This may have left many people disappointed when they played it for the first time, as the game was a radical departure from what gamers had come to expect from wrestling games. ![]() Like I mentioned above, WWF The Arcade Game is much more of a fighting game than it is a wrestling game. What follows is the product of that weird time period between the Hogan Era and the Attitude Era, combined with arcade trends of the day. The WWF took a cue from these red-hot arcade properties and partnered up with Midway to release this quasi-hybrid wrestling and fighting game. Released at a time when the WWF was reeling from the departure of many of it’s 80’s stars like Hulk Hogan, it was also a time when games like NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat ruled the arcades. These games were great, but after awhile they became stale and predictable. ![]() The more prominent releases that we saw in the post-NES era were those of the “Super Wrestlemania” series, which spawned a couple of sequels. Back when the WWE went by the name WWF, we were treated to many memorable games on our various home consoles.
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