Retro Gaming Australia

Both the NES and the WWF were at the top of their game at the end of the 1980s, so it was only natural that the two forces would collide. WWF WrestleMania Challenge is the second WWF effort for the system, and features eight WWF superstars, including favourites such as Hulk Hogan, The Macho Man Randy Savage and the Ultimate Warrior.

Abhorrent licensed platformer from Acclaim subsidiary Flying Edge based around a moderately successful toy line. The toys were actually pretty good, but the game is a stinker!

The first South Park video game is a rather horrible first person shooter. For what was a very lucrative project for Acclaim, it seems like they allocated an extremely low budget to it – everything looks cheap, there is next to no variety in the weapons and enemies, enemies are bullet sponges, and the game runs like utter crap. Yet it’s not the worst South Park game Acclaim released!

Let’s be frank: the Acclaim wrestling games of the 5th generation of consoles were garbage with their bullshit fifty billion button sequences for basic moves. ECW Anarchy Rulz was the last of these games, and copped the brunt of critic’s displeasure for the previous games (which were actually highly rated at the time).

Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a beat ’em up for the Mega Drive and SNES based on the 1994 comic book crossover event of the same name where Spider-Man and Venom team up to fight a new symbiote called Carnage. The Japanese Mega Drive version, which is for all intents and purpose identical to every other version, is one of the rarest and most expensive Mega Drive games.

WWF In Your House is what happens when you mix the WWF and over the top fighting games. WWF In Your House a sequel to WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game, but was developed by long time WWF game developer Sculptured Software and published by Acclaim – Midway was not involved at all.

Bad Mojo is a rather interesting adventure game played from the perspective of a man who has been transformed into a cockroach. Bad Mojo unexpectedly received a remake of sorts in 2004 in the form of Bad Mojo Redux, which featured upgraded FMV and some behind the scenes featurettes.

WWF War Zone is Acclaim’s first wrestling game to use 3D graphics. Initially well-received, WWF War Zone developed quite the following for its create-a-wrestler feature. Many criticised WWF War Zone‘s use of fighting game like movements for basic wrestling moves – one would have to spend quite some time learning a wrestler’s moves before they could play the game effectively. Also interesting is that the game featured Bret Hart, despite coming out in July 1998, nearly 8 months after his unceremonious exit from the WWF.

NFL Quarterback Club 2002 is Acclaim’s only NFL game for the sixth generation consoles. The NFL Quarterback Club series was initially quite popular on the Nintendo 64, but the arrival and significant improvement of Madden on the system, along with a series of only minor changes between releases saw its fanbase dwindle.

Enough idiots were fooled by the pretty graphics of Rise of the Robots that a sequel could be made. Of course most of the press were so eager to make up for their mistaken overrating of the original game that they savaged Rise 2: Resurrection, regardless of its actual merit or lack-thereof.