#1035 WWF Royal Rumble (DC) Bosses (1/2): Vince McMahon playthrough.
0A playthrough of the potential final boss Vince McMahon in the Dreamcast port of WWF Royal Rumble.
“No chaaaance, so that’s what ya got.”
Not only a third WWF wrestling arcade game, but one which has bosses too. These bosses were unplayable in the arcade release (as far as I know, anyhow), but they’re unlockable in the Dreamcast port. Oh, there was also Wrestlemania the Arcade Game by Midway, but that one had no bosses for some reason.
WWF Royal Rumble is an arcade wrestling title released on Sega’s Naomi hardware. From what I’ve read and played of it, it uses a modified version of the game engine for WWF Smackdown for the PS1. This is great, of course, because Smackdown and Smackdown 2, along with No Mercy. were wrestling games finally got streamlined to the point that they finally became enjoyable, choosing to go for a much more arcade-style of gameplay compared to the overly complex wrestling titles of the mid-to-late 90s. So, yeah, an arcade-style engine was adapted into an arcade wrestling game. Makes sense, really.
Royal Rumble is pretty fun, but when No Mercy and Smackdown 2 already exist there isn’t much point playing it nowadays apart from its novelty as late arcade wrestling title. I actually saw it in the wild once at an arcade which is the main reason I know about it. I still distinctly remember just kind of staring at it in amazement for a good five minutes or so, just so bemused to see a modern arcade wrestling game of all things; a genre so perfect for the rise of deeper console games of the late 90s, with story modes, character customisations and tons of unlockable characters, that having an arcade title just seemed bizarre. But, hey, I can always appreciate a novelty. I saw Wrestlemania the Arcade game out in the wild too, but with its more cartoony graphics and its pseudo-fighting game style gameplay, that one made a little more sense to me.
The game also has two bosses; WWF-owner Vince McMahon as the boss of the eponymous Royal Rumble mode, and his son Shane as the boss of the traditional Exhibition mode, where you defeat 10 opponents in a typical arcade-mode. Both of these guys are pretty powerful, and I personally reckon that they’re actually more powerful than the other characters in the game, but that’s not the sort of thing I’d take the time to confirm. Vince serves as the boss here because, of course, he won the 1999 Royal Rumble.
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