At least you didn't have to download an update file every week.

Its worth playing this game, just for the video clip of Knobb's botching his special move :D Also their theme song sounds like someone pulling their jacket zip up and down.

I remember traveling to the U.S. trying to find this game with my grandfather, he must have taken me to 6-7 different stores and to no avail, unfortunately. One of the few wrestling games I never got to play. The Sega CD as a whole, however, was probably the shittiest investment I ever made in terms of a video game console, lol.

For a second there I thought this video was gonna discuss the In Your House event “Rage In A Cage”.

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It's pretty ridiculous just how many times Sculptured Software had come out with the same wrestling game over so many years. WWF Superstars 2, WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge, WWF Super Wrestlemania, WWF Royal Rumble, WWF Rage In The Cage, WWF Raw were all damn near identical. IRS had the best finisher in the game with the "Write Off".

An early blurb I saw in a magazine mentioned there would be 24 wrestlers as opposed to the 20 we ended up with. I can only assume the remaining four were Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Papa Shango and Jim Duggan, the only four characters from the Royal Rumble games to not be in this game.

Oh my this brings back memories. I had this game. My mom and I played this together all the time. Great video.

I actually own it lol. It was like the Royal Rumble for the Genesis.

Another nostalgic video. I remember going to FuncoLand trying to buy this with my elder brothers but it was gone. We settled on Spider-Man vs King Pin which only worked for two days...god I hated Sega CD

I remember being a kid going to blockbuster really wanting to play this game. I was so sold on that cage. I already had RAW on Sega at the time. Glad to have watched this video to see it wasn't all that after all these years. Lol

the white winged eagle belt was always clutch..

All this game was is The 3rd installment of the Wrestlemania title. And all I wanted was wrestlefest at home.

How do you have a crazy good roster like this and NOT include a Royal rumble match!!?

I would have loved to get a combination of WWF Raw (32X), WWF Royal Rumble (from both Genesis & SNES), & WWF Rage in the Cage combined with all modes & characters.

Funny timing, was checking it out on MAME just a few days ago. I use to play it on dad's old Sega CD, but haven't played it since I was a little girl, and forgot how to pin. Somehow, still managed to push the right buttons. 😉😂

2:08 AVGN just spit out his drink

Sega CD was indeed a prelude to PlayStations & DVD Players!!

All that roster and No royal rumble!!! Insane

Ive came across your channel and your bios are great your storytelling skills are off the chart keep up these great videos

Would love to see a retrospective on Wrestlefest

This was my era as a kid. Had the Nes games when I was a bit younger. Loved Wrestlemania Challenge. Even though the 16 but games were button mashers. They seemed fun at the time. I got a SEGA CD for Xmas when I was 11. And rented Rage the next week. At 11 i remember I think,it seemed fun, just for the ability to play as other wrestlers. I’d LOVE to see a video on WWF War Zone or Attitude, as these were the earliest Moments of 3D wrestling games. They seemed amazing at the time. There was a 32 bit game prior to both called Power Move Pro Wrestling, that I remember enjoying. It was a Japanese port. Hope to see more. Great video.

Bossman's last appearance was Royal Rumble 93 and this came out in December 93, he just barely snuck in there.

Congrats on a 100k my dude! 💪

Also, anyone else think knobby and sags are real life versions of rock steady n bee bop?

There was no Tag-Team matches in this game... :(

I used to play this back when I was kid in the 90s. Great Times.

I remember playing this years ago. I always thought that they originally intended to include tag team matches which is why The Nasty Boys and Money Inc were in the game but for some reason they cut the tag team match option out of the finished game.

That fink spot is so cool, I just had the SNES, how much was a Sega CD back then.

Am I the only one who noticed they bill HBK at 240 pounds? 😂

I owned this game in the UK. I was the only kid in my class that owned a Sega CD. Was a good game I only preferred Dracula unleashed and Snatchers and that’s only for their storylines

Thank you for such a great video yet again. I love it. I get all gitty when i see your notification😍😍

I got a Sega CD after I got 32X because it was on super sale for “only” $150 lol. But by that time it was hard to find the games. As you and I both know it was hard to find used games back then. I think Funcoland was around but I didn’t have one by my house back then. I always wanted to play this game…I played Raw and Royal Rumble but this game eluded me unfortunately. Great video I always wondered! I had Raw for 32X with the “best” exclusive character: Kwang (Savio Vega)!! It baffled me so much how they choose him over so many

Who keeps unliking these videos

Can U do some videos on the ECW games?

I beat this game not long ago in tournament mode with Rick "The Model" Martel. Video footage of the ending is on my channel. Will say I did enjoy playing it. Hint of advice. Definitely use the 6-button controller, and it REALLY helps to use a controller that has turbo switches. No constant button mashing required, and makes the game more enjoyable in my opinion.

Pump it up pump it up

7:03 I.R.S. Special Move: Write-Off (?) 🤔

Idk if Wrestling Bios will read this but just wanted to compliment his improvement of cadence over the years. Wanted to go back and see some of the old game videos, and I noticed he talks slower, a bit more cautiously. Now he talks very confidently and faster and I honestly think he's perfect as a content creator speaking over his videos!

WWF Raw the best wrestling game on the Mega Drive

Hey the website is awesome keep up the good work m8 ! Long live wrestling bios!

Not really any reason why the video clips for this game look so shitty. They had perfectly fine quality source material to work with. The MegaDrive / Genesis had a limited color palette, but not THAT limited. Maybe it was just developer limitations or storage limitations on the CD. There was a lot of space on the CD (especially for the time), but most of it was used by CD audio tracks since they didn't use compressed audio files like modern consoles. A lot of wasted storage space for those SNES audio tracks, whereas on SNES it was essentially a small mod tracker file.

Like most Sega CD games, it had some basic enhancements over a Genesis game, and that was it. What a waste.

It's got Kamala and that alone makes it awesome ⭐🌙⭐

Jus got this as a gift!! The plug and play version

Great video and i just picked this up for nostalgia. I really enjoyed the LJN WWF games, and it'll be fun to fire up every now and again. Kamala is absolutely my favorite character exclusive here, woulda liked to get him in Royal Rumble for either Genesis or SNES. Headshrinkers would've been a great edition to RAW to face off against Diesel and HBK. And RAW should've had the cage, as it came out in 1994, right after the epic Bret Hart vs Owen Hart cage match. Plus the Steiners/Money Inc had just had a banger cage match on free tv a year prior when RAW was being developed.

This why I love this channel.... consistent putting out fire content

This consistency is crazy

I was today years old when I learned fmv is called full motion video. Also, I do like the grainy vids gives it that classic look.

I loved the entrance music on select screen it was nostalgic

I enjoyed the game, but wish they would have done more with realistic audio

Awesome video as always. I loved Royal Rumble on sega as a kid even thought I didn't watch WWF yet but I thought it was cool that scott hall, Hogan, and macho man were in it since I watched WCW. Cool thing about this game is it is the only game I can remember to use the 6 button controller's MODE button and it was used to switch out tag team partners in a 6 man tag

The roster is pretty impressive at least

I rented a Sega CD and Rage in the Cage. Had a great time staying up late with my friend playing the game. That was my only experience with it, a one night rental. I played Raw a lot, though.

I heard about this game it was basically royal rumble with more new characters never played it but this game always intrigued me because of the steel cage.

A game I never got the opportunity to play 😞

i like wwf Rage in a cage i November play wwf Rage in a cage i was lil kid how old I’m in 1992 I’m 34 years old right Now in 2020 I’m be about 8 years old in 1992 i play this Rage in a cage wrestling games wwf Rage in a cage just like WWF Royal Rumble on super Nintendo Rage In cage was cool my favorite wrestler on this wrestling games Crush Crush is my favorite wrestler all time

I bring the swag like nobody can. Good game this, used to play it back in the day. The cage blocks the view of the wrestlers in the ring.

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Still looks more fun than 2K

I always wanted to play this game but to this day I still haven't played it. I didn't ever get a sega CD. I remember the Nasty Boys and the Head Shrinkers were in this game and it was the first time and only time they were ever in a wrestling game so the roster alone and the picture of the the wrestlers on the cover got me excited plus there were steel cage matches in it which weren't the most common back then.

Cool that you talking about video games! It suprised me in a positiv way! Even more respect for your work!

This game is still better then 2K! At least it's a finished and playable game

Thanks for another great video….I completely forgot I had this back in the day ….

These games were very good ,I had wwf raw on genesis and on snes also wwf royal rumble was awesome

I have a complete in case copy of Rage in the Cage. Got it for $5 about 10 years ago. I don't have a Sega CD, nor have I ever had one so I've only played this on an Emulator. It's definitely a disappointment. While a Royal Rumble with the 20 man roster would have been awesome, it's the lack of any tag-team mode in my opinion that hurts the gameplay the most. It's also perplexing that they didn't include CD quality for the theme music. Yeah the Tournament mode is a slog to get through as the ideas mentioned in the video would have at least helped mix things up a bit. I played through the Tournament mode about half a dozen times but thankfully with save-states so I didn't have to subject myself to prolonged playthroughs. The game simply needed more. As much of a novelty as the FMV was at the time and it wasn't even good quality, would like to think if Rage in the Cage had less of it or even none; that few would have been upset about it. Sure it wouldn't show off the Sega CD hardware, but outside of the clear intro announcing by the Fink, I don't think it showed off what the hardware could do anyways.

Loving your work at the moment 👍

I swear no matter the subject matter I am always interested & hooked from beginning to end! Great job as usual. Would randomly love to see a video on RAVEN (personally I'd like to see full blown begining to end..including bring seen at *AEW* recently lol but even if you broke it up.. I'd personally love it! Also seeing as how *JEFF HARDY* is seeming close to returning to TV it reminds me if love to see a video of Jeff Hardy's over all TNA/IMPACT run.. although doing Jeff Hardy by the years makes more sense like your Undertaker videos. IDK. Regardless I'm sticking around for the Long haul!) Sorry for the rant. Haven't slept in 2 days & doesn't look like I'll be sleeping tonight either at this point. (4:46am)

Love when u do video game or character videos

Oh man, I have this on my shelf. Never played it as much as Royal Rumble or Raw.

There's no way the Royal Rumble was gonna work on Mega CD. It's the biggest weakness of these early CD systems, and that is available RAM. On the Mega CD, you have 768kb(512kb for the system, and 256kb of what's known as "CD-RAM", which I assume is a read-ahead buffer to stop the CD from skipping when playing back streaming media, think like the KZfaq playback buffer) of RAM to hold everything that needs to be used. This includes the program, graphics and sound. Keep in mind, both the Mega Drive and SNES have 4mb ROM windows, and data in ROM doesn't have to be loaded into RAM, the console can directly access and use them instantly, whereas from a CD, if it wants to fetch new data it has to use that amazing CD-ROM 150kb/s transfer rate. Of course, you'll have probably already realised why this effects tag matches and the Royal Rumble by this point. It's why there was no CD version of Street Fighter 2, as well.

In some ways this is the most advanced version of the LJN WWF games. It would have been nice to have a Royal Rumble. I always assumed this game came out before Royal Rumble, or at least was made before Royal Rumble was(in development longer).

Now I want a Sega CD

I would play this game everyday for about a year then my brother put it in a CD player like a jack ass and it wouldn’t play my life was over

The only thing this game has going for it, over the 16bit counterparts, is the roster and the addition of promos. That's about it.

Moders listen up heres an idea for a game All the wrestlers from Royal Rumble Sega, Snes & CD in one game with all the modes including cage, royal rumble & tag!

Rage in the cage is basically royal rumble with a few bells and whistles thanks to the CDROM format of the mega CD.

Gotta love re-using as many assets from Royal Rumble as possible

A lot of people actually don't know but there was originally plans to make a N64-CD upgrade too. It just never came about. Like the game cubes modem. It just didn't happen. However it's cool to see how those console developers where so ahead of there time

I wanted this so badly! The intro music is the same one for snes Royal rumble

Road Avenger, Snatcher and Sonic CD, the only games worth playing on Sega/Mega CD. Boy was I gutted when I put down a lot of money on the multi-mega CD. Least I got a portable CD player out of it... sort of.

I love this channel

One of the best roster selections as far as who they decided to put in the game of any of the older wwf games

Sega CD was where the cool RPGs were hidden. If you knew about those, you had some good times. Seems like not a lot of people figured that out though. I was playing Lunar, Shining Force CD (though that's a game that totally didn't need to be on Sega CD), Snatcher, Vay.. Adventures of Willy Beamish (I love point and click adventure games)... I had this one, because I really liked this series of WWF games, to the point of buying the SNES AND Genesis versions of the ones with different rosters. This was my least played, for sure. Had some cool characters that weren't in the other games, but yeah, not a ton of cool stuff to do in this one, unfortunately.

Sega isn’t to blame for the sega cd believe it or not. The dude who ran sega of america didnt know sega of japan were working on the sega saturn at the same time, so basically when the sega cd was launched people said sod that i’ll wait for the saturn

Still have my copy. The FMV for the mega cd was nothing but black and white moving static

I always wanted to play this game lol.

As a perosn who has watched wrestling since he was 8, and is now 31, i really appreciate the vids you do man.. (Don't mind the name lmao)

I used to have this game. It was a pretty fun time back then.

Looked a lot like the royal rumble on SNES, same exact wrestler pics too

I actually thought about raising the money to buy this as a kid to use all 20 guys individual finishers but found out later a lot of them have the same couple finishers. Glad I didn't waiste my $

i had ths for my mega cd and still play it on my pi

I had actually help with a bunch of the ideas there was a contest that this video game magazine was holding and I had won with the ideas I won an advanced copy that was autographed by the makers. And they gave me ten other copies to give away. I was 13 at the time.

Shawn Michaels listed as 6'2 240pound lol

Jeez, Howard really screams at you in this haha

Sewer Shark was sick

I always wanted this game and a Mega drive and mega CD as a kid thanks to your review I'm glad I didn't bother now.

Every game there R must be 2 wrestlers Taker HbK 👹🦾

Big Boss man: Listen up punk! You have the right to re-ain silent!

For some reason I remember seeing this game cover as a kid. But I thought it was WWF Superstars... Unless that's a different game