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New Video Shows Shawn Michaels’ Motion Capture For WrestleMania: The Arcade Game

January 28, 2025 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
WrestleMania: The Arcade Game Image Credit: Midway

A new video is showing off Shawn Michaels’ motion capture work for 1994’s WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. The video was released by the Insert Coin Documentary (per Fightful) and features footage of Michaels posing and doing moves that were digitized and put into the game.

The video notes:

Shawn Michael raw footage for WWF: Wrestlemania The Arcade Game. The videos were extracted to put into the video game as playable sprites.

Note: Generic music bed added as there was no audio recorded during the shoot.

WrestleMania: The Arcade Game released for SNES, SEGA Genesis, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, PC, and the Sony PlayStation.