It's the Lapsed Ban Wrestling Podcast with Jack encn SEO and JP Sorrow and Cana. Left Christmas Show twenty twenty three, the Unwrapping Part two, and we've reached the stage once again to your coach Chairman. Are collect connecting via video remotely to share some Christmas warmth as gifts that are straggling in terms of our our deadline, which of course was never announced or specified exactly. Folks like the following gift giver can can hardly be blamed, but we're going to do
our best. You're in our mini pods throughout the month of December to get your gifts open and get those reactions that you covet so much. The greatest gift of all, Boss, Who's next? And we've got Austin Kings Solver talk about a fucking big swing and Dick in the Solar System, one of the heaviest hitters you'll find in our corner. Great to see Austin coming through and coming strong and coming hard. Brother. H fuck, I have a
trouble, Boss. Yeah, it's media maybe that hard, I know, but they put tape on the part that you're supposed to rip rip right, that's the first thing I thought of too, which is so incredibly sad. It really is, like, why would you put and it's not his fault. It's the priority mail. They put it right where you fucking supposed to tear it. What is the priority? After all? That's the question we should be asked. Okay, Sharp, it's got the brud eye, shears
out. Let's get her old friend that orange ruler, because you know, my daughter used to take everything out of my office that's sharp to use on her projects. Okay, let's Austin have for us this Christmas season envelope? Like, what is this fucking cartoon here? All right, let's see. Oh there's read first. Okay, oh, good thing you pulled that out first. Deer co chairs handwritten. By the way it's handwritten. I probably
spent months struggling to think of a suitable Christmas present to send you. I missed out last year and did not repeat that failure this year. That's correct. My procrastination and the luck and lack of decision, the decisiveness, we're getting the better of me again this year. That is, until when digging in the crates of my storage unit, inspiration struck. Oh man, that's
just sometimes the best place is the crates. I'm not sure how, but among all the boxes which traveled with me over the years, one was filled with my family's Nintendo sixty four and its games, controllers and accessories. So at the bottom of a pile of boxes filled with holiday decorations and seasonal clothes, that a box literally filled with nostalgia. Well, among the dusty cartridges, chords, and many and memory cards, a specific piece of my childhood
stared back at me. I have written to you before about my older brother being the reason I first loved wrestling, the reason I relapsed into wrestling in twenty nineteen, and the reason I found TLF Well. Scott, my brother, mainly introduced wrestling to me in two ways, action figures and video games. Yes, specifically WCW versus NWA nWo Revenge. This is the time of year to be thinking about stuff like this, man, because it's all about
action figures and video game. Absolutely was the game which attracted my heart to this Carney bullshit forever. Scott absolutely loved this game. It was his hour no Mercy. The n sixty four was probably perhaps the only gaming system me and my two brothers all played together and Revenge was one of a handful of games which was always nearby to pop in well with explicit approval from my brother. This copy of WWNW Revenge is now yours a game Shark sixty four,
so you can edit the game with fun codes. My brother loved to create wrestlers, so I have no clue what you will find when you boot up this game. Did this game have a create a wrestler? I hope you find this to be a good worthy companion to the copy of No Mercy you received last year. The game cartridge you will find in this envelope has not been played or even touched for over twenty years. Wow, it is due for a push. Merry Christmas. You feel the animals yours enlapsed Austin Kinksolar.
So much to be said about a gift like that. I mean, where there's two things. You gave the game Shark something else that's wrap is the game Shark at cartridge? I don't know what that is. I don't know either, I kind of just used context clues. Wow, look at that fucking car Goldberg Raven Nash Hogan, Ye Hogan, Mommy, remember reading in the Nitrop book that the developers of the game put Raven on the cover
because they just happened to dig Raven. It's not with WCW water Oh, I said, here's the I don't so okay, So what does this do? What does the game shark do? I assume it's like something that helps you customize parts of the game. Then otherwise the developers didn't intend to allow you to customize. Brother hacks the source code if you will, all right, I dig that. I think you can probably do a lot of fucking damage with that. I think so too. Have you played Revenge much?
I think you and I played. I think one of the times that went over to your house we played it. Yeah, was really a WCW versus NWOW World Tour was the first WW versus the World was technically the first, but that was much more like just a Japanese video game released in the United States with you know, seven or eight WW wrestlers, including Sting and gear.
Before Croasting had ever wrestled Wow. So our first glimpse is to what they conceived of a wrestling sting looking like after we went to the black and white paint. But really it was full of all those like wrestlers from Japan that they gave different names to, Like Saboo was in the game, but he wasn't called Saboo. Terry Funk was in the game, is called Terry
Funk. It was just you know, but it was that first kind of World Pro Wrestling, fire Pro wrestling whatever they call those games, Japanese style game engines to come to a US game, right right, And and that was disc that wasn't a cartridge. And then and sixty four comes out and w CW versus NWOL World Tour has kind of much the same conceit and a lot of those you know, Japanese centric roster players as well, But it just it just was the first one to really strike the core of what was
happening in WCWY. Nitro was hot, you could play all the wrestlers that were making television interesting. You could do so many moves that you could never do before in a wrestling game was released in the United States, and Revenge was kind of like the perfection of that. I see, Revenge took World Tour and made just the same way No Mercy made WrestleMania two thousand better. Yeah, yep, it was the exact same sort of Evolution and gotcha.
Man. This is a sweet spot because I think we got Revenge in my house a one Christmas because I just remember having just nothing in my way but
time and opportunity to really master the game. It was the first game I ever played where I actually tried to have five star matches instead of yep, like I would actually try to become acquainted with how the computer would wrestle against me, and try to set the computer up to have runs of offense as well on the match, not just myself, like knowing if I did a move here, he'd catch it, reverse it and have a little run of his own. I'd also use the functions like how you can lock up and
break on purpose. You know, you could like hit oh yeah, yeah, yea, yeah yeah, yep. Right, so you're sort of like you're kind of facilitating a dance. You're facilitating the other guy looking good, you know, roll him up, let him kick out it roll yeah. I never did a hul Cogan though, sore, but I mean, God, and just the way the magic, the way it would come together. I remember I had a Chrispin Walberstein Malenko match on Revenge that was just picture
perfect. Wow, exactly how they would have wrestled the match if they were given like, you know, thirteen minutes on nitro. That's amazing. And it ended with a waist lock standing switch and then another standing switch and then I as ben wa Dragon Suplexton bridge combination one toothrow. Oh my god, it's good. Nine Heart and Bulldog in it too, Johnny pop it in. No, I'm just I'm looking at I'm looking at roster on. Yeah, that's a good point. That was also a key differentiator from WW versus
The World and World Tour. I feel like this was a much more robust WCW roster. It wasn't like sixty percent japan guys and you know, forty percent WW guys. It was like everybody that was in WCW at the time was the front foot of the video game. Yeah, and they had it all Man Goldberg, you know, all the gameplay that we came to love about No Mercy, it all started right and uh, a great gift because you know, there's like only two people in the world that you could explain
giving this away as a gift to that. I know, I know it's exactly true, but otherwise it just sits there until you acknowledge that I'm going to throw this away. I'm going to pretend to have a rush of like intolerance and just throw things away in discriminately, because if I sat there and really meditated on what I'm about to throw away, I could never do it. Wrestling fans are pack rats, after all, by definition a glacier glaciers
in the fucking anything morning to be said. You got Piper, you got Steiner's, you got Savage, Scott Norton, thank god, Stevie Ray. So if you got some time over the holidays, boss, pop that into that uh fan hammer. Oh he was in there. I forgot it. That's when he was in the flock. Yeah, he has the mess shirt on right. What he is? Fucking hell? I think Ron Reese is in that game. The yeah, the mummy, the fucking I don't see him unless he had another name. Yeah, he would have been a big
Oh they have Reese. There is fucking hell. Remember fucking Haku's in the game. Wow, I can remember replicating Chris Ben was super plex on Ron Reece from Nitro in the game. It's like he super plexus like seven foot six guy. Amazing gifts. Find yourself with some open time over this holiday season. Pop that sucker in. Let me know what you think. I think, so I want to have to But Austin, don't we think as well. So Austin, wonderful to have you in our corner. Man.
You don't feel any pressure at all. We know the amount that you give back to the solar system and the work you put in to preserve TLF history. To just mind our p's and q's and make sure that you know we enjoy all the advantages that any other podcast of much greater size and skill would enjoy in terms of a fan base that keeps us on track, that keeps our affairs in order, that that basically memorizes what we put out into the
world and catalogs it better than we ever could. You know, much the same vein for the kind of works that Haystax Calouon does and so many others absolutely deeply appreciated this holiday season, and we're thankful not just for gifts from folks like that, but gifts in kind kind of work that definitely demonstrates to your coachairs that that we're doing something worthwhile and that we're motivating others to to
create the catalog and their own regard. Because what we're putting out of the world so bossy to it, will you that that revenge gets put to good use. Yep, you got it. We'll do and more to come under our Christmas tree this year as the TLF Unwrappening continues. We'll see you next Time is a production of the Labs Entertainment Group. Its content is intended for private use only. We want