Oh yeah, they were ~awful~ ^-^
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Hadnât realized Atari did a sort of follow-up to Pit Fighter:
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I donât know anything about wrestling games, so Iâm curious to know why this game stands out so much compared to newer or even modern wrestling games.
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Thatâs a good question. I had picked up that impression from a retro gaming podcast and YouTube comments, but those didnât leave me with much of a recollection of specific details as to why it is so beloved.
I skimmed through GameFAQs reviews, here are a few that go into some detail as to why it still stands out to them:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/arcade/563214-wwf-wrestlefest/reviews/21139
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/arcade/563214-wwf-wrestlefest/reviews/7597
A lot of them mention liking the cast of now-legendary wrestlers, the big sprites, the simple yet responsive controls, and that you could play two-player co-op, or even a Royal Rumble mode with up to six wrestlers in the ring at once, playable by four people simultaneously. And the presentation seems to have gone over well, including things like memorable voice clips, and WWF TV-style âinterviewsâ with wrestlers as you play through.
Hardcore Gaming 101 has a pretty thorough review http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/wwf-wrestlefest/ ; one thing it hints at is that the year the game came out, 1991, was probably the peak of the golden age of the WWFâ'92 and '93 brought steroid and sexual harassment scandals, and many of their big names defecting to the WCW. So this was the game that was there to capture the apex of that era of wrestling.
Nostalgia is clearly a factor in the gameâs continued popularityâold arcade/WWF nostalgia really comes across in the comments on this video of building a custom cab for it, for instance: This Arcade1Up WWF Wrestlefest is AMAZING! - YouTube
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Heartbroken this isnât higher resolution
Japanese equivalent is longer, with similarly large age gaps between the party members, and a fake Oasis song
Iâm going to watch every ancient FF11 video I canâŠthis is my new thingâŠ
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Star Trigon is a one-button 2002 arcade game by Namcoâs Project Driller; I had a friend who owned the arcade board, which is Namco System 10, basically PlayStation hardware, so I was always mystified it didnât get an arcade port. Apparently iOS and Windows versions came out in 2008 and 2009, respectively; not sure about the iOS version, but namcogames.com no longer lists the Windows version.
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King of Swing and Libble Rabble, together, at last.
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Star Trigon was the first PCB I ever bought. It cost me like $20. It was pretty cool.
You can still buy the PC version off amazonâŠ?? I didnât even know it existed and I used to obsessively track and collect Driller stuff. It was available on Stardock?!? But not Steam. Guess this was back when Valve was gatekeeping shit.
I had the iOS version though, I think it was available at App Store launch. It stopped working like a billion iOS updates ago.
I am offering almost no new info here but Star Trigonâs pretty bad ass, you should play it.
WAIT THE PC VERSION HAS A STORY MODE?? Star Trigon for PC!! - GOLLY GEE IT'S A LIVEJOURNAL :O â LiveJournal
Hmm I donât remember Jim Brown looking like that.
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Oh shoot. Guess I gotta try this now. Iâll report back.
Installing Star Trigon also installs the Amazon Games program, apparently. ; [ I uninstalled that and Trigon still runs okay.
After a few minutes of play of Arcade mode, seems legit.
Suggest going into options and unchecking Fullscreen, which stretches the game to your monitorâs aspect ratio, not necessarily the original 4:3.
Took me a few minutes of hunting around to figure out how to download the game installer once Iâd purchased from Amazon. Turns out on Amazon.com, you go into (Your) Orders, click the âView Your Itemâ button on the listing of the game purchase, and that brings up a page with a Download button.
Windows, of course, flags it as an unsigned program. : P And then it DOES install the unasked-for Amazon Games program, so I guess they have a point. Tech wars!
First thing that comes up is a slightly confusing page asking you to add a player, with a name entry field; no cursor appears in the name entry field when it is active, but I eventually found I could click the blue button to the left of the field (âAdd,â I think?) and then just type, and it filled the typed characters into the field. Then Enter entered it.
Interface seems to be controlled via mouse pointer and Enter/Space.
Gonna record video of it tonight, thanks @HOBO!!
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Playthrough (not mine):
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The title screen music is doing my head in 8 o
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that punching game is cool
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i have played it, it is fun
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I have beat ab cop so many times ramming mother fuckers in that game is SO SATISFYING I want to play it with a flight stick
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Summary
Zeldaâs Adventure (CD-i)
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