A Small Pedrogames.Com Spending Spree « Video Game Collecting

29Jan/100

A Small Pedrogames.Com Spending Spree

I purchased a couple games from pedrogames.com tonight. My budget has been cramped recently so I had to be pretty selective.

The first game I bought was WWF: Steel Cage Challenge. I've always had an interest in wrestling games and have posted about them before (http://www.salzmafia.com/labels/wrestling.php). But two things occured that started to make me jones for this game. The first is I finally got to watch "The Wrestler" and it was an incredibly cool movie. I don't particularly like movies with alot of action and no dialog, but this movie was perfect. If you haven't seen it yet, there is a popular scene in the movie where the main character "The Ram" returns home (to a trailer) from the hospital after recovering from a heart attack. He now needs to take it easy and he's bored. Looking down below his TV he sees his Nintendo and invites a neighborhood kid over to play Wrestle Jam.

Wrestle Jam is a fictious game. It doesn't actually exist as a rom or cart that I know of and from what I read it was specifically programmed for the movie. Here are a few screen shots:

"The Ram" and a neighborhood kid talk about "Call of Duty 4" while playing Nintendo.

The title screen to Wrestle Jam. "The Ram VS. The Ayatollah"

The match begins!

Anyways The Ram beats the kid to a pulp, and the kid, bored, wants to go home. Well in reading comments on other blogs about this same story (which is two years old as of this posting) much of the comments compared the game to other wrestling titles on Nintendo. Wrestlemania is probably the closest:

So, I started looking at videos of all of the different wrestling games and I stumbled upon WWF: Steel Cage Challenge. The animations in this game really caught my attention which is the second reason why I wanted it. It was released in 1992, near the end of the life of the NES, so it's no surprise that it looks as good as it does:

We'll find out in less than a week if WWF: Steel Cage Challenge is worth it or not.

The next purchase is going to remain a secret for now. But I'll give a hint. If Elevator Action and Shinobi had a child together it would be this game.