

Man, WWF Royal Rumble on SNES takes me back—this was the game that had me and my friends screaming at the TV on sleepovers. You pick from wrestlers like Bret Hart or The Undertaker (I always went for Razor Ramon, personally), and the controls are simple but just deep enough to feel like you’re actually trading grapples and reversals instead of button-mashing.
The ring physics are hilariously janky in that perfect 16-bit way—bodies go flying after a clothesline, and the crowd goes nuts when someone gets tossed over the ropes. The multiplayer Royal Rumble mode is where it shines, though. Four players crammed on a couch, elbowing each other IRL while trying to survive in the ring? Pure chaos. Just don’t get cornered by Yokozuna early on, or you’re toast.
It’s not the most polished wrestling sim, but the nostalgia hits hard, and the entrances with that chunky SNES soundtrack still give me chills. If you’ve got a buddy and a free afternoon, this one’s worth digging out of the attic.
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