Classic Wrestling Games - Friday Night Arcade

[@heyhonpuds]

ooh, three Friday Night Arcades in a single year

[@chrisr024]

He doesn't want to overwork himself .

[@wasistlos2000]

What a montage at the end!!! It could be a video all on its own! Great tribute to the wrestling genre of video games!

[@Kirkor1982]

We missed you dude, glad to see you back. Greetings from the netherlands happy new year

[@FridayNightArcade]

🙏

[@akildukes7499]

YOU'RE BACK! YEAH!

[@briangereau788]

Would have liked to see Mat Mania in here. That was my favorite old school wrestling game. Way ahead of it's time.

[@marcusbens8084]

The Amazon is actually based off of Abudullahthe Butcher. The fork stab is a dead give away

[@newmula5045]

The more you know

[@colinmcdonald2499]

Yeah... I think you are right. They probably made him green because, well they didn't have a single black dude ( maybe The Great Panther was not fake tanned???) and well....

[@captaintrips2017]

I always thought he was based off The Missing Link, but the fork stab is very Abdullah. Missing Link wore green makeup though and his hair kinda resembled the head fins.

[@damyuu23]

Love this channel. Been watching for about 4-5 years and i really enjoy your content.

[@FridayNightArcade]

Thank you for watching!

[@mikegullette9235]

Man so glad to see a new video! I missed them!

[@mgs6490]

Welcome back. I played Microleague Wrestling back when I was a kid on c64. Had no idea what was going on, and the load times were abysmal. I was a huge wwf fan at the time and impressed by the digitized graphics so I managed to have some fun with it.

[@caseybennett3827]

Dude I love your channel, and as Father of one, I completely understand

[@jonbourgoin182]

20:12 I love how whoever wrote the copy for this ad clearly did not know much about wrestling, calling the cage match a "special wire cage"...as opposed to you know, a steel cage match. Edit: 21:13 I know a SNESDrunk reference when I hear one and so I tip my hat to you, good sir.

[@jonbourgoin182]

29:22 I remember finding your channel when you placed some sort of ad for your channel that appeared under an AVGN video. So yeah, doing that definitely worked because I have been subbed and continue to watch your content ever since!

[@KehHs-l8b]

Just finished setting up the scaffolding for production one. Gonna lose so much money now that Netflix took over. Well off to run video cables happy new year

[@markfarnsworth5592]

30:21 Love the MST3K Space Mutiny reference!

[@Mystemo]

Tag Team Wrestling on NES is not great but I'll always be grateful that it exists since it was the inspiration for Strong Bad.

[@ChrisSuswal-de9tj]

The system...... Is down

[@Fatalroadie]

There was also WWF WrestleMania Challenge on the NES between WWF Wrestlemania, (89) and Steel Cage Challenge (92)

[@hammer86_]

Oh, I'm so happy. When you said there would be an announcement at the end, I thought you were gonna call it quits. Looking forward to the next 10 years of FNA!

[@lexluthermiester]

@FridayNightArcade Welcome back Aaron! Good episode!

[@johnmp3828]

Happy new year dude! I still use a winner is you when commenting on sports card rippers who pull a good card. Wasn’t a nutter a headlock? I played micro league wrestling. It was fun the first couple of times. Fun to see savage or wonderful win the title. They saved a bit of memory bc orndorff used real American after turning on hogan for failing to take his phone calls. I swear hogan was a heel

[@deflepmarc]

Amazing content as always, I’ve been around since 2020 when we were all in quarantine. This kept me sane. Glad you keep making videos when you can even though you don’t have much time to I still rewatch all of your other videos and they are still just as awesome. Happy new year 🎊

[@FridayNightArcade]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@_OCPGAMING]

I remember when Doink faced Bret on PPV.

[@SNARC15]

Also remember when Doink ambushed Kona Crush with a plaster cast arm. Good times.

[@mrf19741]

Glad you're back, Bro! Keep up the Great work!

[@FunkMasterJunk]

It's funny, I forget I'm subscribed to Friday Night Arcade. Then a video pops up and it's such a nice surprise.

[@heavydecibel]

We should thank YOU for creating these little gems of episodes ! Even this one was a good one, though wrestling is kind of unknown in my parts of Europe. I did play Pro Wrestling on the NES to death with my friends as a kid.

[@joshmiller887]

I love these old WWF arcade games. I would play them any time I saw them

[@JanetStarChild]

25:00 ...Look at that full rotation! Now, _that_ is impressive!

[@Nklecz1980]

I’m a huge fan of this channel. Too bad it’s not more frequent. I’d love to see more of those classic EGA/VGA computer games too!!!

[@mikez54]

Thanks for these videos man. Gets me in a good headspace

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

Every FNA video is a treat, especially when it involves pro-wrestling! Never thought I'd see that here considering your love of, like, adventure games and stuff - that's gotta be the exact opposite of wrestling titles, lol. I loved seeing these! As far as old school wrestling games go, I was kind of expecting just stuff like.... I dunno, Ring King (I know it's a boxing game, but it's super old and close enough and that's all I had in my brain before starting watching) and that just sounded not cool. So color me pleasantly surprised by some of the stuff you found! I know 16-bit era stuff already, and was happy to see games like Wrestlefest, Wrestlemania the Arcade Game and Slam Masters get covered, but really, it was all the 8-bit stuff that was fun to learn about. Especially titles like Fighting Spirit: Toukon Club and Tecmo's World Wrestling - those were really fascinating looking! Happy Holidays, FNA and congrats on your KZbin 10-year anniversary and your kids heading to kindergarten relatively soon already. Nice to hear you're hoping to ramp up your production cadence later, but know that however often you manage to get out a video, we know it'll be good

[@StriderRyu]

It's good that you're back to making content. Can't wait for more.

[@sterling7]

Happy New Year, and thanks for providing a fun place to reminisce.

[@rodchanink]

WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game is a top-notch legend and truly a masterpiece...

[@no-iv2ig]

"Tonights matchup! Bam Bam Bigelow versus, Bam Bam Bigelow, versus DOINK THE CLOWN!, versus Bam Bam Bigelow."

[@FridayNightArcade]

😂

[@Tlobrown]

Awesome stuff, welcome back dude

[@XtianBretz]

This ending is epic! Glad you're back

[@rylch44]

I loooooooove your videos! It’s always so cool when a new one hits. I get all excited like when ya buy a game and read the manual and the box on the way home. I get to listen on my way home from work.

[@chadadams1393]

Welcome back! I’m looking forward to your next video!

[@stevefulkerson4995]

Kicking off the new year with a new FNA video!

[@Wool94]

Saturday Night Slammasters was very in depth. I don't think you really gave it a chance.

[@Stinger420]

Yeah, but the thing is, SNSM was really a 2D fighting game that took place in a wrestling ring, if ya think about it.

[@FridayNightArcade]

It's fun! I think it was just more fun as a multiplayer than as a single player game...

[@alexzapf6422]

Love your videos. Takes me back to the old days. I remember playing Pro Wrestling on the NES and thinking. WOW. Will it ever get better. And. It did.

[@DrMattaconda]

I actually love Wrestlemania the Arcade Game and its sequel. I think if you go into them knowing they aren't wrestling games but rather gonzo fighting games with a wrestling setting you can have more fun with them.

[@roguerifter9724]

Superstars was rthe first Wrestling game I played when I was five and one of the main reasons The Ultimate Warrior is my favorite wrestler of the era.

[@BaronLector]

Funny. WWF Wrestlemania for the NES looks like an 8-bit remaster of Title Match Pro Wrestling on the Atari 2600.

[@mattd6597]

Good video. My only gripe is the omission of Mat Mania / Exciting Hour. I know there are simply too many games to cover everything but I feel like leaving out Mat Mania is almost like leaving out Led Zeppelin from a video about the origins of hard rock. The game’s grapple system and basic gameplay was the template for many of the games in this video.

[@Stinger420]

Ah dude! Pro Wrestling? Man, I used to spend hours playing that game! I wasn't very good with most of the characters, but I would win like crazy with the...lizard monster...guy? The one that would chomp on the opponents head. Yeah, I was good with him.

[@TadashiNazuka]

Great Video. Really enjoyed it.

[@Magicktech]

I never noticed the Amazon using a fork with blood.

[@arioca]

Great video! Did I miss something or no Mat Mania by Technos/Taito for the arcade?? I'll have to rewatch it just in case I missed it. Another fun wrestling game is 3 Count Bout for the Neo Geo which resembles Saturday Night Slam Masters.

[@TumbleweedEwing]

I didn't realize your family got expanded! 😊 Congratulations! ❤🎉 No wonder you haven't had time to publish new content. 😅

[@Dasher-l8f]

Good review. Very informative!

[@colinmcdonald2499]

Comment #1 of 2. I am glad you are still dropping videos !!! Happy New Year!

[@rayforceaddict]

Whoa! Are you back?? I missed this channel

[@JLAvey]

Life happens. I still haven't played the Shadowgate sequel yet.

[@mattperri3786]

Tecmo World Wrestling is severely underrated and forgotten. It's the best wrestling title on the NES and extremely deep. My brother and I had some insane grudge matches on that game back in the day. BTW, you forgot WWF Wrestling Challenge for the NES. That was the best WWF wrestling title on the NES. I mean, it was basic as hell but each guy had a finisher and it had a Survivor Series, which was a cool gimmick at the time.

[@SNARC15]

Hey! No shade on Doink there! At least the heel Matt Borne version which was a great character. I will allow shade on him turning face and getting a mini me in Dink though.

[@mr1000Cent]

In the NES version of Tag Team wrestling, wasn't the "heel" team known as "The Strong Bads"?

[@Marc_Araujo]

WWF Wrestlmania Challenge was pretty decent...way better than all the other WWF games on the NES.

[@lutherheggs451]

WrestleMania the arcade game did sort of have "fatalities" until WWF said NO and they had to remove them. The Undertaker's is still in the code, there have been people who enabled it. He just kinda knocks you into a casket, they weren't gory or anything but they were there at one point.

[@FridayNightArcade]

Had no idea about that - thanks for sharing.

[@thenostalgiabusiness]

I remember being so disappointed after renting WWF Wrestlemania (not Challenge) for NES. The characters could only punch and kick. You couldn’t even do wrestling moves.

[@TheRealJPhillips]

Awesome video. Nice work. 💯💯

[@shadoudirges]

Happy New Year!

[@narm_greyrunner]

Holy crap! New Friday Night Aecade video.

[@GiovanniCanzanella]

Happy new Year ! So happy to see you back

[@FridayNightArcade]

🙏

[@DOAHITMAN]

IIRC the wwe remake of wrestlefest had a discovered demo or whatever of it for 360 that was/is playable still

[@iankempster7007]

Finally!!’! Great video as always.

[@unclegav9823]

You are the Chris Berman of video game commentators.

[@Toaster81]

I personally love wrestlemania the arcade game. Its goofy & the special moves are cool. I know its not a true wrestling game, but thats part of the charm for me. Undertaker is always my go to since hes been my favorite wrestler since he debuted. Next would be Doink(for the game), the moves are cool & it probably doesn't help im big into MK

[@russcline2419]

Awesome surprise to see an upload from you this New Years Eve brother!

[@roytherocketparsons9096]

Great clips! I never realized how many tropes about leaving and coming back there are! I think I recognized mostly all of them, except not sure what the Michael Richards one is from about the "dirty floor"

[@FridayNightArcade]

That's from the Weird Al movie UHF ... it was just something funny to throw in there...

[@Stinger420]

Wow! Raw is going to Netflix?! Huh,...I had no idea, that's... different. I don't really follow WWE like I used to years ago, so no real big surprise I didn't know about that. Interesting though. Makes me think though,...how hard up for viewership is Netflix that they went and bought the rights to have WWE in their library? Damn.

[@colinmcdonald2499]

I was surprised not to see Mat Mania covered in the video. It was a 1985 game and was a great looking and even better playing coin op. Bayside Tavern, Fish Creek, Door County, WI not only had killer cheese curds, but it had Mat Mania and kids could hang around the bar and play it as long as an adult was with them ( and probably getting buzzed, if not wasted) It seems there was some kind of connection with Pro Wrestling for the NES... Certainly Pro Wrestling did an awesome job of "porting" it on the NES. Lack of Submissions? If you were a kid who watched wrestling.. come on.. aside from maybe the Camel Clutch... Submission holds were nothing more than a rumor of an oddity in Pro Wrestling! I never really got into any of the licenced versions. Professional Wrestling had lost its shine with me by age 11... So beat 'em ups were my focus... APW that is ( after Pro Wrestling that is)... That was clearly a top 20 NES game of all time... Top black lable game. The river city ransom like game you showed and Tecmo Super wrestling... Too bad I missed those a bit later on!

[@kcadventures1454]

Yes!! A good new year indeed!

[@Twili-Link2478]

Tag team ref must be the same ref in mat mania..😊

[@bnyce1]

Nice video but you didn't do slammasters 2

[@Gaugoo8]

You're amazing! And don't worry about the rate of videos, my youngest is finally potty trained, so I know exactly what it's like! 😂

[@FridayNightArcade]

Congrats on the potty training - such a game changer!

[@Gaugoo8]

@FridayNightArcade Thanks! Congrats on the little ones finally going to Kindergarten!

[@lizardguyNA]

New format? Neat.

[@mr1000Cent]

Jim Ross knew about developer "TRY", he was always asking "What's TRY up to?", and I always assumed he was talking about the obscure NES Pro Wrestling developer, and in no way trying a new nickname for Triple H, and I, in no way, stole this joke from an OSW episode reference ~!

[@ChrisSuswal-de9tj]

Lol it's funny hard hard they wanted that nickname to stick. Shawn Michaels was TRYing to get it over for his buddy in late 97- early 98

[@garyaldridge5574]

Here we gooooo! Hello FNA 😎 loading this up now

[@garyaldridge5574]

Excellent work-thank you for the ending montage. And you dont owe anyone anything, you post when you can and we all will just be happy with the free entertainment 👊 FNA remains undefeated!

[@FridayNightArcade]

Thank you for the kind words

[@scottg7660]

Boo yah baby! Way to finish the year strong.

[@donlupejkis3121]

Great stuff, yet again! Thank you. I find joy watching your videos.

[@LordRain1031]

What!? No "WWF Wrestlmania Challenge on NES!?! That was my all-time FAVORITE WWF wrestling game as a kid! Unless.....you haven't covered it yet. I'm only at 16:57 so far. 🤷‍♂️

[@LordRain1031]

Very good list, especially LOVED seeing "Saturday Night Slam Masters!" LOVED THAT GAME!! And I even got good enough to pull off Titain Tim's special moves! 😁😎 Missed a couple of great SNES gems, WWF Royal Rumble, and Monday Night RAW. It's still a great list for some of us who grew up watching WWF through the mid to late 80s! 🤘👍✌️

[@FridayNightArcade]

It was tough to do a wrestling games video without it being 3 hours long since there are so many... definitely will do a sequel video somewhere down the road!

[@jps6869]

Thanks for the video! Great way to end 2024.

[@legacy1X]

Pro-Wrestling was the best game ever.

[@platinumpagoda3079]

Ooh I get to be the 400th like. Awesome vid, still wishing we could get a port of Wrestlefest😭.

[@dustheg]

Left out a few like intellivision and Sega Master system

[@Whyteeford]

I still have my working cooy of Tecmo World Wrestling...EASILY the best wrestling game on the NES

[@retrojoe85]

What a surprise seeing you coming back just in time for the last day of the year! 👾

[@endymallorn]

Happy new year! Looking forward to the next decade, and congrats on being an awesome dad.

[@JoeFpoc]

Pro wrestling is still a very fun easy game to pick up and play. That M.U.S.C.L.E. Wrestling game was such crap. I was into those toys when i was a kid and asked for it for Christmas

[@mickeystclairejr-dz8nk]

I agree about the WWE arcade game so stupid and difficult.temco wrestling is my fav.

[@TheExistentialNerd]

What? No Natsume Championship Wrestling? That was a personal favorite of mine on the SNES. Never liked the LGN/Acclaim WWF titles, and the WCW Superbrawl just didn't feel intuitive, or fun.

[@cxk7127]

Great ti see a new episode. but you missed Wrestlemania Challenge. It was released in 1990 for the NES between Wrestlemania and Steel Cage Challenge. It was still pretty rudimentary, but had an isometric view and besides having a health bar it would play the two wrestlers music during the match. If you were doing better than your opponent (or made an unsuccessful pin attempt) it would play your music (or vice versa.) In addition to the typical WWF roster you could also play as a generic wrestler named "Yourself." If I recall correctly, you could form a tag team and select "Yourself" for both partners.. so I guess you could play with yourself? XD Definitely a game to check out if you like wrestling games. On a side note: It's great to see you back, watching your videos Friday nights (or Saturdays if I worked late) was always a highlight of the weekend for both myself and my fiance. And (I know it's late) but congratulations on the twins!! :)

[@cameron398]

Still supporting you but miss the videos

[@kevinhamilton5618]

Nintendo not doing anything with the characters from Pro Wrestling has always disappointed me. An SNES or a Wii update ala Punchout would have been a lot of fun

[@jjenk911]

Happy New Year! Your death was greatly exaggerated.

[@gitgeronimo9375]

Love seeing you here! Hope all’s well with you

[@beardizz]

Saturday mid day arcade :)

[@FridayNightArcade]

My guy, it's Tuesday 😂

[@beardizz]

@my brain isn’t working today I guess

[@FridayNightArcade]

We had to write the day on the fridge so we wouldn't forget when the trash needs to go to the curb lol... The holidays throws everything off

[@bibbitay]

Good to see you, brother!

[@joekingofcourse]

ggs 🎉

[@darkreyule]

Tag Team was the baseline for the amazing Mat Mania in 85.

[@zerozero5027]

Nice 👍 ………..