WreckerJack
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Post by WreckerJack on Apr 26, 2017 23:36:20 GMT -5
  I found this on the back of an old comic book from 1994. I don't know all about the game since when I was kid I wasn't allowed to have a game console or watch wrestling. I was a small kid in the early 90's, can't blame my parents for not wanting me to see the attitude era of wrestling. I'm sure some older fans will be able to tell me more about the game this ad was for. (And who that spooky looking woman is, I recognize all the male wrestlers though) |
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Post by @.@ Hempsterdance @.@ on Apr 27, 2017 0:31:09 GMT -5
That woman is Luna Vachon
That game was a huge part of my childhood, each superstar had their own "special" move that you needed to know a combo of buttons for. I believe at one point wwe(f)
Put out a VHS with secrets and tips for this game.
I spent hours just looking at this ad waiting to receive the game from my parents.
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Post by vampiroporvida on Apr 27, 2017 8:22:42 GMT -5
The "special supers" were what made this game, and some others of the era, so fun. If only they would have kept going and done more of them, or fatality style, in WWF Arcade game.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 8:31:02 GMT -5
Old!? I remember when that game was coming out.
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jeffro2000
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Post by jeffro2000 on Apr 27, 2017 9:14:25 GMT -5
I loved that game. I got it for Christmas one year or right before because I hounded my mom constantly about it, so she gave it to me.
I hated the Arcade style games that followed. They were just too fast paced and unrealistic.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Apr 27, 2017 10:59:10 GMT -5
Luna Vachon
I was a sophomore/junior in high school in '94 and I had super nes, game boy, and genesis but I didn't have this game
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Apr 27, 2017 11:10:13 GMT -5
I used the old butter knife trick on this for Christmas. Lived this game, and Royal Rumble. Owen was my favorite to play as.
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Post by Zigzag on Apr 27, 2017 11:31:15 GMT -5
I used the old butter knife trick on this for Christmas. Lived this game, and Royal Rumble. Owen was my favorite to play as. Please enlighten me. |
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Apr 27, 2017 12:01:39 GMT -5
I used the old butter knife trick on this for Christmas. Lived this game, and Royal Rumble. Owen was my favorite to play as. Please enlighten me. My parents wrapped the gift, and I took a butter knife and cut the tape on the gift, once you're done you just put tape right over the old tape. Did it for years. |
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Post by k5 on Apr 27, 2017 12:23:43 GMT -5
yep, i have a ton of comics from the late 80s/90s with wrestling ads, they have undiverging markets.
my favourite was the drawn road warrior ads for the wcw game.
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Post by Zigzag on Apr 27, 2017 13:09:02 GMT -5
My parents wrapped the gift, and I took a butter knife and cut the tape on the gift, once you're done you just put tape right over the old tape. Did it for years. Ah. For some reason, I thought you meant you used a butter knife to doctor the cartridge somehow. I didn't read 'Christmas' in your original post at first. |
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ClassicFan2
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Post by ClassicFan2 on Apr 27, 2017 13:18:01 GMT -5
yep, i have a ton of comics from the late 80s/90s with wrestling ads, they have undiverging markets. my favourite was the drawn road warrior ads for the wcw game. |
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Post by BrIaNMeRcY on Apr 27, 2017 16:10:25 GMT -5
Interesting the ad mentions RAW IS WAR. Foreshadowing what was to come in 1997?
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Post by layzie on Apr 29, 2017 18:32:27 GMT -5
i was about to say, i can probably pull a ton of these from throwaway comics i have from 91-94 lying around
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Post by theMOESIAH on Apr 30, 2017 2:08:31 GMT -5
I found this on the back of an old comic book from 1994. I don't know all about the game since when I was kid I wasn't allowed to have a game console or watch wrestling. I was a small kid in the early 90's, can't blame my parents for not wanting me to see the attitude era of wrestling. I'm sure some older fans will be able to tell me more about the game this ad was for. (And who that spooky looking woman is, I recognize all the male wrestlers though) This was years before the Attitude Era. And why didn't your parents let you play games? |
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WreckerJack
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Post by WreckerJack on Apr 30, 2017 7:50:21 GMT -5
They had this stupid notion that if I played games it would make me lazy and hate school.
Which backfired because it made me feel like I had to choose when I was eventually exposed to games when I got older. Needless to say I liked games and hated school.
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Post by @.@ Hempsterdance @.@ on May 1, 2017 22:44:52 GMT -5
They had this stupid notion that if I played games it would make me lazy and hate school. Which backfired because it made me feel like I had to choose when I was eventually exposed to games when I got older. Needless to say I liked games and hated school. No offense but we're your parents home schooled? Did they live a sheltered childhood and expect you to have the same? |
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Post by WreckerJack on May 2, 2017 9:15:39 GMT -5
They had this stupid notion that if I played games it would make me lazy and hate school. Which backfired because it made me feel like I had to choose when I was eventually exposed to games when I got older. Needless to say I liked games and hated school. No offense but we're your parents home schooled? Did they live a sheltered childhood and expect you to have the same? They grew up before videogames were a thing. I think it was more my mom's doing as one of her gossipy friends had a son that liked mario and had bad grades. Dad didn't so much care as he went along with it. When my parents split up I was allowed to have a gameboy at my Dad's house so long as I did my chores and stuff. |
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Post by T R W on May 2, 2017 9:26:51 GMT -5
I was working in a video game store when this game was released. lol
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Post by @.@ Hempsterdance @.@ on May 2, 2017 13:18:32 GMT -5
No offense but we're your parents home schooled? Did they live a sheltered childhood and expect you to have the same? They grew up before videogames were a thing. I think it was more my mom's doing as one of her gossipy friends had a son that liked mario and had bad grades. Dad didn't so much care as he went along with it. When my parents split up I was allowed to have a gameboy at my Dad's house so long as I did my chores and stuff. Fair enough. My parents already had an Atari when I was born and bought me a nintendo when I was 5. I don't remember I time when I didn't have videogames. I made sure to keep my grades up for fear of them taking my games away. |
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