NintendoComplete | WWF Steel Cage Challenge (NES) Playthrough @NintendoComplete | Uploaded 6 months ago | Updated 9 hours ago
A playthrough of LJN's 1992 license-based wrestling game for the NES, WWF Steel Cage Challenge.
This video shows all of the game modes played on the medium difficulty level:
One-on-One, Hulk Hogan vs. The Undertaker 0:16
Tag Team, IRS & Roddy Piper vs. Sid Justice & The Undertaker 3:03
Tag Team Championship as Jake Roberts & Bret Hart 6:02
WWF Championship as The Mountie 19:20
Following in the footsteps of WWF Wrestlemania (youtu.be/GpDi-8B7_nQ) and WWF Wrestlemania Challenge (youtu.be/EkrQtnc54Yk), WWF Steel Cage Challenge was the third WWF-branded game to appear on the NES, the second to wear LJN's rainbow badge of shame, and the first to not be created by Rare.
Created by Sculptured Software, WWF Steel Cage Challenge is essentially a cut-down 8-bit adaptation of WWF Super Wrestlemania (youtu.be/cCh40MGXaFo) with cage matches and tournaments thrown in to freshen things up.
The roster of ten playable WWF stars includes The Mountie, Ted DiBiase, IRS, Bret Hart, Sid Justice, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, The Undertaker, Jake Roberts, and Hulk Hogan, each of whom are personally introduced (with their theme songs) by Howard Finkle at the beginning of each match.
The wrestlers' in-game sprites look the part, but their looks are the only thing that differentiates them from one another. Everyone has the same moves, there are no finishers, and there are no differences in strength or speed between them.
Disappointingly, the moment-to-moment gameplay doesn’t fare much better. It's slow, shallow, the controls are plagued by lag, and the AI is dumb as a stump. You can risk throws, turnbuckle leaps, and off-the-rope maneuvers if you like, but they're all unnecessary wastes of time. If you're playing to win, all you need to do is to push up against your opponent and hit A to do a headbutt, and as he's recovering, do it again, and again, and again until his life gauge is empty. Then knock him down, hit down+B to pin, and the belt is yours.
It's boring and unsatisfying to play, and without the flashy graphics and sound of the 16-bit machines, there's little to draw your attention away from the anemic gameplay. The sprites are small and poorly animated, and the in-game audio is limited to horribly bitcrushed thumps and grunts that are often lost in the wall of white noise that's meant to be the cheering of the crowd.
Sculptured Software had some hits in their day, but this wasn't one of them. WWF Steel Cage Challenge isn't a game that tries to be interesting or fun. It's a game that exists solely to profit off the back of a lucrative license. Games like this gave rise to LJN's reputation.
_____________
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!
A playthrough of LJN's 1992 license-based wrestling game for the NES, WWF Steel Cage Challenge.
This video shows all of the game modes played on the medium difficulty level:
One-on-One, Hulk Hogan vs. The Undertaker 0:16
Tag Team, IRS & Roddy Piper vs. Sid Justice & The Undertaker 3:03
Tag Team Championship as Jake Roberts & Bret Hart 6:02
WWF Championship as The Mountie 19:20
Following in the footsteps of WWF Wrestlemania (youtu.be/GpDi-8B7_nQ) and WWF Wrestlemania Challenge (youtu.be/EkrQtnc54Yk), WWF Steel Cage Challenge was the third WWF-branded game to appear on the NES, the second to wear LJN's rainbow badge of shame, and the first to not be created by Rare.
Created by Sculptured Software, WWF Steel Cage Challenge is essentially a cut-down 8-bit adaptation of WWF Super Wrestlemania (youtu.be/cCh40MGXaFo) with cage matches and tournaments thrown in to freshen things up.
The roster of ten playable WWF stars includes The Mountie, Ted DiBiase, IRS, Bret Hart, Sid Justice, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, The Undertaker, Jake Roberts, and Hulk Hogan, each of whom are personally introduced (with their theme songs) by Howard Finkle at the beginning of each match.
The wrestlers' in-game sprites look the part, but their looks are the only thing that differentiates them from one another. Everyone has the same moves, there are no finishers, and there are no differences in strength or speed between them.
Disappointingly, the moment-to-moment gameplay doesn’t fare much better. It's slow, shallow, the controls are plagued by lag, and the AI is dumb as a stump. You can risk throws, turnbuckle leaps, and off-the-rope maneuvers if you like, but they're all unnecessary wastes of time. If you're playing to win, all you need to do is to push up against your opponent and hit A to do a headbutt, and as he's recovering, do it again, and again, and again until his life gauge is empty. Then knock him down, hit down+B to pin, and the belt is yours.
It's boring and unsatisfying to play, and without the flashy graphics and sound of the 16-bit machines, there's little to draw your attention away from the anemic gameplay. The sprites are small and poorly animated, and the in-game audio is limited to horribly bitcrushed thumps and grunts that are often lost in the wall of white noise that's meant to be the cheering of the crowd.
Sculptured Software had some hits in their day, but this wasn't one of them. WWF Steel Cage Challenge isn't a game that tries to be interesting or fun. It's a game that exists solely to profit off the back of a lucrative license. Games like this gave rise to LJN's reputation.
_____________
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!
![Secret of Mana (SNES) Playthrough [2 of 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0EBBd6kNTqI/hqdefault.jpg "Secret of Mana (SNES) Playthrough [2 of 2]
A playthrough of Squares 1993 action-RPG for the Super Nintendo, Secret of Mana.
This is the second part of a two-part video, showing from the sunken continent through the end.
You can find the first part here: https://youtu.be/dSwf9DJz_dA
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com/) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!")
![Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Famicom) Playthrough [English]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2RpshLptHkc/hqdefault.jpg "Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Famicom) Playthrough [English]
A playthrough of Victor Musical Industries 1991 action-RPG for the Nintendo Famicom, Ys III: Wanderers from Ys.
This was recorded using an English fan translation patch. You can find the patch at https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7229/
Wanderers from Ys was the last Ys game that the series creators worked on before leaving Falcom to form Quintet, it was the last Ys game to be created specifically for the NEC PC-8801, and it was the last one to appear on the Nintendo Famicom.
Ys III, like the previous games, was adapted for the Famicom by Advance Communication, and it was released three months after the SNES version (https://youtu.be/I8Tcdm2foE0) hit Japanese retail shelves. The Famicom game was the only console port of Ys III to not see an international release.
Of the three Famicom Ys games, the third one comes the closest to matching the experience of the game its based on. The intro text crawl, a few bits of dialog, and the parallax scrolling of the background layers are gone, there are fewer enemies milling about the action stages, and the layout of Galabans Island is different, but everything else is very familiar.
It looks and sounds fine for an NES game, and the controls are responsive, though Adols movement take a bit of getting used to coming off the TurboGrafx-CD (https://youtu.be/f-ZEdTDWslQ), Genesis (https://youtu.be/Q5J-IjYz8MA), and SNES versions.
Otherwise, its still the same fun (and regrettably brief) platform action game that it was on every other platform.
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com/) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!")
