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@@rdpruett88 I think people appreciate the Teddy Long catchphrases more now a days then back then. I honestly never paid much attention to it at the time. Going back, it's all there! 😂 I feel like DX 2006 was underrated for sure. Very corny but very entertaining still. Maybe someday you'll be able to nab a Wii or GameCube again. Backwards compatibility was one of the best features for a console. At the time, we took it for granted. At least I thought it would be something normal going forward but now it seems like a toss up.

@beanomac3126 nowadays we got digital games and emulators. Backwards compatibility was something special

@@rdpruett88 emulators are great. But for some reason it seems most companies haven't taken advantage of the digital market. So many classics that can be on the stores that aren't. Especially PS2 and GameCube games.

@@rdpruett88 Link's target test was crazy. You have angle the boomerang throw to get one that is just out of your reach. So devious.

@beanomac3126 I think know which target you mean

At least sometimes you'd get lucky with some divas on the loading screen. It didn't bother me much either for some reason. But only for Smackdown! 2

I think they did it best around the WWE 13 games. I liked that instead of having to memorize move sets it just gave you alternative moves. Although you'd still have the option for lifting moves that worked so I fell they didn't quite get it right with the move options.

@@TheWrestlingGameNetwork never heard of any of them. 😂 But I have been wanting to try out some more Japanese wrestling games to see what all the hullabaloo is about. I enjoy the Virtual Pro Wrestling series.

@@beanomac3126 I wouldn't have been able to play them without emulation and google translate (photo mode) but I've had fun. There are so many I had never played so it was like opening pandora's box of wrestling games.

Thanks for the translation tip.

@@beanomac3126 No problem. It was a game changer. It's not 100% accurate but it was enough to help me navigate menus which was my biggest barrier.

I have no idea why it seems they took this out of Revenge since there are so many masked wrestlers. For No Mercy and WrestleMania 2000 since most wrestlers don't wear face paint or masks it makes sense. Although it would have been cool to tear Kane's mask and see his burnt face underneath.

That makes a lot of sense. If you watched both though like me, it's still a tough decision. But I love Smackdown v Raw 2006 and 2007 more because that's when I started watching the WWE for the first time on weekly television.

It could've been great, unless they removed a bunch of stuff to add in more things. That said though, sadly Backlash was just a myth. A former THQ Producer named Sanders Keel debunked it on a few podcasts. The best we can hope for is RetroRandyPrice someday.

Here comes the pain I think was actually my first wrestling game. I remember getting it for Christmas but I was way too young to even try and play it. Had to wait a year until Smackdown vs Raw and the handed down N64 games.

Nice? 😂

Even though he could've been a main eventer at the time in WWE, he was still an upper mid carder at the time I feel.

What do you enjoy most about Here Comes the Pain?

Sanders Keel is awesome! 😎

@@beanomac3126 Agree The need him and Justin Leeper on the AEW game!

@@beanomac3126 Sanders talks about making Wrestlemania x8 in the Talk Sh!t podcast

Haven't checked that one out yet but I have it in my watch later. What did Justin Leeper work on? I'm unfamiliar with him.

@@beanomac3126 Sanders is also on the Insdiers Edge podcast. I provided some questions. Justin Leeper was a creative on the SVR games doing a bunch but most knonw for Road to Wrestlemania for 2009, 2010 and 2011, which he has director's commentaries on TH-cam for where he gives a behind the scenes stories. He's a big AKI guy as well. He's still making games.

@@Mike-t5r9q yeah its definitely a close call. There's good reason these are the standards for wrestling gaming legend!

@@BlueCat98 I definitely am gonna compare the Day of Reckoning series to AKI titles in the future. I haven't played WrestleMania 18 yet though.

The first match is WCW/nWo Revenge, the entrance music was edited in. The second match is from Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 Freem Edition. The third match is from G.M.Spectre's WrestleMania X mod for Wrestlemania 2000! All games in description for Saturday Slam Fest videos.

@@beanomac3126 ahh thats what got me , when i saw wcw guys with intro music , it stumped me thx for the clarification

Its be awesome if they had the music someday. Maybe it's possible idk?

@@beanomac3126 wcw feel the bang i think has the intros

I'm not sure. I thought it was something where you insert your own music or something. I haven't checked it out yet but the music tool sounds confusing.

Yup

@@brendenmingo6527 I wanted to see who was the big boy in WCW!

@@marccaselle8108 it might as well be the only WCW game on PS1 from I hear. 😂

@beanomac3126 it's way better than WCW mayham and I like mayham because it's 1000 times better than backstage assualt

@marccaselle8108 late WCW games deserved much better. Too bad we'll never have an old school ECW or WCW side game.

@@beanomac3126 look into WWF no mercy ROM hacks. It's the best you'll get

Yeah Bound by Blood and Feel the Bang look awesome.

@@NoelComiX sounds like an awesome Christmas! I have fond memories of those days as well.

@@ScarysReviews yeah they definitely could have done it based on faction. But oh well. Idk if it was space issues or music license issues.

@@rdpruett88 I'm trying to get more mods and WCW games involved to round out the videos. I could've done Rey and Hayabusa in world tour or vpw64 but I forgot and though they were only in Freem. But this works out. I more surprised at the results of the squash match more than anything. 😂 Goldust with those head games though will do that too ya.

@beanomac3126 whatever you gotta do for more content. Yea, Goldust's mind games will mess ya up hard

@@darkseason96 we'll have to see what happens this Saturday! 😯

@@rdpruett88 "Woooooo!"

@@rdpruett88 can't wait for another bastard child to show up in Tekken 9. 😂

Solid list. I used to dabble in Rey Mysterio since he was on WWE TV when I was first played these. HHH is on the list and Jericho is unique at the very least. I liked playing as him in Revenge.

I agree. They have spammed it quite often. Maybe they thought Cena's design was just temporary. I actually really liked Cena's design. Who was your favorite to see give those kinds of suplexes?

@beanomac3126 the spinner belt has a mixed opinion. Some love it while other hate the F out of it. Favorite person to see delivering suplexs, Kurt Angle & Taz. Especially Taz in his ECW days

Taz was cool with those suplexes. Although he annoyed the crap out of me when he came to WWE. Great announcer though. Plus I think it's a toss up for me, either Tazz or Jericho had the best debut in WWE.

@@beanomac3126 well, Tazz beat Kurt Angle at the Royal Rumble in 2000 and Jericho had a verbal one on one with The Rock on his first night in WWE in 99.

Its pretty much his debut look. Same one from the original Smackdown except they updated his hair cut. But Big Show's 1999 attire wasn't my favorite either.

I was able to beat that match pretty easily honestly. It was the fatal Fourway number one contender match for the US title that messed me up the most.

@beanomac3126 Yeah I guess everyone has their own hangups.

I'm sure of I did the cage match again, I would find out why people hate it so much. I'm fine with not knowing.😂

It'd be a small time Nintendo property that fans would be clamoring for a switch port after being on hiatus. Just like a bunch of Nintendo franchises around the GameCube and Wii era.

What a time to be alive. I have to admit, I grew up with the PS2. So seeing better graphics between game consoles and hearing about technical limitations was cool. But now, it seems we've almost reached the summit. So the console graphics jump isn't really meaning much now. When I was a kid, HD was a distant dream. Then in a short time it became the standard. Technology moves fast that's for sure.

They seem to have gotten lazy. The developers of Nitro and Thunder I don't think we're even wrestling fans. THQ left them to their own devices and they were more interested in putting themselves in a game than actually making a good one. That said, I've still got to try Nitro and Thunder before I give a final grade to it.

@@seeowins I think mine was No Mercy. But I heard from a lot of people how awesome this was when it was first released!

@@florianklink2961 I'll have to check some of those out again. Good eyes!

@beanomac3126 no my eyes are not good at all lol. I just know this game since '97.

Excellent memory then! 😂