I thought so too, I loved both games myself. Even if my dad made me get WWF Wrestlemania on the NES (the first one, with Hogan on the front) instead of Abadox. I had to wait till I was a late teen to finally get to play Abadox which left me thinking how my mind would have been blown had I been able to play it at that much younger age.
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