HammerLock Wrestling
Encyclopedia
HammerLock Wrestling is a professional wrestling game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
that was released in 1994 for an exclusively North America
n market. The game's original retail price was $64.99 in American dollars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game. The game will be released on Virtual Console sometime around the year 2012.
. The player can choose from 12 fictional wrestlers and compete in four different modes of play. There are also 60 different moves to choose from as well as unique finishers for each wrestler.
Exhibition
mode allows up to four different players to compete either against each other in singles match or in tag team format. There is also a round-robin
tournament with six different wrestlers competing to become the league
champion. A standard tournament
for up to eight players is also used as an alternative to the round-robin format. Meanwhile, the Top Ranking Match puts the players against other eleven wrestlers in an arcade
-like tournament to become the ultimate champion.
The game is divided into three different screens at times. The middle part shows the current action happening in the ring while the top and bottom parts of the screen are used for close-ups of action sequences such as power moves, illegal moves and finishing maneuvers.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
that was released in 1994 for an exclusively North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
n market. The game's original retail price was $64.99 in American dollars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game. The game will be released on Virtual Console sometime around the year 2012.
Summary
Considered to be Jaleco's take on wrestling, the game has a style geared towards Saturday Night Slam MastersSaturday Night Slam Masters
Saturday Night Slam Masters, known in Japan as , is a 1993 pro wrestling arcade game released for the CP System by Capcom. The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara, famous for Fist of the North Star....
. The player can choose from 12 fictional wrestlers and compete in four different modes of play. There are also 60 different moves to choose from as well as unique finishers for each wrestler.
Exhibition
Exhibition game
An exhibition game is a sporting event in which there is no competitive value of any significant kind to any competitor regardless of the outcome of the competition...
mode allows up to four different players to compete either against each other in singles match or in tag team format. There is also a round-robin
Round-robin
The term round-robin was originally used to describe a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified...
tournament with six different wrestlers competing to become the league
Sports league
League is a term commonly used to describe a group of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can be an...
champion. A standard tournament
Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:...
for up to eight players is also used as an alternative to the round-robin format. Meanwhile, the Top Ranking Match puts the players against other eleven wrestlers in an arcade
Video arcade
An amusement arcade or video arcade is a venue where people play arcade games such as video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers , or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables...
-like tournament to become the ultimate champion.
The game is divided into three different screens at times. The middle part shows the current action happening in the ring while the top and bottom parts of the screen are used for close-ups of action sequences such as power moves, illegal moves and finishing maneuvers.