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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.
Versions
Localised names
Also known as
Language
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Localised Name
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English Translation
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English
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WWF Rage in the Cage
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WWF Rage in the Cage
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English (US)
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WWF Rage in the Cage
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WWF Rage in the Cage
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Japanese
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WWFマニア・ツアー: RAGE IN THE CAGE
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WWF Mania Tour
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Production credits
- : Paul Samulski, Mark Flitman, "Iron" Mike Arkin, J.J. Mazziotto, Jim "MK" Fink, Linda Spelman
- Special Thanks to: Eric Samulski, Felicia Beech, Joe Allocco
- 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[5]
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
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Publication
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Score
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Source
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Beep! MegaDrive (JP)
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60
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№1994-07, p17[6]
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Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP)
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53
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№, p85[7]
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Famitsu (JP)
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53
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№289, p39
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GamePro (US)
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83
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№55, p80[8]
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Joypad (FR)
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86
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№27, p100/101
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Mega (UK)
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71
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№18, p52
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Mega Fun (DE)
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78
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№3/94, p114[9]
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MegaTech (UK)
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72
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№26
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Mean Machines Sega (UK)
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87
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[10]
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Player One (FR)
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61
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[11]
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Sega Magazine (UK)
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79
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[12]
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Sega Power (UK)
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81
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№51, p56/57
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Sega Pro (UK)
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81
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№29, p44/45
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Video Games (DE)
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79
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№4/94, p38[13]
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Mega-CD, US
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![WWFRitC MCD US Box Back.jpg](/images/thumb/4/40/WWFRitC_MCD_US_Box_Back.jpg/105px-WWFRitC_MCD_US_Box_Back.jpg) ![WWFRitC MCD US Box Front.jpg](/images/thumb/e/ed/WWFRitC_MCD_US_Box_Front.jpg/71px-WWFRitC_MCD_US_Box_Front.jpg) Cover
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![WWFRitC MCD US Disc.jpg](/images/thumb/e/ee/WWFRitC_MCD_US_Disc.jpg/50px-WWFRitC_MCD_US_Disc.jpg) Disc ![Wwfrageinthecage mcd us manual.pdf](/images/thumb/2/2b/Wwfrageinthecage_mcd_us_manual.pdf/page1-30px-Wwfrageinthecage_mcd_us_manual.pdf.jpg) Manual
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Mega-CD, EU
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![WWFRitC MCD EU Box Back.jpg](/images/thumb/e/ed/WWFRitC_MCD_EU_Box_Back.jpg/105px-WWFRitC_MCD_EU_Box_Back.jpg) ![WWFRitC MCD EU Box Front.jpg](/images/thumb/1/11/WWFRitC_MCD_EU_Box_Front.jpg/105px-WWFRitC_MCD_EU_Box_Front.jpg) Cover
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![WWFRitC MCD EU spinecard.jpg](/images/thumb/a/a3/WWFRitC_MCD_EU_spinecard.jpg/34px-WWFRitC_MCD_EU_spinecard.jpg) Spinecard
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Mega-CD, JP
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![WWFMANIATOUR MCD JP Box Back.jpg](/images/thumb/b/b8/WWFMANIATOUR_MCD_JP_Box_Back.jpg/102px-WWFMANIATOUR_MCD_JP_Box_Back.jpg) ![WWFRitC MCD JP Box Front.jpg](/images/thumb/3/32/WWFRitC_MCD_JP_Box_Front.jpg/80px-WWFRitC_MCD_JP_Box_Front.jpg) Cover
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![WWFMANIATOUR MCD JP Spinecard.jpg](/images/thumb/f/ff/WWFMANIATOUR_MCD_JP_Spinecard.jpg/29px-WWFMANIATOUR_MCD_JP_Spinecard.jpg) Spinecard ![WWFMANIATOUR MCD JP Disc.jpg](/images/thumb/9/9b/WWFMANIATOUR_MCD_JP_Disc.jpg/50px-WWFMANIATOUR_MCD_JP_Disc.jpg) Disc
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System |
Hash |
Size |
Build Date |
Source |
Comments |
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?
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248,660,496
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CD (EU)
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T-81015-50
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✔
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248,307,696
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CD (JP)
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T-81024
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✔
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247,957,248
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CD (US)
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T-81015
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References
- ↑ File:GamePro US 052.pdf, page 213
- ↑ Mega, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-16), page 106
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mcd/soft_licensee.html
- ↑ Sega Pro, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-01-27), page 45
- ↑ File:WWFManiaTour_MCD_JP_SSCredits.pdf
- ↑ File:BeepMD_JP_1994-07.pdf, page 19
- ↑ File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 87
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 File:GamePro US 055.pdf, page 82 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ File:MegaFun DE 1994-03.pdf, page 106
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "February 1994" (UK; 1993-12-28), page 86-88 (87)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Player One, "Janvier 1994" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 120
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-10), page 99/100 (99)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 File:VideoGames DE 1994-04.pdf, page 38 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 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
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "February 1994" (UK; 1993-12-28), page 87
- ↑ 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