{"id":720,"date":"2015-04-07T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2015-04-02T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:25:18","slug":"onm-remembered-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #258"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Crush the head to activate the character’s speech.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 95 (August 2000)<\/p>\n

This isn’t just a preview for THQ’s WWF No Mercy<\/i> – it’s got posters! It’s got wrestler spotlights! It’s got merchandise shilling! It’s got an ad for the Wacky Races<\/i> video game!!!<\/b>
\n(is it just me, or was there a period where every developer was dead-set on making racing games based off old-as-balls cartoons? … okay, Wacky Races<\/i> and the Looney Tunes Space Race<\/i> are the only ones that pop to mind, but still. weird era, huh?)<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll admit wrestling has been a mystery to me for the longest time – I’ve played two wrestling games in my entire life and both of them were nigh-incomprehensible, and I just never got into it when I was young. Why would I watch big dudes tussling when I could be watching ReBoot<\/i>? I admit I hold a bizarre fascination for it now; why didn’t anyone tell me it was like a living cartoon crossed with the most outrageous of soap opera plots? I mean, Andre the Giant straight up Donkey Konging Macho Man’s manager in the middle of a match? That’s just the kind of stupid crap I love, man.
\n(i’m a wee bit behind, you can probably tell)<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is why it frustrates me that the two wrestling games I played were so needlessly complex and not a lot of fun. I’d love for something as dirt-simple as Pok\u00e9mon Rumble<\/i>, but with wrestlers. That guy ran over your car in a monster truck? That’s more than enough reason to go about elbow dropping fifteen jobbers at once! Push the concept of a Royal Rumble to its absolute limit!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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