WWF Superstars - The First WWF Arcade Game

[@ginaxxgodgames9573]

The Insert Coin screen with Ted DiBiase and Virgil counting money and Andre The Giant looming large in the background is burned into my memory.

[@JDDK28]

Still makes me sad that arcades are dead. I spent so much time there. Becoming proficient in SFII, MK 1 and 2, the entire Marvel VS series. Good times.

[@Masutora]

Man I feel you. The beauty of the arcade was that you had to have etiquette and respect. Because you were in arms reach or the person you were playing.

[@jaahnnn]

Just buy one of those pandoras box things they aren't that much money. Not being able to play ppl online gets old quick with these old games

[@alannaramone3821]

Not true my dood. Maybe they aren't everywhere like in the 90s and the 80s but they still exist. We have 20 here in Vancouver Metro Vancouver and the lower mainland in British Columbia Canada

[@alannaramone3821]

Build your own machines it's so much cheaper you build a cabinet and either do the art on it yourself or hire me or another pro artists to. Then either get mame and a retro pie or evercade or pandora pc to run your emulation on and install the mame joy stick button console and VALLA!

[@marccaselle8108]

​@@alannaramone3821where I live there is one arcade in my town and it's a joke. The only cool thing it has is a Pandora's box 6 machine. It has loads of arcade games and it's the only reason why I go there lol.

[@joshbygosh]

My favorite arcade game ever. I had to go out and get an original cabinet about 7 years ago.

[@dasdeke]

River city ransom was my jam back in the day, love that game. Love seeing this trip down memory lane, thank you.

[@pfcrpb]

The Squids Turf

[@dasdeke]

@@pfcrpb squids didn't play.

[@John_Locke_108]

Tell me Joey. Have you even been to a River City bath house?

[@liamquinn1981]

great damn game!

[@hotel283]

Macho Man and Big Boss Man were the best tag team. Work them over with Savage (including the awesome diving clothesline) feed to Boss Man in the corner. Whip to ropes, shoulderblock, Boss Man splash - Savage delivers the flying knee to stop the pin breakup, match over.

[@exilhamburger4802]

Unfortunately Andre was immune to Big Boss Man's shoulderblock! Got me at least once, if I reached the finals!

[@KoTM25681]

Boss Man's "Sidewalk Slam" was nearly unstoppable and probably the most OP move in the game.

[@yellow117n]

I agree with macho man for sure! Top rope elbow to the outside was what I always tried to pull off in every match. I liked bossman as his sidewalk slam animation was pretty epic and if you pinned your opponent and came in with Bossman you could get a bossman slam off the other guy running in to break up the pin. But my tag team partner was always the ultimate warrior, as he was my favourite wrestler at the time. But in wrestlefest the team was million dollar man for his million dollars dream submission and his fist drop. And of course ultimate warrior again for his gorilla press big splash combo for his finisher BUT his flying close line was the best move in the game. In the royal rumble it could hit multiple people at once. Still play it to this day as I have a 2 player Astro cab and have the wrestlefest arcade jamma board. Unfortunately because i no longer have to pay/gamble my spare change away playing it the experience isn’t close to the same. As a kid it was such a rush playing arcade games and beating a level and stretching a quarter out for as long as you could as a few quarters in your pocket was just as valuable as a bar of gold. God I miss those old arcades, these new ones nowadays are all redemption ticket games which are so boring.

[@yoholmes273]

OOOOH Yeah! The Macho & Bossman combo was the jam! Unless , of course, some G was crushing it with Andre. This game was the Szhnit!

[@mechaplatypus82]

Growing up i never knew this was a double dragon clone. Now i cant help but see it when i play it. This and wrestlefest were two of my favorite arcade games.

[@InfectiousGroovePodcast]

I played this game so much thinking it would be the pinnacle of wrestling arcade games. It was such a step up from Mat Mania, my previous favorite. Imagine my head exploding when I saw WrestleFest years later....

[@jdevlin1910]

You could argue they peaked with WrestleFest

[@stevebragg4256]

@@jdevlin1910 has there ever been a good port of WrestleFest to play online or elsewhere?

[@LordRain1031]

​@@stevebragg4256I'd like to know as well!

[@GarethLawrence1979]

@@stevebragg4256yes. Look up Mame emulator

[@InfectiousGroovePodcast]

I'd tend to agree@@jdevlin1910

[@DateMike22]

Damn that's now a real throwback. I'm 36 years old currently so I remember this game vividly.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

I didn't know curly voiced million Dollar man?😂

[@Rick-si1re]

Right we all did, we were soooooooooo young but the memories will be there for a life time u know, I remember Wrestlefest which came out in the Summer of 1991, back when wrestling was still good!

[@philthatcher6111]

WWF superstars on Gameboy was so cool growing up. The little promos and roster music was all there. Freaking great playing as Mr. Perfect

[@ja17.17]

So good I've still got it

[@TrevorAWilliams]

Thanks for the memories! My dad worked for British Petroleum so I remember playing this game in Houston, Texas and Aberdeen, Scotland.

[@henrygreenwood3927]

We used to play this in Canada at a pizza shop as a kid. I have to tell you. When we first started playing it. It blew us away. The graphics seemed so life like and amazing. I was hugely disappointed with the Nes wwf game at the time. So this was money well spent. Also, River City Ransom was a blast. I rented that game a lot. You could write down an extremely long password to save your game play. So I just kept renting it. Lol Thanks for the memories. ✌️

[@smokeglacken]

A pizza place near my house would get a new arcade about every 6 weeks. They had both WWF Superstars and Wrestlefest and I loved the both of them! Great, great memories. And we had the same reaction and brain melting experience when I first saw SFII Champion Edition! 😊

[@Davidjon1946]

Same here in Buffalo New York picking our pizza up every Monday night

[@Drummer8282]

I’ve got 4 full sized arcades in my garage: TMNT, SF2CE and 2 PGA golf machines. Arcades we’re something special in the very early 90’s.

[@BOABModels]

I'm suprised there weren't more racing games there at the arcades you visited or maybe you just weren't interested in those ones. My earliest memories of going to arcades, often at seaside towns in England, were for games like Out Run and Sega Rally.

[@retepoteil]

I spent so many quarters on this game as a kid.

[@glencurtis6052]

Same, well 20p's instead of quarters

[@drmike103]

If you like arcades, come to Chicago for a vacation. We have a place called, “The Galloping Ghost.” It has a lot of the old school classics in cabinets and they even build cabinets for new games. You’d enjoy it.

[@The_Knight_Rider1980]

I thought the same BUT there is a Arcade club in cardiff town center called NQ64 recently opened. Along with drinks and food its essentially an Arcade with TMNT, Outrun, Operation Wolf, Street Fighter 2 and loads more there, brought the arcade feel back, what I also love is for £5 you get 15 tokens to play the arcades (1 token per machine) sure I got some of them on ROM in my PC but the actual feel of an arcade again, atmosphere is worth the money. Not only that they have consoles free play.

[@MikeyMike-uu3fe]

I’d start asking everybody in the convince store if i could bum a quarter when they had this there lol

[@tfh535]

Id spend all my allowance on this and Final Fight at the 7/11 up the street

[@kevinwilliams6889]

Wow, I had forgotten all about this game! I'm 55 years old. Thank you for bringing back such great memories from my early 20's. Much love, dude.

[@PUUN402]

I played superstars every weekend for 36 weekends every year at bowling from the age of 9-12. Probably my fav arcade game outside of alien vs predator.

[@royfarris5889]

Alien vs predator was insanely good I wish they would port it to PlayStation

[@douglasdowns3502]

Absolutely love Wrestling Bios!!! Everytime a new video comes out I definitely watch it!!!

[@kdot8181]

Wrestlefest was my absolute jam... so many quarters spent, every one well worth it!!!

[@CalrissianSteele]

I'm really sorry you didn't get to enjoy an arcade full on. We had a few here in town. Loco Joe's nickel arcade was a childhood staple for me. I wish you could've seen it. We have some more modern ones now along with a classic style one you'd love called Up Down.

[@ajb1991.1]

As a fellow Irish man the stories about the arcades and holiday sites as a kid really brought me back 😊

[@pixelitchio]

I remember when restaurants, stores, and bowling places had a section for one arcade or two; as a kid, fun was everywhere. It was a great time and "Mat Mania" with its crowd tells about the good vibes of the 80s and "WWF Superstars" has a life that communicates the passion felt by families. The sprites are epic and the sound transported you to its cabinet. We saved our seat by placing quarters under the screen. "Superstars" taught me that arcades could be set to different levels of difficulty when finding the game in an other place; the "signature moves" couldn't be done as often and were easily countered; arcades weren't made for fun but coins. "Superstars" and "Wrestlefest" are legendary and it's strange that modern consoles haven't offered them again. Maybe "Superstars" is the first WWF arcade game, but "MicroLeague Wrestling" was the first WWF videogame made, if I'm not mistaking. Great video Wrestling Bios, was very fun to watch.

[@michaelreich4827]

It amazed me that even Savage could body slam Andre if you wore him down enough.

[@MrBeardsley]

I distinctly remember playing Superstars at a roller rink called Happy Wheels when I was a kid. It was a popular place for stuff like birthday parties, Boy Scout outings and the like back then so I wound up going there a lot even though I couldn’t skate. They didn’t have much of an arcade, maybe a half dozen games and a couple pinball machines, but they had a Superstars machine for like two years in the late ‘80s and I played it whenever I could.

[@AMP3083official]

As a kid growing up in the 90's, I always liked to hang out in an arcade area, even if I didn't have money to play any of the machines, I'd just go around watching the previews.

[@jeremyc9593]

Same. At the peak time of day, there was always a group watching the best people playing games like MKII, Tekken and Killer Instinct where the winner stayed on. I was able to get a few good runs on Tekken. Good times.

[@christopherdahlberg]

I absolutely loved this game as a kid.

[@GamerForLife514]

I'm 45 yrs old and still remember playing Arcade Games if it were yesterday. Time flys really fast.

[@kageakuma3009]

The whole owning your own arcade machine, I totally relate. Even now as an adult 42, owning an arcade cabinet is totally on my bucket list.

[@hunter371]

This was never ported to a home console because Technos was only licensed to make arcade games for WWF. LJN had the rights to home consoles and Ocean Software had the rights to the PC. I'm sure this game could have been scaled successfully on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive but again, Technos wouldn't have been allowed to port it and LJN wouldn't have been allowed to touch it.

[@GuidoGrasso]

Your research is very interesting and accurate. Double Dragon and renegade and Exciting hour were the precursors and StreetFighter 2 was the game changer.

[@jarlwhiterun7478]

This was the heydey of arcades. MK 1 and 2, SF2, TMNT, an Aerosmith one, plus the classics like Pacman and Donkey Kong

[@MrVariant]

I'm glad everything except mortal kombat (and licensed like aerosmith of course) is available on modern console. Missed opportunity no ultimate mortal kombat 3 but people are gonna eat up ole MK1 dlc and comic character guests.

[@Hypno_BPM]

Simpsons, X-Men, Terminator 2 with the big gun controllers 😂 Moonwalker, Virtua Fighter , Virtua Cop

[@MrVariant]

@Hypno_BPM I'm thankful we have VR shooting games like gazzlers as a nice alternative to Virtua Cop. Tiger blade should be fun when it comes out next month too. I wish virtua fighter 5 had more of a story like mortal kombat, soul calibur or street fighter, but I'm glad there seemed to be a balance in that series. Surprised they never had a crossover with tekken as 3d fighters, which also has more story. At least it's in last judgment as the main game is bare bones outside some skins.

[@anthonyterry8162]

Absolutely loved this game back in the day. It was hard af though. I played it on mame and took forever to beat Andre and DiBiase at end

[@fernandosaker3667]

Despite the small roster, this game looks pretty good. I don't know much about WWE's Golden/Federation/Hulkamania Era, but it's fascinating that it looks so different from the Attitude Era, with a "cartoony" aura... and yet, from what little I know, it was a huge success at the time just like Attitude Era was a decade later (maybe even bigger) and had some of the biggest wrestling legends of all time.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

It's weird but when people thought wrestling was real everything was super cartoon, but as soon as we entered the internet age they had to switch it up and everything got "real" once people knew it was fake Like taker and Kane were the rare ones, most were like Austin... Black trunks, black boots, knee brace 😂

[@scottharkovitch3139]

Superstars and Wrestle Fest were both great games. Grew up playing both of them.

[@JUVI9596]

LOVED this game as a teenager. Always had to line up for it

[@ETownLive]

Nothing like a Wrestling Bios review AND a quick history lesson about Technos!

[@shearer2929]

can always remember being totally in awe at some of the arcades in Portrush, the drive from Ballymoney was exciting with the Irish side of my family, only been to NI a couple times but fond memories

[@rsmcroberts]

Know what's overdue for a sequel? Saturday Night Slam Masters. God, I need more of that.

[@JMFabiano]

Actually they did have one sequel, only it wasn't really readily available in the US and was more Street Fighter than wrestling.

[@rsmcroberts]

@@JMFabiano I consider myself a well informed gentleman. Now you have me feeling like an idiot child. Please, sir...tell me more.

[@dreskywalker]

Thank you for this! Lots of memories and while all the games brought back memories, staying in topic this game was fire bc wrestling was sooo big at the time with so many great personalities

[@muratsoydeger2863]

Dude, your stuff only gets better. Branch out, you got the goods

[@captainsworld1986]

Played this a lot at my roller rink when I was growing up! One of my all-time favorite arcade games! Same with Wrestlefest!

[@corywickenkamp8173]

Digging the river city ransom music in the background.

[@sharmat1611]

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see this frequent mashup of pro wrestling and retro games. It’s like WB is the one KZbin channel specifically curated to my niche interests

[@exidy-yt]

Thank you so much for going into the history of the predecessors of Superstars first! To me, Mat Mania/Mania Challenge were and are the greatest arcade wrestling games of all kind. The sheer amount of moves and tactics you could do with 2 buttons and a joystick are unmatched IMO. Of course once you discover the endless Irish whip collision-piledriver combo in the original Mat Mania it takes the challenge out (unless Coco Savage gets you in his own unbreakable head-noogie combo) but the game is insanely fun and with Mania Challenge adding the atomic drop and belly-to-back suplex counters along with the dropkick, the tactics for both single and 2-player games change completely and only for the better. The number of times that belly-to-back has saved my ass....and of course this was carried over to Superstars, but Superstars in general was far too mathmatically calculated and based on luck not skill. And quarters. Superstars was very good, but it was NOT Mat Mania.

[@AdamSouthward]

The game that really got me into wrestling in the first place before I'd even really watched a show. Had it in our common room at college (I was really late to wrestling) and played it almost endlessly. From there I discovered WCW on ITV and eventually went on to become a ring announcer for the FWA and a manager in other promotions. All thanks to this game!

[@pfcrpb]

Love the River City Ransom background music!!!

[@SuperDuperWillSaxby]

Nothing worse than looking forward to a Wrestling Bios upload, but then another video game review drops.. I really miss the videos that covered storylines & angles

[@AOIbis]

This brings back so many memories. By friends and I would pump quarters into this game after school.

[@_The_Worst_]

Ya use to see arcade cabinets all over the place, here and there in obscure places...👌🏼💯✔️

[@jammiebooker6489]

13:25 most coherent warrior promo ever

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

🤣

[@mcj88]

15:27 - I mean, maybe the game itself isn't much, but Garfield's sprite is surprisingly cute at least...

[@jzamaris]

River City Ransom has always been one of my favorite NES games. Great video once again. I always love the different types of content you have on here. 💪

[@ichabodcrane6198]

A Double Dragon video?!?!? Love your work dude.

[@PoeticProphetic]

Billy Lee from Double Dragon?!!! His name is Bimmy, brother of Jimmy

[@sodasic]

Phenomenal video- great attention to detail regarding Technos’ history.

[@TheSuckoShow]

World Cup was my first Kunio game too. Love that game. The expressive animations and anime-like action were so cool.

[@65637guy]

Excellent content. I had a local take away that had Double Dragon 2 and Wrestlefest. Needless to say I had to be dragged by the feet out of the place many a time. Good times😅

[@ZekeThePlumber86]

Seriously though, this and WrestleFest easily took the most quarters from my parents growing up.Then from me when I'd rake leaves for a couple bucks in the neighborhood. Still my favorite wrestling games, along with the N64 games!

[@phillipcummings3518]

Arcades were always so much better then the home games

[@maxxdahl6062]

Yeah they usually ran on much better hardware.

[@UKProgRock]

They ran on much more powerful machines, so home console versions were mostly scaled back to work on the hardware

[@shyguy85]

Only for like 5 years

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@shyguy85 Eh, I'd say a good 20. Early 70's you weren't getting anything past a pong console.

[@jarlwhiterun7478]

Than*

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

Another episode of Wrestling Video Game Nerd, I see… not that I am complaining LOL Seriously, didn’t expect this in-depth history of WWF Superstars!

[@sammylane21]

I wonder if TAITO would lend , the Nun chuck Purple Hair guy, ABOBO, Billy and Jimmy to Ed Boon's capable hands to be MK DLC??

[@razorblademask]

I appreciate you covering arcade games. Never had access to an arcade until DDR type games were taking over haha. I went to a few pizza arcades, but we all know those aren't the same haha.

[@anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762]

I saw this at my pizzeria growing up in 88 or 89 in ridgewood queens NYC

[@PedroBenolielBonito]

That last game is literally just Mortal Kombat with wrestlers...

[@tysheinin8733]

Pang is criminally underrated.

[@nick56677]

8:18 Ted is the only one left from that promo screen

[@Gamesta100]

Where I live in Australia we didn't have any arcades. There were just arcade cabinets scattered all over the town. You would find one or two at various shops like fast food places and service/petrol stations

[@bradleygermain6288]

How old are you? Not trolling, I'm genuonely curious...Arcades started getting phased out around the early 2000's.

[@Gamesta100]

@@bradleygermain6288 40 years and 16 days old lol

[@bradleygermain6288]

Wow. That's crazy then. I'd think any western country would have had arcades back in the day! @@Gamesta100

[@jarlwhiterun7478]

My small town had machines in the bowling alley and a couple of the restaurants lol

[@bradleygermain6288]

@@jarlwhiterun7478 Arcades I went to were in larger cities with a mall, or shopping center for the most part. We had to drive a half hour to get to one from where I lived.

[@tommasol9161]

I was in a camping in the 1989 and in the bar there was this Arcade...fantaastic moment, fantastic year...never came back

[@MachtPlays]

Seeing this makes me want an open world / Pokémon type turn based style wrestling game.

[@InflatableConan]

Playing this at Super Little Caesars on Harlem Avenue in Chicago right next to Just Games while the adults drank beer in the "Big Screen TV Room" watching Sunday football. Good times.

[@unlimitedrabbit]

I've shared this in another Superstars video but I'll share it here as well. When playing as Randy Savage, bait Andre the Giant to follow you outside to the ring floor down in front (not the left or right sides). When Andre begins his descent, time it so that you begin to dash toward him and use his clothesline attack so that it connects the very second his sprite is able to take a hit. The result is that you'll have pulled Andre to the ground per the normal Savage clothesline animation but there will temporarily be a second Andre still standing on the ring floor turning to look at you and his clotheslined doppelganger.

[@patrickh5490]

The local CoGos convenience store had WWF Superstars. Loved tagging with Hogan and Warrior. Thanks for this.

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

young people will never understand how special amusement arcades were. every visit seemed to provide a new game looking better than the ones that came before. all of them looked and sounded so much better than the pale imitations we could play at home. it all went wrong when arcade manufacturers started basing their arcade titles on home hardware. it defeated the point

[@thomasarsenal5465]

I remember the same bud! I'm from Belfast and always remember going to places like Newcastle during the summer and seeing these games and my pocket money disappearing in half an hour! 😂 Love the videos, your obviously as passionate about gaming as you are wrestling! 💯👌😎 You are living every boys dream and I hope you are making a good living out of it! I'll be gutted when the reliving the war series ends! 😢

[@Bermondseybob]

One of three arcade PCB's that I actually own. WWF WrestleFest and Exciting Hour, another wrestling game are the other 2. I love all 3 games!

[@Norman-Bates-60]

I remember this Arcade game ,at the arcade,when i was a kid.. Im 40 now. This game was bigger then life at the time..

[@pablocuneo4611]

Street Fighter 2, Wrestlefest, MK, Spy Hunter, Double Dragon and WWF Superstars we’re the main games my friends and myself played at the arcade.

[@dustinbasham393]

This is the best channel on KZbin. You always deliver 🍻

[@khylelewis]

I remember seeing this at a chip shop in Wales when I was little. Like 3 years old and I was fascinated.

[@martesdeo]

I remember playing WWF arcade in the robinson center as a kid, also going to either Newcastle or Millilse as they had all the arcades

[@mrhygiene]

Loved this game. Used to play it at the Ground Round while my parents ate dinner. Ate so many of my quarters.

[@robertwarf3316]

Oh man. I miss Ground Round. First restaurant I ever ate at that had TVs. I remember watching the 96 Olympics and they were showcasing marathon racers. Some guy was spitting up while running. Burned in my memory forever.

[@rickross5512]

Arcade games. We had a place called time zone downtown old Sacramento. Early late 80s early 90s awesome place but my local comic shop had all the modified SF,MK, and NBA Jams. Those three always were there and the fourth always switched out. Went all over town to play different games Double Dragons, P.O.W, TMNT, and some shooters hell I even loved KARATE.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

There was an Arcade fun center with Lazer Tag, Mini Golf, Indy Racers, Bumper Boats and a snack bar. The Arcade portion was vast and on Saturdays you could go and from 8am-12pm for $5 you got a bracelet and the entire Arcade would be set to FREE PLAY for 4 Hourse, Plus if you got the $5 deal all the other things were Half Price and pizza slices were $1. My best friend and I would go every week and then one day they just stopped doing it, that was years ago and these days they also have a huge Water Park and that's become it's main focus. It's called Sun Splash and the building is like a big castle, I don't even want to think how much it must cost to play arcade games these days because back then they were already coming up with games that took $1 (4 tokens) just to start playing with 1 life and there were even a couple that cost $2 for 1 credit🤦‍♂️ the amount of money it would've cost to beat the game could have just bought you your own copy of it. 😆👍

[@whitemage024]

I grew up with superstars, i love that game!! Great memories with my older bro.

[@benespinosa6725]

Awesome Video this game was before i was born and before i started watching WWE this is my favorite time hearing about this game.

[@p.l.537]

I still love this game. I have a Pandora console with like 1000 games on it. The first one I always play when I switch it on is "WWF - SuperStars." Yep, I even love this more than "WWF - WrestleFest." (Which is also on the console I own).

[@jetblaksuit]

5:03 Spartan X mentioned here is based on a film with the same name. The theme song of the movie was also famously used by Mitsuharu Misawa as his entrance music. I find it neat how it links back to wrestling like that.

[@AllieRX]

Spartan X is the Japanese version of Wheels On Meals starring Jackie Chan.

[@rattlehead1003]

I first saw the Wrestlmania Arcade at a movie theater near Des plaines Illinois. I had it on Snes and Ps1 later. My dad took me to see Nightmare before Christmas. That was 30 years ago.... wow....

[@andrewmartin4416]

Ahhhhh Bless you man for doing this video.

[@patrickburton2769]

Loved this episode, and the use of River City Ransom music as the theme!

[@BainesMkII]

The Kunio franchise is its own rabbit hole. Renegade ended up with a couple of Western-developed home system sequels that weren't related to a Kunio game. A few years ago, some Western devs licensed the rights to make their own River City Ransom (not Kunio) sequel, River City Ransom Underground. Then WayForward made River City Girls, which blends Kunio *with* River City Ransom. Meanwhile, Arc System Works (current owners of a number of Technos IP) has been remaking old Kunio games as well as making brand new ones for years. For example, River City Saga: Three Kingdoms (Kunio-Kun's Romance of the Three Kingdoms) was released a couple of years ago, using an RCR-style engine with the Kunio characters portraying characters from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

[@vonVile]

I played the hell out of Renegade, Mat Mania and WWF Superstars growing up. I always chose Macho Man and Big Boss Man, but only used Macho Man. I would always fight dirty and go outside the ring. There is a spiritual successor to WrestleFest called RetroMania out on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

[@kylereece1979]

My local arcade was small, always jam packed. I remember being in awe getting in there when I was 9, 10. In 1989 therebouts there was a wrestling game from Konami called "The Main Event". Did you ever see that? It had wrestlers in action that, bared a good resemblance to guys like Koko B Ware and Macho Man. I loved it! Then in about '90, Superstars came in. Thrilling to have it there at the time. I remember seeing Operation Wolf in a small arcade elsewhere, and utterly entranced. I ended up buying it for my Commodore 64, and bickering with a mate over his debate that his Spectrum version was better. 😀

[@DeadKoby]

Superstars was lots of fun. Nice that HTM got to be in the game. Mat Mania, Superstars and Wrestlefest were all very fun games that I played plenty of.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

Yeah, as soon as you say it you can totally see that this runs on the Double Dragon 2 engine. Especially in the way I saw Hogan throw punches and how the bodies bounce back after a collision, it's definitely Double Dragon 2. 😄👍

[@riskybitness]

Thanks to this video I now understand why the wrestlers in this game look like Double Dragon characters. On the plus side, this worked out really well for BOR creators who put wrestlers into Double Dragon games!

[@tonystyles21]

Golden Axe, Cadash, Double Dragon, Pit Fighter are all memories

[@robertdemon3550]

There was a roller skating rink near me that had about a dozen arcade games I remember playing Mat Mania then it got swapped for WWF Superstars and then it got swapped for WWF Wrestlefest. I would have played WWF Superstars the most if you won a few matches you would fight the Megabucks and André the Giant was so tough the grappling moves wouldn’t work on him. I remember playing WWF Wrestlefest and fighting Earthquake he had a move where he jumped up and down in the ring causing an earthquake.

[@JTOCIII]

This is such a classic it's one of my favorites

[@byronwatson4466]

Wwf superstars on gameboy was insanely underrated. Played the absolute hell out of it