#44

woah woah woah, sid is the someone else in that team pal

(it was with vader)

#45

Thats LORD Vader to you
Phone rings with angry Disney lawyer at other end
Er I mean Big Van Vader

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#46

just seemed deeply uncool to me

#47

wcw always seemed like the rubbish also-ran wrestling thing, their wrestlers seemed cheesier and all the videogames were worse

#48

Whilst I mostly agree with this WCW vs NWO World Tour (or whatever it was called) on the N64 was the start of the excellent N64 wrestling games.

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#49

didn’t have an N64 but really enjoyed the first few smackdown games on PS1

#50

Up there for me as the best wrestling games I’ve played. Although Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain was also very good.

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#51

decided to downgrade to a 4, While he was amazing between 89-93 (like Steiner) he never really fully re-captured that magic once Hogan turns up and stinks out WCW in '94. Sure, Crow Sting is one of the best gimmicks and looks of all time, and the build to that Hogan match is one of the best ever, but then the match itself happens. It’s not really Sting’s fault, but he didn’t actually have that many great matches on the look and gimmick he carried for the rest of his career.

#52

It was objectively shit but I have such fond memories of Backstage Assault , plsying that as a kid on Xmas day

Remember Mayhem having a stacked roster too, can’t remember anything of the game though

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#53

didn’t it have quite fun loading/select screens?

#54

relatedly, really enjoyed this crawlthrough all the major wrestling video game franchises by Matt McMuscles

#55

I’m not sure, I remember the entrances just being the video for a bit and the wrestler turning up to pose before you were then in a bathroom vs Vampiro or something

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#56

Matt McMuscles haha

#57

he’s really good!

#58

I’ll give it a watch, wrestling games were something great for me as a kid

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#59

Even if I did have to buy a WWF Attitude move guide cause it took like 15 butttonw to do a snapmare

#60

yeah that game was so goddamn techy!

#61

yeah this.

Crow Sting was a very mark-y character. that’s why he was the first wrestler I loved as a kid - not that I didn’t know it wasn’t real, just that the earnest moodiness really caught my imagination.

wouldn’t have made much sense in the Ruthless Aggression era.

I suppose they could have changed his character, though? leaned into the gritty baseball bat angle of the vigilante thing? idk

#62

Gonna close this soon, only 15 votes! No other big opinions on the Stinger??

In the meantime, let’s poll who’s next (though I have one queued up for this bank holiday Monday), some very good choices available here (for a variety of reasons)

  • Ric Flair
  • Terry Funk
  • The Great Muta
  • Brian Pillman
  • Psycho Sid Vicious/Justice
  • Dustin Rhodes/Goldust
  • Ricky Steamboat
  • Arm Anderson
  • Larry Zybszko
  • Rick Rude
  • Big Van Vader
  • Antonio Inoki
  • The Road Warriors/Legion of Doom
  • The Giant/Big Show/Paul White
  • “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan
  • Kevin Nash/Diesel
  • Scott Hall/Razor Ramon
  • Diamond Dallas Page
  • Vampiro
  • Jeff Jarrett
  • A.J Styles
  • Sean “X/6/1-2-3 KID/PAC” Waltman
  • Rhyno
  • Samoa Joe
  • Abyss
  • Christian
  • Jeff Hardy
  • Dolph Ziggler
  • Seth Rollins
  • The Undertaker

0 voters

#63

Sting scores a paltry 3.12 , he’ll be disappointed with that, NEXT: