{"id":830,"date":"2010-05-30T23:59:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=830"},"modified":"2010-05-30T23:59:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T22:59:28","slug":"mame-wr-no-11-3-count-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"MAME WR No. 11 \u2013 3 Count Bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was 14, I loved watching WWF.\u00a0 Hulk Hogan caving Jake The Snake Roberts face in.\u00a0 Macho Man Randy Savage’s ongoing saga with Miss Elizabeth.\u00a0 The Undertaker locking Ultimate Warrior in an airtight coffin and suffocating him.\u00a0\u00a0 All high points and all, along with the fights themselves, 100% real despite my father telling me otherwise.\u00a0 Now of course, plenty of years later, I know that it’s just big sweaty men, play acting and in a word bollocks. I probably owe my father an apology.\u00a0 So, with this in mind, I’m approaching this game tentatively.\u00a0 Modern day “wrestling is wank” Sull is going to have to take a back seat for the time being to 14 year old “wrestling is ace” Sull…<\/p>\n

There are two high score on the Twin Galaxies scoreboard for 3 Bout Count, one of which is for the two player Tag Team Mode, and the other single player being Most Money Earned.\u00a0 Already this seems like a record for records sake.\u00a0 Something to have to register it on the scoreboard but I’ll have a go at it nonetheless.\u00a0 The present record is held by Rodrigo Lopes with a score of $662,900.00.\u00a0 Considering second place is $49,200.00 I may have some way to go.<\/p>\n

The enforced settings are as follows;<\/p>\n

Romset: 3CountB\nPlay Time: 3 Min 0 Sec\nVS Time: 3 Min 0 Sec\nTag Time: 5 Min 0 Sec\nContinue: WITHOUT\nDifficulty: LEVEL 4\nDemo Sounds: ON\nCredit Disp.: WITH\nLevel Disp.: WITH\nLanguage: English\n\nSpecial Rules: This is a Single Player ONLY Variation! Continues are NOT allowed!<\/pre>\n
When starting you have a choice of 10 different wrestlers whose only differences, on the face of it, are either being lean or fat.  Typically corny names such as in force such as Terry Rodgers and Big Bomberder to STD sounding The Gandhara.  I chose Terry Rodgers on account of him being the first in the list.<\/p>\n
According to the pre game demo, A is punch, B is kick, C is jump, D is go for the count.<\/p>\n
On the first attempt I score $4600 whilst being defeated spectacularly but Gandhara.  It’s not a fair fight though.  He breathes fire and I’m shit.<\/p>\n
It \"\"turns out that when you go into a grapple you have to tap A as quick as possible to increase a sliding energy bar.\u00a0 If you have the higher energy when told to stop, you can then perform wrestling moves.\u00a0\u00a0 Throw your opponent out the ring, piledrive them, suplex etc.\u00a0 Nice idea but it all happens so quick that you’re hardly given more than a couple of seconds to win the right to perform the aforementioned move.\u00a0 So with this in mind I choose a new fighter.\u00a0 Sod it, if Gonnarhea or whatever he’s called can fire smoke I’m picking Leo Bradley.\u00a0 That mother fights with chains.\u00a0 I progress to past the first level with ease, pass the second, which is a street fight,\u00a0 and return to the ring to then lose to a wrestler whose name I can’t remember but judging by the difficulty he was probably called steep learning curve or something.\u00a0 I manage to muster up a score of $42,000.\u00a0 Not brilliant but neither is this game to be honest.<\/p>\n
I’m sure there are fans of this game who will defend it’s playability and enduring quality to the very end.\u00a0 Ricardo Lopes must be one of those to achieve such a commendable world record but to be honest, it’s pretty weak.\u00a0\u00a0 The controls are clunky, the grapple system is flawed, and fuckers cheat with fire. All it’s serve to do is re-inforce my adult opinion of wrestingl.\u00a0 Dogshit. \u00a0 And with that I begin my final attempt.<\/p>\n
I manage to make it through to the 3rd fight with certain ease (perhaps I’m getting the hang of this and may grow to like it?) and I’m yet again defeated.\u00a0 Oh well,\u00a0 I manage a score of $48,100 which is a bit shit really.\u00a0 Never mind. It’s getting submitted anyway.<\/p>\n
Next up: 4 en Raya<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was 14, I loved watching WWF.\u00a0 Hulk Hogan caving Jake The Snake Roberts face in.\u00a0 Macho Man Randy Savage’s ongoing saga with Miss Elizabeth.\u00a0 The Undertaker locking Ultimate Warrior in an airtight coffin and suffocating him.\u00a0\u00a0 All high points and all, along with the fights themselves, 100% real despite my father telling me … Continue reading “MAME WR No. 11 \u2013 3 Count Bout”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}