As a young dork, I loved the WWF. I have to admit I was a Hulkamaniac. I had all of the oversized non-movable wrestling figures that really didn’t serve a purpose with the exception of harassing my pet dog. However, my dog’s paw of fury would inevitably take down Hillbilly Jim and end the fight with the jaws of doom.
Well, my father sure as hell knew I was a wrestling fan. He took me and my kid sister to the (then) Baltimore Arena to watch Hulk Hogan live! My father almost pissed himself because he didn’t want to leave me and my kid sister alone. It was kind of funny because some of the wrestlers wouldn’t show up because they got piss drunk the night before.
One Christmas I received two wrestling games from my NES, Pro Wrestling and this steaming pile of turd, Tag Team Wrestling. Seriously, this game deserves its personal spot in video game hell.
There isn’t a single redeeming quality about Tag Team Wrestling. You start off as The Ricky Fighters, a team of brothers played by 80’s icon Ralph Macchio and his disfigured kid brother (who wears a mask in this game) Matt Damon.
Your first opponents are the Strong Bads, two guys who work at McDonald’s during the day and dress up in fetish costumes and wrestle at night. After you demolish the Strong Bads, your next challengers are…the Strong Bads. No, I am not kidding, you had to wrestle the Strong Bads over…and over…and over….and over. The programmers gave kids like myself a huge middle finger by putting four generic, crappy wrestlers into this steaming pile of turd.
Ok, so there are only two teams in the game…they must have put all of their effort into the graphics.
The graphics were downright horrible, even for the NES. I believe the programmers must have been 8 years old and 7 years old respectively. There were so many “WTF” moments when it came to graphics.
(1)When you whip your opponent into the ropes, you run to opposite ropes, both with your hands up in the air and your oversized stomachs exposed only to come together with one big bologna belly slap.
(2)When you get thrown to the outside you literally float to the floor
(3)The bodyslam looked like some weird kama sutra position
(4) So did the chokehold
Ok, so bad graphics and two teams, the gameplay must be the saving grace!
The gameplay was even more pathetic. When you hit your opponent to perform a move, you had to move your gamepad left or right to select the move you wanted to do from a list. Talk about game slowdown. It eventually was bodyslam, bodyslam, and of course, bodyslam.
The worst part of this game? The Ricky Fighters doing the “I hope I don’t piss myself” dance on the ring apron.
Don’t play this game…ever.
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