

Wrestlers exclusive to the Genesis version are The Ultimate Warrior, Papa Shango, Irwin R. Wrestlers exclusive to the Super NES version are Jake Roberts, The Undertaker, Sid Justice, The Legion of Doom and The Natural Disasters. The only wrestlers shared between versions are Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage and Ted DiBiase. While the Super NES version does not contain signature moves, its roster is a bit larger, with ten wrestlers compared to eight in the Genesis version. The Genesis version also contains a WWF Championship mode where the player selects one wrestler and must defeat the rest in a series of one-on-one matches to be crowned WWF Champion. Gameplay modes consist of one-on-one, tag team, and four-on-four Survivor Series elimination matches. The Genesis version also has signature moves for each wrestler which can be performed at any time in the match. Two other 16-bit WWF games, WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Raw, were released which retained the "tug-of-war" style grappling system, where moves are performed by locking up and out-tapping the other player or the computer to execute a move.Īll wrestlers share the same set of standard professional wrestling moves like scoop slams, suplexes, dropkicks, clotheslines, hip tosses, and elbow drops. The game's music does not loop instead, the themes of both wrestlers in a match are swapped until the match is over.WWF Super WrestleMania is a multiplatform wrestling video game based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Mega Drive/Genesis. This is supported by the fact that, despite Wise's wonderful work on this title, an off note can be heard here and there. Due to the limited resources at the time, Wise most likely had to learn the wrestler themes by ear. According to Wise, he had to write the music in hexadecimal notation. The game's music was written and arranged by Rare's David Wise. For example, Andre the Giant's theme is replaced with Stand Back, and Ted Dibiase's theme is replaced with Robbie Dupee's "Girls in Cars".


However, there are some rather interesting choices with the music. Some of the familiar themes include Hulk Hogan's "Real American" and Randy Savage's "Pomp and Circumstance". WWF Wrestlemania has quite a good soundtrack for 1989 most of the wrestlers' themes are present and are represented beautifully on the NES 2A03, despite its limitations.
