WWF WrestleFest - An Arcade Classic
Wrestling Bios Presents - WWF WrestleFest - An Arcade Classic
Before the WWE 2K franchise before the AKI THQ Classics, wrestling fans would travel to the arcades to get their wrestling fix. While the home consoles at the time had some fairly average WWF games ready to play, the best experience could be found at a WWF WrestleFest arcade cabinet. Still to this day, old school wrestling fans absolutely love this game.
Developed by Technos and released in 1991, WWF WrestleFest included wrestlers such as The Ultimate Warrior, Demolition, Hulk Hogan, Mr. Perfect and The Big Boss Man. Players could choose to either participate in a Royal Rumble match, or they could go through the Saturday Night's Main Event tag mode. The big characters look like they came right out of a Saturday morning cartoon show, and the game was an incredible amount of fun.
In this video from Wrestling Bios, we take a look at WWF WrestleFest in the arcades. We go over Techno's previous games, the wrestlers who were missing from the game, we look at both game modes, and we also take a look at the WrestleFest remake that was released.
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I wish arcades were still a thing man. Talk about a great friday or staurday night with friends.
I LOVED this game. Sucks half the roster is dead...
Visually this game is still impressive to this day
My earliest memories as a child was my grandparents taking me to the arcade to play for a few hours. I was so small, that I had to stand on a milk crate to be able to reach the controls. This game was magic....Every time I see this game, I think of my grandparents that have since passed many years ago.
That awkward moment when you notice 5 people on the playable roster are dead. Six if you count unplayable.
You could control the grapple moves based on the direction you used on the joystick- it was 100% controllable not random
Wrestlefest old version was much better than todays play stations WWE games.
I consider the Fire Pro Wrestling games to be a spiritual successor to this game.
So glad I grew up during the 80's and 90's. What a time for gaming and music.
This brings back memories, I used to pick the big boss man, god I'm old!
Oh, the memories!! I can't even begin to think how many quarters that I pumped into this machine. I always marked out on seeing Jake "The Snake" executing the DDT and seeing actual wrestler intros!! Awesome, powerful nostalgia right here!
I grew up in a small Welsh village in the 80's/90's and my saving grace before consoles came along was my local video rental store had an arcade with this game and my best friends mum ran the place and at the end of the day after closing the manager would give me and my buddy 50 free credits while he closed up. Awesome memories.
I can still remember the first time I saw this game in the arcade on a family holiday and it blew my mind in my opinion this still holds up as one of the best wwf games ever made
man i love home consoles but nothing beats the experience of playing an arcade cabinet with the lights, artwork and the giant screen.
I must have spent my weight in quarters back in the late 80's and 90's. There was a sense of pride and bragging rights mastering these arcade classics in just a quarter, inserting your initials on top of the leader board. These arcades were also about social gatherings with your friends to hang out and that's what I miss the most.
Should be title
I have spent so much money on this game and would do it again. I want this arcade game and WWF Superstars
This was lit because they actually had finishing moves