History VideoGame / WreckingCrew

* DubNameChange: In Japan, Gotchawrench was Spanner Gon, Eggplant Man was Nasubi Kamen (Eggplant Mask), and Foreman Spike was...[[UnfortunateName Blackey]].

* LevelEditor: Players can create up to 5 original levels.

Like several other NES games, it was adapted into an arcade game running on the Vs. System. However, it was one of the few Vs. System games to actually ''predate'' the home release, as it contains a 1984 copyright. ''Vs. Wrecking Crew'' is also quite unlike the NES game, and allows simultaneous multiplayer.

In this game, the brothers wield hammers (both the regular kind and the more powerful Golden Hammer), bombs, and falling oil drums as tools for demolishing various buildings. Posed against them is their mean employer, Foreman Spike, who sics Eggplant Men and Gotcha Wrenches on the Bros. while chasing after them himself. Mario and Luigi must dodge these enemies as they smash apart the demolition sites one wall, pillar, and ladder at a time. Every fourth level, they must race against Spike in a search for a hidden coin for extra points.

* DubNameChange: In Japan, Gotcha Wrench was Spanner Gon, Eggplant Man was Nasubi Kamen (Eggplant Mask), and Foreman Spike was...[[UnfortunateName Blackey]].

* PaletteSwap: Mario and Luigi are only differentiated in color. This also applies to Gotcha Wrench and Gotchawrench Jr.

Creator/{{Nintendo}}, before making the ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 "Super"]] but after having the elder brother square off against VideoGame/DonkeyKong, employed Mario and Luigi in ''Wrecking Crew'', a platform-based MazeGame released for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem in 1985.

Nintendo released ''Wrecking Crew '98'' in Japan only as one of the last games for the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. This was a compilation of the original ''Wrecking Crew'' with an all-new competitive MatchThreeGame. The story once again sees Spike, this time working for three-month younger Bowser, impeding Mario's demolition job. Foreman Spike himself would also reappear as an unlockable character in ''Mobile Golf'', a Japan-only GameBoyColor entry in the ''VideoGame/MarioGolf'' series. Later, this game would appear in VideoGame/NESRemix.

* OurMonstersAreWeird: Living wrenches and [[FundamentallyFunnyFruit eggplant]] people, this game is where the franchise's enemies started getting ''really'' weird

Like several other NES games, it was adapted into an arcade game running on the Vs. System. ''Vs. Wrecking Crew'', unlike the NES version, allowed simultaneous multiplayer.

Nintendo released ''Wrecking Crew '98'' in Japan only as one of the last games for the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. This was a compilation of the original ''Wrecking Crew'' with an all-new competitive MatchThreeGame. The story once again sees Spike, this time working for 3-month younger Bowser, impeding Mario's demolition job. Foreman Spike himself would also reappear as an unlockable character in ''Mobile Golf'', a Japan-only GameBoyColor entry in the ''VideoGame/MarioGolf'' series. Later, this game would appear in VideoGame/NESRemix.

* PaletteSwap: Mario and Luigi are only differentiated in color. This also applies to Gotchawrench and Gotchawrench Jr.

* LevelEditor: Players can create up to 4 original levels.

Nintendo released ''Wrecking Crew '98'' in Japan only as one of the last games for the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. This was a compilation of the original ''Wrecking Crew'' with an all-new competitive MatchThreeGame. The story once again sees Spike, this time working for 3-month younger Bowser, impeding Mario's demolition job. Foreman Spike himself would also reappear as an unlockable character in ''Mobile Golf'', a Japan-only GameBoyColor entry in the ''VideoGame/MarioGolf'' series.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: If one looks closely, Luigi seems not to be wearing a shirt under his overalls.

* SpinOff: One of the first ''Mario'' games where the Bros. stared in a non-PlatformGame spin off.

Nintendo released ''Wrecking Crew '98'' in Japan only as one of the last games for the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. This was a compilation of the original ''Wrecking Crew'' with an all-new competitive MatchThreeGame. The story once again sees Spike, this time working for 1-year younger Bowser, impeding Mario's demolition job. Foreman Spike himself would also reappear as an unlockable character in ''Mobile Golf'', a Japan-only GameBoyColor entry in the ''VideoGame/MarioGolf'' series.

[[caption-width-right:200:Mario (on the right) preparing to face off against Spike and his Eggplant Man and Gotcha Wrench minions.]]

Creator/{{Nintendo}}, before making the ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' "Super", employed Mario and Luigi in ''Wrecking Crew'', a platform-based MazeGame released for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem in 1985.

In this game, the brothers wield their hammers not against monsters, though they do have to face both monsters and a pushy foreman, but to demolish buildings, even if they have to do it one wall at a time.

Nintendo released ''Wrecking Crew '98'' in Japan only as one of the last games for the [[SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]]. This was a compilation of the original ''Wrecking Crew'' with an all-new competitive MatchThreeGame.

[[caption-width-right:200:Mario (bottom center) preparing to face off against Spike and his Eggplant Man and Gotcha Wrench minions.]]

In this game, the brothers wield their hammers not against monsters, though they do have to face not only monsters but a pushy foreman, but to demolish buildings, even if they have to do it one wall at a time.

* PaletteSwap: Mario and Luigi are only differentiated in color.

* StalkedByTheBell: {{Fireballs}} appear when Mario/Luigi is lingering on a floor.