This is one of those games I never owned but played many times at friend's houses. I miss the days of easy couch multiplayer like that. Just hanging out on my buddy's couch playing some N64
I have played your videos so much that my wife can literally quote your entire intro. Now all I have to do is start it by saying "I am beating every N64 game....." then a long pause. She sighs, and is then compelled to finish the rest. Good times
The disrespect to Meng and Barbarian is off the charts. For putting over how much each move would hurt to take, saying that to them would end up being the last move you ever made.
@@FHRiley-yk9by because he spent an entire lifetime beating up marks in bars. Also, he was trained in sumo, and while that might be two steps above akido it's still an actual discipline. I don't think that anyone here has the appropriate training to take his untrained-self to the ground or inflict serious injury to him before he enveloped you. 99.92% of the world isn't Stipe or Silva in fighting.
@@FHRiley-yk9by lmao ok high school boys wrestling fan, I think you might mistake an unskilled everyday person with someone who is 6'5 and still heavier than the highest weight class in high school. Is this a collegiate match or a fight were he can start blasting him in the face the second hes grabbed onto him? I know wrestlers tell tall tales and protect their own. But there's something to be said for something that's been seen time and time again. And I'm sure not one of those guys that ever went up to him had any fighting experience whatsoever, it was just 1st beer 90 lb idiots thinking that they could take the biggest guy at then bar. (Even though some interviews have given descriptions of some of them)
OMG Aero Fighter's Assault was one of my favorite single player games. At the time, the graphics for an aircraft shoot em up was just AMAZING. I spent a stupid amount of time on the second level using the Russian fighter to double tap all the bombers. That mission was so damned fun and beautiful
My little brother rented Aero Fighter's Assault from our local Schnucks (grocery store chain) in the summer of 98. Played it a little, just really didn't click with me. In 2003 or 2004 that same Schnucks was selling off all their N64 games. My Mom bought most of them for my youngest brother. Aero Fighter's Assault was one of them. They only had one copy, so it had to have been the one we rented 5/6 years prior. Just a funny anecdote.
Awwwww shiiiiiet. Many many hours on this one. I liked any character that had a ground-pound attack, so satisfying when they'd get a bloody face. Really liked how you had a chance of bloodying their face at any point in the match with a power attack.
I think behind Goldeneye, this was my most played N64 game. Mostly helped by the fact that it perfectly co-coincided with the short period of time my friends and I enjoyed watching professional wrestling.
Yeah Hogan's Finisher in this was always strange. His real life Finisher is the running Leg Drop. But because finishers at this time didn't have Running options, they had to give him something in his front position...and for whatever reason, chose the Flair Flop (it's something Ric Flair was famous for doing...but not as a finisher). Then again, during this time in the real WCW, Hogan just had an nWo member interfere during every match anyways.
Oh yeah, think every 90s kid played a wrestling game growing up. There was no internet so most of us didnt even know wrestling was fake until we were older lmao.
By far the game I played the most as a child. I've never lost a single match against anyone in my town back in those days. Probably the only game I was ever better than everyone else at.
If it really is that stressful to upload these N64 videos, Thab should consider trying to hire someone within this community to help take the workload off his shoulders.
@ChristMetalMayhem I agree, but it's probably super expensive. He's said before editing writing the scripts takes a looooong time. Even though he has a super dedicated fan base, I have a feeling he's not making enough to have a whole team
Goldberg was my wrestler of choice in that game back in the day as well. He was my favorite and nobody could even come close to beating him on TV at the time.
The Nash pose change was because he was part of the NWO Wolf Pack at that point. So putting up the arms and eventually extending the index and pinky fingers up while the thumb, middle and ring fingers tips came together to make a "wolf" head.
0:46 dude me and a buddy would always do the same thing in royal rumble matches but in svr2007 and 2008. Best part is when the rhythm is thrown off when you don’t get the AI out in time then more flood in haha.
My friends and I spent countless hours beating the crap out of each other with random objects from under the ring and the crowd. We never even tried to win. It was just a beat down for us lol
@@autobotstarscream765 I'm pretty sure he probably has it setup so that's how it will go down. A lot of his entries for games are the next in the series, like how he played WCW/NWO World Tour before this one.
@@autobotstarscream765For series, Thab put "Next [Series Name] game" for every one in that series, and either one that wins get the oldest game. For example, now there are 2 marbles with Next Zelda game, both meaning OoT if any of them wins
@lopecillo920 I thought that was just for Madden because there's like 10 of them for N64 alone that would clog up the running if they all got a chance at once! 😂
Jorts or not, I'm honestly surprised Thabs doesn't remember Kidman, especially bc i feel like Thabs would like Kidman's "C'est la vie", low-key, laid back character much like the chilled-out, dulcet tones of our favorite Mario & N64 challenge streamer! 😂❤
They do have a block actually. The L and R buttons act as block against attacks and dodge against a grapple. Also if you hold either L or R (sorry can't remember) and press B, you can hit them when you're getting up from being knocked down
Hey Thab! Huge wrestling fan here, Perfect choice putting your own face over Raven's in the thumbnail, because Raven doesnt fit in with any of the other 3 in the slightest! Just seems perfect!
Keep it up MrB! I can't watch live, and I don't get to watch every Friday. But I've been following on TH-cam for a long time now. I look forward to these. Lending you some energy.
Ill never forget on y2k day. My brother went out with our father and i was gaming. We played for months not knowing how to do the finisher. I was determined to figure it out and finally did. When i suprised him by doing it, talk about a moment ill never forget. I love seeing people shocked happy. We went to the boys and girls club for a bit and dominated everyone, never getting off the controller 😂
very special memories of WCW vs NWO World Tour and an uncle got us the next game but I'm pretty sure we never got past the 4th level. I know that 2nd place Zelda finish must have been bitter but I'm psyched to see an old unpopular game that I barely remember
8:48 That's exactly what Ric Flair's special would be, I guess they let other wrestlers use each other's moves, either that or it's a HUGE oversight to give someone's move to the wrong guy.
At the time, I didn't know about a lot of wrestlers in WCW, so my brother and I would change the names and costumes of some of the roster. Alex Wright got his costume changed to Kevin Nash's but with green, and he looked like Randy Travis, so he got renamed to "Macho Man Randy Travis". 😂
Rey Mysterio Jr's finisher is not the 619 in this game. He started using that finisher later in his career when he went to WWE. The finisher you were doing is the tornado DDT. And that's not his ACTUAL finisher. He has a corner finisher. Thrown your opponent into the corner and then grapple him and do your special move and he does a top rope hurricanrana. All the wrestlers have multiple special moves in this game. Some may only have the front and behind special, but some have a corner and a top rope special as well.
This was a fun game when I would rent it from my local video store in my neighborhood when I was seven and I was a huge wrestling fan as a kid,I was fan of WCW vs NWO World Tour a lot more than Revenge.
I think I put more time into this game than any other game I’ve ever played. I remember playing this for months without realizing the middle stick was how to do finishers
I ded at the horse racing meme - looking forward to that one, sort of? Great review of the wrestling game. I never played these games as a kid but they look like so much fun.
That isn't actually reys finisher, the 619 wasn't popularized until his WWE days and it's him having an opponent slumped on the second rope and he runs and swings his legs through the ropes on to their face. Even if he did this move in WCW it wouldn't have been easy to animate in 1997 The reason they likely changed Nash's tuant was that he never did the should stretch, it was just an animation they gave him.
Han zo mon. Is the guy I always got. When you twist their leg back and raise em up while your on your back was always a no way that's possible momment for me but I loved it.
"No regard for his (opponent's) safety." Pretty much sums up Goldberg's career.
lol yah ask Brett hart, he will tell anyone who will listen
Queue Bret's music.
YOU'RE NEXT!!!!
@@JusBlazeDR true he's still crying 25 years on lol
Or how to tell you are smark listening todays smarks bitching about Golberg without saying it
"He's wearing jorts, so he's my enemy."
Me too ThaB... Me too.
that Evangelion pronunciation was an underrated highlight of this video
I read your comment and was like “Okay, how bad could he screw it up?” and literally lol’d when he said it 😂
It’s crazy to think Rey Mysterio is still an active wrestler.
And still putting on great matches. Dude will be 80 and still be having great matches
Is it still the same guy? He does wear a mask
Yes, it's still the same guy. He just doesn't wrestle as often so it means he's not going through extended periods of injury.
@@somethingsomething8511you realize dude pays taxes and signs contracts, right? same guy
@@marctoad I'm not saying he's tricking the federal government or the WWE 😆The WWE could swap him out and not tell anyone its a different guy.
We got Revenge when we got our N64 for Christmas. Still probably my favorite Wrestling game of all time.
Thab fits so naturally into the thumbnail, I didn't even notice him at first
Quote ThabRaven nevermore.
I seriously didn't notice him until I saw this comment. ROFL
When you watch the great race in the end and absolutely forget that this video was originally about a Wrestling game.
So satisfying after weeks of skipping through football and wrestling vids.
Its so funny how many times he mentions the horse racing game before he gets it, some seriously ominous foreshadowing.
It's wild to think that this game came out over 25 years ago and Rey Mysterio is still going.
theres a wcw game that came out before this and it also had rey (wcw vs nwo vs the world)
Curt Hennig*
As a wrestling fan, the inaccuracies in this video were killing me. So glad you finally got to this one, a top tier wrestling game for sure.
This is one of those games I never owned but played many times at friend's houses. I miss the days of easy couch multiplayer like that. Just hanging out on my buddy's couch playing some N64
I have played your videos so much that my wife can literally quote your entire intro. Now all I have to do is start it by saying "I am beating every N64 game....." then a long pause. She sighs, and is then compelled to finish the rest. Good times
LMAO
And I mean all of them! The twist is, the next game I play is randomly selected, so I have no clue what's coming up next....
My seven year old runs around the house quoting the intro!😆
@kevinmeyers162
🤣👏🏽🥰
AND I MEAN ALL OF THEM
"Once in a while someone intereferes in the match and cheats."
*Goldberg grabs a weapon*
Glad you're back Thab!
The disrespect to Meng and Barbarian is off the charts. For putting over how much each move would hurt to take, saying that to them would end up being the last move you ever made.
Meng/Haku biting off a guy's nose is one of my all time "wtf" stories from wrestling lore.
Why does everyone think Haku is super tough for beating up fat marks in the bar? Haku doesn't have any martial arts training. It's a myth. Fantasy.
@@FHRiley-yk9by because he spent an entire lifetime beating up marks in bars. Also, he was trained in sumo, and while that might be two steps above akido it's still an actual discipline. I don't think that anyone here has the appropriate training to take his untrained-self to the ground or inflict serious injury to him before he enveloped you. 99.92% of the world isn't Stipe or Silva in fighting.
@@busterdog321 ok pro wrestling mark. Haku would get turned into a pretzel by a high school senior wrestling heavyweight
@@FHRiley-yk9by lmao ok high school boys wrestling fan, I think you might mistake an unskilled everyday person with someone who is 6'5 and still heavier than the highest weight class in high school. Is this a collegiate match or a fight were he can start blasting him in the face the second hes grabbed onto him? I know wrestlers tell tall tales and protect their own. But there's something to be said for something that's been seen time and time again. And I'm sure not one of those guys that ever went up to him had any fighting experience whatsoever, it was just 1st beer 90 lb idiots thinking that they could take the biggest guy at then bar. (Even though some interviews have given descriptions of some of them)
9:18 that sounds like a typical WCW main event of that era to be fair
AKI later made DefJam Fight for NY which is one of my all time favorite fighting game. Highly recommend.
7:08. That’s not a 619, it’s a Tornado DDT. Rey didn’t create the 619 until he came to WWE
Best way to Start into the Weekend ❤️
That thumbnail is LEGENDARY
OOT just messing with us at this point
It would be epic if it was the last game.
@@inthefade I wouldn't be mad tbh. Perfect way to end the series.
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OOT is 212. We've got 29 weeks of videos until ThaBs gets there.
OMG Aero Fighter's Assault was one of my favorite single player games. At the time, the graphics for an aircraft shoot em up was just AMAZING. I spent a stupid amount of time on the second level using the Russian fighter to double tap all the bombers. That mission was so damned fun and beautiful
My little brother rented Aero Fighter's Assault from our local Schnucks (grocery store chain) in the summer of 98. Played it a little, just really didn't click with me. In 2003 or 2004 that same Schnucks was selling off all their N64 games. My Mom bought most of them for my youngest brother. Aero Fighter's Assault was one of them. They only had one copy, so it had to have been the one we rented 5/6 years prior.
Just a funny anecdote.
My buddy Wes and I, used to do our own commentary back in the day. Part of why I remember this game to be so great
Awwwww shiiiiiet. Many many hours on this one. I liked any character that had a ground-pound attack, so satisfying when they'd get a bloody face. Really liked how you had a chance of bloodying their face at any point in the match with a power attack.
Ahh, ringout strats. That takes me back!
I loved playing the ROYAL RUMBLE in WCW/NWO REVENGE.
Yup.
I think behind Goldeneye, this was my most played N64 game. Mostly helped by the fact that it perfectly co-coincided with the short period of time my friends and I enjoyed watching professional wrestling.
Yeah Hogan's Finisher in this was always strange. His real life Finisher is the running Leg Drop. But because finishers at this time didn't have Running options, they had to give him something in his front position...and for whatever reason, chose the Flair Flop (it's something Ric Flair was famous for doing...but not as a finisher). Then again, during this time in the real WCW, Hogan just had an nWo member interfere during every match anyways.
Hogan always did his version of the flair flop during his Hollywood run. Always beg his opponent and then cheap shot them.
@@i2a7-of2ju Except that's not a finisher, he just had a Leg Drop as a regular move.
Played the shit outta this as a kid. Good controls, good customizability, good wrestler selection. Definitely top tier wrestling game.
The thumbnail is perfection
AKI MAN HOLY CRAP! So many memories. Loved playing as him, Goldberg, and STing.
This. This is the wrestling game I played growing up. Thanks for the vid Thab!!! Have a great day everyone!!!
I legitimately forgot how effing huge of a genre unto itself wrestling games used to be.
Oh yeah, think every 90s kid played a wrestling game growing up. There was no internet so most of us didnt even know wrestling was fake until we were older lmao.
@@turkeyman631 uhh.... it was so obvious...... we are screwed
By far the game I played the most as a child. I've never lost a single match against anyone in my town back in those days. Probably the only game I was ever better than everyone else at.
I was legit worried for Thab's safety when he didnt drop a video last week
He posted an update saying there would be no video so idk why you'd think that
@Gizmetti oh really?? TH-cam is funny about sending me notifications sometimes - even when I have the bell on sometimes I won't grt updates
If it really is that stressful to upload these N64 videos, Thab should consider trying to hire someone within this community to help take the workload off his shoulders.
@@Gizmetti He went to a wedding thats why he did not post a video.
@ChristMetalMayhem I agree, but it's probably super expensive. He's said before editing writing the scripts takes a looooong time. Even though he has a super dedicated fan base, I have a feeling he's not making enough to have a whole team
Goldberg was my wrestler of choice in that game back in the day as well. He was my favorite and nobody could even come close to beating him on TV at the time.
The Nash pose change was because he was part of the NWO Wolf Pack at that point. So putting up the arms and eventually extending the index and pinky fingers up while the thumb, middle and ring fingers tips came together to make a "wolf" head.
5:13. That’s Curt Hennig, not Chris.
well, it’s WCW so i definitely can imagine hulk hogan winning the championship on PPV via ring out 😂 they did the finger poke of doom after all
Finger poke was on nitro though not a ppv
0:46 dude me and a buddy would always do the same thing in royal rumble matches but in svr2007 and 2008. Best part is when the rhythm is thrown off when you don’t get the AI out in time then more flood in haha.
My friends and I spent countless hours beating the crap out of each other with random objects from under the ring and the crowd. We never even tried to win. It was just a beat down for us lol
This was one of my favorite N64 games .. been a minute since I watched one of these can’t wait to binge and catch up
11:40 Unlocking Kanyon AND Mortis is a very cool easter egg, as Mortis is just Chris Kanyon wearing a different costume. RIP Chris Kanyon!!
By the looks of 0:04 you're coming next. xD
What a massive relief to see a non-sports title up next. This challenge is making me realize a huge slice of the N64 library is just sports games.
Wrestling gamed arent sports games
This game defined my teen years.
Oh, and the intro with Sting and the truck driver was a reference to Big Trouble in Little China.
Rey Mysterio has been in the ring for so long, he outgrew the "Jr."
He dropped the Jr when he remasked to join WWE
Ocarina of Time was really taunting us in the race there at the end. Not yet though, not yet.
Really hope he plays OoT before MM because of the giant difference in difficulty due to Nintendo deliberately designing the two to be played in order.
@@autobotstarscream765 I'm pretty sure he probably has it setup so that's how it will go down. A lot of his entries for games are the next in the series, like how he played WCW/NWO World Tour before this one.
@@autobotstarscream765For series, Thab put "Next [Series Name] game" for every one in that series, and either one that wins get the oldest game. For example, now there are 2 marbles with Next Zelda game, both meaning OoT if any of them wins
@lopecillo920 I thought that was just for Madden because there's like 10 of them for N64 alone that would clog up the running if they all got a chance at once! 😂
Jorts or not, I'm honestly surprised Thabs doesn't remember Kidman, especially bc i feel like Thabs would like Kidman's "C'est la vie", low-key, laid back character much like the chilled-out, dulcet tones of our favorite Mario & N64 challenge streamer! 😂❤
This game was AWESOME. So many good memories!
3:38 - I haven't seen Kevin Nash pinned so quickly since the summer of 1992
Finger poke of doom is the best finisher
WELCOME TO OZ!
KWAB
I'm still in shock he didn't pull his quad taking that serious bump.
9:33 WCW would have pulled a stunt like that, to be fair.
Meng punched a guy in real life so hard his eye popped out. That's who Meng is.
This is one of the best wrestling games ever made. Raven was my go to
Kanyon debuted in WCW as Mortis. He wore a mask…he got hurt and when he came back he wrestled without the mask as Kanyon
They do have a block actually. The L and R buttons act as block against attacks and dodge against a grapple. Also if you hold either L or R (sorry can't remember) and press B, you can hit them when you're getting up from being knocked down
Hey Thab! Huge wrestling fan here, Perfect choice putting your own face over Raven's in the thumbnail, because Raven doesnt fit in with any of the other 3 in the slightest! Just seems perfect!
For those unaware, this game is still held in high regard among old wrestling fans
Putting your face on Raven just delightful.
The amount of controversy over that dumb box cover is a mildly interesting story.
Also, Raven did not age well.
All I have to say to the "to those who know" at the end....ba-na-na banana.
Sick vid bro!
This is the one I’ve been waiting for. This game was an absolute banger.
Keep it up MrB! I can't watch live, and I don't get to watch every Friday. But I've been following on TH-cam for a long time now. I look forward to these. Lending you some energy.
Ill never forget on y2k day. My brother went out with our father and i was gaming. We played for months not knowing how to do the finisher. I was determined to figure it out and finally did. When i suprised him by doing it, talk about a moment ill never forget. I love seeing people shocked happy. We went to the boys and girls club for a bit and dominated everyone, never getting off the controller 😂
One of my favorite N64 games growing up! Me and my brother would play this for hours having crazy royal rumbles!!
I was only listening to this vi!eo and the marble race at the end was epic, great commentary
very special memories of WCW vs NWO World Tour and an uncle got us the next game but I'm pretty sure we never got past the 4th level. I know that 2nd place Zelda finish must have been bitter but I'm psyched to see an old unpopular game that I barely remember
Nice video, also the marble race was a cherry on top this time
8:48 That's exactly what Ric Flair's special would be, I guess they let other wrestlers use each other's moves, either that or it's a HUGE oversight to give someone's move to the wrong guy.
I have never been interested in wrestling games or wrestling itself for that matter, but still find Thab’s videos on the topic massively entertaining!
The Jim Cornette of our generation.
wrestling games are fun when you put them on easy difficulty. it becomes a bully simulator
9:18 you pretty much just summed up exactly how WCW ppv main events were back then...
THAB/JORT Revenge: This time it's personal.
The marble racing is low-key my favorite part
At the time, I didn't know about a lot of wrestlers in WCW, so my brother and I would change the names and costumes of some of the roster. Alex Wright got his costume changed to Kevin Nash's but with green, and he looked like Randy Travis, so he got renamed to "Macho Man Randy Travis". 😂
Rey Mysterio Jr's finisher is not the 619 in this game. He started using that finisher later in his career when he went to WWE. The finisher you were doing is the tornado DDT. And that's not his ACTUAL finisher. He has a corner finisher. Thrown your opponent into the corner and then grapple him and do your special move and he does a top rope hurricanrana. All the wrestlers have multiple special moves in this game. Some may only have the front and behind special, but some have a corner and a top rope special as well.
Oh hell yeah Thab this is a much more convenient upload time here in Australia. You used to upload at like 1am, but 11pm is much better!
This was a fun game when I would rent it from my local video store in my neighborhood when I was seven and I was a huge wrestling fan as a kid,I was fan of WCW vs NWO World Tour a lot more than Revenge.
I thought you played San Francisco Rush already. Why was it on that ball race ?
Aerofighters Again was one of my favorites as a kid. There are some fun cheats and secrets in the game as well
One of my all time favorites- love it way more than No Mercy, even though it’s more primitive.
8:25 the irony being that Bill Goldberg (which Bret Hart refuses to call him anything other than), ended Bret Harts career with a kick to the head
Revenge was a key title (with OoT) in one of my first gaming all nighters as a youngun. Loved World Tour to death but Revenge was a major step up.
This marble race was absolutely wild 😂
I have this game, and it was a favorite of mine growing up
Loved this game...this was my favoite wrestling game from the 64...and i always played as THQ MAN so thank you chat at 6:03
I want a rigged ball race where OoT comes in second every single time. The excitement was tantalizing.
We really going to do this every other week? Man... I'll come back in a year maybe.
Is it every other week now?? Samesies if so
Does anyone know what controller he is using
OOT getting second in marbles was such a tease 😂
Favorite wrestling game growing up for me and my brother! I was a huge Goldberg fan and seeing this definitely made chemicals in the brain flood out!
I’ve seen all from 1980-Now I enjoy these N64 wrestling games Virtual Pro Wrestling 1 and 2 World Tour Revenge Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy
I think I put more time into this game than any other game I’ve ever played. I remember playing this for months without realizing the middle stick was how to do finishers
Kevin Nash is probably giving the 2Sweet to the crowd in the taunt, but the game doesn't animate fingers lol
I ded at the horse racing meme - looking forward to that one, sort of?
Great review of the wrestling game. I never played these games as a kid but they look like so much fun.
Have to imagine it must be a primarily luck-based game given I can't imagine why it would take so long otherwise.
The n64 wrestling gamed are some of the best ever
@@TheAlexSchmidtluck based? N64 wrestling games are the most skill based wrestling games till this day
@@i2a7-of2ju I'm talking about the horse racing game. That took almost 100 hours to complete IIRC.
@@TheAlexSchmidt yeah sorry
That isn't actually reys finisher, the 619 wasn't popularized until his WWE days and it's him having an opponent slumped on the second rope and he runs and swings his legs through the ropes on to their face. Even if he did this move in WCW it wouldn't have been easy to animate in 1997
The reason they likely changed Nash's tuant was that he never did the should stretch, it was just an animation they gave him.
I remember the easiest way to win every match was to get them out of the ring and beat them up so much they couldn't get up in time to beat the count.
This is one of my favorite n 64 game memories from my childhood along with Starfox 64 becuase the multiplayer was so damn fun. Loved this game.
Han zo mon. Is the guy I always got. When you twist their leg back and raise em up while your on your back was always a no way that's possible momment for me but I loved it.
I'm just waiting on Hybrid Heaven, the greatest RPG to ever exist, dunno why it's slept on.
Also noticed he doesn't have Hybrid Heaven or Quest 64 on his docs :'( why doe?