Game Setup and Controllers
WWF RAW™ senses how many controllers are plugged into your Super Nintendo Entertainment System®. If you wish to add more, do so, then hit reset. After loading your game cartridge and pressing the START BUTTON, you will see the first of several selection screens. Use the UP and DOWN CONTROL PAD to make your choice on each screen and the B BUTTON to select the option.
Menu Selection Options
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CHOOSE THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS YOU WANT (Choose from one to four players.)
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CHOOSE THE TYPE OF MATCH YOU WANT: (a) ONE-ON-ONE, (b) TAG TEAM, (c) SURVIVOR SERIES®, (d) ROYAL RUMBLE®, (e) BEDLAM, or (f) RAW ENDURANCE MATCH
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CHOOSE THE DIFFICULTY LEVEL AT WHICH YOU WANT TO PLAY (on a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being the hardest)
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CHOOSE WHETHER YOU WANT TO SELECT YOUR OPPONENTS OR HAVE THE COMPUTER CHOOSE THEM.
Selecting Wrestlers
Press LEFT and RIGHT on the CONTROL PAD to scroll through all 12 wrestlers. Press any button to select. To see their attributes, press the SELECT BUTTON.
Wrestler Attributes
While selecting a wrestler, press the SELECT BUTTON to see his or her attributes screen. Each wrestler is rated on Speed, Strength, Stamina and Weight using a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being the highest.
A wrestler's unique combination of attributes reflects their degree of both mental and physical toughness, affecting their wrestling style and strategies.
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SPEED determines how quickly the wrestler can maneuver.
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STRENGTH measures a wrestler's overall might. An important indicator of a given grappler's power when punching, kicking or doing power moves.
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WEIGHT is a factor which can affect the damage done by landing on an opponent when executing moves such as the elbowdrop or splash. A high weight will also prevent some wrestlers from having certain strength-requiring moves done to them.
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STAMINA lets you know how much juice this wrestler has. High stamina means a wrestler will recover energy quickly.
Momentum and Attributes
In WWF Raw™, attributes are only part of the equation. Once the adrenaline starts flowing and a wrestler gains momentum, he's capable of moves that the numbers say shouldn't be possible.
This means that although a given wrestler may start a match with inferior strength, he will become more able to administer brutal abuse if he has the agility to punish his opponent early and often.
One-On-One Rules
A ONE-ON-ONE one-fall bout finds two grapplers competing to pin the other's shoulders to the canvas for a three-count by the referee. Before a wrestler can be pinned, though, he or she has to be worn down.
Strength meters for each wrestler appear on screen depicting exactly how much strength he or she has left. The lower his or her energy, the better your chances of pinning that opponent.
When wrestling outside the ring, all moves are legal. As soon as a wrestler leaves the ring, the referee begins a 10-count. A wrestler will be counted out if he or she fails to return to the ring before the count reaches 10. Wrestlers cannot be pinned outside the ring.
Brawl Rules
BRAWL matches, whether one-on-one, bedlam or tag team, are vicious matches without a referee. Anything goes, from eye gouges to chokeholds.
There are no pins and no disqualifications, only the will to win and the wiles to do so! The match continues until one competitor loses the strength to carry on.
Tournament Rules
TOURNAMENT play pits one wrestler against all the others in your choice of one-fall or tag team matches.
In a tag team tournament, your duo must triumph over five other teams. The makeup of opposing teams and the order in which you face them is random.
Tag Team Rules
In order for one team to win a match, one of the wrestlers on the opposing team must be pinned. When the strength of your wrestler is low, it's time to tag your teammate, who will come in to replace you.
Pressing the B BUTTON will tag your "illegal" tag team member outside the ring, making him legal and allowing him to come in and fight the opposing wrestler. After your tag teammate enters the ring, you have until the ref counts 10 to leave it.
The player outside the ring is able to hit or grab an opponent inside the ring. If that wrestler returns to the ring illegally, he or she will be subject to a ten count.
Bedlam Rules
BEDLAM equals a thunderous thumping as you and a chosen teammate try to outwit and outwrestle two opposing wrestlers in a match that only ends when both of the opposing wrestlers have been pinned or counted out.
When one wrestler is pinned, he leaves the ring, so for at least some of the match there will be a brutal two-on-one situation! Once a player is counted out or pinned, he or she leaves the ring and is now considered illegal.
Survivor Series® Rules
SURVIVOR SERIES® matches pit four wrestlers against four other grapplers in a grueling contest of expanded tag team action. All four men on one team must be eliminated in order to become the Survivor Series® champion!
Royal Rumble® Rules
The match starts with two competitors in the ring. Wrestlers enter the ring at regular intervals until there are six