Crazy how they still can’t come close to a wrestling game as fun as no mercy.

WWF No Mercy and WCW/NWO Revenge were the pinnacle of wrestling games. Not complicated, and straight forward. Everything you could want in a game, was all there. We were blessed back in the day.

WCW NWO revenge is by far the most fun I ever had playing a wrestling game...Along with Pro-Wrestling lol

Wrestlemania 2000 was by far my favorite as kid. I created my own version of Blade the vampire and Neo. My friends thought it was awesome. We had a blast playing that one.

I started the series with WCW vs. the World, which I got with my PlayStation as a kid, and then moved on to WCW vs. nWo: World Tour when it came out on the N64 later that year. WCW vs. the World was such an awesome game with a legendary roster of wrestlers (even though their names were changed). P.S. It's a real shame we never got WWF Backlash on the N64...Hell-in-a-Cell and 6-man tag matches would've been sweet.

These games were amazing. Me and my friends would play for hours . Ahead of its time

Those WCW vs. NWO games on the N64 were the bomb. I was 19 when the first one came out & in my first apartment with my good friend as my roommate. Once a month we’d have a guys night where we’d have 3-4 other buddies over & play this, Madden, and NBA live, and kill an entire Saturday night. Oh the memories…

i'm Finally Finished Collecting my Aki Asmik Wrestling Game collection for N64 from Virtual Pro Wrestling 1&2 Wcw vs Nwo World Tour And Revenge To Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy..Fell in love with these classics all over again for those who never played the virtual pro wrestling its a must have

Ultra Pro Wrestling set to bring back the AKI magic next year.

I'm sad these games didn't get to evolve past No Mercy, can you imagine? A hell in a Cell match in an AKI game? Damn.

No Mercy will probably go down as the best wrestling game ever. I don't see any game topping that. Even though the graphics suck majorly by today's standards, the gameplay, features and overall atmosphere was just perfect.

Best example of wrestling games. No one else could come closer. Just don't like how custom wrestlers acted as jobbers in CPU mode when that shouldn't be

Love the video. Grew up playing WWF No Mercy, this video brought back some awesome memories. Love the outro as well, Rocket Owen Hart, baby!

Funny, how 23 years later there hasn’t even been anything close

I still have all four games including both Virtual Pro wrestling games and love them all. 👍

Cool collection I still have all these wrestling games to this day.

No Mercy with an Action Replay or whatever those expansion/cheat carts were called had some insane mods and additional modes! So much fun playing with friends during sleepovers! Miss those times...

Good content, earned a sub. Those games all hold a special place for me, right back to my childhood. The wwe games are good, but like you said, it doesn't scratch that pick and play itch. Aew just released their game, though it's lacking in content, I love the gameplay, and it definitely scratches that itch for me again. I've already put in over 100hrs In a month on it. Great video

I remember having Westlemania 2000 for my N64 as a kid. To this day best wrestling game iv ever played

I think WCW vs nWo World Tour made me a bigger wrestling fan. I was hooked on that game and in turn wrestling.

That thumbnail takes me back... and now i feel old😂. Good times. ❤

When I was young, having a Playstation, WCW VS THE WORLD was the best... until I visited a friend who owned a N64 and WCW WORLD TOUR. World Tour was so much fun to play; I didn't care if the roster was less impressive, the action on the N64 was way, way better 🍻🍻

Why does no one ever mention the fact that No Mercy runs at HALF the speed with more than 2 characters on screen? On original N64 hardware of course. That killed No Mercy for me. To this day, Revenge is still my favorite wrestler

Ahh, my childhood

Thanks for giving me flashbacks of my AWESOME childhood. We all need to be thankful!

Revenge was the best ever

Know what I did the moment I discovered you can bang peoples head on the ring bell over and over again? I banged heads on the ring bell over and over again.

Its a shame that now that we're in the golden age of retro gaming that no one has tried to do a throwback wrestling game in the style of the old Aki/THQ titles. Just take the gameplay of these classic games, bump up the character model fidelity, give it silky smooth modern animation, and provide a comprehensive creat-a-wrestler feature for recreating your favorite legends. Send it I would think that it would find quite an audience. Ive tried many of the WWE offerings over the years, but the only ones that held my attention as well as the old Aki games was Wrestlemania XIX on the Gamecube and WWE '13 which i played on Xbox

This thumbnail would make a great poster,,,

Great work on this video! I hope your channel goes far!!!

IMP I think Wrestlemania 2000 is the best, reason being is No Mercy nerfed the game, in wm2000 you can pull off powerful moves just my pressing weak grapple A and B, in no mercy they got rid of that, also ground submissions like Ultimate punching is now if your attitude meter is on Special, the gameplay is fun in No Mercy but they slowed the pacing down. In WM2000 you could literally beat someone in 40 seconds. Another reason why I prefer WM2000 over No Mercy is simply because of the time period. My favourite wrestlers are Undertaker and Kane, and in WM2000, the atmosphere was 1997/1999 they had the whole ministry thing’s going on, Kane had his debut attire, the corporation ministry was there, this era was pretty much my favourite era of wrestling which is why I prefer WM2000 over no Mercy and previous AKI games. Not really a huge fan on American Badass Undertaker, 2000/2001 era was alright, the Hardy’s/Dudley’s and all that was good but prime time wrestling for me was 1997-1999

Owen hart theme song at the end is a classic

My favorite was absolutely Revenge. That era of WCW couldnt be beat

No Mercy and Goldeneye 007 were the top games on the N64

I'm surprised no devs have reverse engineered any of the aki games yet.

with my family or friends we on all night when it’s time to come in 😂💯💯💯man take me back!

Damned if that video game version of "Real American" didnt give me the intense nostalgic feels right off the bat

After playing AEW Fight Forever & WWE 2k22... ...none of these Games can beat No Mercy for the time over 20 years ago.

No Mercy is still my favorite one.

2:37 i LOVE WCW vs the World. it’s so raw and primitive, but the feel is later games is there in its genesis and the soundtrack is KILLER Revenge will always be my favorite tho

A fine video but it’s missing two games in AKI series that were available in Japan. Virtual Pro Wrestling on the N64 had a lot bigger roster than world tour but are almost the same game. Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 for the N64 featured the WM2000 gameplay and features, including the running attack grapple. To me VPW2 for the N64 is top or 2 games in the series. I have a rom of it that translates the menus if you’re interested. As a fan of All Japan 90s wrestling the game is a dream. Overall great video!

The greatest wrestling games golden eye I played madden on playstation but it wasn't bad on n64 grateful and still usable console

Aew fight forever will fix that can't wait for it to release

Only problem with No Mercy was the carts were glitched and would erase your progress and created characters.

I remember these. Great times with friends

COME ON BACK AKI FOR ONE MORE GAME

As much as i loved wm2000 and no mercy....Revenge has to be my favorite. I loved that whole nwo/wolfpac era.

The first time I saw WrestleMania 2000 was when these boys hooked up there consoles in the cafeteria. Played it when my cousin had it.

NWO 4 Life! I'm still running with the 🐺 pac!

1. Wrestlemania 2000 2. Wrestlemania The Arcade game 3. WWF Warzone 4. WCW vs nWo Revenge 5. WWF Royal Rumble Those are my top wrestling games based on nostalgia, not necessarily on their quality.

and only a few hundred subs?????? you've got me now too

Nicely done well to end thus with Owen hart's theme song 😎👍

Wish you would have mentioned Virtua Pro Wrestling 2

Wcw/nwo revenge was the absolute best

Oh hell yeah!!! Finishing with a banger! I love Owen Harts theme song!!!

Even though I acknowledge No Mercy is the superior game, I still have a soft spot for both Revenge (for its tightness/focus) & 2000 (for its lavish amount of customization). Someone in either STEM or Cognitive/Linguistics will eventually do a PhD on how simple-user-input-style-gaming is the apex of interactivity, which leads to enhanced creativity/spatial awareness/engagement/etc. The 5th Gen of consoles was truly a great time, because AAA-eqivalent multiplayer games [AKI wrestling, Tony Hawk 2, Goldeneye, Virtua Fighter, Smash Bros] could still be economically made & accepted largely on the terms of their gameplay, without the advent of DLC as a means to do post-launch fixes. The closest games I recall since then have been Dark Souls, Minecraft, Splatoon & PUBG, so it still happens, but back in '97 - '02 we were getting bangers ALL THE TIME

I always heard these were better games but never had or played any of them. I had Warzone and Attitude on N64. Not that great looking back but man me and my friends played those so much the day of the PPV waiting for it to come on. Good times.

I've played all these games and smackdown, smackdown 2, and smackdown just bring it>all of em.

I own EVERY AKI N64 Game but World Tour and Wrestlemania 2000.

Appreciate your research 👍 very professional video

No mercy is goated

Best wrestling games EVER.

I think the modern WWE 2K games do well enough to bring back the pickup and play aspect of a wrestling game. The 2K games before 2K22 were too complicated and tried too hard to feel more realistic by having to do weird controller inputs. 2K22 and later streamline how strikes and grappling works to make them easy to understand. I think what I don't like about the game is the somewhat confusing carry mechanic. It seems simple but trying to do it is a struggle.

WCW/NWO world tour is the most influential wrestling game of all time every game after it copied it’s gameplay and grappling system

C'mon man, you didn't even mention the Def Jam and Kinnikuman games in closing. I get ignoring Kinnikuman (they didn't really feel like the AKI wrestling games, but every fan of No Mercy owes it to themselves to check out Vendetta and Fight for New York.

Great video! Subbed

2000 was my shit yo

There still hasn't been a better playing wrestling game than No Mercy

World Tour was ok. Revenge was fun, and the reason I got an N64.I liked the smoth playability. Wrestlemania 2000 was the pinnacle of these games. It had the smooth playability of Revenge but you could totally create a wrestler. Plus it had more moves. Even though I am a WCW guy, this was more fun, and I was able to create many WCW wrestlers. The few downsides were no ability to edit women, and ladder matches slowed down. No Mercy was a theory. It had potential buy failed to deliver. The game was too slow, and I didn't enjoy it.

Somehow, even wcw Revenge has a few incorrect finishing moves.

Your voice over reminds me of Mrsaintsgodzilla

@9:48 earned you the sub, 😂

day of reckoning >

Cant understand why the 2k game cant juat give the old control scheme. They look so good, and have great features...but just not as fun to play.

It’s a shame that AEW Fight Forever failed to be…. Much of anything at all.

I wish AKI would have done a WCW revenge sequel. I'm pretty sure WCW games were one of the main reasons WCW sucked.

Ah, when up and B did a suplex. Now its up down triangle square left up down. 😂 i wish wwe2k23 had an idiot mode.

😎👍

Steve Regal is the greatest British wrestler of all time. The Goat 🐐 🙌

Warzone was horrible lol with the one table on the corner to slam on

*THQ inc wrestling games

How come the new wrestling games don't have bra and panties matches?

Mediocre Games, yukes better

No mercy was my fav

The best wrestling games are all on N64. If you didn't clip your n64 to play Japanese titles like Virtual pro64 and others you missed out.

once games try to be too realistic, its not as fun. that last good wrestling game was here comes the pain. no mercy the best though.

It makes me sad we will NEVER get true successors to these games in the Way Def Jam Fight For New York Was. That AKI Team is Gone FOREVER. AEW Fight Forever STINKS. It is arcadey crap with two minute matches 🥲😢😥😓