I like the Toddster more then “Tard” Ghrisham on WWE. Is he even still around?

There is no Hulk since he was busy cashing checks in WCW at the time. A better question is why theres no Diesel in the game. Or Godwin Brothers.

I thought the whole point of the Razor Ramon gimmick was to be a full-on Scarface rip-off?

Is it just me, or did anyone else notice Mickey knows precisely dick about wrestling? It's really sad to see GameHeroes producing this at this point, since their content has been rapidly on the decline (I used to like them, but the turning point was that BS news program with “Dustin”, gawd.)

If you wanna shoehorn Mickey in to get his face out there for his candidacy for the Tester, fine, but wtf, you coulda just mailed Spoony the video and let him go off on it in the way it seems only he can do, and it would have been SO much better than what it turned out to be. (I cite as my example the GameCrazy training vid).

This doesn't really seem like the forum to be voicing my disappointment at the lack of quality stuff GameHeroes are putting out as of late (MOAR TOP 5s LULZ). But what the hell, Spoony fans are notorious dicks, so what the hell. Flame on!

Well, there is a reason his first name is Razor…

I must say I didnt think Mickey's commentary on this was very good at all. Seemed like Spoony was doing most of the work and Mickey just either laughed or added to something spoony had already said. Still enjoyed watching it but it really was obvious that Mickey knew nothing about wrestling at all

I didn't want to double-comment but, did anybody just fucking see that bald guy lose his hair? seriously, after razor ramon appears, what the fuck.

Yeah, at 7:20 I believe… I'm surprised they didn't comment on it, honestly!

Question: How many people at TGWTG are into wrestling?

Answer: So far as I know, just Spoony.

And (as Adam Savage would say) there's your problem. Anybody they team up with Spoony to riff on a 15-year-old wrestling game promo tape is going to be weaker on the riff than Antweiler. Notice that when Lee from Still Gaming did his epic two part rant on the crappy world of 1980s baseball card collecting, he did it by himself because he was the only one knowledgable enough. So my point is that sometimes you have to live with your Dr. Erhardts, and other times you can find a TV's Frank.

Me too, though I had to go back and check if I had imagined it.

Good evening Spoony and fellow Spooners.

Don't know why, but every time I saw a helicopter in this video, I expected to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger say, “The Hell with you. I will not fire on helpless people.”

I really hope Mickey in specific and Game Heroes in general learned something from these videos. More than anything else, Mickey should hone his abilities to recognize bit set-ups and continue them accordingly. For example, during the phone call at the end Spoony quite obviously started a bit by role-playing as desperate old tip-line man. Mickey started to play along as the eager caller looking for tips, but then broke from that to try and play as the old man.

Comedic duos rely upon give and take. When two people basically work off the cuff, the ability for each to quickly recognize potential queues on the fly will help overcome the natural lack of synergy two people not accustomed to working together will have.

8-bit Mickey is a little better in this vid, but he's still a bit held back i think. still, great riffing guys!

also, when you started the Ahmed Johnson impression, my ears went out a little. :)

I'd say the reason for the lack of Diesel, bulldog, gold dust and mabel would be because, although the game was released in 1995, it must have started production around the tail end of 1993 at latest.

In 93, Nash was only just finding his feet in wwf, mabel wasn't really doing anything (if he was even IN wwf at the time), gold dust was still Dustin Rhodes in WCW and bulldog had JUST gone to wcw.

I'm glad there are no godwins lol.

But with development of a game such as this (or any game for that matter) roster cut off deadlines are pretty early. They have to digitise the characters, think about the moves and so on, then code it.

Everyone in the game was getting at least a decent mid card push at the time. I guess they didn't have owen in there, because they had bret.

Also, the roster had to be smaller than most similar games (like Monday Night Raw) because of the graphical style.

However, Raw had Diesel and co in there because they had the engine from Royal Rumble (released in 93) so could just draw in the sprites for the newer faces in 94, and add their finisher and that's it.

If the WM Arcade team wanted to add Diesel, they'd have to digitise him and then make up a crappy pseudo street-fighter move set.

Fun fact:

The camera in 06:13 & 06:28 is a Krasnogorsk-3, it's a compact 16mm film camera.
Those cameras were designed and manufactured in the USSR, and the production of them stopped in the early 1990's.

Good camera, I own two.

Spoony should host a few riffing classes, and Mickey should attend, because that guy was just lame.

dammit, I just can't listen to 8-bit mickey. Spoony, you need to redo this riff either solo or with your bro.

Sponny, you just HAVE to do In Your House, Nitro/Thunder/Nitro64 or the TNA iMPACT! game.

I'll normally refrain from dissing the hacks Spoony works with for his Jewgolds, but this was really REALLY bad. Mickey has the personality of cardboard, and he knows absolutely nothing about wrestling. So, why did he bother doing this? Just, wow.

I love how U people dissing on LJN when LordKat proved some of the games U hate so much were made by Rare, yeah that Rare and LJN just slapped their logo on it. Alien 3 for NES is a decent game, with awesome music and it has LJN logo. The Punisher (NES) is also decent.

Mickey is pretty bad. I bet he's better when he's scripted but making jokes on the fly ain't for everybody. Spoony is master and mickey ain't blaster. He don't run bartertown.

That's right. Luger's best year in the WWF was 1993, especially when he was “The Narcissist”.

Has anyone ever actually called one of those hotlines? If so, please share your tales of hotline adventures!

Mickey's funny when he's reading scripted lines, but for improv he just sucks. I feel bad, too, because you can tell he's trying. It's not really his fault though, since he doesn't know anything about wrestling.

Actually, it's not that LJN made games that suck. It's more “LJN dealt mostly with crap projects, so if it's LJN-associated, it sucks.” It's like associating hookers and STDs. Sure, not all hookers have STDs, but you're just better off assuming that they do.

Wow Olga, you could not have been more of a troll if you tried.

Well there is a dusty, old basement somewhere that’s still running the Wally Bear drug hotline, It was in great nerd episode awhile back.