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WWF WrestleFest is a wrestling game featuring twelve WWF superstars from the early

1990s. Players have several game play options to choose from when playing WWF

WrestleFest. One to four same-screen players can play WWF WrestleFest at the same time.

WWF WrestleFest features three game play options. First, players can choose to participate

in a Royal Rumble. In the Royal Rumble, the object is to be the last wrestler standing in the ring.

To eliminate other wrestlers, players must either pin them or throw them out of the ring. The last

wrestler remaining in the ring is crowned champion of the Royal Rumble.

A second game option is to go for the WWF tag team title. One player or two players

cooperating with each other can exercise this option. The tag team must win five matches in

order to face The Legion of Doom for the tag team belt.

A third game option for two, three, or four players is to wrestle in a "head to head" tag team

match. The match winners will continue to go for the tag team belt, unless the losing team

decides to continue by inserting more credits.

There are twelve WWF wrestlers available for game play. They include such WWF greats as

Hulk Hogan, Earthquake, Jake "the Snake" Roberts, Ted DiBiase, and

Demolition, among others.
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Roots & Influences

This game was one of the first to incorporate real-life professional wrestlers into the world of video gamedom. It was inspired by such games as Taito Wreslting.
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Overall

WWF WrestleFest is one of the first games that my friends and I played until the

joysticks broke. The old copy of the game we destroyed by overusing was still down at

the mall seven years after its 1991 release, but the controls for Players 2 and 3 are beyond

repair.

I can't really explain why we loved WWF WrestleFest so much. The graphics were not

stellar and the sound didn't blow us away. There was just something about it. It was the

spectacle of professional wrestling captured in a video game. No other game had really

done that before.

Whether you chose to play alone or with friends, in a tag team match or a Royal Rumble,

you were guaranteed a good time. The Royal Rumble was total anarchy. I have only

managed to win it a few times in the many years that I have been playing this game, and

it's usually because I drop extra credits in to revive my wrestler. Typically, I use

Earthquake in the Royal Rumble. He's big and hard to move. That doesn't mean he's

unbeatable.

When going for the tag team belt, a lot of people will tell you that Jake "the Snake"

Roberts and Ted DiBiase is the best tandem to use. I go against the grain, however,

and typically select Earthquake and the Ultimate Warrior. If they're taken by

opponents, then I'll go with the boys from Demolition.

A great thing about WWF WrestleFest is that money talks. If you are about to lose a

match because your wrestler's energy meter is low, just throw another coin in the slot.

Your wrestler gets his energy back, and you get to keep going for the belt.

WWF WrestleFest is also innovative because it was one of the first games to recognize

the importance of "outside interference" in professional wrestling. If your tag team partner

steers an opponent into your corner, hit him. Better yet, grab him and hold him while your

partner hits him. If your partner is about to be pinned, get in the ring and stomp on the guy

pinning him. It works every time.

WWF WrestleFest also incorporated brawls which occur outside the ring. If you

manage to throw an opponent over the top rope, chase him and hit him with a metal chair

or with the iron stairs at ringside. You can even whip him into the ringside barricade. Just

make sure you get back in before the ref counts you out.

Finally, the developers of WWF WrestleFest recognized the importance of a wrestler's

"finishing move." One of the reasons I love Earthquake so much is because his

finishing move is so ridiculous. It takes an excruciatingly long time to set up, but when its

over, your opponent has no chance to recover.

To me, WWF WrestleFest is one of the best games of the early 1990s. I know others

will disagree, but this game truly rocks.
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Enjoyment

Excellent
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Graphics

Not great, but adequate
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Sound

Again, not great
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Replay Value

Superb
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Documentation

N/A
~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide
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WWF WrestleFest

Developer(s) Technos Japan Corporation
Publisher(s) Technos Japan Corporation
Designer(s) Shinichi Saito (director), Kunio Taki (producer)
Platform(s) Arcade
Release date(s) NA June 1991
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Up to 4 players, simultaneous
Input methods Joystick, 2 buttons
Cabinet Upright
Arcade system CPU: 68000 and Z80 with a YM2151 and an OKI MSM6295 ADPCM for sounds.
Display Raster resolution 456x336

WWF WrestleFest is a professional wrestling arcade game released by Technos in 1991, featuring stars of the World Wrestling Federation. The game is the sequel to WWF Superstars. The game was distributed by Technos in Japan and North America and by Tecmo in Europe and Australasia.

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Features

Like Superstars before it, the game features many of the trademark moves and taunts of the featured WWF Superstars. The game also allows the player to insert more credits into the machine to buy energy - a feature similar to one used in an earlier Technos release, The Combatribes.

Wrestlefest included a new Royal Rumble mode as well as four-player simultaneous play. There are also voice samples, including commentary and pre-match introductions by WWF ring announcer Mike McGuirk. The voiced cut scenes featuring Gene Okerlund from Superstars returned as well.

Gameplay

Hulk Hogan and Sgt. Slaughter team up against Ultimate Warrior and Big Boss Man.

Gameplay in WrestleFest is similar to its predecessor - in Saturday Night's Main Event mode, the player must pick two wrestlers to form a tag team and take them through a series of matches, including a title match with the unplayable Legion of Doom. After winning the title match, the player must once again take their team through a series of matches and finally defeat the Legion of Doom a second time to complete the game.

Players can perform numerous double-team moves by tagging their partner with the opponent in the proper position or tagging while holding the opponent in a headlock. Additionally, after a team member has been on the apron for a certain length of time, they will "power up," temporarily giving them the ability to win all grapples and inflict more damage than usual.

In Royal Rumble mode, the player picks one superstar and takes him through a Royal Rumble match. Elimination occurs by pinfall, submission, or being thrown out of the ring. Before a new wrestler enters the match, an insert of the wrestler taunting in front of a camera appears on screen.

The moveset in WrestleFest differs from WWF Superstars in that more than one maneuver is assigned to each control combination, and these vary widely among the characters. For example, Ted DiBiase may respond to the "punch" button during a grapple by performing a backbreaker, a piledriver, a suplex, or his Million Dollar Dream finisher. The move he performs depends partially on a CPU "variety" sequence and on the energy level of the opponent.

Featured wrestlers

In the original version, Demolition must be selected as a team in Main Event mode, and can not be teamed with any other playable characters. Under emulation, however, cheat codes were created that allow the player to team Smash or Crush with other characters.

Hawk and Animal are not initially selectable in the arcade version, but cheat codes exist to allow them to be playable (both together and separately) under emulation. A second player can also "buy-in" to the game while the first player battles Legion of Doom in the Main Event mode, allowing them to control Hawk and Animal and continue playing as them if they win the two-player match. Hawk and Animal both have twice as much energy as the other characters.

All playable characters can perform their familiar finishing maneuvers when the opponent is weakened enough. The Legion of Doom can perform their team finisher, the Doomsday Device; however, if the move is not set up in a precise area of the ring, Hawk will not go to the top rope, and the timer will have to be allowed to run out or the game will need to be reset. The Demolition Decapitation finisher does not appear in the game. Instead, Smash and Crush perform a suplex and a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, respectively, as finishers.

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