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That big digitized pic of Hogan on the title screen was one of the most mind-blowing things I had seen up to that point. I didn’t even like wrestling yet and I still wanted the game when I saw it on Gamepro TV. I did play the (superior overall but not in graphics) Genesis version on actual hardware but I didn’t play the SNES version until 2001 on an emulator. It sucks ass. No championship mode, no finishers.

Edit: I was thinking I made a post a while ago where I said the exact same stuff and here you go:

BUTT said:
Super WrestleMania on SNES was the most mindblowing shit I had ever seen when they showed it on GamePro TV. At the time I was a huge mark for any game with digitized graphics and Super WM started with this very impressive photo of the Hulkster, plus crystal-clear pics of all the wrestlers in the game on the select screen. I thought the in-game graphics were pretty cool too. What I didn't realize since I never played it on an actual SNES was that the game is unfinished. There are no finishing moves and no championship mode, so every match is an exhibition. I did however play the Genesis version since my brother's friend had it and we borrowed the system and game for a while. It had the same Hogan pic on the title screen but due to the Genesis's limited color palette it kinda looked like crap, and I never felt that this was the same magical game that I had seen JD Roth talking up on GamePro TV. However, due to the fact that it does have finishing moves and a simple championship mode, I can declare it one of the few multiplatform 16-bit games where the Genesis version is unequivocally better than its SNES counterpart.

I played Royal Rumble soon after it was released thanks to another of my brother's friends and was very impressed with it (it had even bigger digitized photos than its predecessor!), but I didn't own it until almost two years after it came out by which time Raw had been released, but it was OK because I preferred the Rumble roster anyway, and Raw wasn't nearly the improvement over Rumble that Rumble was over Super WM. Raw should have at least had cage matches.

Allow me to say that it was a huge missed opportunity to not include the classic Wrestlemania and Royal Rumble themes in the SNES games named after those events.
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BruiserBrody said:
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10 Educational PC Games Every 80s Kid Loved

Do you remember playing these classics in school?
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I would love to magically have a list of the games I was able to play from 3rd grade-ish to middle school study hall. I have some random memories, but nothing concrete. I have a CD copy of Number Munchers, but there has to be so many others I would love to unlock memories of.
(We did not have a "CPU Lab" until 5th grade. Then we finally started to learn how to type. Before that it was one CPU per 4 class rooms or something like that and you had to sign up to sacrifice outdoor recess to play.)

From this list Odell Lake, Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego are the only ones that jump out as things we had at Hillbilly Elementary.

It's kind of fun to think about how Oregon Trail got 2 or 3 revisions and each time we were all like HOW CAN THIS GET BETTER??!!

And then came Amazon Trail, WHHHHHHHAAAAAT?!!?!

Same basic story with Carmen Sandiego as they got 1 or 2 upgrades from 87-95 at least

There are one or maybe 2 point and click adventure sort of games I recall from middle school, but I have such vague memories of it, I don't even know what I would put on a reddit post to try and have others remember it. "You find ABC gum" and "I think there was a castle door at the start?" are not going to cut it.
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Bumping this post as I remember being into the Hot Dog Stand: The Works game in our computer classes. I was all about that shit. Apparently it was released in 1995, which would've made my middle school years the perfect demographic for it.

 
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