dead or Alive and King from Tekken.

@Thor-Orion Жыл бұрын

@@tonware you know how pointless it would be to license other companies fictional characters?

@tonware Жыл бұрын

@@Thor-Orion Worked for Smash Bros so why not?

@robt.v.8688 Жыл бұрын

I only recently discovered this game. I wish I had've known about this back then

@original0c Жыл бұрын

Yoooo! Dude thank u! I rented this game for my Genesis wayy back in the day and I didn't know what it was called

@mickmook1317 Жыл бұрын

I recently just got this game. Awesome game. It feels like SF but new at the same time. Great video ❤️

@wettuga2762 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the enlightenment about the trilogy (and your wrestling career which I knew nothing about, Mr Richard Parliament!) I'm a huge fan of the first game, I love to play 2 vs 2 with a friend as co-op vs the arcade teams. I never bothered to play Ring of Destruction due to being 1vs1 and only 2D. I didn't know about Muscle Bomber Duo, I'll definitely try it out!

@TheStrategist314 Жыл бұрын

Awesome vid! Love this game even more now!

@lightskinnedlarry728 Жыл бұрын

I got this literally the day before the video was made, worth the money, an amazing game

@ShutoStriker Жыл бұрын

Rushmore mall arcade in South Dakota had a premium cabinet of this game. 4 player setup split setup with 2 screens. So much fun. Loved the chaos of the 2v2.

@mappybc6097 Жыл бұрын

In the defense of the first Slam Masters it takes place prior to the events of both SF2 and FF, so Kiev was still part of the USSR back then.

@bobfromsoireegames4309 Жыл бұрын

Great video, my man. Send my regards to that Parliament chap, will you?

@Shinmsl Жыл бұрын

I throughout enjoyed the SNES version in my teens, but only just some years ago found about Duo and the third game. Although the limited range of motion that's take away from the charisma for the first game I feel like the speed and the animation was greatly improved and the backgrounds have so much personality now, so a bit of a mixed bag. There's even more links between SF and Muscle Bomber: The Black Widow was the arch-rival of Rainbow Mika's trainer, and an injury caused by the arachnid fighter is was what forced her trainer into early retirement from the ring . Her trainee ,Mika, vowed to take revenge for her master.

@ejhollier7460 Жыл бұрын

Lady decade looking good these days. Punching above ya weight there fella lol. Lucky man. Keep shining I enjoy both of your content ✌️

@apollolux Жыл бұрын

While it's never been officially acknowledged by Capcom, I've been saying for years that there's strong evidence that Alex from Street Fighter 3 onward is Biff from Slam Masters. Biff's original name in Japan is _Alexey_ Zalazov, their movesets are nearly identical, and their appearances are extremely similar, plus it's entirely plausible that an "American" wrestler (who was also confirmed to wrestle in the CWA) such as Alex canonically from New York (or Metro City) could have Russian heritage and/or play a stereotypically ultra-national country-based character in the late 80s/early 90s in a wrestling company, as was very common in pro wrestling companies at the time.

@AntrAcsA Жыл бұрын

OK, I'm kind of shocked that you didn't mention that Rasta is basically (or as it is fashionable to say 'inspired' from) Blanka from Street Fighter. Popping eyes when hit, movements, posture, body type, biting, etc.

@ASeasonInSidewinder Жыл бұрын

Killed me with the succulent chinese meal reference. Good game.

@KasumiKenshirou Жыл бұрын

Another thing to note about these games is that almost all of the characters have completely different names in the Japanese version vs. the American version. (Haggar obviously couldn't have his name changed since he was already in Final Fight. Well, I guess they COULD'VE changed it, but it would have been confusing.) I had the poster for the first game, which was in a game magazine, on my wall because I was a fan of Tetsuo Hara, but I never actually saw the game in arcades, and didn't get to play it until arcade emulators on PC became available.

@Marzimus Жыл бұрын

If you're ever in Chicago Galloping Ghost would provide you the chance to arcade it up. It's wonderful!

@richardburton4625 Жыл бұрын

tetsuo hara is amazing, his style makes these games even cooler!

@devingiles6597 Жыл бұрын

Hi, Top Hat Gaming Man. In a future "Fighting Game Thursday" video, can you please review Waku Waku 7 from Sunsoft?

@Blackwolfninja89 Жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention that King Rasta Mon's early design was a prototype for Blanka. Jumbo Flapjack's design is partially inspired by John Earthquake Tenta, and his Japanese name is Kimala the Bouncer which is play on the wrestler Kamala. The Scorpion's design is based on the luchador Tinieblas and his son Tinieblas jr. He also goes by the name Astro in Japan and i think this is now his canon name as far as SFV's timeline.

@Thor-Orion Жыл бұрын

One of these dudes flying around my screen looks like Hyabusa.

@REMIXX2009 Жыл бұрын

WTF bro you used to wrestle wow I never even knew that about you. You just earn even more awesome points with me that is amazing.

@Marzimus Жыл бұрын

For a decade, no less! That caught me off guard as well...

@FRANK45CASTLE Жыл бұрын

This game always had people at the arcades near me. If anyone wants to see some huge arcades. Check the seacoast of New Hampshire USA. Hampton beach has playland arcade which is impossible to miss and York beach maine has a even bigger one. I forget the name but I think it has the most 80s and 90s arcades in the eastern half of the United States.

@Metal-Josh Жыл бұрын

I didn’t know about the second game, I assumed they all were brought western I think the final fight and slam masters characters should all come over to the street fighter roster

@krsj5124 Жыл бұрын

The four player machines were rare but really cool. Also loved Wrestlefest back then but this was more complex

@FRANK45CASTLE Жыл бұрын

Where in from in New Hampshire at playland arcade in Hampton beach is huge. And they might even still have the 4 player arcade. I dunno why they'd get rid of it. They have alot of old classic arcades there, but that game always had people on it, kids and adults alike. It's just so damn fun.

@dareason7581 Жыл бұрын

WWF Wrestlefest is my favorite wrestling games of all time. Especially when trying to face LOD in Tag Team Mode! The colours were catchie... Everything about the game was Perfect.

@Mankey619 Жыл бұрын

Wrestling and Fighting games are a match made in heaven,and Capcom really made wrestling games even more awesome. I wish they re release it on modern consoles.

@BaronLector Жыл бұрын

Slam Masters, the last game I ever bought for the SNES. Bought the SNES arcade stick shortly after.

@SnipingIsFun Жыл бұрын

As of now it is confirmed that Street Fighter, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Final Fight, Rival Schools, Strider, and Captain Commando all take place in the same universe. Wonder what other Capcom franchises would be able to fit in there too.

@KalHimself Жыл бұрын

My bro and I grew up playing the WWF Acclaim games. Didn't play this one until I was into the emulation scene. Disappointed in myself I didn't try it back then.

@CheetosStainedLips Жыл бұрын

We could definitely use this released as a collection with the original backstories. And to top it off, a sequel with new fighters. Maybe students of the former wrestlers. I'd love to see one of them do the the Randy Orton pose.

@baeshin Жыл бұрын

Titan Tim is most likely based on WCW's El Gigante

@mr.checkyourself4672 Жыл бұрын

Hopefully some Saturday Night Slam Masters characters make their way into the Street Fighter games in the future.

@SnipingIsFun Жыл бұрын

Gunloc and The Scorpion

@lamiamekni2802 Жыл бұрын

Like Oni and Rasta

@foenfriends Жыл бұрын

Love your videos. keep up the great work. PS please do a video on the Alpha / SNK World Heroes series please 🙏

@dwightphillips7578 Жыл бұрын

We need a new Capcom Saturday night Slam Masters featuring Street fighter characters! R. Mika, darun miser, guile & Zangief! & T. Hawk & Birdie!

@sadowolf Жыл бұрын

Always really wanted to see Darun show up again in a mainline SF game, but it'll probably never happen since he's owned by Arika and not Capcom.

@jdgustofwinddance.7748 Жыл бұрын

Mike Haggar’s theme in SNSM alone is legendary

@WaldoBagelTopper Жыл бұрын

Saturday Night Slam Master was my nickname when I was still on the dating scene.

@Vatogouki Жыл бұрын

So Jesse Ventura and Kane are the real life Mike Haggar

@Tre_Ason_Number7 Жыл бұрын

Loved this series...hats off to Top Hat

@vicegealgood Жыл бұрын

They need to make another one. Add mika, gief,Abel,abigail, and so on to the roster,

@Th0ughtZ_ Жыл бұрын

I forgot all about this game. It was fun.

@RealAlphaDrum 9 ай бұрын

I had SNSM on SNES and had the multitap back in the 90s. Still have it too, with the multitap. I wish SNSM 2 was more like the original instead of a 2D fighter.

@josephchaparro1037 Жыл бұрын

Why haven't we got a SNES rom hack of Saturday Night Slammasters with a 90's WWF or WCW roster yet?

@drstephenstrange897 Жыл бұрын

Being also a big Fatal Fury fan, when I was a kid I though Alexander The Greater was another disguise of Big Bear from FF2 because they're pretty similar, same body, same face and same hairstyle and they're both from Australia, of course back then was impossible, The Greater was just a rip-off of Big Bear since FF2 came out a year before, but now that Akuma and Geese Howard are both in Tekken 7 and after Capcom vs Snk...who knows? Maybe he is the same guy!

@sadowolf Жыл бұрын

I'd say it's less that Alexander was a ripoff of Big Bear/Raiden, and more that they're both ripoffs of Baby Bull (aka Leon White/Vader). Alexander is actually the more clear homage to him since in his entrance he even comes out in essentially the same bull helmet. Big Bear further also pays homage by having his maskless babyface version, and a masked heel version, which was the case when Baby Bull wrestled in Japan.

@drstephenstrange897 Жыл бұрын

@@sadowolf Now that I've checked it yeah I can see it.

@phantomgamer4463 Жыл бұрын

Metro City is actually located in New York.

@Thrillr Жыл бұрын

The art does look like Fist of the North Star!!! 😃 my favs are Gunloc & Scorpion

@devingiles6597 Жыл бұрын

Top Hat Gaming Man, you should definitely do a video on the global launch of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Can you please do that?

@JGRICH61 Жыл бұрын

Played this local co op with my mates in the summer

@yamchaken05 Жыл бұрын

I loved this game. Wish they make another

@gregoryd2050 5 ай бұрын

8:46 *A succulent Chinese meal* lol I got the reference

@nickfanzo Жыл бұрын

Loved me some slam masters

@lamiamekni2802 Жыл бұрын

The "Super" logo on Super Muscle Bomber was taken from Super Street Fighter II

@Marc_Araujo Жыл бұрын

...El Stingray 4-Life!!

@WaldoBagelTopper Жыл бұрын

The Ortega character seems to have the same move set as Wolfgang Krauser from Fatal Fury 2.

@familialopez2084 Жыл бұрын

I used to play this game a lot. By the way, The Scorpion's mask looks alike Tinieblas' mask, another legend of mexican wrestling (besides Lizmark :D)

@Haseo55 Жыл бұрын

I see Scorpio being more based on Tinieblas rather than Tiger Mask.

@murraysaucedo897 Жыл бұрын

8:45 I heard if you play the game in the hardest difficulty when you get to that part Chun Li gets up and you have to fight her and she's super tough to beat

@AJTComicsBrand Жыл бұрын

I want a complete timeline within the "street Fighter universe". These are connected. Captain Commando Final Fight Street Fighter Rival Schools/ Project Justice Saturday Night Slammers. or more?

@JuanFranco-mq7js Жыл бұрын

24:31 hey there's Zangief!

@christopherpaxon4422 11 ай бұрын

Congratulations...

@poppythebloodedge Жыл бұрын

i remember when i play WWE2k19 i made the characters in saturday night slam masters it was soo much fun making them and playing them also who's your favorite character in slam masters?

@SirRockoX420 Жыл бұрын

Titanic Tim looks like a play off of T. Hawk. Headband, size, vest...

@sgt.mangogarcia6186 Жыл бұрын

Finally, a Saturday Night Slam Masters video. A shame they took the fame in the Street Fighter direction.

@Kaneneville Жыл бұрын

How do you grab the enemy in the game? I can just keep punching instead of grabbing. It feel like grabbing is just a complete random move..

@GooseDaPlaymaker Жыл бұрын

3:17 What wrestling game is that?

@meot.meo.1097 6 ай бұрын

SNES version of this game is without a shadow of a doubt, a jewel in history of videogames in the same level as "TMNT IV: Turtles in Time". (Dude, i get it in this video... Saber's punch in the third Slammaster it's exactly the same animation of Ikari Warriors, Ralf Jones and Clark Still in KOF series).

@TerryBollea1 Жыл бұрын

They got Babas neck right, but forgot to put a fistful of yen into his hand for after the match when he would run and stiff the Wailows.

@jessiebellanger5756 Жыл бұрын

I wish we knew which theme song that was playing at the end. I really like it

@Jonnynot1plate Жыл бұрын

Need this for physical on switch!

@jamesmilford6051 Жыл бұрын

They should do is a remake of slam masters and add e- Honda and zangef

@periplanwmenos12 Жыл бұрын

I think that Biff Slamkovich resembles the Ultimate Warrior.

@Psycho-Thinker Жыл бұрын

27:12 Looks Inspired by DC comics the Spectre green cloak and deadman named Wraith

@danielcambray7538 Жыл бұрын

Loved this game had the first one for the SNES.

@Psycho-Thinker Жыл бұрын

The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara, famous for Fist of the North Star.

@Thor-Orion Жыл бұрын

That’s WRAITH with an I! Wrath is Bryan Clark in WCW.

@sneakyskunk1 Жыл бұрын

This game would have been a lovely addition to the Capcom Fighting Collection. It is a shame that did not happen.

@sonnyandreotte5721 Жыл бұрын

Those "bumps" you're Taking would probably Kill the average person.

@osurpless Жыл бұрын

Definitely a new take on “stiff worker”…

@Olivetank7 11 ай бұрын

We need another slam masters game so haggar and zangief can at last canonically fight.

@VladamireD Жыл бұрын

The Scorpion's mask was also clearly influenced by the luchador Tinieblas.

@BoozeAholic Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call Darkstalkers a Street Fighter lite. That game is much harder to get into for beginners because most of the characters have Akuma's Raging Demon style move notations which instantly gates the game between noobs & those who know what they're doing.

@sadowolf Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's anything but Street Fighter lite, I kinda took exception to that comment as well

@danielglooover 11 ай бұрын

The Scorpion's mask is based on the mexican luchador Tinieblas

@HulkHands54 Жыл бұрын

Did I hear correctly; "Al Dente"? 🤣

@hahaimasian 7 ай бұрын

This game is better then any wwf games back in the snes and Sega era

@jblue88hoodgamer54 Жыл бұрын

R.i.p to both Miss Elizabeth and Macho Man they will be sadly Missed.

@ronjeremy9648 Жыл бұрын

Does SLAMMASTERS 2 link up to the original?

@sabanero2 Жыл бұрын

Scorpion looks to be a combination of two mexican wrestlers, Kung-fu and Tinieblas. The body of kung fu and the mask of tinieblas. Both great wrestlers

@Andulvar Жыл бұрын

You don't seem to know history very well, but the character from Kiev would have been born in Soviet Russia as Ukraine was part of the USSR. Biffs birthday would have been around 1968. Ukraine would only become an independent state in 1991.

@IlDiavolo2515 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, except that no one cares so 🤷‍♂️

@gettinoldgaming Жыл бұрын

was playing this yesterday :)

@Shin-Blade Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest wrestling video games of all time! They need to remaster this for the Xbox and Playstation stores...

@SnipingIsFun Жыл бұрын

And Nintendo

@Marzimus Жыл бұрын

Capcom Arcade Collection 2 has it available, and you may purchase piecemeal...

@SnipingIsFun Жыл бұрын

@@Marzimus They need the sequel in something now

@Marzimus Жыл бұрын

@@SnipingIsFun Maybe if (or more likely when) they release Collection 3. It seems odd to omit it when adding the first one, but the original was far more popular.

@PhuryousOne Жыл бұрын

Saturday Night Slam Masters was the game me and my friend rented the most for his Super Nintendo. Great game! I mostly remember using Haggar and powerbombing people all over the screen.

@Jarod_Schultz Жыл бұрын

An interesting thought is that wrestling video games are more competitive than wrestling on TV. It's scripted on TV, but when playing video games you compete against other players or AI.

@imafreakinninja12 Жыл бұрын

It's like Street Fighter, but actually resembles fighting.

@user-mu9dh3nm5f 2 ай бұрын

I always thought the tim character was a razor ramone knock off

@GiuseppeRedscarf Жыл бұрын

"American Sissies" should be the next Capcom wrestling game!

@Thor-Orion Жыл бұрын

Bruiser Brody is very much a legend in the business. He would have been so important in wrestling history had he not been murdered in cold blood by a greedy promoter.