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WWF Superstars [a] is a wrestling video game manufactured by Technōs Japan and released for arcades in 1989. It is the first WWF arcade game to be released. A series of unrelated games with the same title were released by LJN for the original Game Boy. Technōs followed the game with the release of WWF WrestleFest in 1991.
Papa Shango faces I.R.S. in the game's titular steel cage match. Modes include One-on-One (regular match and steel cage match variations), Tag Team, WWF Championship (choose one wrestler and defeat all the others to become WWF Champion), and Tag Team Championship (choose two wrestlers and defeat combinations of the rest in a series of tag team matches to become WWF Tag Team Champions).
MicroLeague Wrestling was the first WWF theme video game to be released. The game was available for Commodore 64 and Atari ST and in 1989 for Amiga and MS-DOS. WWF European Rampage Tour was released in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. WWF Rage in the Cage was released in 1993 for the Sega CD.
The game is a combination of a fighting game and a wrestling game, with combos playing a major factor in gameplay, both on the ground and mid-air. Characters perform exaggerated moves, such as John Cena 's Attitude Adjustment, in which he leaps high into the air and Triple H 's Pedigree with shock waves running across the ring.
WWE Survivor Series is based on the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) annual pay-per-view, Survivor Series. The game is the sequel to Road to WrestleMania X8. WWE Survivor Series was also the last WWE video game released for a Nintendo handheld console until WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 for the Nintendo DS in 2007.
Computer and Video Games magazine called it "the best two-player game anywhere" and particularly praised its multiplayer capabilities. [5] The Game Players Nintendo Guide described it as "a solid wrestling game that could have been one of the best ever if not for some substantial drawbacks.
Boxing games go back further than any other kind of fighting game, starting with Sega's Heavyweight Champ in 1976, the game often called the first video game to feature hand-to-hand fighting. Fighters wear boxing gloves and fight in rings , and fighters can range from actual professional boxers to aliens to Michael Jackson .
The original Slam Masters plays like a traditional wrestling game, only the game used a view similar to that commonly used in the fighting game genre. The game uses a three button configuration (grab, attack, and jump). Each character has two special attacks: a non-grappling technique and a finisher. When an opponent's life meter is depleted ...