Exciting Hour

a.k.a. Mat Mania

created and published by Taito / Technos in 1985, running on Arcade
type: sport, fighting
perspective: side view
player options: single player
languages: eng
4.4/5
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Personal review

This game is superb and unlike a lot of other wrestling games released, it has a great control method which in a way is better than Wrestlefest's.

You are a guy who is challenging a few blokes to get to the ultimate accolade in wrestling - the World Championship Belt. The guys you come up against are your typical O.T.T. (over-the-top) WWF-style characters, who dress up in silly costumes. You are trained in many wrestling maneuvers such as the piledriver and suplex, through to basic moves like a flying kick. You can even get up on the top rope and pummel your oppenent with the "Flying Butt Crush" attack. Between each bout your are presented by a short low-down of your oppenent, by some announcer who thinks he is recruiting folks for the army.

What makes this stand out amongst all the other "official" wrestling games is the ease of pulling off these moves. For example, a piledriver is UP + KICK, whereas a suplex is UP + PUNCH. This might not sound like a major feature to the game, but how often in Wrestlefest have you shouted at your character, "Don't do a bloody throw, DDT the bitch!"? I bet it's a lot.

# 2006

Technical specs

software: Emulated on MAME,
display: raster

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