Saturday Night Slam Masters
| Saturday Night Slam Masters | |
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Promotional flyer for Saturday Night Slam Masters featuring an illustration by Tetsuo Hara
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| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Designer(s) | Tetsuo Hara |
| Artist(s) | Tetsuo Hara |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Genesis, Super NES, FM Towns Marty |
| Release | July 13, 1993 (Saturday Night Slam Masters) December 1993 (Muscle Bomber Duo) September 2, 1994 (Ring of Destruction) |
| Genre(s) | Wrestling |
| Mode(s) | Up to 4 players, cooperative (2v2) |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | CP System Dash + QSound |
| Display | Raster resolution 384×224 (Horizontal) |
| Review scores | |
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| Publication | Score |
| Game Informer | 7/10 (SNES) |
| Nintendo Power | 3.475 / 5 |
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| Sega-16 | 7/10 (GEN) |
Saturday Night Slam Masters, known in Japan as Muscle Bomber: The Body Explosion (Japanese: マッスルボマー ザ・ボディー・エクスプロージョン?), 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 game was followed by an updated version titled Muscle Bomber Duo: Ultimate Team Battle in 1993, and a sequel called Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II in 1994.
The original Slam Masters plays like a traditional wrestling game, only the game used a view similar to that commonly used in the fighting game genre. The game uses a three button configuration (grab, attack, and jump).
Each character has two special attacks: a non-grappling technique and a finisher. When an opponent's life meter is depleted, he must either be pinned for a three-count or forced to submit. Defeating all of the other wrestlers results in winning the championship belt, which must then be defended against the entire roster.
There are two game modes: Single Match, where the player fights in a series one-on-one matches against the CPU; and Team Battle Royale, where the player and another partner (controlled by another player or by the CPU) competes in a series of two-on-two matches. The game can be played by up to four players.
The game features a playable roster of ten wrestlers. Only eight of the wrestlers are selectable in the Single Match mode. The remaining two: Jumbo and Scorpion, are non-playable boss characters in Single Match and selectable only in Team Battle Royale. In the English localization, Capcom changed the names of all the characters and modified much of the backstory. The English names are used in this article, followed by the original Japanese names (when they differ) in parentheses.
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