
The SEGA releases also have a button dedicated to 'run' which is used to perform moves by bouncing off the ropes.

Both are playable but it's the SEGA 32X version that shines from the fourth console generation. The 16-bit consoles suffer the most with the SNES game reducing the fighters from 8 to 6 while the Mega Drive / Genesis port plays a little choppily.
.jpg)
There's enough content here that will satisfy more than just fans.Ĭoming out in 1995, the game received a multitude of ports, most of which played pretty well and do so to this day. It makes a comparatively slow-moving faux sport frenetic and fun for your average gamer. Doink the scary-looking clown can breathe fire, bones will fly out of the Undertaker if he takes a good hit while heavy punches could launch your opponent to a height three times your size. The moves that each of the eight characters (or six for the SNES port) perform often verge on the fantastical. While there is a 3D plane represented in the digitized 2D imagery, Midway's arcade classic plays more like a one-on-one fighter in the same vein as their other coin-op cash cow Mortal Kombat. WWF fans will flock to this house, but most gamers will room with Power Move.In what is perhaps one of the best WWF games before SmackDown at the turn of the millennium, WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game is ironically unlike most wrestling games. Some maneuvers appear sloppily animated and unpolished, especially when compared to the dynamically detailed holds performed in Activision's Power Move Pro Wrestling (see ProReview this issue). The action is fast and furious, but it usually takes only 20 seconds to defeat an opponent, with moves looking more like Mortal Kombat than the WWF. Disappointingly, some features that were once promised by Acclaim, like the inclusion of that were once promised by Acclaim, like the inclusion of super-model manager Sunny and the ghost of Andre the Giant, are not in the game. The most mat-tastic new option is the four-player free-for-all, where players rumble in a last-man-standing-wins grudge match. You can wrestle a complete WWF season, or go straight for the gold of the World or Intercontinental title belt. In Your House offers a fistful of features, including 10 of the fiercest World Wrestling Federation superstars from Shawn Michaels to Vader, each with a unique background.

The WWF series tumbles off the top rope with WWF: In Your House, a title full of promise and potential that ultimately gets pinned in its quest for the championship.
