WCW: The Main Event (Game Boy) Playthrough

A playthrough of FCI's 1994 license-based wrestling game for the Nintendo Game Boy, WCW: The Main Event.
0:26 Elimination Match, Professional as Rick Rude
6:48 Elimination Match, Continental Title as Ron Simmons
14:13 Elimination Match, World Title as Johnny B. Badd
21:15 Single Match, World Title as Dustin Rhodes
Following after the 1990 NES game ( • WCW World Championship... ), WCW: The Main Event was the second video game to carry the World Championship Wrestling torch. It was also the sixth pro wrestling game to appear on the Game Boy, coming along about six months behind WWF: King of the Ring, the system's third WWF title.
WCW: The Main Event's roster includes nine wrestlers (Rick and Scott Steiner, Big Van Vader, Sting, Dustin Rhodes, Ron Simmons, Johnny B. Badd, Rick Rude, and Steve Austin) and features two modes of play, an exhibition-style "Single Match" and a ladder-style series called "Elimination Match."
The game plays similarly to the later NES WWF games in that wrestlers all feel the same to play, but The Main Event does give everyone his own unique finishing move. The controls are fine, the graphics are simple but clear on the blurry Game Boy screen, and the game is perfect for a quick 5-10 minute play session on the go, but the game lacks any real depth or lasting power. It's fine as an occasional distraction, but the WCW roster is only thing it offers over its handheld WWF counterparts.
*Recorded with a Retroarch shader to mimic the look of the original hardware.
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[@NintendoComplete]

WCW The Main Event isn't the classic that the NES game was, but it's fine enough for a Game Boy game. It's also the only non-WWF/WWE game with Steve Austin, so that's kinda neat.

[@KurisuDE]

That reflection shader is pure perfection!

[@NintendoComplete]

Isn't it great? I love Retroarch.

[@petz415]

😳😳😳 what an awesome throwback! Steve Austin had hair lol.

[@senseicorey9979]

Well those are certainly sound effects

[@jeromedado7416]

The light blinking you need the replacement battery

[@superstaramyrosethehardcoreyt]

Superb video.

[@black2785]

Stone Cold before he started drinking 😂

[@risboturbide9396]

Nice roster!

[@indrachaudhari7874]

Sting : "The Shockmaster" WCW's finest botches. Bad not to see him in this game.

[@freddyvidz]

Someone should have been fired for the way Ron Simmons looks in this game.

[@phatplateslyrical9045]

😂😂😂

[@Lukas-kz4xm]

@freddyvidz DEFINITELY😁

[@NintendoComplete]

Yeah, that's not great. It could always be worse though. I mean, did you see what Jim looks like in Square's Tom Sawyer?

[@pookieizzy7]

When it comes to certain sports in video game format, sometimes simple is better. Wrestling shouldn't be as complex for all you're doing is hitting two buttons and a direction. Later it gets complicated when extras are added like button mashing, tug of war with the CPU and makes for hurt thumbs and thrown (if not smashed) controllers. Least this is better, control wise than the NES version.