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Best day ever!
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From: "Joe Gagne"
At last! Hopefully Youtube doesn't randomly wipe out my video footage...
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Best day ever!
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ReplyDeletevea a;ll been weaitingr for. I played the fuc out of No mre cy bakc in the day . Iw as an indie geek evaen then, i had Saamoan Joe, Paaul Lodnaon, thea briscoes, eaven fuckin soanjay duatt as my createa w realesres. I meiiss that shit, but time amarches on.
Dig dig diggity, dig diggity dog.....SOCKO!
ReplyDeletePAY PER VIEEEEEW!!!
Sadly, the save glitch keeps this from me ever going back to it aside from exhibition matches. I spent $500,000 on a Ho and it erased everything.
At last...I've always wondered what a digital epileptic seizure looked like...Thanks, Ryan!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I played it until the save glitch wiped out everything, too. I'm kind of amazed they haven't done a remake, given how popular it is.
ReplyDeleteI found a glitch in this game once. I was playing as Steve Austin as a special ref for a triple threat match. I was beating up one of the wrestlers, and I hit them with a Stone Cold Stunner. They did the animation where they were knocked out, and I was able to call for the bell. The game declared me the winner of the match.
ReplyDeleteEvery so often rumors pop up that it's going to show up on XBOX LIVE/PSN with updated roster, but I doubt that's ever going to happen. Does AKI still make wrestling games?
ReplyDeleteThis also reminded me that we were supposed to get a 3D Fire Pro game using the Xbox avatars. Wonder if that's still happening...
AKI has become Syn Sophia and, well, their output since then is... well... not exactly the kind of stuff you'd associate with a wrestling game developer.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn_Sophia
Too cool's zebra pants in orange and black looked wicked... Davey boy as world champion... Those were the best days of my life... I can't even control new games - too fast and too many buttons...
ReplyDeleteThat's weird considering No Mercy's control scheme is pretty daunting itself if you're not an experienced gamer.
ReplyDeletePerry Saturn was a beast in Rumbles; his Russian leg sweep was enough to knock out opponents over the top rope. I used him to unlock the hidden wrestlers.
ReplyDeleteI did the same with Bradshaw's hammer
ReplyDeleteHa, I forgotten they did the latest Ready 2 Rumble.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Def Jam games! Those were awesome games, and were nice if you were jonesing for the WCW/WWF gameplay. Too bad the third one sucked ass.
My favorite thing to do was give guys hard Irish whips to the corner, then run at them from a strange angle as they stumble out. You'd end up giving dudes spears that sent them flying off in the completely wrong direction.
ReplyDeleteThat, or beat the shit out of people until they get that crumpling-to-the-ground TKO animation.
Such an awesome game and all the little details is really what made it the best.
ReplyDeleteA few things I remember:
- I had the game for quite a while before I realized you could do diving moves off the apron -- I accidentally hit the run and A+B buttons and did a flying dropkick off of it onto the floor. Sweet!
- Some guys also had specials they could execute from inside the ring to a guy standing outside on the apron. One of them was an apron to the floor powerbomb -- I remember making Vader and killing guys with that.
- If you knocked a guy out in just the right place on the table, you could jump off of the ladder from inside the ring and nail him.
-- A lot of the taunts were done standing in place, but a few of them actually would cause you to flip over and create some space or quickly move out of the way, which came in handy. My favorite one was the little backflip to handstand move, ala Mr. Perfect vs Bret Hart at SS 91. That was the perfect one for Goldberg/Edge to create space for a surprise spear.
- The most satisfying thing though was sometimes if you did an irish-whip to your opponent into the corner and you timed it right, you could follow him in and hit him with your strike move just as he was about to come out, but before the actual animation beings, and send him flying over the top in one motion, worked great in the RR matches.
Yeah. No Mercy requires the use of a d-pad, analogue stick and 8 buttons.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet that totally worked for me, and I can't game for shit.
ReplyDeleteThanks for turning me on to this series, Scott. I love the Gagne reviews and when I was out sick from work the other day, I laid on the couch and watched all of them.
ReplyDeleteToo cool's zebra pants in orange and black looked wicked... Davey boy as world champion... Those were the best days of my life... I can't even control new games - too fast and too many buttons...
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