Saturday Night Slam Masters Longplay (Arcade) [4K]

Game Info
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Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Year of Release: 1993
Game Review & Impressions
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Wrestling has always had its fanbase, but by late 80s and early 90s, the likes of WWF and the whole theatricality and spectacle of the events really propelled the sport into the mainstream and beyond.
Saturday Night Slam Masters, or Muscle Bomber in Japan, really tries to tap into the whole U.S. wrestling craze. Powered by Capcom's CPS1 arcade hardware, SNSLM brings the delights of muscular, oily men slapping the bejesus out of each other in the squared circle. The cast of characters is as diverse and outlandish as you'd expect, and there's even a star turn by Mike Haggar, one of the main characters from Final Fight, presumably in the days before he exchanged his spandex pants for the mayoral chains of office.
Having deposited a coin, players get to choose from two different modes: a series of one-on-one competitions, or two-on-two matches where all four fighters occupy the ring at once. Those looking for an easier time of things should pick the latter, while the real challenge lies in the one-on-one matches.
Regardless of mode chosen, players must then choose which wrestler they want to fight in the championship bouts. Each character has their own set of kicks, grapples and super moves, most of which involve grappling with the opponent. Inputting the appropriate stick movements and button presses will execute a range of suplexes, slams and piledrivers, while the defender attempts to break out of the grapple in similar fashion. In the time-honoured tradition of wrestling, It's possible to climb on top of the turnbuckles to flying kicks, catapult yourself off the side ropes, or even climb out the ring and beat each other senseless with chairs, bottles, or a metal bucket.
Now, this might all sound good in theory, but I have to admit that I found the whole experience to be rather boring. Executing some of the moves, particularly the super-specials, is incredibly difficult. I think I only managed to execute Haggar's spinning piledriver a couple of times during the entire time, and that was using an analogue stick! It doesn't help that the CPU player usually wins clinches, and it has an uncanny knack of countering any attack from the turnbuckles.
If I'm being brutally honest, I think this is one of the weaker CPS1 games in Capcom's roster. It might be more fun against a human opponent, but the single player mode left me rather cold. Saturday Night Slam Masters looks and sounds great, and being able to play as Haggar is a really nice touch, but there are far better Capcom brawlers available.
Information & Trivia
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Video Notes
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[@AgentofLADON]

Mike Haggar, the greatest success story. Wrestling champion, mayor, beat both Mad Gear and Skull Cross. Mike Haggar for president. Haggar/Guy '28.

[@ihooptvchannel521]

Always thought he was inspired by Jessie Ventura in predator

[@WarlockX4]

He's got my vote. A president that will go out and clean the streets himself using only his fists, whatever he finds on the ground, and two buddies to back him up? Best president ever.

[@AgentofLADON]

@@WarlockX4 Plus he solves the healthcare problem by showing everyone how to instantly heal by eating an entire roast dinner in one bite.

[@Cyberium]

He became president with Tony Stark as his running mate in one of the Marvel-Capcom crossover game.

[@AgentofLADON]

@@Cyberium That's a good running mate. Wonder who the rest of his staff and appointees are.

[@ohmybillnye]

This game was a huge part of my childhood. I had two friends who were brothers and I would consistently go to their house after school. We played the HELL out of this game to the point that we started to actually get into wrestling and they had a trampoline where we would make up "moves" for wrestling. They would have the weirdest AWESOME games for the time. Their Dad would play Diablo or Starcraft in their living room while we played SNES/PS1 on the main TV. I've always considered those kids' Mom as a Mother from another Grandmother because she basically took care of me for several hours a day every week day for a LOOOONG time.

[@flyestfreshestprince9223]

That's awesome 😎😎

[@befdoglover1]

The New York wrestler looks like John "Earthquake" Tenta. R.I.P. 1963-2006

[@kumiliarostreamsarchives3079]

i rented this (on snes) for my 11th birthday with 4 buddies with the multitap in the mid nineties (in my 40's now). simple but one of my greatest gaming memories

[@Crit-Chance]

8:26 "I've fallen and I can't get up!" Capcom legit put a meme in their game all the way back in 1993.

[@philtll]

...wait do you think people weren't repeating funny things before like ten years ago?

[@OikPoinFive]

LOL

[@RangoTheMercenary]

Looks like the best wrestling game of its generation.

[@Andulvar]

Dave Meltzer already gave that Mike Haggar vs Titanic Tim a 4/5 stars because it was obviously at the Tokyo Dome.

[@charthers8903]

Best wrestling arcade game

[@Dre7BG13]

I remember the double-screen 4-player cabinet that was made for this. It was one of the first times ever seeing anything like it.

[@hugofarias9150]

True warriors fight for honor n glory, n never for a pile of money. True warrior's pride.

[@streetstroller]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@phlebiax5592]

7:51 Chun-Li in the crowd! On the middle left! 10:32 Ryu with the red bandana on the middle right? 12:45 E.Honda? in the middle middle, wearing blue stripes on his face.

[@kandemir7845]

Wow you have sight bro

[@streetstroller]

Ken's in the audience too.

[@thespectraldogg1277]

@@streetstroller Where?

[@jpetersongaming]

Capcom Represent 😎

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

Oddly enough Zangief is nowhere to be found...

[@streetstroller]

It's really strange how they have the same exact ring and crowd in every city around the world.

[@dsnaps12]

If only Capcom had the rights to the WWF they would have made a killer game.

[@Mikeeltoro]

I don’t think they needed it… this was great on its own

[@HalifaxHercules]

Acclaim and its LJN division had it in the 1990s.

[@HRRaz]

LJN was a complete joke

[@EamonThePhilogynistWalford]

As a Final Fight fan from back in the day, I'm pleased that you went with Mike Haggar too, Al. 🙂 Also, Jessica is adorable in this. 👍

[@kalosger2517]

I like how Alexander the Grater looks like Big Van Vader and Gunloc is apparently related to Guile 😁

[@ryanwilson7643]

I love the ring out advantage you put on sone of the opponents. Very interesting. 😀

[@Athens2021]

Oni is like Japan's answer to the Undertaker

[@dustdevilmech]

We all know Mike Hager was pulling his punches to put on a show.

[@XeroLimitGaming]

I see Grater and think Vader... then he straight up comes out wearing a parody of Vader's entrance mask! Ha!

[@desktorp]

I like how they made King Rasta Mon's sprite white-skinned, but then made him vaguely jamaican and shoehorned in a monkey reference. Just read some profile info that says Dominican, but whatever-- but the info also said his japanese name was Missing IQ Gomez or something LOOOOL.. Capcom knows how to play it safe.

[@IGOTASTORYTOTELL97]

Yeah I didn’t like that shit either.

[@RenegadeX28]

After seeing this...they did a great job with the SNES port.

[@KarlSturmgewher]

I want a Switch revival It should include... Leon S. Kennedy (he has suplex city, secrte move: Quadruple German Suplex and his RKO out of nowhere), Barry Burton, Sasquatch.

[@rodcooper7532]

Oni theme is my favorite

[@HalifaxHercules]

Capcom has never been known for updating its countries. For example, in Street Fighter II, it states that Zangief hails from USSR even though the Soviet Union no longer exists. In addition, Biff Slamkovich is suppose to be from Kiev, Ukraine, not Russia.

[@gunsharck]

Its a game mate not a national geographic documentary. Besides at the time the CCCP existed

[@markg5480]

@@gunsharck Well said. It's really saddening how many kids now are triggered by videogame "logic". Back in the day we just wanted cool characters to pick to play for half an hour to kill some time. Now kids scrutinize the "lore", accuracy and political correctness levels for days.

[@streetstroller]

@@markg5480 So what you're saying is kids back then were dumber. Got it.

[@lamiatorchani7648]

Actually Biff IS a Russian but his USA profile got it wrong

[@KarlSturmgewher]

Biff Slamkovich is from Kiev, Ukraine.

[@ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96]

I played this for the first time in my life today I never played it before and guess what I loved it

[@JSantino82]

Best wrestling game ever

[@WillieTroxler]

Mike Haggar, the greatest success story. Wrestling champion, mayor, he beated both Mad Gear and Skull Cross. Mike Haggar for President. Haggar/Guy '28. Mike Haggar is the GOAT 🐐

[@jpetersongaming]

Rumour has it that Scorpion was the real champion in this game

[@ajx2956]

Nice

[@myanimeroom9350]

Too bad they never made sequels for this game.

[@samuraicer317]

There was a sequel

[@shred79]

there was a sequel, but it was not a wrestling game anymore. more like another Street Fighter clone

[@myanimeroom9350]

@@shred79 what's the name of the sequel?

[@shred79]

@@myanimeroom9350 its called Ring of Destruction or just Saturday Night Slam Master 2. You can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHrHdIBmgcisqNU

[@ranhaines2012]

@@myanimeroom9350 Ring of Destruction slam masters 2

[@joseg8458]

God bless your family! Congrats fun job

[@christidavis7295]

Saturday Night Slam Masters Longplay (Arcade) [4K]

[@defblinders9585]

Storyline wise, Haggar and Zangief were rivals on the wrestling circuit. Zangief copied Haggar's Spinning Clothesline and in return Haggar copied Zangief's Spinning Piledriver.

[@greensun1334]

I love fighting games but with this one... I don't know... There are great 1:1 fighting games like the Street Fighter and KoF games f.e. - and great brawlers like AvP, the Final Fight and Streets of Rage series. To me, a wrestling game isn't my case... They even went back to traditional 2D style for Slam Masters 2. Best wrestling game tough!

[@blackflame4506]

Thanks for another awesome longplay Al! The sequel is a bit better because you have more characters and its more Street Fighter-ese then the original. Hope you do a longplay of that one in the future.

[@trejohnson4760]

If that's the case just play Street Fighter. A wrestling game should have different controls then a straight up fighting game. A Great playthrough of a Great game.

[@gunsharck]

@@trejohnson4760 Than a fighting game, not then

[@joejefferies7209]

Bring someone from Saturday Night Slam Masters to the next Street Fighter 6 game. Like Street Fighter 6 Turbo. Please, Capcom.

[@courtneyrobinson6006]

I got my Capcom Arcade Stadium 2nd Xbox one s ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@edotsuki1979]

i think the only arcade perfect version released only exist on the Capcoms CPS changer console so rare i think no footage exist on KZbin ive looked everywhere!

[@exodia1510]

Wish their entrances were longer

[@alexcruz4268]

I wonder how these guys would do against the gangsters in Final Fight

[@jacobgonzalez5986]

It’s too bad Zangief is not on the game!

[@ghostbombl8034]

26:33 Dog tmThe Bounty Hunter bottom right yellowchair arm band.😅

[@ghighetto1]

Great!! where can i find the correct move list?

[@williamcandido1557]

in the introduction, a character is described, who lives in kiev-russia. Is this a premonition? Haha

[@persona83]

Interesting point. Capcom was not very good at managing profile info and endings. As an example, in 1993, Super Street Fighter 2 didn't correct Ryu's victory quote, Guile's gender wrong victory quote and kept calling Zangief's country USSR, even if the USSR had colapsed years before.

[@suchiuomizu]

@@persona83 Zangief may have just been laziness. World Warriors was released just before the fall of the Soviet Union, at first at least, they probably just didn't bother recording a new line for his country. Though they did not much excuse here.

[@persona83]

@@suchiuomizu Yes, that's why I mentioned SSF2. It was a new game on a new system, yet Guile's "Are You Man blah blah blah" still annoys female fighters just like the Sheng Long bizarre mistranslation. Funny thing is that the SNES versions had it corrected as "Dragon Punch". The Zangief situation could have been corrected because there was a new narrator.

[@gunsharck]

@@persona83 Christ almighty its a GAME, why does this bother you so much? Are you a Russo bigot???

[@blukmage19typeR]

(El Stingray») "Let's make it fast. I have a date with your sister." (Haggar») "I don't have a sister. And keep your hands off my daughter!" (El Stingray») 😳

[@fuckiopussigetti453]

Review notes: Cody Travers shoots on El Stingray and fucking kills him JBL style

[@BobbyHo2022]

a game i always wanted to like, but didn't.

[@XeroLimitGaming]

Why'd you start going for count outs?

[@jacobspowell4416]

3:35 SPINNING PILE-DRIVER!

[@judahslion5611]

"Kiev, Russia"... The irony in this typo is eerie and badly timed.

[@gunsharck]

Oh shut up you woke 🤡. At the time Ukraine was CCCP

[@shadowopsairman1583]

This game should get a mod where rings change

[@FULANODETAL]

strangely vince didnt lawsuit this game

[@semihyapici447]

9:51 Where is guy and cody?

[@leonnoel9661]

36:40 Was that Ortega?

[@GoodnersGoodAdventures]

Why doesn’t Mike Haggar walk out with the belt instead of a towel after he becomes champ? I’ll never understand that. Capcom dropped the ball there.

[@jackmcslay]

Biff Slamkovich, home hown: Kiev *Russia* that was awkward

[@Bobaklives]

Ah, the old "defend your title" route to padding out a game... never a fan. I think only the Genesis version of Super Monaco GP added a good twist to it.

[@persona83]

Actually, the profile says it's after Haggar left Metro City's Mayor service.

[@GenyaArikado]

they should've put jumbo and scorp in 1 vs 1 matches as well

[@th3blackghost214]

Great game but it could at least make you fight the wrestlers on thier own stages

[@alexbrunoyo]

I wish they put someone from this game in Street Fighter 6

[@ChristianTintayo]

9:51 Haggar Daughter Jessica Is the Girlfriends Cody Final Fight

[@Ferhat1983Aydin-nz6tu]

Final fighter haggar

[@caffeinatedanddead]

Mike Zangief

[@streetstroller]

Kiev, Russia LMAO

[@peteradamethetunaboy]

3:03

[@slickrichelicopter8977]

Mike Haggar = Dan Severn

[@semihyapici447]

Macho Mike Haggar 🇹🇷

[@Ferhat1983Aydin-nz6tu]

Miki Haggar

[@Danh2K6hyvọng]

Oi nhung tua game tuoi tho cua toi

[@Ferhat1983Aydin-nz6tu]

Atari salonuna

[@HanginOutattheVideoStore]

Love this game. I have no idea what I'm doing though.

[@ИванПолтавцев]

moisha slamkovich kiev - russia) oh vey

[@adambennett2737]

That first one looks like the blue blazer

[@aodhablackheart]

Whoever did the English translation for this really hated it didn't they.