3:55 Bam Bam Bigelow is a legend, widely considered one of the greatest big men in wrestling history, and he (together with Luna Vachon) was featured heavily on Raw at the time of the game's release. As for the 1-2-3 Kid and Doink, they were hugely popular at the time. When 1-2-3 Kid won against Razor Ramon it helped kick start one of the hottest angles of the early to mid 90s American wrestling: Razor's face turn (and taking the Kid under his wing and teaming up with him) and his feud with Shawn Michaels. The Kid starting off as a jobber and getting a win over Razor, arguably the biggest heel in the company at that time, did a great job of establishing Monday Night Raw itself as a must-see show for wrestling fans because it was broadcast live and it gave the impression quite literally anything could happen there: a jobber who looked like a 16 year old might just score a win over an established main eventer. Now babyface Doink was a bad idea, that's gotten even worse with age, but there's no question he got a huge pop whenever he showed up in 1994, so I understand why they made him part of the game's roster. I'd say this is a pretty good representation of their most popular active wrestlers at the time. Sure, Jake the Snake and Ric Flair rank way higher as all-time greats than Doink or the 1-2-3 Kid ever will, but they weren't in the WWF anymore when this game came out. 🤷‍♂️

Enjoyed the video but who can't love Bam Bam Bigelow!? RIP

I still remember my dad picking me up and taking me to his house to spend the weekend with him only to find out that he got me a super nintendo with slam master... Man I ran back at him and hugh him for minutes. Waiting for him to set up the console in the tv was eternal waiting time... Man I love my old man!

They had the bucket in RAW because Doink (who was a huge babyface that started heel) use to bring it down to the ring. Sometimes he had water, sometimes confetti. You couldn't tell cuz of how they worked the camera. On a side note, Tatonka, Bam Bam, and 123 kid DID A LOT FOR THE BUSINESS! AND THEY WERE ALL AWESOME!

Saturday Night Slam Masters was my Jam! Loved that game!! They need a remake!!!!!!!!!!!

Hogan is in the Genesis Royal Rumble.

1-2-3 Kid is X-Pac and Bam Bam was a pretty good wrestler

Saturday Night Slammasters and WWF Wrestlefest are two of my all time favorite games!

You got something against Bam Bam Bigelow son?

I loved Fire Pro Wrestling. It was one of the first games I bought for the GBA. After playing it, I checked out the SNES games. They still hold up well.

Slam masters was so great and WCW super brawl was so broken lol. Great video!

Saturday Night Slam Master is really important for us in the Dominican Republic. The character "King Rashamom" is the first dominican character in a fighting game. He is based in "Jack Veneno" the greatest "lucha libre" fighter in the golden age of Prowrestling in DR

Royal Rumble, Raw, and slam masters for sure. Loved all 3 of them back in the 90s!

Bam Bam Bigelow was THE MAN SON!

Bam Bam Bigelow was always my favorite character! his cartwheels were so great!

Wrestlemania the Arcade Game, despite its weirdness, was always my favourite.

wrestlemania the arcade game is great for a quick game

As for the roster change from Royal Rumble to Raw. Ric Flair, Randy Savage and Mr Perfect had all switched to WCW at that time. Bam Bam Bigelow, 123 kid and Doink were some of the most featured characters on the roster. At the time WWE only had a small roster of maybe 20 singles guys so this was probably the top 12 singles guys in the company at the time.

The best one is Slammasters had so much fun n made good memories with that.

I remember how excited I was to get super wrestlemania for Christmas but that joy went away by December 26 greetings from buffalo N.Y.

This episode was amazing man. I recently have delved back into NXT and other WWE programming. It was nice to see those old rosters.

I played as Luna Vachon and absolutely destoryed my friends in that game. They were pissed off. I still remember. She was so fast.

Thanks for doing these videos. SNES Has a special place in my childhood coming up!

awesome video bro! I love Saturday night slam masters it's such an amazing game

love these videos, thanks for taking time to do them.

I have so many good memories of Royal Rumble with my brother and friends. Slam Masters was very good too...it was Final Fight/Street Fighter in a wrestling ring, and it worked.

Thanks, SNES drunk for the info and memories! I had the first WWF Superstars and I SO loved Royal Rumble. A friend and I would run over the ref and then team up to choke the life out of the other wrestler/s and do our finishers over and over on them even with no energy left. Cranium CRUNCH!!! Also, my little sister could almost always beat me in button-mashing grapples. I could never seem to match that finger-speed. Good times! 🙂

Holy crap thanks for the video I spent a bunch of time back in the day playing royal rumble. I forgot totally i played it and it brings back good memories

My first experience with wrestling was watching WCW Monday Nitro in 1994. Good shit back then

Great video. Enjoyed it thoroughly.

I had (still have) Super Fire Pro from 1991. Loved that there are so many cheat moves, including the use of weapons such as forks.

Super FirePro X Premium was one of the greatest wrestling games of all time. Only eclipsed by FirePro D on Dreamcast, 6 man scramble on Saturn, the wcw vs on n64, and njpw series on PS. Your recognition of it literally just got you a new sub. Great channel.

Hell yeah, my friend and I rented this so much back in the day. The best

Omg I laughed out loud when I saw that bucket being hit repeatedly over and over someone’s head. It just looks silly. I also laughed once you picked up a steel chair and waited for Bret I think to get up only to hit him over the head with it just to see Bret fall back down.

Great video. I'm not into wrestling genre, but you've done a really enjoyable video. Thank you.

So you wonder why Crush, Luger and Tatanka are in the game but not I.R.S., Papa Shango and Luna Vachon...

That ass kicking with the bucket had me in tears of laughter.

Royal Rumble was my favorite WWF game on SNES as well. However, you scoffed at Doink the clown as most people do but his heel run when he first debuted was awesome! As a matter of fact, he was getting over so well as a heel that people were starting to cheer him. Because it was before the attitude era they felt the need to turn him babyface and it killed the gimmick. Also, Matt Borne (original Doink) was fired around this time so the character was never going to be the same even if they turned him back heel.

Doink was legendary ! Informative review though on this genre

Saturday Night Slam Masters is where I got my screen name. Been using it for years. Loved that game!

Thank you! Awesome video!

3:13...way he waits looking all excited with that chair then BOOM 💥 I died 🤣

When he poked the ref in the eyes, I lost my ass laughing!

great video!

My buddy and I would stay up all night playing SlamMasters together trying to beat it. So much fun!

Awesome Video, like always ;)

Great video man! Super Informative. Love the work you are doing with the channel in general. I am going through the entire '95-'01 Nitro Episodes now, and it's really cool to look at some of these old games. Any chance you'd review some N64 and newer stuff in the future? Love to hear your thoughts on the classic Aki games as well as the SDvR stuff. Maybe even throw a Def Jam in there?

I recommend WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game for Sega 32X and MS-DOS because those versions are 100% accurate to the arcade port. And for the Super Nintendo, I recommend Saturday Night Slam Masters.

I think in the last Zen Nippon game you are given the ability to create wrestling cards. The neat little feature to that is during the earlier matches the seats aren't full. But the closer you get to the main event the seats gradually fill with fans. I love little details in wrestling games they used to deliver.

u forget the point that between royal rumble ('93) and raw ('94) macho man , ric flair, ultimate warrior and others are no more on wwf

Ah I remember Natsume Championship Wrestling. Definitely one of my favorites

The pure joy of smashing a bucket on someone's head in RAW was amazing!

Slam masters was my favorite as a kid

Funny, the announcer's history of wrestling fandom was pretty much just like mine. First tuning in the late 80s (mostly WWF, a little NWA/WCW), tuning out by the early 90s (after Hogan and Warrior left), checking into WCW in the mid 90s when Hogan and Savage joined, hating the Attitude Era, tuning back in the the late 90s for the Monday Night Wars (pretty much WCW-only), then back out again when WCW went under.

I subbed because you showed footage of Matsunaga vs. Sabu on Fire Pro X Premium.

Lex Luger was a highly accomplished wrestler early in his career so actual wrestling fans care. And we didn't care about how slow Super Wrestlemania was we played it cause it was fun

Yes! 6:04 Saturday Night Slam Masters is Awesome. My friends and i Loved playing that game. 😄👍

Slammasters and WWF Raw were a nice part of my childhood. Great fucking games.

pro wrestling for NES is hands down one of the best wrestling games. no lie.

Holy crap! That has got to be hands down the undertakers very first video game appearance I mean it has to be the black coroner gloves the grey boot covers that glorious mullet That's debut undertaker right there folks

R.I.P. Crush, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Doink, all of whom were gratuitously insulted in this video. :(

SNSM is great cuz its Final Fight in a rasslin ring. I used to love all these games. 6:50 Freebird Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy vs The Patriot, Del Wilkes? Damn Japan is awesome sometimes.

I was really hoping that you'd cover _Funaki Masakatsu Hybrid Wrestler: Tougi Denshou,_ as it really is a fantastic gem of a game. Each wrestler has a diverse moveset, there are some wild match types that are unlike anything else in any wrestling game, and there's even a CAW mode that involves learning moves, getting married and fostering a prodigy, and having to retire because you start losing stats and moves due to the ravages of time. It isn't as complex as the _Fire Pro Wrestling_ games, but it is a damn good alternative. It also has an English patch available, which makes it more accessible than most games from Japan... although an instruction manual for some things would still be nice.

Super Wrestlemania was the cover game of my first ever subscription issue of Nintendo Power. I subscribed with a deal where you got the year's earlier issues as well (an important bonus, since this was the year of the Super Mario World and Link to the Past comics), but THIS issue (April, I think) was the first I got. I was a loyal subscriber until the magazine ended.

I have good memories for playing WWF Raw with friends back in the day. Tho I think I recall WWF Raw being 4 player compatible... but I could be wrong.

My top list: wwf arcade wrestling, wcw nwo revenge, slammasters, no mercy, wrestle mania 2000, wwf raw, 🔥 pro wrestling. Good 2 c wrestling game vids. Also slam masters was incredible!! U gota give it more credit it's why I clicked this

Super Fire Pro Wrestling series is Human Entertainment venture, always seem to find my way to them either pre, prime or post defunct. Also Goichi Suda aka Suda51 directorial début was with Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Final Bout, and also did directing & scenario writing for Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special. People now know him as the rather wacky director behind Killer7, No More Heroes, and many other games with his studio Grasshopper Manufacture. Apparently he also written directed Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse aka Fatal Frame IV on the Wii.

Solid work has usual

Raw for Genesis was the first wrestling game I ever played with outside interference. There are hidden super moves as well. I once through Doink the clown up in the air and off the screen as Diesel.

Sad part is like 75% of the wwf wrestlers passed away in those games...

Bam bam was awesome! And doink was scarry when he was the 1st doink

You greatly undersold the great gameplay and move set of Slam Masters

I had to subscribe after watching this one omg the flashbacks 🤣🤣🤣.

The bucket was from Yokozuna. In his real matches, Mr. Fuji would always bring a bucket of salt, which Yoko would ceremonially toss a pinch of...and sometimes throw some into his opponents' faces (ask Bret Hart about that one!).

Great video. One criticism. Bam Bam Bigelow, 1-2-3 Kid, and Tatanka were all great wrestlers. They weren’t obscure in the least.

The combos on the arcade one is what makes it a good game

nice review man! i never pay atention to this games, maybe ill try one after all! kkk

I remember playing Super Wrestlemania and Wrestlemania the arcade game a lot as a kid. The genesis port of Wrestlemania Arcade had Yokazuna and Bam Bam, good game a mix of MK and Wrestling.

Interesting video

I remember playing WWF Raw all night at my friends house. We had so much fun. Saturday Night Slam Masters is great too.

Of those WWF games. The one I think was the absolute best was Rage in the Cage. Sega CD exclusive. Cage matches. Can't beat em.

Me and my best friend used to have a blast playing Royal Rumble way back in the early 90's. After an hour or two of kicking each other's asses, our fingers eventually got tired from all the mashing. At that point, we'd up the difficulty to max, pick our least favorite character, intentionally get thrown out of the Royal Rumble, and then spend the next 20 minutes watching the computer duke it out and rooting for our favorites. In April, I bought him a CIB copy and put it in a protective case to give him. He doesn't own a SNES, but that game is on display in his house.

WWF RAW for the SNES was such a kickass Super Nintendo game. I remember my thumbs going numb from playing it so much. One of the best SNES games EVER made!

We had a small video store in my town with limited games... 1 that was always rented was royal rumble... I alone rented it like 10 times. But that Saturday night slam masters game was in the store and always sat unrented... For whatever reason it was always there and you had played every other game but nobody wanted to ever rent slammasters and nobody had played it. That's why I clicked when I seen it... I spent so much time looking at the cover but never rented it

If you like brawling in the last game, it's even better here because this game has a BUCKET. LOLOL I died.

Nice reviews, though I think it'd have been best if you kept the wrestling opinion piece down to "I was really into it in the early 90s, so I have experience with a lot of these games" :P

The bucket was used by the tag team The Godwinns as a weapon.

I have Royal Rumble but wasn't aware there was a follow up game... featuring a freaking bucket!! Mother of god, I laughed so loud during the gameplay shown here. As if beating/knocking out the referee wasn't awesome enough.

the godwinns tagteam (spelling maybe off) they had a bucket. the slop bucket.. def hit many people in the late 90s lol

i owned Wrestle Mania and I loved it! I can't forget the announcer and the bats that Unfertaker releases fron hand!

I loved this game so much. Saturday night slam masters

Used to rent slammasters every month !! So much fun!!

I used to play an arcade game called "Wrestle War." I don't know if it was ever released as a home-port for any console during the SNES/Genesis era but, it was a damn good game.The wrestlers were all based on real-life wrestlers only with crazy ass names. I think it might've been released on the "Neo-Geo" console.

Man you gotta do Barkley shut n jam. Loved that game

For a non wrestling fan this guy knows what he's talking about, awesome channel.

Lex Luger had that wind up punch that sent you flying out the ring🤣

The Narcissist was my favorite character lol

The presentation of WWF Raw was by far the best of any wrestling game on SNES. Though the controls and speed of the game were a lil' slow. Still tons of fun!

I loved wwf royal rumble was great. One time in high school I did acid and I sat there and watched the player select screen on wcw super brawl repeatedly until it had me completely bugged . I still have my Saturday night slam masters . Cartridge

loved royal rumble and raw. had a sega genesis and played those a lot.