game
| title | Exciting Hour |
| set name | excthour |
| manufacturer | Technos (Taito license) |
| year | 1985 |
| genre | Sports (hof) |
| category | Sports / Wrestling (hof) |
| driver status | good |
| driver source | matmania.c |
| snapshots | MW: in game
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/ CT: in game
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/ Mr. Do: parent
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| rating |  60.5% after 45 votes |
| parent | Mat Mania |
display
| colour emulation | good |
| palette | 80 |
| display type | raster |
| orientation | vertical |
| resolution | 240x256 |
| frequency | 60.000000Hz |
sound
| sound emulation | good |
| channels | mono |
controls
| players | 2 |
| nplayers | 2P alt |
| controls | 8 way joystick |
| buttons | 2 |
| coin slots | 2 |
hardware
| cpu | M6502 @ 1.5MHz |
| cpu | M6502 @ 1.2MHz |
| audio | AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz |
| audio | AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz |
| audio | DAC |
data
| version added | .030 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last change(s) | none since version .53 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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cabinet art
| cabinet | matmania.png |
| marquee | excthour.png |
| control panel | matmania.png |
| flyer | excthour.png |
| PCB | matmania.png |
additional information
| info | 0.30 [Brad Oliver] WIP:
The Big Pro Wrestling! Appoooh Champion Pro Wrestling Mat Mania Body Slam Mania Challenge Pro Wrestling (PlayChoice-10) Robo Wres 2001 The Main Event Champion Wrestler Grudge Match (Yankee Game Technology) Wrestle War Wrestle War (Mega-Tech) WWF Superstars WWF WrestleFest Ring Rage 3 Count Bout / Fire Suplex (NeoGeo) Saturday Night Slam Masters Ring of Destruction: Slammasters II Blazing Tornado WWF: Wrestlemania Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling Toukon Retsuden 3 Arcade Zen Nippon Pro-Wrestling Featuring Virtua Ehrgeiz Romset: 489 kb / 36 files / 204 zip |
| history | Exciting Hour - The Prowrestling Network (c) 1985 Technos. An early wrestling game. - TECHNICAL - Game ID : TA-0015 Main CPU : M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz) Sound CPU : M6502 (@ 1.2 Mhz) Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz), DAC Screen orientation : Vertical Video resolution : 240 x 256 pixels Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz Palette colors : 80 Players : 2 Control : 8-way joystick Buttons : 2 - TRIVIA - Licensed to Taito. This game is known outside Japan as "Mat Mania - The Prowrestling Network". The 2 players version of this game is known as "Mania Challenge". In the game, if you look closely at the audience in the background, you will see a variety of recognizable characters including a boy in a Union Jack t-shirt, Darth Vader, Superman, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (look to the far left when outside the ring) and ZZ Top is very prominently present in the middle of the crowd. The champion in this game is very obviously a copy of Hulk Hogan. First of all, he bears a striking resemblence to Hogan. Second, his name is "Golden Hulk"; Hulk Hogan debuted wrestling as 'Sterling Golden'. Finally, Golden Hulk's most powerful move is the leg drop, which is Hogan's finisher. Other wrestlers are copied from superstars of the early 80s : The Insane Warrior is a copy of Road Warrior Animal, Coco Savage is probably Kamala The Cannibal and The Piranha is probably Mil Mascaras. The main wrestler ('You') bears a striking resemblence to Kerry Von Erich. These are guesses, but all the mentioned wrestlers were very popular about the time this game was released. Rac Carpana holds the official record for this game with 5,000,150 points. - UPDATES - In the game, The Piranha's name is misspelled as 'The Pirania'. Insane Warrior's name is misspelled as 'Insane Worrier'. Golden Hulk is known as 'Blues Bloody'. - SERIES -
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