Saturday Night Slam Masters

aka. Muscle Bomber: The Body Explosion!

Released in the early 90s by Capcom, it was a wrestling game that also had some ties to the Street Fighter franchise! It was also unbearably homo-erotic because, I mean, wrestling game.

Character design were done by the man behind Fist of the North Star, Tetsuo Hara.

Just stockpiled to the rafters with beefy, muscly goodness.

For more information I'd recommend Hardcore Gaming 101!

And also this Bears in Games vid. x3

While we're at it, this awesome animated TV commercial I found!

So yeah, Muscle Bomber.

DID I MENTION THAT HAGGAR FROM FINAL FIGHT IS IN IT?!

Oh Haggar, you can pound me any day.

There's also a bunch of other dudes.

Like Biff Slamkovich, Russian wrestler who is close, personal friends with Zangief!

And Gunloc, aka. Lucky Colt, Biff's rival. He is Guile's brother in some continuities! He and Biff  trained together under Haggar. :3

The game also sports a plethora of other beefcakes.

My favorite however is this guy here, Rip Saber. And for a very simple reason which I'll get to in just a moment. u_u

He's not from the first game, but rather the sequel, which dumped the wrestling gameplay for more of a straightforward fighting game engine. Not as much fun, sadly. But we got a few new characters! (also, check out Haggar giving Lucky Colt a noogie up there, awww, so cute)

Anyway, the simple reason I like Rip Saber best? Well . . .

He wears a backless costume to wrestle in that shows a great deal of ass cleavage.

Yeah, it's as simple as that!

Screencaps graciously contributed by Lucky Stallion of Barbaric Brawn! (who is awesome, and you should all go read his blog if you like hunky barbarians and wrestlers and orcs and Greek gods and huge naked guys. u_u)

Where were we? Ah yes, Rip Saber.

It takes quite a man to wrestle while exposing such a luscious target.

He probably gets lots of catcalls and surprise spanks in the ring, I'm guessing.

Muscle Bomber!

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I'm just going . . . to leave these here . . .

Rumble Fish

 

Oh my gosh! So back in this blog's first month of posts (nearly four years ago, dear god have I really been doing this that long? x0) I posted the above image on a whim, not knowing the characters' identities. They were just two hot guys!

HOWEVER. Through the power of browsing fighting game news sites, I now know that they are both from an import-only fighting game series for PS2 called Rumble Fish.

Main character, Zen.

And the one I like, Lud. He seems to have that brash and youthful, cocky demeanor that so calls for a good spanking.

It's funny, because someone just emailed me the other day asking what the characters were from. Sorry, guy, I didn't know then! Have this post as an apology.

 

 

 

Rumble Fish is a silly name.

Mishima Underwear ^2

A mere eight days after I expressed myself in no uncertain terms, a video is released for the upcoming Tekken Tag Tournament 2 allaying my ungrounded fears! Apparently a swimsuit DLC is being granted, modeled here by Heihachi and Kazuya . . .

 . . . and Lee and Ganryu.

The crux is every character gets themselves a free 'swimsuit' costume. Although females are the prime selling point here, it was revealed in the video that this goes for every character, males and animals(!!) included.

Shortly afterwards, there was bemoaning among certain segments of the fandom that the male costumes show more skin than the females' do.  XD

Heihachi in particular seems to enjoy showing off.

This DLC comes free with pre-order, and otherwise becomes available three months after release. :0