WWF Wrestlemania on the NES was one of the first wrestling games I ever played, and honestly, it hasn't aged well. The controls are super clunky, there are only a handful of wrestlers, and the moves are limited. The graphics are charmingly dated, and it's got that nostalgic factor for old-school wrestling fans. But compared to modern games, it's mostly a fun curiosity rather than something you'll play for hours.
HULK HOGAN YOU LYING FUCKING JABRONI, YOU TELL ME THIS GAME IS GOOD AFTER CALLING ME "SHIEKY BABY". FUCK YOU. I'LL BREAK YOUR FUCKING BACK LIKE HOW YOU BROKE MY GODDAMNED HEART YOU LYING MOTHERFUCKER. YOU FUCK WITH ME YOU FUCK WITH YOURSELF!
YOU TELL ME "I LOVE YOU" BEFORE GIVING ME THIS PIECE OF SHIT! YOU NO GOOD MOTHERFUCKER! FOCKIN' BULLSHIT.
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YOU TELL ME "I LOVE YOU" BEFORE GIVING ME THIS PIECE OF SHIT! YOU NO GOOD MOTHERFUCKER! FOCKIN' BULLSHIT.
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The first WWF/E game I ever played in my life and it holds up about as well as dairy in direct sunlight.
Presenting the question of whether this game "holds up" is already terrible, because this thing pissed me off even as a four year old kid. Calling this "WrestleMania" is a complete lie, because there is very little wrestling and very little mania. Just a bunch of punches, kicks and slaps to the face. If you mash the two face buttons enough you'll eventually find that you can do the elbow attack from Double Dragon by pressing A and B at the same time, then proceed to steamroll the CPU with the very same tactic and then spend god knows how long trying to find out how to pin the guy before the NES finds itself powerbombed through a table.
The spritework and animations are also garbage, Andre walks around like he's got five pounds of shit in his ass and Hogan on the start up screen looks like a drunken toothless geezer, almost as if it was Bobby Heenan or Jesse Ventura providing the artist details of Hogan's appearance. The music by David Wise is nice, but the tracks are so short and little in number that they don't help to alleviate the annoyance this game causes.
This game is a curiosity at best, don't play it unless you're a younger person with time on their hands and Nestopia/Retroarch at the ready.
Presenting the question of whether this game "holds up" is already terrible, because this thing pissed me off even as a four year old kid. Calling this "WrestleMania" is a complete lie, because there is very little wrestling and very little mania. Just a bunch of punches, kicks and slaps to the face. If you mash the two face buttons enough you'll eventually find that you can do the elbow attack from Double Dragon by pressing A and B at the same time, then proceed to steamroll the CPU with the very same tactic and then spend god knows how long trying to find out how to pin the guy before the NES finds itself powerbombed through a table.
The spritework and animations are also garbage, Andre walks around like he's got five pounds of shit in his ass and Hogan on the start up screen looks like a drunken toothless geezer, almost as if it was Bobby Heenan or Jesse Ventura providing the artist details of Hogan's appearance. The music by David Wise is nice, but the tracks are so short and little in number that they don't help to alleviate the annoyance this game causes.
This game is a curiosity at best, don't play it unless you're a younger person with time on their hands and Nestopia/Retroarch at the ready.
I like it, but it's bad.
Spent most of the time trying to figure out how to pin only found out at the last opponent. For me, Macho Man was just randomly really hard to beat Not worth playing no fun to be had here.