Classic Wrestling Musings Done Up Until April 2019

So in another bit of good news on the backlog front, I’ve pretty much finished all the weekly Classic Wrestling Musings for the next several months. We’ve got stuff going on up until the end of April and I couldn’t be happier to get that out of the way.

I’ve tried to go for a varied selection of choices; at the moment, we’re doing WCW Uncensored until early-December. Then it’s AWA Super Sunday, followed by ECW Massacre On 34th Street. From then and throughout January, we have select Royal Rambles to cover. Then February will see the final three WCW PPVs covered and finish off with the Wrestlerock Rumble.

March will then see WWF Fully Loaded 2000, WCW Capital Carnage 1990 (the one with FUCKING ROBOCOP!), both ECW One Night Stand shows from 2005 and 2006, and then we dive into April with a random assortment of choices.

So that’s that. Unless something worthwhile pops up that’s worth talking about, I think the wrestling talk is going to be kept to a minimum for the foreseeable future. I’m not quite sure if I’m even going to talk about next week’s Survivor Series show, let alone watch it.

Shinzon… Drakkon… Rhaka Kahn…

This Praetor fellow… eh, not entirely sold. If only because there’s a sinking feeling in the back of my mind that this is just going to be another Drakkon repackage since BOOM and whoever’s writing stuff needs to continue their hard-on for such a wretchedly lazy character.

However, I remain somewhat cautiously optimistic that this is someone different, especially since it’s no longer Kyle “JDF’s Secret Love Slave” Higgins writing the thing.

Not a fan of that Solar Ranger design, however.

Actually, now that I think about it, the art is actually pretty hideous… especially when it comes to faces.

Oh well… I haven’t been completely turned off by this new direction. But I’m just hoping we eventually get back to what’s advertised on the cover and these fellows can end up in their own spin-off comic or something.

WCW Uncensored ’96

A couple years ago, we covered the very first WCW Uncensored event from 1995; a “unique” concept PPV that would comprise nothing but gimmick matches and things of that nature, similar to the current day WWE Extreme Rules PPV concept, except somewhat goofier… I guess. NowI covered the ’95 version since I had that on tape, but never got around to watching the remaining five editions of this series until I got access to the VOD aspect of the WWE Network. As such, we’ll be looking at the remaining shows this month and… well, it’ll be not boring… I hope.

Today’s subject matter is WCW Uncensored 1996, home of the Doomsday Cage match where Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage take one EIGHT men in a triple decker cage!

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More Overpriced Classic Stodge

Meanwhile… from the same store, you have these old arcade looking plug-and-play things on sale for about $25 CAD. Yep, paying 25 bucks for a shoddy plug-and-play with an NES version of Ms. Pac-Man (and not even the good one) or a version of Frogger that’s almost arcade-like.

However, that one Namco Museum one in the back… looks semi-interesting. It’s got three games. Forgot which games… but if it’s still there next time I pass by, it could be future video fodder. And I could go for some future video fodder right about now.

Overpriced Classics

So for those who can’t see the prices clearly, the two Galaga and Pac-Man mini-arcade units containing a single game each cost $39.99 CAD while the Pac-Man Pocket Player containing THREE whole games costs roughly $50.24 CAD. Plus tax.

Meanwhile, over at Walmart, you can buy one of those Pixel Player things with roughly 300 games (including some Data East classics… or at least their NES ports) for $24.99 CAD plus tax.

Mind you, I want to say this is just the pharmacy prices since their electronic goods tend to be a bit on the overpriced side… but sadly Walmart has the arcade models as well for roughly the same price.

It’d be worth it for the arcade ports… but not the subpar NES releases that are included on each.

Even the portable player is questionable, with the three games being Genesis ports of Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, and Pac-Attack.

Naturally, these would be easy avoids for any individual… and fortunately, common sense prevailed in this instance, so I saved a bunch of money.