WWF Rage in the Cage

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WWF Rage in the Cage

Publisher: Arena, Acclaim Japan (JP)

Developer: Sculptured Software, The Black Team

Genre: Sports

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1994-06-24 ^[3]	¥6,8006,800 ^[3]	T-81024
US	1993-11 ^[1]	$49.9549.95	T-81015
EU	1994-01^[2]		T-81015-50
BR	199x		063340

VRC

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WWF Rage in the Cage, known as WWF Mania Tour (ＷＷＦマニア・ツアー) in Japan, is an wrestling game for the Sega Mega-CD.

It offers the biggest selection of characters of all the WWF games released during the 16bit era, but is curiously lacking a tag team mode, made even more curious by the inclusion of popular tag team wrestlers such as the Nasty Boyz and the Headshrinkers. While there is no official reason for this, palette restrictions are a likely reason, although these were obviously worked around in the Sega Mega Drive WWF games, as these feature modes where up to 4 wrestlers can be seen simultaneously.

The extra space offered by the CD storage medium was used to add speech samples played before matches and (low quality) video files of each wrestler's signature move. Interestingly the wrestlers' intro music was not recorded but rerecorded for the game using lower quality instruments.

Gameplay

Gameplay is virtually identical to other Acclaim wrestling games. A new mode is the cage match, where the player has to escape the caged ring by climbing out while his opponent is knocked down.

The game also supports the six button control pad.

Production credits

Acclaim's Black Team

Paul Samulski, Mark Flitman, "Iron" Mike Arkin, J.J. Mazziotto, Jim "MK" Fink, Linda Spelman
Special Thanks to: Eric Samulski, Felicia Beech, Joe Allocco

For Sculptured Software

Programming: Arti Haroutunian
Sound Programming: Rob Nelson
Art Technician:Paul McCarl
Video Capture: Melissa Griego
Artists: Ray Cornia, Clark Sorenson, Les Pardew
Additional Artists: Virginia Sargent, Kelly Kofoed, Joel Izzat
Morphs by: Linda Olsen
Musicians: Paul Webb, Dean Morell, Scotty Fulmer
Original Scores by: H. Kingsley Thurber
Quality Assurance by: Matt Grate, Brian Miller, Lee Smith, Joe Buffington, Vince Bracken
Project Manager: Harald Seeley
Special Thanks to: Ned Martin

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: WWF Rage in the Cage/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in VideoGames (US) #61: "February 1994" (1994-0x-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

60

^[11]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

53

^[12]

Freak (IL)

88

^[13]

Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

85

^[14]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

83

^[5]

Gamers (DE)

73

^[15]

Joypad (FR)

PAL

86

^[16]

Mega (UK)

PAL

71

^[17]

Mega Action (UK)

PAL

84

^[18]

Mega Force (FR)

77

^[19]

Mega Fun (DE)

PAL

78

^[20]

Mega Machines (UK)

PAL

70

^[21]

Mega Power (UK)

PAL

84

^[22]

MegaTech (UK)

PAL

72

^[23]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

PAL

87

^[7]

Player One (FR)

61

^[8]

Power Up! (UK)

81

^[24]

Power Unlimited (NL)

89

^[25]

Sega Magazine (UK)

PAL

79

^[26]

Sega Power (UK)

PAL

81

^[27]

Sega Pro (UK)

PAL

81

^[28]

Sega Zone (UK)

PAL

74

^[29]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

53

^[30]

Todo Sega (ES)

PAL

84

^[31]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

79

^[10]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[32]

	77
Based on 26 reviews

WWF Rage in the Cage

Mega-CD, US
Cover
Disc Manual

Mega-CD, EU
Cover
Spinecard

Mega-CD, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Mega-CD, BR
Cover

References

↑ File:GamePro US 052.pdf, page 213
↑ File:Mega UK 16.pdf, page 106
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mcd/soft_licensee.html
↑ File:SegaPro UK 29.pdf, page 45
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↑ File:MegaFun DE 1994-03.pdf, page 106
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 File:MeanMachinesSega16UK.pdf, page 87 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega16UK.pdf_p87" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 File:PlayerOne FR 038.pdf, page 120 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:PlayerOne FR 038.pdf_p120" defined multiple times with different content
↑ File:SegaMagazine UK 02.pdf, page 99
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 File:VideoGames DE 1994-04.pdf, page 38 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:VideoGames DE 1994-04.pdf_p38" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "July 1994" (JP; 1994-06-08), page 19
↑ Famitsu, "1994-07-01" (JP; 1994-06-17), page 1
↑ Freak, "3/94" (IL; 1994-xx-xx), page 1
↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 2 February 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 86
↑ Gamers, "Mai/Juni 1994" (DE; 1994-05-06), page 38
↑ Joypad, "Janvier 1994" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 100
↑ Mega, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 52
↑ Mega Action, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-28), page 42
↑ Mega Force, "Janvier 1994" (FR; 1994-01-08), page 98
↑ Mega Fun, "03/94" (DE; 1994-02-23), page 114
↑ Mega Machines, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-03), page 28
↑ Mega Power, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 38
↑ MegaTech, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-20), page 80
↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, February 19, 1994" (UK; 1994-02-19), page 1
↑ Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 2, Nummer 5, Mei 1994" (NL; 1994-04-27), page 62
↑ Sega Magazine, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-10), page 100
↑ Sega Power, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-06), page 56
↑ Sega Pro, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-01-27), page 44
↑ Sega Zone, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-27), page 56
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
↑ Todo Sega, "Mayo 1994" (ES; 1994-0x-xx), page 56
↑ VideoGames, "February 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 86

WWF franchise games for Sega systems
	WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge (1993)
	WWF Super WrestleMania (1992) \| WWF Royal Rumble (1993) \| WWF Raw (1994) \| WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1995)
	WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge (1993) \| WWF Raw (1994)
	WWF Rage in the Cage (1993)
	WWF Raw (1995) \| WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1995)
	WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1996) \| WWF In Your House (1996)
	WWF Attitude (1999)
	WWF Royal Rumble (2000)
	WWF Royal Rumble (1994)

[:File:GamePro_US_052.pdf_p213-1] File:GamePro US 052.pdf, page 213

[:File:Mega_UK_16.pdf_p106-2] File:Mega UK 16.pdf, page 106

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[:File:SegaPro_UK_29.pdf_p45-4] File:SegaPro UK 29.pdf, page 45

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[:File:MegaFun_DE_1994-03.pdf_p106-6] File:MegaFun DE 1994-03.pdf, page 106

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[:File:SegaMagazine_UK_02.pdf_p99-9] File:SegaMagazine UK 02.pdf, page 99

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[:File:BeepMD_JP_1994-07.pdf_p19-11] Beep! MegaDrive, "July 1994" (JP; 1994-06-08), page 19

[12] Famitsu, "1994-07-01" (JP; 1994-06-17), page 1

[13] Freak, "3/94" (IL; 1994-xx-xx), page 1

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0702.pdf_p86-14] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 2 February 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 86

[:File:Gamers_DE_1994-04.pdf_p38-15] Gamers, "Mai/Juni 1994" (DE; 1994-05-06), page 38

[:File:Joypad_FR_027.pdf_p100-16] Joypad, "Janvier 1994" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 100

[:File:Mega_UK_18.pdf_p52-17] Mega, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 52

[:File:MegaAction_UK_10.pdf_p42-18] Mega Action, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-28), page 42

[:File:MegaForce_FR_24.pdf_p98-19] Mega Force, "Janvier 1994" (FR; 1994-01-08), page 98

[:File:MegaFun_DE_1994-03.pdf_p114-20] Mega Fun, "03/94" (DE; 1994-02-23), page 114

[:File:MegaMachines_UK_04.pdf_p28-21] Mega Machines, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-03), page 28

[:File:MegaPower_UK_08.pdf_p38-22] Mega Power, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 38

[:File:MegaTech_UK_26.pdf_p80-23] MegaTech, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-20), page 80

[24] Power Up!, "Saturday, February 19, 1994" (UK; 1994-02-19), page 1

[:File:PowerUnlimited_NL_010_199405.pdf_p62-25] Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 2, Nummer 5, Mei 1994" (NL; 1994-04-27), page 62

[:File:SegaMagazine_UK_02.pdf_p100-26] Sega Magazine, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-10), page 100

[:File:SegaPower_UK_51.pdf_p56-27] Sega Power, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-06), page 56

[:File:SegaPro_UK_29.pdf_p44-28] Sega Pro, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-01-27), page 44

[:File:SegaZone_UK_16.pdf_p56-29] Sega Zone, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-27), page 56

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p87-30] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87

[:File:TodoSega_ES_14.pdf_p56-31] Todo Sega, "Mayo 1994" (ES; 1994-0x-xx), page 56

[:File:VideoGames_US_61.pdf_p86-32] VideoGames, "February 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 86

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WWF Rage in the Cage

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

References