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Tag Team Wrestling (1983)

Duration: 3:45

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Let's Play Tag Team Wrestling for the NES with Bertrudor
http://www.youtube.com/Bertrudor

What I failed to mention in the video, mainly because of Bertrudor's disinterest in continuing the game, was that the control scheme is pretty easy. Albeit strange, the developers came up with a pretty unique way to "add more buttons" to the controller. When attacking your opponent (a button) you will inevitably grab them. Once a grab is preformed, quickly cycle through your moves list (b button) until the desired move is selected and press attack (a button) once more.

There are seven moves to cycle, which are in different orders for each of the four wrestlers, but all of them have an original or "special" move which is always number seven on the list (eight including not pressing b at all and just pressing a once more after the grab). So an input chain of: a, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, a, will perform any character's special move. Also, when outside of the ring a grab can be performed as well, but three different moves are available, which are the same for all four wrestlers.

All in all I think the developers did good at making an innovative game, but forgot that fun should be the number one goal of a game.

Also, look at the last frame of the video. The game looks glitched out, but it's actually the audience, WOW!


Originally recorded on: February 15, 2012

Published by: Data East USA, Inc.
Developed by: Technos Japan Corp.
Released: Oct, 1986