Battle of the Ports

[Nu-Eclipse]

No arcade wrestler has EVER come close to WWF WrestleFest - a surefire candidate for the should-have-been-ported list if ever there was one.

Don't @ Me.

[Team Andromeda]

Here's a new BOTP for this week that many people requested over the years - WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game.

I quite enjoyed the game back in the day . But my fav Arcade wrestler games were Main Event and WrestleFest

[Yakumo]

I quite enjoyed the game back in the day . But my fav Arcade wrestler games were Main Event and WrestleFest

For me it's got to be the muscle Bomber series.

[Team Andromeda]

For me it's got to be the muscle Bomber series.

I've never played that tbh. I also did quite enjoy SEGA's All Japan Pro wrestling series too

[Nu-Eclipse]

My only gripe with Muscle Bomber/Muscle Bomber Duo is that it wants to be too much like Street Fighter - wrestling game moves shouldn't be that difficult to pull off. It would be in my top-five though if only because I love that Tetsuo Hara did the artwork for it and that Mike Haggar is in it!

Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II is crap though - definitely way too much like Street Fighter and it just doesn't work.

[Yakumo]

So, there aren't many boxing games in the arcade and what ones there are are not that great. But just how bad is Taito's Final Blow?

[Yakumo]

It's an oldie today as we take a look at Venture. This video does not contain any home-brew remake such as those found on the Atari 8bit home computers, Atrai 5200 or Windows.

[Team Andromeda]

It's an oldie today as we take a look at Venture. This video does not contain any home-brew remake such as those found on the Atari 8bit home computers, Atrai 5200 or Windows.

One of my most fav games of all time. I played the hell out of the CBS version back in the day (never knew it was based on a coin up) I used to pants my self, each then that big Goblin appeared

[Yakumo]

[Team Andromeda]

One of my happiest memories of gaming was borrowing Spy Hunter off my mate Ceri for the Zx Spectrum in school. That's my fav version of the game and I played it for weeks on end. Loved the Zx Spectrum days In school of borrowing and copying games

[DeathAdder]

I much prefer Bump n Jump to this, although Spy Hunter seems to have a much better NES port.

[Mayhem]

I actually think the C64 version of Spy Hunter is better and more playable than the original, and I'm not the only one heh...

[Yakumo]

I much prefer Bump n Jump to this, although Spy Hunter seems to have a much better NES port.

I think Action Fighter pretty much owns Spy Hunter in every respect.

Just updated the Spy Hunter video

[DeathAdder]

I have that on Master System, but don't think I've tried it - will have to dig it out.

[Yakumo]

Yes, finally after 262 shows of Battle of the Ports I'm getting on to the classic Pole Position. This game has so many ports and quite a few emulated versions which we won't cover but even without those there's still 16 versions to see right here. Enjoy.