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WCW vs. nWo: World Tour is a professional wrestling video game released in 1997 for the Nintendo 64 game console.Released at the peak of World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) dominance in the Monday Night War, World Tour was THQ's first foray into the N64 wrestling scene and is a semi-sequel to the lesser known WCW vs. the World for the PlayStation.
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Although released less than a month after its American counterpart, Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 has various distinctions from and additions to WCW vs. nWo: World Tour.For example, most wrestlers sport their actual attires but occasionally they may contain color alterations as is the case with Hulk Hogan's famous yellow tights and red knee pads which are replaced with yellow tights and black knee ...
WCW/nWo Revenge surpassed the success of its predecessor, World Tour.Within a month, it became the highest selling console game in North America. [8] Like its predecessor, Revenge also won "Console Fighting Game of the Year" by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences at the 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, marking the second consecutive year an AKI/THQ title achieved the honor. [9]
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The game was also a commercial success, selling over 1 million units, making it the third best-selling wrestling game for the N64. [ 2 ] WWF No Mercy received nominations in the "Console Fighting" , "Console Game of the Year" and "Game of the Year" categories at the 4th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards , which were ultimately awarded to ...
He instead brought out nWo Sting and held a mock interview that berated the real Sting and praised Hollywood Hogan. Farmer appeared in the video game WCW vs. nWo: World Tour as nWo Sting, labeled in the game as "Sting". In March 1997, Farmer joined nWo Japan in New Japan Pro-Wrestling and began to split his time between NJPW and WCW.
This led to the nWo starting a segment on Saturday Night, called nWo Saturday Night, where nWo stable members wrestled local jobbers inside an empty arena. [5] The nWo also used their "financing" to purchase ad time during WCW programming, which amounted to low budget anti-WCW propaganda, or "hijack" the broadcast signal.