WWF No Mercy : An All-Time Classic

[@ReinEngel]

No Mercy and HCTP still get regular play in my house. I told my daughter (8yo) that I'd buy her a car on her 16th birthday if she can pin the APA in story mode.

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

Me and my friend (RIP) used to play No Mercy on the N64 for hours, it was so much fun and it still holds up pretty well. I really enjoyed this one a lot. Good times

[@FreddPhucks]

That's awesome. Me and my cousins played it for hours. Only reason I really would go over is to face them. We had many tournaments for cash. So many physical fights cuz of the game lol. It was great times..

[@DarkEliteEric]

💜💜💜💜

[@matthillegas3099]

Nice. Sorry about your friend.

[@pd35beats99]

That's awesome. Sorry about your friend.

[@bbbouy242]

MAd respect, me and my brother R.i.P played this forever and became so great we were undefeated tag team! how can i play my custom character online?

[@Ifyasmellll_myish]

This game is still in my N64! Played it a few weeks back. Greatest wrestling series ever!

[@whodat8902]

This game and Ocarina of time still make their way in.

[@theonewhowokeup9987]

@@whodat8902 Ocarina of time was a long a** game, but it was worth it. The level were you had to swim with the white mermaid people made me rage quit. I eventually got passed it.

[@willyjf6193]

@@theonewhowokeup9987 I still need a freaking Expansion pack to play it again.

[@lm4585]

Greatest wrestling game ever. The grapple system is better than WW22 which I found disappointing because I have not played a WWE game since Smackdown 2 on PS2. Only thing I played on N64 being a PSX fan.

[@brandontracy5455]

Looking at No Mercy sitting next to my 64 right now. Wcw/NWO Revenge is currently plugged in

[@blackcountrysmoggie]

Honestly, this game got me through some really tough times as a kid. It was the perfect escape in the evenings when I really needed it. Thank you AKI

[@81rbutler]

BlackCountrySmoggie, who is your go to wrestler in No Mercy?

[@StripClubOwner]

Kane

[@bravebeard6225]

Cool story bro, tell someone who cares

[@cockyromano1606]

@@bravebeard6225 I care u clown

[@81rbutler]

@@bravebeard6225 He did, I care.

[@cobweb6960]

Best times ever. I remember having extra memory cards just full of created characters.. Arranging stables all the time and making countless PPVs putting the game on hard and just watching the CPU fight it out.. Felt like I was Mr. McMahon running my own company.

[@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats]

N64 had memory cards?

[@cobweb6960]

@@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats yeah memory packs that you put in the back of the controllers

[@Fretlessness]

I made all of Blink 182 and Fred Durst and Carrot Top, just hours pumped into that CAW mode

[@H.L.S.98]

World Tour, Revenge, WM2000, No Mercy are all masterpieces. I’d love an in depth documentary about the making of them all.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

The Japanese imports are just as awesome too.

[@XKTwentyFive]

One of my favorite video games ever. There's a reason why this game is still considered the gold standard for wrestling games over twenty years after it's release. And I really believe that reason is because the creators of the game genuinely loved pro wrestling themselves. They were just as big of fans as we were.

[@mattigator600]

Yea you could see the details sometimes. Maybe wondering why a wrestler has a certain move and then one day you watch some classic matches or highlights from back then and they were using the same move before this game came out.. stuff like that. You could see they weren't just assigning all generic moves to everyone, they did their homework in most cases

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Yeah, fools gold standard 😂

[@MT-we4vu]

God I loved this as 15 year old. Life was simpler back then

[@P2D_x]

Said Biblo smoking his pipe 😂

[@tommynelson8674]

We had no idea how good we had it. Smh

[@extremepop324]

Simpler is better, complications is worse. We're in a dystopia right now, many are just conditioned to it, and the youth are born within it.

[@LilDiabloRob]

Yyeeesssss

[@k-dogg9086]

@@extremepop324 it's not bc we're now adults; it's all bc of the former gen of adults before us, and what they done to us their country and the economy. Then, you could earn a good living, comfortable with the minimum wage of that time, get an good education cheap, and mortgage a house thousands cheaper. Now with all the theft going on and interest rates and inflation due to out of control printing and spending on services and programs for the older generation to keep their comfort, we're the ones being screwed.

[@shermikeman]

So many "sick" days from school playing this game haha

[@jayrukks8039]

Hell yeah 🤣🤣🤣

[@228allday]

Mama knew you wasn't really sick but she played along because if pops found out he cussing everybody out🤣🤣🤣🤣 bruh I played DBZ so much

[@jamesniagu274]

Damn I got sick a lot too when this came out Something must have been going around

[@tavius88]

Same!!! And missed homework 😂

[@genericaccount2056]

We are getting old

[@eastsidereviews727]

This and WCW/nWo Revenge were the Jam! So many fun memories were made with those games! We really didn't know what we had with AKI back in the day!

[@Brando-Lee3725]

yeah ! Revenge was good too ! I knew i was forgetting one !!!

[@letsavitpodcast]

Imagine it, Christmas 2000, I have opened everything else then I open this rectangular present and see WWF No Mercy I will never forget it, thanks mum and dad ❤️

[@ChiseledAdonis]

This is always my GO TO n64 game! I still play survival mode til this day trying to eliminate all 100 wrestlers in under 35 minutes. This game is TIMELESS!

[@Hakeem9391]

And it still the best Wrestling game out of all of them..

[@guccimane3731]

You forgot to mention that in “No Mercy” bigger wrestlers (Rikishi, Kane etc.) arnt able to be picked up for body slams right away. Then need to have damage done before they let you slam them

[@Aragon23-p2k]

HCTP, No Mercy, Wrestlemania 2000 and WCW/NWO Revenge are the best wrestling games ever made.

[@DarkEliteEric]

Love that HCTP slowed down gameplay, put counters on the bumpers and instituted a grappling system similar to No Mercy.

[@lil4621]

Faxts people underrate Wrestlemania 2000

[@stevefromyellowstone7911]

@@lil4621it was actually my favorite of the n64 wrestling games

[@J-0K-ER]

don't forget shut your mouth!

[@Padge112]

That is a solid list. I womder where you would place Day of Reckoning on the GameCube I loved that beauty.

[@WarlockX4]

I recently pulled my N64 and games from storage. I've been having a blast playing these games again. Brings back great memories of good times with friends.

[@DLRX]

Unlocking Andre the Giant was the holy grail for me, God I have such great memories playing this game. And who could forget that legendary intro: King: "Oh my gosh, so close." JR: "He kicked out, he kicked out, he kicked out!" Rock: "If ya smell la la la..."

[@lorehammer40k4]

Dude, watching this video two years later, one of the clearest memories I had was jumping around the basement freaking out on the day when I finally unlocked Andre, it definitely felt like beating the game, so its funny seeing this comment.

[@Sammydx1]

When this came out I wasn't really into wrestling. But my younger cousins and their friends lived this game. I mean 24/7. They made wrestlers. Made tv productions. It was crazy.. It was very fun to watch

[@wcw209suck]

I was only 12 when this games come out. Yea when you reach age 16 to 18 sometime your not into wrestling as you were when you are a kid.

[@jimmorrison4340]

@@wcw209suck aaaaassaraasraaaraaaaraasaasaaaarasraaaaaraarasrasraaaaaaeereeraearearaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaraaasaaasasaasaaaaasssaaaaaasaaaaaraaaasaaaaaaasaeaŕssèssseseseaesae¹

[@Wholeshowtv]

That create a PPV mode was 🔥🔥🔥

[@bigbaddawg101]

My friend owned Wrestlemania 2000 and we played that so much we mastered it. To make it fun, we used created characters and went to the Royal Rumble and changed the rules so that you had to KO the other wrestlers to eliminate them.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

I do that too. I try basically for stables/groups of wrestlers. DX is an wasy 1 cause they're in the game, but I created so many WCW wrestlers I have nWo members as well.

[@gp.5989]

I had all these AKI wrestling games back when i was a kid and to this day at 35 years old this menu song will pop in my head. The only difference now is I know what its from.

[@convilcali]

Where is it from?

[@RiasatSalminSami]

Where is it from?

[@GregHuffman1987]

I'm 35 nwo too

[@threezysworld8089]

"d-diggity dog" 😅

[@mikehoncho8742]

First wrestling game that was ever mine. Still one of my favorite games. Still have it almost 24 years later

[@HeynowHeynowheynow]

Wrestlemania 2000 is underrated! Classic! Bought it day one thanks to my grandma haha

[@whoopsie321]

I loved how both 2000 and No Mercy of the cartridges were black

[@Bsmith806]

At times I wish I could go back and play these kind of games for the first time again. Here comes the pain, no mercy and the SVR series never failed to give a well needed escape from reality. For me, these games will never be topped

[@shawn3279]

They have emulators to play these on your phone. I was just playing No Mercy yesterday

[@twan85]

I still love Here Comes The Pain and SVR 2006!

[@deanwebb4809]

Hand on heart this game was brilliant by far the best back in the day

[@Spicytoaster737]

I had this game as a kid. Man I spent days playing it. My cousins and I would make our own ppvs and king of the ring battles. Great memories. Great game. 👍

[@seph_f]

amazing series of games. THQ really knocked it out of the park with the N64 era wrestling games I'll never forget all the hours spent in my basement with my buddies playing these

[@TheMenInTightsPodcast]

Of all the older wrestling video games pre-PS2, this one has the most replay value. Even when other games like Here Comes The Pain and the SvR series were coming out I still found myself going back to No Mercy. I really miss playing it.

[@brandocalrissian3294]

I still play my copy regularly and it's the glitchy original version. Over 20 years and still haven't had a problem with it.

[@SherdogCreep]

The N64 never gets enough, well deserved credit for the wrestling games it put out. Wrestlemania 2000 is also a decent game by the way 👌🏻

[@Akchun21]

Wtf are you smoking? It gets all the credit it deserves bc it brought us 4 great wrestling games.

[@xboxonevideos7685]

@@Akchun21 he’s trying to be edgy

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

I agree I don’t think the N64 gets enough credit for its great wrestling games as the SmackDown games on. PS one seem to get more of the credit, but I personally think as good as the SmackDown games were on the PS one, the N64 Austin games were better

[@k-dogg9086]

@@Adamtendo_player_1 hands down Wrestlemania Mercy Revenge and Tour, the best games out there, and rocked for such an old system as the 64bits Nintendo. Like Castlevania on the same platform outdid other games before abs after, though graphics and all improved, didn't quite have the same feel difficulty and suspense to it as did the two titles for the N64.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

You mean W2000 is an awesome game!

[@RandayAnday-c7x]

Played this in 2006 when I was 8 and honestly was so fun and is the best wrestling game of all time

[@canuckj8382]

Funny story about this game, I was just about to play it with my little brother “back in the day”. Phone call for me and at this point the game is on and my bro is waiting, i leave him with the game while i answer the call, he comes and finds me after maybe 5 minutes and the dig dig diggoty dog song was bothering him so much he had to leave the room, he couldn’t take it anymore 🤣

[@jasondavis6245]

I honestly feel like WrestleMania 2000 was the literal game changer for me. Kinda like 007 was amazing at the time. I remember spending all my time at my friend's playing these games and being blown away.

[@roninmarketing4048]

These games were so much fun. I miss the 90s

[@realessayog6947]

I remember being ADDICTED to this game.. I just admired how the cassette was black too.. I used to play hours all night on royal rumble mode

[@DemetriB0329]

I still play this to this very day.. Childhood memories

[@jamesbounds]

This is one of my favorite wrestling games of all time. I like that just about all the wrestlers have multiple ring attires and the gameplay is great.

[@SpaghettiJoBayBay]

WWF No Mercy, Wrestlemania 2000, and Mystical Ninja Staring Goemon(I know it's not a wrestling game) are the only n64 games that I still go out of my way to play. Me, my lil brother, and Step brother would spend hours playing Wrestlemania 2000 in middle school. I would always try to create the ninjas from Mortal Kombat, Scorpion and Sub-Zero was always the most fun to make. Thanks for making videos on these games!

[@matthillegas3099]

Maybe just nostalgia, and playing with my friends 20 years ago, but No Mercy was the best wrestling video game ever

[@Zergrush66]

Play it again! It holds up I promise !

[@SpiritOfThDayman]

I got my copy of No Mercy from an EB in 2001. Very fortunate that it happen to be a USA-1 cart

[@AssembleShow]

love these video game in depths keep them coming!

[@kyokushinkuma]

I bought an N64 and No Mercy about 10yrs ago. I still love it as much as I did back in 2001.

[@joypadlad]

I used to have a promotion with storylines, shows and ppvs that I would run in No Mercy and uploaded to KZbin years ago. No one really watched it and I ended up deleting the channel. Kinda feel like I was ahead of my time and think it would have been received a lot better these days.

[@Gabriel_Cook]

I would've subbed.

[@joypadlad]

@@Gabriel_Cook Thanks! It was pretty cool but time consuming. I did all the voices for promos and everything too. PPVs were livestreamed on Twitch and then you could catch a replay on Patreon. Had the whole model locked in back in 2015 or 2016 but only a couple people watched.

[@Troytotheworld]

I loved how the characters sold the nut punch! Classic!

[@Shiningwizardo]

I went to a friends house and after playing this for a couple of hours. this was the game that convinced me to save my cash as a kid and buy the N64 (I had playstation). It is still awesome to this day and deserves all the praise it gets. It will also never stop being funny seeing main event Stevie Richards.

[@cuckertarlson3037]

World tour was the first one I played when I was 10 years old and I played all of them as they came out. My fondest memories are also with revenge.

[@purestformofpeace]

I was waiting for you to cover No Mercy! IMO the greatest wrestling game of all time. The definitive AKI wrestling game and a true swan song that pushed the N64 to it's limits. NM has stood the test of time and is still playable and fun to this day. Absolute classic 👌

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

I mean Revenge sold more so obviously No Mercy isn't the best.😂

[@sgallegos702]

These AKI games hands down made my enjoyment of wrestling peak. It never got close again. I probably amassed over 1000 hours of playtime amongst those 3.

[@bobbygermain5428]

One of my favorite wrestling games of all time.

[@Stampistuta]

World Tour and Revenge are pure nostalgia for me. So good. I loved WM2000 too but my copy of No Mercy had a save bug which meant I returned it after a week or 2 but the local shop never got the fixed copies in so I didn’t spend as much time with it as I’d hoped to.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

It's ok, Wrestlemania 2000 was much better

[@uttermanbo]

The ability to go after different titles, and the storyline branches depending on wins or losses made this a game you wanted to replay. SmackDown vs Raw 2007 is the only game close to this .

[@DarkEliteEric]

Yes, Yuke's slowed down gameplay, had counters on the bumpers and instituted a similar grappling system in HCTP and kept that intact until SVR 2007. After that in typical Yuke's fashion they fixed the controls which weren't broken and they started over gamifying stuff. One of the keys to AKI's design and why they were so good at design is that the fundamentally understood and loved wrestling and Combat Sports and that they kept it simple and fun but deep enough to keep you interested for hours if not years and decades. No Mercy still has a modding community and Def Jam Fight for New York had a competitive community still going. I think Yuke's AEW Fight Forever with the No Mercy director is going to be a fun experience. It's not going to be No Mercy 2, but I'll got some of the points that SVR 07 hit People were so desperate for a new game after a couple of years with Yuke's WWE 2K19 after Visual Concepts' WWE 2K20, they flocked to 2K22 only to flock back after bugs and 2,K turning their back on the modding community.

[@jonathanlyons230]

I agree 👍🏾

[@MorganDanielleBeauty]

I was a basically a toddler-child during this phase and I remember my brothers brought this game home from a flea market & I fell in love 😭

[@NotAGarage]

The save glitch on No Mercy occurs when you go through any Championship/Story Mode with a Create-A-Wrestler. It resets the whole game eventually. Trust me...

[@georgemetcalf8763]

It only see seemed to happen with the Heavyweight belt. I don't recall it happening much with IC or lower. Which is fine because the Heavyweight mode was full of handicap matches backstage. Those sucked and were repetitive af. Although it was fun watching the game elevate Stevie Richards to the main event.

[@NotAGarage]

@@georgemetcalf8763 it did to me in like summer 2001 when I made my Sean O'Haire win the Intercontinental title. And poof it was all gone when i turned it back on. I had already unlocked everything too. I unlocked everything again of course. But I could never bring myself to go through the Battle Royal mode to unlock Andre the Giant again. Maybe I'll do it tonight since I'm off work lol

[@LochNessHamster]

The first time I played championship mode as a kid, I thought that Michael Cole was interviewing the wrestlers at their house right on their front doorstep at 19:33. The walls sort of look like the siding typical on a lot of suburban US houses. Then eventually I discovered the backstage area and figured it out.

[@VIGLounge]

I still play No Mercy all the time, either trying to beat my time and number of eliminations in Survival and I have a 7-year-old son and I've introduced him to No Mercy and he loves it. We've done multiple tag team matches with our created characters and even setting up a King of the Ring Tag Team Tournament. Fun fact, if you do a ladder KOTR and make it to the finals you will read the screen before the match begins as "Ladder Math Finals."

[@thehound1359]

I loved playing survival with falls count anywhere.

[@ahmedf8965]

Spent my entire teen years playing this. Perry Saturn was my favourite to play as, he had the best moveset.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

I created him in Wrestlemania 2000. I gave him the move set I wanted. Suplex city 😂, not to mention a martial arts fighting style.

[@stephenchambers5054]

Best wrestling game ever, I wish today's wrestling games were like this

[@DLRX]

Without question, has the easiest and best grapple system of any wrestling game I've played.

[@mattharper1242]

Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 is the best

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

​@DLRX It's the same system as Revenge and Wrestlemania 2000 only everything is alower. So those games wind up a lot better!

[@b_side8669]

What I love is when you try & pick up an extremely heavy wrestler like big show or viscera the struggle is there & the Strain on you’re back it shows witch in those types of details are what’s lacking in today’s wrestling games in my opinion

[@georgemetcalf8763]

Surprised you didn't mention Stevie Richards's elevation to the main event in Heavyweight Championship. Still a fun gag for when a wrestler is eliminated from WWE. Like the classic triple threat from Wrestlemania XX with HBK/HHH/(Stevie Richards).

[@DLRX]

I always found it funny how they replaced Big Show with RTC Stevie Richards.

[@mikeroagreschen5350]

Richards is in an elite class, winning the Royal Rumble in both 2000 and 2004, going on to headline Wrestlemania both years.

[@Mr.Mastiffs]

I've had this Christmas 2000

[@Chapel85]

I loved this game and for me this and Wrestlemania 2000 were very close for being the best of the N64 games

[@myhawbeez]

I miss being able to create matches for shows and ppvs and just playing out my own storyline leading up to each months ppv. So much fun.

[@savharris5702]

WCW Revenge and WM2000 hit the feelings hardest, for me

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Totally correct. Revenge was awesome, but even as a WCW guy I liked Wrestlemania 2000 the most.

[@kosio0808]

In 2007/8 I got a heavily modded and emulated version from a torrent site. I didn't know what I was playing at the time what I knew was that it was tons of fun, exactly what I was looking for as someone who never had a console back then.

[@DannieDecentVlogs]

Been waiting a long time for this video, it didn't disappoint, awesome video

[@spacecase7504]

I never get tired of these WWF N64 game reviews and WrestlingBios doing No Mercy was something I was looking forward to.!

[@freddiejohnson6137]

The good thing about all AKI wrestling games on the N64 is that each one has modes and gameplay mechanics that are slightly different from eachother. I lived Wrestlemania 2000 for its year long season mode but as far as being able to create near enough any wrestler from the era No Mercy had all the right moves and the only thing it really was missing for me was the full entrances that were cut near the end to make space on the cartridge. Other wrestling games may have looked a bit better in still pictures but when moving and playing an AKI game just felt so much better.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

To me it was missing the smooth playability of Wrestlemania 2000 and,Revenge. All that added stuff didn't make up for how slow No Mercy was.

[@mentalhaze4226]

Oh my god! The nastalgia is oozing out of me right now! This brings back memories of me and my buddies sleeping over at eachothers house staying up playing this late as hell and then getting up and going over to the studio taping of Memphis Wrestling on Channel 5 on Saturdays. Good times

[@jaysilva5854]

I remember when I was younger recording No mercy matches on blank VHS tapes and watching them on tape or sending it to my friends to watch on tape! Ah good old days in 2000-2001.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Yeah, I used to do that. My friend would come over. We would each think of matches, tag together or face each other.

[@deroistewart1475]

Takes me back to the age of 10/11 playing this after school and weekend sleepovers with everyone bringing a controller. Not to mention released during one of the greatest times in wrestling. I’m 32 now and still own this game. Go back to it at least once a month along with revenge

[@dannyrivera8300]

I still play this from time to time whenever I boot up my N64

[@chrisx4149]

Me and my mates played this during summer holidays, every day. Absolutely the best wrestling game ever.

[@roryslaine7896]

I loved Wrestlemania 2000 so much. I still played that game until like 2012 when my arsehole roommate at Uni threw a house party when I was out of town and one of his scumbag mates stole my n64. I never forgave him 😂 I had that thing since like 1997. Mario Kart, Mario Tennis, Goldeneye, Wrestlemania 2000 and Super Smash Bros had the jam!

[@chrisxavier3147]

Loved this game, Wrestlemania 2000 was my fav though

[@psuley1977]

While I'm always grateful for a Wrestling Bios upload, learning my glitch free copy of No Mercy sitting in the basement, is worth a couple hundred dollars, is even better

[@Sixstringman]

I'm so glad I grew up in a time when games had to be finished at launch.

[@C6ZR1]

These games are legendary

[@GeorgeArthurJr]

You should definitely check out Wrestlemania 2000. It had a Create-A-Belt mode, which was seriously so cool. I'm bummed they removed it from No Mercy.

[@CSC52698]

Because the belts were available on No Mercy?

[@GeorgeArthurJr]

@@CSC52698 Create-A-Championship wasn’t in No Mercy. I’m talking about custom belts you could create besides the original ones. That feature was removed in No Mercy and was really fun to make a custom belt.

[@chikish]

Playing Revenge, Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy with my friends are some of my fondest memories. It cannot be overstated just how mind-blowing these games were for the time. There was so much replay value. No Mercy in particular I'd say is a masterpiece.

[@SykoSkot]

The video game mini-series is my favorite thing on this channel, and that's saying something. Been waiting for No Mercy since the start!

[@Richterdgf]

My pal Nick and I used to play Wrestlemania 2000 all the freaking time. We LOVED the Tornado Tag mode. We were so heavily into this game, he even imported Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 (released in Japan between WM 2000 and No Mercy) JUST so we could get a peek at whatever new stuff was coming in No Mercy. When No Mercy dropped, we were blown away by how incredible it was. We spent countless hours playing the game and making CAWs of ourselves and all our friends. Nick isn’t with us anymore, gone way too soon, but I’ll never forget all the fun we had with this game. I miss you, my friend, my brother. I’ll see you when my time here is through. Just have the second controller ready for me when the time comes. I love you buddy. It may not be soon, but I’ll see you again.

[@brycegrenier]

My favorite game of all time! It got released when I was 5 years old and I vividly remember playing as Stone Cold for countless hours. I recently bought an N64 and No Mercy and have been enjoying the nostalgia. A childhood staple with a background song that never left my brain lol

[@joevchar1388]

Yeah I think stone colds move sets were quick (rattlesnake) strike fast and and hard. The stunner was quick too finisher. Could get at least four finishers done to make sure of the win

[@dr.candido4441]

I stopped watching wrestling but I never missed a wrestling game there just so fun. Wrestlemania 2000 was one of my favorite all time highly recommend

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Wrestlemania 2K is definitely the best. People may talk about the smoothness of Revenge or the features of No Mercy, but W2000 had both. It's almost fitting and poignant that I prefer W2000 and created so many WCW guys. Almost mirroring reality.

[@JobberGames]

Love your videos! Easily the best WWE channel on youtube

[@brettrossi034]

God damn so many kid memories I had with these games especially No Mercy. Looking back it's awesome how they got a lot of those little quirks down for the wrestlers like Austin's entrance walk to the Rocks stutter head kick when the opponent is on the ground and more. This game still holds up today

[@PerpetualAlfa]

18:29 - This isn’t true, there were backstage fighting areas in WWF Smackdown on PS1 which predated No Mercy by 8 months.

[@brianb99]

These N64 wrestling games were life to me and my buddies growing up! Thanks for the trips down memory lane!

[@calvinfolan1736]

Yes! Let's go boys! I was just playing this earlier, a fantastic game in every way!

[@albertthewisecrow]

The AKI games on N64 definitely had some great soundtracks! Thank you the video Wrestlingbios.

[@tommynelson8674]

Revenge will always be, for me, the best of the best. I know no mercy is the exact same game, but revenge was just something special!

[@mattigator600]

I mean they did make a lot of upgrades to the engine. Not all of them were improvements .. one thing Revenge had was false finishes. You usually had to pin guys at least 3 times but on the WwF games guys got real easy to pin after 1 finisher

[@tommynelson8674]

@@mattigator600 I remember every match trying to set up a badass finish just so I could watch it on the replay 🤣 man those were the days

[@liquidgeorge]

​@@tommynelson8674 Kanyon's Flatliner in slo-mo replay was the one!

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

No Mercy not the same exact game. None of them are the exact same. Wrestlemania 2000 is really close with playability, sure. No Mercy is too slow to be classified as the same game. Just the same as World Tour was way different.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

​@@mattigator600 Not really. It didn't have anything to do with hitting a finisher. It had to do with how much life energy a character had. You could set opponents higher or lower than you as desired. You could change the difficulty setting, which had some impact on how fast you could bring the opponents energy down. The good about Revenge is it gave a score ranking, so you could see almost exactly how well you did. Every aspect is broken down, one of which is life bonus. It starts at 2500 and goes down to zero. However you can still pin or submit someone way before they reach zero life. The spirit meter goes more off momentum than the life bonus (which is not too different than hit points). If you're really good and lucky, you can beat an opponent in under 90 seconds and you would know that the life bonus was way above zero. But more importantly, you would only have 1 or 2 finishers. Even doing multiple finishers isn't a great thing, cause you still want the momentum spirit/attitude to be on special for the pin.

[@galax73]

My siblings and I were the unfortunate ones that had the memory wipe glitch. We had so many created characters. Each with up to 2-4 attires and unlocked so many content. It was pretty heart breaking at the time because we didn't know how it happened. That pretty much made us stop playing the game.

[@csciacchitano]

The only advantage that WM2000 had, as I remember it, was a more consistent framerate. No Mercy really struggled with tag team matches (or 1 on 1 with managers at ringside). Other than that I think your instincts were pretty much spot on.

[@mattigator600]

Right. If you only play on emulators maybe dont know this... the game was kind of trash to play when 4 characters were on screen 😆

[@csciacchitano]

@@gsesquire3441 I mean, I wasn't counting frames or anything, but when I got No Mercy in middle school and all of a sudden the four player matches with my friends started to chug it was a pretty noticeable difference. Didn't stop me from loving the game but it was an obvious change coming from WM2000.

[@carnivoretrades]

Haven't played either in about 20 years but I remember enjoying the smoother gameplay of WM 2000 much more than NM.

[@Gabriel_Cook]

Create-A-Belt.

[@the757general2]

@@csciacchitano Wrestlemania 2000 also had Create-A-Belt, full ring entrances, tag team entrances, cloning A.I., non-glitched Cage match (impossible for human players to shake A.I. opponents off the cage in No Mercy), and a hidden A.I. mode where you could edit the A.I. of any wrestler. Every AKI wrestling game besides World Tour had something the rest didn't have making all of them worth playing.

[@robertwarf3316]

You could fight backstage in the first two smackdow games, too. I only played no mercy once and I was more into the smackdown games so I felt l I didn't give no mercy a fair chance. Can't wait to play this game again. Thanks for your great uploads!

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

I played No Mercy several times. I continued to play Revenge and Wrestlemania 2000 as well. You didn't really miss much, cause NM had a tendency to slow down with all the features it had. If you really are looking to try an N64 AKI/THQ game, go for 1 of these others. There is no comparison with how much smoother they are than No Mercy.

[@VeryStupid4547]

The quality of the gameplay in this masterpiece remains unmatched. Obviously, the gtaphics have been surpassed, and some cool things have emerged in wrestling games since, but No Mercy remains the pinnacle of what a wrestling game should be among all of it's peers.

[@DarkEliteEric]

Gameplay is most important and Wrestling Bios hot a key point with the weight of the moves. You don't feel that these days.

[@martynodonnell8467]

I think Here Comes The Pain was very much a spiritual successor to No Mercy. Which IMO matched and in a lot of areas surpassed No Mercy. However from from there nothing else came close. Except perhaps Smackdown VS Raw 2006. However wrestling games were, unfortunately, on a downward slope after then.

[@DarkEliteEric]

@@martynodonnell8467 HCTP borrowed some mechanics from No No Mercy but the it was still very shallow in the gameplay department. No springboard moves from the apron, no grapple moves to the floor, no moves on weapons, no submission system with selling and limping instead opting for a very lazy HUD system that showed you a body part was red. Speaking of selling, in HCTP you could fall off a helicopter or the Smackdown fist, land in your neck then roll right back up. AKI would never design something that silly. Speaking of silly, while Yuke's had a handful good animations pulled off WWE TV or puro matches, AKI blew them out of the water with details like the head bobble for DDP 's Diamond Cutter or moves like the gonzo bomb and six seconds magic pulled from matches and Pride FC fights. And the moves had great impact without silly sells, spin-a-rooneies being attached to end, or other gimmicks like that. No warps either.

[@nftman260]

Graphics doesnt always matter bro

[@VeryStupid4547]

@@nftman260 I didn't say they did... But whether you choose to believe it or not, they matter to the people who buy the current games.

[@RUNUPbeaches]

I have never fallen out of love with wrestling. Been watching since 1993 I was 5 then. I'm 33 now and I have witnessed and followed everything WWE,TNA,WCW,ECW,NJPW the Indy scene. And more recently AEW. I will always love wrestling, theirs an entire culture and community that comes with it. People make a lot of money with their wrestling endeavors. So don't "everyone has grown out" of wrestling. Because it's more people than you know who loves wrestling and make a career out of it. Hence wrestlers and promoters. Good video non the less. I still have my foot of NM on N64.

[@FunkSwaggMusiK]

"Diggity Dawg" 🔥💯

[@FunkSwaggMusiK]

@Ultra Instinct 94 BREAK IT!

[@FunkSwaggMusiK]

I actually modded 2K22 to play Diggity Dawg in the Menu

[@joshuahewlett4340]

Yes to the comment about the moves feeling like they have weight to them! That's a big reason why I never cared for the Smackdown games. There was no weight to anything in those games, whereas No Mercy felt real. They got it down to regular guys struggling to pick up Rikishi and Viscera!

[@rileykazama3145]

Undertakers entrance in no mercy is awesome

[@jackcarraway4707]

No Mercy should be considered one of the greatest fighting games of all time; it's up there with Melee, Tekken, Street Fighter 2, etc.

[@stewartmcrae8007]

My favourite wrestling game of all time remember my mom getting me this when I was about nine years old

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Yoy were too young to even notice that the game slowed down with every extra feature.

[@stewartmcrae8007]

@@CurlyFromTheSwirly I have no idea what you are talking about all I know is that i loved the N64 no mercy WCW NWO revenge and world tour were amazing

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

@@stewartmcrae8007 If you actually played Revenge or Wrestlemania 2000 you would know what I mean that No Mercy is really slow.

[@stewartmcrae8007]

@@CurlyFromTheSwirly i have played Revenge but not wrestlemania 2000 I don't remember no mercy being slow although maybe it was i haven't played it in like 20 years or close to it

[@marccaselle8108]

I played the heck out of wm no mercy when it was new. I had so much fun with friends with the royal rumble modes and other stuff