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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- Episode 132: Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 (Nintendo 64)
Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 is a professional wrestling video game released in 1997 on the Nintendo 64 game console and the second game in the Virtual Pro Wrestling series. The game is a sequel to the original Virtual Pro Wrestling released in 1996 exclusively for the PlayStation. The game was only released in Japan, and is the Japanese counterpart to WCW vs nWo: World Tour. - เกม
Not sure why there’s a few minutes of blank screen time at the end, maybe just use that time to reflect and relax. 😂
Fun Fact: Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling: Toukon Retsuden 3 was SUPPOSED to come here in the U.S., but what happened was that, at the time, THQ "DROPPED" the WCW License, so they can work with WWE. The game was supposed to be called WCW/nWo: LIVE.
awesome I got this game part 1 and part2 amazing game.
i hope i can still have you on the podcast
Hey NikateeN...is Karl Gotch in VPW 64?
I used it to meditate and discovered every secret of the universe.
Thanks dude!
This game might be the true World Tour when It emphasis promotions from all around the world
I remember my step dad going on a mission for this game lol. He was looking for it at every game store in the state of Arizona back in 2007.
no no , he NEVER went to EVERY video store in in Arizona trynna find it. Nice try tho.
@@blackphillip2264 You do know phones and the internet exist? You can call a store. Shut up bro.
@@mooseraps 🥴
Why in 2007?
@@drunkensailor112 bc this game is timeless, I’d get a 64 and buy No Mercy today in 2021
Am I the only one that rewatches all of the videos over, and over... And over aha, I think it's cuz I relate to your taste in games, criticism, and love for wrestling
The music in this game makes me want to go to the nearest boxing gym and train to fight Ivan Drago
DDP used that spinning powerbomb in his WWE career and the impact sounded so loud.
I just watched Markyd123's video on his WWE run.
@@dethlady0 The one about him being buried? I haven't watched it yet. I'm kind of delaying it because I lived through it and I still feel burnt. WWE used the Brothers of Destruction to bury both DDP and Kanyon as well as Kroni>| around the same time and I'm still quite not over it and probably never will be. Smark life?
Brought back the OG intro song. GOOD LOOK. Mad catchy toon
I used to rent this from a local mom n pop video store back in the late 90's. They had a pretty lousy N64 section, but for some reason they had a handfull of import games.
Once I played VPW 64, World Tour just felt like an incomplete game.
That’s awesome that you were able to rent this one back in the day.
World Tour IS an incomplete game!
Fun Fact: This Game also had two women wrestlers in it! The most in an AKI game at the time. With Manami Toyota and Aja Kong!!!
I just ordered this game last month and I have had a wonderful time with it!
Funny seeing Aja Kong sharing a slot with both Vader and Bam Bam. Do they get her spinning backfist?
@@wrstldev742 I haven't had a chance to play with her yet!
I’m shocked at the amount of wrestlers in this game and it’s pretty neat to see Guys like bam bam and Vader who weren’t in any of the US AKI games considering they floated around company to company right when these games came out in the US
Also this means the first wrestling game on N64 and the last one both feature Andre the Giant, that’s sick!
This game was great. But it's sequel Virtual pro wrestling 2 is honestly my favorite wrestling game.
When I get a notification that nikateen has a new video game review you literally have to drop everything your doing to watch and don’t worry folks my kid gonna be fine
VPW is very underrated. Too bad it never left Japan. Thankfully we got Revenge and No Mercy out of it. Great review.
Thanks a lot!
At the time I believe Vader was wrestling in Japan....
@@RetroReviewYT in 1997 Vader was in WWF but WWF did send Vader and Shamrock to FMW to do a match there.
Yeah world tour should've at least had the legendary wrestlers we knew like Terry Funk, the Road Warriors, Ken Shamrock, Vader, and Andre the Giant among others alongside the roster it had
Vader was still in WWF when this game was release so its even more funny !!!!
I am surprised the nWo Sting wasn't in Virtual Pro 64. While he wasn't huge in WCW, he actually did well in nWo Japan with Scott Norton.
Even though he isn't in the game, his attire is available in the edit mode.
I heard about this game when I was older. And I went "that's pretty cool and would have loved to play it" I believe future VPW mimicked how wrestling was in Japan where even if a big move (or small) is preform the opponent might get up to perform their own big move causing both wrestlers to be on the matt.
Also there might be a Playlist for the music on TH-cam, not fully sure, I know there is one for WcW vs n.W.o Revenge and it is always nice to listen to.
I imported this game off eBay
about 7 years ago along with VPW2
...totally worth it.
I believe they changed ddp's finisher was because of johnny ace being in this game and they wanted to make it somewhat different for each wrestler so they don't feel like a wrestler with a different skin
The way this video just ended to static, I expected "NewnewnewNew World Order"
I love the music from both versions of the game.
Scott Hall was actually given the BT Bomb (as used by Eddie Guerrero as Black Tiger II while on Japan) as his World Tour finisher, rather than the correct move as in VPW (and eventually Revenge).
Thanks for the review! I picked this up sometime last year after learning about the extensive roster. This truly IS the complete version of World Tour and so much more! The exclusion of Wrath and Glacier didn't really bug me since they weren't featured too prominently during the mid 90s. However, Jeff Farmer aka. NWO Sting missing was kind of a bummer since he was big in Japan, but assigning an NWO shirt to wcw Sting pretty much does the trick. I also found it strange that I couldn't assign Scott Norton an NWO shirt either, since World Tour did feature it, but these are truly minor inconveniences compared to what you're getting. Also, the black & white effect is most likely a tribute to Rikidozan's matches (aka. the godfather of Japanese pro wrestling). Re-creating his battles against The Destroyer are always fun.
There’s an English translation patch for this game now.
2:24 the guy with green and white attire must be the one and only, the great late Mitsuharu Misawa
I tend to binge watch your old reviews/wrestling talk videos and you upload a new video within a day or two. cool energy wavelength vibe thing or coincidence? I dunno. You're one of my favorite people to make gaming content on TH-cam. Cheers! Hope you make more drum/music-related videos in the future
Thanks a lot man!
Your channel intro is awesome. The music in VPW64 is really badass. The game and the sequel are really ahead of their time. The game looks so fun to play. Nice shoutout to Wrestling Video Games. I love his channel. Can't wait to see VPW 2. Its AJ Styles favourite wrestling game. That slow mo effect would be used in Smackdown Shut Your Mouth. Man I need to try these games.
That's the only gripe I had with the US AKI games was the exclusion of big name legends. Only one we had was Andre The Giant.
Something else not in World Tour is that VPW64 made it so when getting cranked by a submission the intensity of the rumble increases when players are to about to tap out from all the damage they have taken, something no other N64 games from the likes of Acclaim, EA, or Yuke’s ever had. Every AKI game after VPW64 had this minor feature which I thought was cool for the first era of Rumble supported wrestling games.
VPW 2 is the greatest wrestling game ever though.
I remember this kind of game game back in 1997 on 64. Till this day it is the game play that is my favorite formula that Raticate remind and bring back memories... I have a Neo-Geo AES 🕹🤩🕹, because of this video I'm going to get me a Nintendo 64 again it's time to keep one forever now
Subscribed 🙏🏻☯️🥶‼
Thanks a lot!
Well, that was pleasant. Gonna watch some more of your videos.
Looking forward to your VPW2 review. Quality content as always Nik.
Thanks!
Been playing this on an N64 emulator and love this game! Thank you so much for the review!
After watching this review I bought it on ebay, can't wait for the review of the sequel :D
Wcw world tour had banger music. Wcw vs nwo and world tour are my childhood and mario kart. Simpler times with games made with love. Sad Nintendo never made another series after the n64 for wrestling for the Japanese or American market. Both love wrestling, even if a rerelease would make many people happy.
Nika, thanks for continuing to produce quality content, brother!
These older 64 games are the best with the aki sytem why wouldnt they just update it...i liked that you could break a suplex going on even a tount hell i think even a finisher was even breakable...or was that no murcy
Love your videos. I think this game has the best character select screen ever.
They did so many things so right in these games. The bump animations are done so masterfully and haven’t been topped since. So many other games including the latest releases just feel like a CGI animation doing the animation pertaining to what you press, bumps feel like their just sorta floating around then stopping. The speed and impact of them feel like the wrestler is really landing on something and that their body is reacting the way it would upon said impact. That’s partly why the graphics never had to be photorealistic. Brilliant animations and overall feel of the gameplay was second to none. Blocky graphics were fine cuz the animations were so good that it almost felt like you were controlling action figures that came to life. Simply tragic that the engine died with No Mercy. Mods fill a bit of the void, but oh, what could have been if this engine survived to the point of uploaded custom content.
Great job friend as always and thank you for bringing my childhod memories back.
Kepp up the awesome work you are doing.
Thanks a lot man!
Looks cool I'm going to try to get a English translation repro cart of this game if possible, I know there is a English translation for VPW2 so there should be one for the original I would think. Great video 😎👍
I remember playing this on emulator way back in the day.
The intro to this video is just 2 SWEET
1st ever Japanese Wrestling Game You Covered. I hope you do Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 & other games from Japan because that would be too sweet 🤟
I’ve got VPW2 planned, and 3 other Japanese wrestling titles lined up as well.
Damn your intro screams retro... I love it plus that music 🔥🔥🔥
Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home, Story mode Let's Play? 🤘🏿
Any chance we can expect more import game reviews, like The Pro Wrestling 2 for PS1?
I'm happy this channel has been thriving stronger than ever since your return. Definitely my favorite video game reviewer personally.
Thanks man! I’ve currently got 4 Japanese wrestling games lined up to review, and many more that I’d like to get my hands on.
Its always a good day when the homie Nikateen uploads
Damn, Japan gets all the best wrestling games this one looks like it was way better than world tour...
Side Note: DDP’s alternate finishing move was a spinning sit out powerbomb so it wasn’t that inaccurate.
This is the Japanese counterpart to WCW vs nWo: World Tour.
Great stuff, as always. I imported this game a few years ago and had a blast playing it. Took me so long to edit the names of all the wrestlers, but it was truly a labor of love. I want to play Virtual Pro 2 sometime. I've never got a chance to try that one.
I’m currently working on the review for VPW2, and even just capturing the footage has got me wanting to keep playing it over and over.
He's back baby good video sir
I play these games on a N64 emulator! The only problem is translating the menus and such into English is very annoying. Its a great game, buttery smooth controlls animations are strange sometimes but not often. I see it as just a NJPW version of No Mercy, World Tour, ect, just with some little changes to fit the Japanese wrestling product. Great video as always I love seeing new videos pop up from you. Keep it up my dude, thanks for the videos!
I'd love to see you do a nice long let's play on this too! Cause those are always too sweeeeeeet!
I enjoyed this lot better than World Tour! I remember the days of hunting down a copy!
Editing skills have gone through the roof! Keep it up, bro!
Great review! I just picked this up (and vpw2) for a bundle price of about 60 bucks. Sounds steep but still cheaper than current gen games and I'll play these way more. I also picked up World Tour, Revenge, Mania 2000, and No Mercy, for a total of about 90 bucks. Great reviews!
Love it! Keep up the good work my Brother!!!
Nikateen: even past wwf superstars like vader
Vader: oh it's time, it's time, it's vader time *hits head on the locker door*
Keep up the good work brotha 🤘
I've been binging your content all day 😅
Thanks a lot man!
No mention of being able to unmask masked wrestlers
Love your attention to detail.
Also avoided this one it really is World Tours definitive edition. As I had similar sentiments thinking it was just a copy of world tour I play an English patched version on my firestick.
The graphics are crap now. But the GAMEPLAY is FOREVER GOLD.
The graphics never bothered me... still don't.
As far as being up to par with today's graphics? They're not even close to not even close.
But I'm playing WM 2000 right now, and couldn't care less about the graphics.
You were basically reviewing both games. But these two were eerily similar.
I already reviewed World Tour, this one just included some comparisons since a lot of people (myself included), always assumed they were the same game.
This reminds me a lot of wcw vs the world
Been watching your videos for years and I'd like to see you one day review the Fire Pro Wrestling series. It's literally the closest thing we have to the AKI games. The AKI games are kinda like 3D fire pros there are a lot of similarities. One of which is the fictional wrestling promotions with fictional wrestlers which are actually just real wrestlers and promotions renamed and the in depth CPU logic system which was in VPW2. I also believe some of the team who worked on older Fire Pros even went on to work on AKI titles. Also the gameplay is very similar with Fire Pro just being a tad bit harder to master as it is timing based. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns on the PS2, Fire Pro Wrestling and Fire Pro Wrestling 2 on the GBA as well as Fire Pro Wrestling World on PS4/Steam are all officially released in english and are great choices for a review. If you can and are willing to dip into some Japanese only releases then we have Fire Pro Wrestling D for Dreamcast, Fire Pro Wrestling G for PS1 and Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium for the SNES are all great choices and feature WWF and WCW stars already premade. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns on the PS2 has a few American wrestlers premade such as Hall, Nash, Bret Hart, AJ Styles, Petey Williams, Jarrett, Sting, Vader, Rikishi, and more. Fire Pro World has no real wrestlers but with PSN and Steam Workshop you can just download 1000s of creations.
I could play Abdullah the Butcher vs Terry Funk, all day in this game.
I had a copy of this game was amazing i forgot how i found it but knew what is was right away
When I got my N64 emulator going I downloaded all the AKI wrestling games, but not this one as I saw it was just a Japanese version of world tour. Then I found out a few months ago that it wasn’t just a Japanese version. Holy shit the roster is amazing and I feel like a jackass for not looking into it more. Great game. Also, can’t wait for your vid on VPW2, I consider it the best wrestling N64 game. Although, on emulator I do play with an English patch which makes the important menus in English. The career mode in VPW2 is awesome. Love it!
My man is back
I enjoy this video game review man!
Thanks!
Always loving your vids. I'd like for you to do list videos. Every other Tuesday. Top 10 video game arenas. etc.
This just looks amazing
I started playing it last year when I found a link to play on an emulator
Where's the link, please?
Thank you keep up the good work you should do another Q&A
Just realized I haven’t been subbed all this time. Fixed! 💪
0:32 I also collect hot wheels and matchbox along with other brands like greenlight, Johnny lightning, Maisto to name a few.
Nice!
Great video bro!
Hey yo i love this game! 😀the roms and textures for this game is absolutely amazing and very beautiful
With Ken Shamrock, Bas Rutten, Rickson Gracie in roster, we can easly say it was the first mixed martial arts game ever. Damn even the greatest of them all, Muhammad Ali is there. And is the only game ever that includes polish boxer, Andrew Gołota😀 with yt channels like this, i know, that im not only dude still playing oldschool wrestling games. Great stuff Brother😀
Thanks man!
Ah this game is pretty fantastic. i played this for the first time years ago on an Emulator as I wanted to try it (I had already played World Tour) and honestly I preferred this hugely. This game added a lot more content and the roster is just amazing, containing the WCW and NWO wrestlers alongside even more Japanese wrestlers and non Japanese wrestlers, you really can't find many rosters as stacked as this one. I also appreciate the fact that they added the combination system that'd later be included in Revenge which I always felt was fun to use. Also I find it humourous you can play as Muhammad Ali (done by holding Z on Antonio Inoki) and he doesn't grapple at all, instead his strikes are very strong, it's so out of place that it's honestly funny and something worth trying. Overall fantastic game, and a great review by you as usual, just wish you mentioned that some characters are accessed by holding Z on certain characters such as Great Muta who's accessed by holding Z on Keiji Mutoh once unlocked, but otherwise you nailed it.
You can also play as Mike Tyson if you change Muhammad Ali's attire with C-Left and C-Right
Omg J.R. he’s back
I'd love to see you review No Mercy Mods in the Future, ECW Barely Legal for example or the 80s WWF mod wCw Feel the Bang and the Invasion mod
I wish I could, but I have no idea to get that stuff running or how I’d record it. My setup is pretty old school.
I lost my OG copy of world tour a while ago, I just ordered this one on Amazon should be here in June
The blood. Wasn't visible in the German version since Wrestlemania 2000. What was stupid with No Mercy, because there was the Blood Match in career mode but you only saw the animation but not the blood. Mmmm
Love your videos. Can you please make a Playlist of your wrestling game reviews?
Bro I am waiting to see when you could do an arena showcase for WWF/ WWE Superstars
Awesome vid man
Thanks!
@@NikateeN it’s quite interesting how a few of the WCW games are American ports of the Japanese wrestling games, it’s like putting wallpaper over something and adding a splash of paint for good measure.
🤔 I learned something about Vitural Pro Wrestling 64 it a good game plus I still believe that the AKI and Early SVR 2006 was the best wrestling game engine ever
The controls are great on the N64 and good on the GameCube, alright on the PS2. Passable on the original Xbox.
The Western World Tour feels like a demonin comparison. I actually own the original cartridge and I honestly have no desire to ever play World Tour again after playing this. Definitely the superior version.
And I’m learning Japanese so the text honestly doesn’t bother me. I actually find it helpful to the learning process. 👌🏻
Yoo Nikateen, I haven't commented in a while, but that's mainly bcuz I watch your videos on my tv and not my phone. Ayy man keep going dude, I keep watching your vids over and over every night or everyother night for about a year and a half, idk, it comforts me ahaha. Even the old nintendo beat em ups, all the 30 mins twisted metal vids, if course all the wwe game videos, and the beloved arena showcases. keep going bro! And HEY, were both die hard wrestling fans, so I want you to take a peep at my two new wrestling matches! Thanks bro 🙏🏿🤙🏿🤙🏿
Right on man, will do! Thanks for the support!
Rad new opening!
Great review and easy sub for me.
Thank you!
While World Tour was great I do wish we could have gotten all these features here in VPW64 within World Tour, still from Revenge onwards we got most if not all of them
And seriously can't wait to see you review VPW2, even today that to me (and while I dunno if his opinion has changed but AJ Styles also has thought the same for many years) is the best pro wrestling game of the era, even above the amazing No Mercy
I've always heard this but never got much insight on the game (only ever saw snippets here and there that weren't so in-depth.
What would you say are the major things that set it apart from No Mercy? I'd like to be enlightened.
@@dethlady0 well they are very similar especially in gameplay, but the extras that VPW2 has give it the edge, you can have 2 front and back specials which is meant to resemble how some AJPW wrestlers at the time had a regular finisher and a super finisher at the time and perhaps the biggest thing the game has to be the entire MMA style mode, which changes the gameplay and IMO gives the game more replay value as you have a different way to play the game
Also apologies for the late reply
Cool.
Nika teen man I come to this channel for all my retro wrestling review stuff if I’m considering a game you give a opinion and review to me straight up
Right on, thanks for watching!
@NikateeN can you do the no way out 1998 - 2012 arena showcase video?
I’m taking a small hiatus from Arena Showcase to focus on the video game reviews. They just take such a long time to make and don’t really get the views that warrant the long production time. But I’d definitely love to cover it when I get back into the series!
Lol Nash is NOT saying "Moo"
That’s what me and my friends always joked about, don’t take it too seriously. 😆
@@NikateeN haha