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Wrestlemania Challenge NES cartridge, Rare’s 1990 WWF game published by LJN. Wrestle as Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, André and more, or create your own wrestler, in tag team, Survivor Series and championship modes. Loose cartridge only, no box or manual. Ships within 2 business days.
| Platform | NES |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Ljn Games |
| Condition | Loose Cartridge |
| Availability | In stock |
Wrestlemania Challenge NES, full title WWF WrestleMania Challenge, is a wrestling game developed by Rare and published by LJN in North America in November 1990. It features eight WWF stars and a create-your-own wrestler. This listing is the loose cartridge only, with no box or manual.
The roster includes Hulk Hogan, André the Giant, Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, Big Boss Man, Brutus Beefcake, Ravishing Rick Rude and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. A generic wrestler called "Yourself" lets you step into the ring as you.
Matches use a high-angle isometric view. Stamina bars run along the ring apron, and once a bar is empty, that wrestler is open to a pinfall. In two-player games, each player can pick a differently shaded "Yourself," and each shade has its own theme song.
The game was first developed under the title WWF Survivor Series. GamePro gave it 17 out of 25. Hot-B published it in Japan.
It followed Rare's 1989 WWF WrestleMania on the NES. Later WrestleMania-branded games moved to Sculptured Software. Check the photos to see the exact WWF Wrestlemania Challenge cartridge you will receive.
Play the first game, WWF WrestleMania, or the follow-up WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge, and browse all NES games. Read more about WWF WrestleMania Challenge on Wikipedia.
When did Wrestlemania Challenge come out?
LJN released it in North America in November 1990.
Can two people play?
Yes. It has multiplayer, including a two-player tag team championship mode.
Does it have Survivor Series matches?
Yes. It includes three-on-three Survivor Series elimination matches.
Does it come with the box or manual?
No. This is a loose Wrestlemania Challenge Nintendo game cartridge for the original NES.
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A. Pierre –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Excellent Game
I never was much into playing video games. I had a regular NES for the longest time and Ive always loved this game. It was easy to play and it was hours of fun. I recently went on vacation and I saw all these new nintendo wrestling games real cheap and I looked up and saw the N64 for 13 dollars! Needless to say, I got a crap load of wrestling games and a sweet system that day. I wouldnt recommend half the games I got as Ive found out only WWF Wrestlemaina and No Mercy and WCW/NWO Revenge are the only cool games for wrestling on N64. The other 6 or so wrestling games on N64 are very boring!
S.W. –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
one of LJN’s rare decent WWF games!
I got this game as a Christmas present last year. (It was a used copy, but I don’t mind that at all! “New” ones were too expensive!) It seems to play perfectly on my NES/SNES “retro” system.
The game actually has a bunch of play modes, at least for an 8-Bit game (I think these modes are listed in the product description and in another review, so I’m not going to bother listing them here). I like the fact that this game doesn’t play in “rounds,” like some other early wrestling games did — such as the NES World Championship Wrestling game. (I do like that game, though!) I don’t think the other NES WWF games did, either.
The roster isn’t very large, at least not compared to those of most later wrestling games, but it’s still larger than that of the original WrestleMania. That game included Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, Ted DiBiase, Bam Bam Bigelow, and the Honky Tonk Man. This one has those first three as well as Rick Rude, Brutus Beefcake, Jim Duggan, Big Boss Man, and Ultimate Warrior. It also features “Yourself”—- who is an utterly generic kind of guy. My favorite guy to appear here and not on the first game is Ultimate Warrior. I personally don’t mind the absence of Honky Tonk Man here, though I do kind of wish that DiBiase and Bigelow had been (or could have been) included. (Bigelow, I think, had left the company; I don’t know about DiBiase.) Incidentally, two players can both be “themselves,” but both can’t be the same “real” wrestler. (Seems unfair that both male and female players have to play as a male wrestler if they want to be “themselves”! There really should have been a generic female wrestler as well, when you think about it!)
The game’s graphics are good, if not great. The “real” wrestlers (or most of them) do at least somewhat resemble their real-life counterparts (seriously, how realistic-looking could they make the guys on an 8-Bit game?). Rick Rude has bright green tights, Beefcake has pink tights and his long pink gloves (though his face seems to be kind of blank!), Andre is wearing his black singlet, and Boss Man is wearing his blue-shirt, black-pants uniform. The other guys seem to just be wearing (aside from Savage’s bandana and Warrior’s facepaint) little wrestling trunks, boots and knee pads, and the parts are colored at least somewhat similarly to those of the real-life guys. (The guys each have just one color [different for each guy] to all of the parts; Hulk’s are yellow, Savage’s are pink, Warrior’s are light green, etc.) Warrior’s wristbands and tassels were such prominent parts of his outfits in real life that it’s weird (at least for me) to see him without them, even when he’s an 8-Bit character! (He’s still one of my favorite guys here, though!) It also seems just a bit odd to me to see Hulk with yellow knee pads instead of his “trademark” red ones! Oh, and by the way — there is an actual audience on this game; you’re not wrestling in a ring suspended in a black void, as on the original WM game!
The sound is O.K. — about what you’d probably expect from an 8-Bit wrestling game, I guess. It’s cool that the wrestler themes (or 8-Bit versions thereof) play during matches!
As for moves, there doesn’t seem to exactly be loads of them, but I guess that’s to be expected on an old 8-Bit wrestling game. However, the guys don’t have ALL of the same moves — which is something you can’t say even for some later wrestling games (though most of them have signature [finisher] moves). Some of the moves are even kind of funny, like Boss Man’s belly-butts and belly-flops! Some moves apparently use both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ buttons at the same time — and sometimes also a direction on the control pad, like when you want to climb a turnbuckle (you have to push toward the turnbuckle). It’s cool that the guys have “individualized” moves, but what’s the deal with Hogan not having a leg drop when other guys do? (I also find the jumping-up-and-down animations of the guys when they win to be funny!)
There are no power-up items like on the original WM. (I think the only other WWF game for which that feature was revived, was WWF In Your House.) No complaints here, though.
Overall, I like this game. I think it’s worth getting, at least for cheap, if you like(d) WWF/E or these wrestlers! I couldn’t quite give it a whole five stars, as most of the other reviewers have, but I still think it’s a good game!
Cecilee Maughan –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
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