The game features six wrestlers: Hulk Hogan, André the Giant, 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, 'The Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase, Bam Bam Bigelow and The Honky Tonk Man. Rare later developed a follow-up game, WWF WrestleMania Challenge. It was developed by Zippo Games and designed by John Pickford. Badder'.Ī Game Boy version started development in 1990 but was cancelled. The game's title screen features the tagline for WrestleMania III: 'Bigger. Released just months prior to WrestleMania V, it was intended to help build up to that event. WrestleMania also marked the beginning of a long relationship between Acclaim and the WWF which lasted ten years. It was the first WWF licensed NES game and the second WWF game overall, the first being MicroLeague Wrestling. However, this was the first WWF console-based game to feature a steel cage match (cage matches had previously been seen in the arcade game WWF WrestleFest).WWF WrestleMania (named after the annual pay-per-view event) is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game created by Rare and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1989. WrestlerĪll wrestlers share the same moveset, consisting of standard punches and kicks, grapples (body slam, throw, headbutt), running attacks (flying clothesline, dropkick), a powerslam to a running opponent, ground attacks (stomp, elbow drop) and a move off the turnbuckle. The TV game version features the NES roster, but with Ultimate Warrior and Razor Ramon replacing Hulk Hogan and The Mountie respectively. The Sega versions replace those characters with Ric Flair, Papa Shango, Shawn Michaels and Tatanka. The NES version also has Jake Roberts, Sid Justice, Roddy Piper, and The Mountie. The NES and Sega versions of the game feature Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, I.R.S., Bret Hart, and The Undertaker.

Modes include One-on-One (regular match and steel cage match variations), Tag Team, WWF Championship (choose one wrestler and defeat all the others to become WWF Champion), and Tag Team Championship (choose two wrestlers and defeat combinations of the rest in a series of tag team matches to become WWF Tag Team Champions).

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