Rampage - Atari ST - Longplay

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Published on January 31, 2016 2:34:33 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJdZ9LJA1Y

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Rampage (1986)

Duration: 38:41

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Rampage follows on from the one thing that you always want to see from a giant monster movie – watching them destroy the nearest city if just for fun. This was an arcade game that was made by Bally Midway in 1986 before seeing an ST port in 1987. It also appeared on a whole slew of other computers and systems, but the Atari version is the one that I remember first, so that’s the one that I’m going to mention.

The game sees three people having been mutated into a giant King Kong like creature called George, a Godzilla like lizard called Lizzy and a giant werewolf called Ralph. Their simple objective is to destroy all the buildings in a stage by climbing them and bashing the walls in. When there’s too much destruction on the structure the whole thing collapses, so make sure that your monster jumps off in time. The major treat comes from the military who don’t appreciate your version of spring cleaning and will happily send tanks, helicopters and random soldiers to take you down.

Just like the arcade game all three characters on the screen at the same time and you can play in 3 player mode with preferably two joysticks and the keyboard, otherwise the computer comes the AI for the other two. The game is easy to pick up and play just like the original arcade version. You’ll want to play with friends here because your fellow monsters can be really stupid at times, sometimes jumping at the edge of the screen or constantly going swimming (an act which hurts them) rather than destroying the buildings. Maybe being a big dumb monster was what they were going for, if so bravo. My technique is to get as far away from my AI teammates as much as possible, but even then they have this strange obsession of jumping right into my fist as I’m trying to take down the last building.

Overall the game is colourful and is animated rather well for an early Atari ST game and does look similar to the arcade with many of the little character traits such as the reactions when you eat a person or punching a electrical device all coming across to the home port. I also tend to like the musical score which wasn’t in the original arcade version as far as I’m aware as it fits the action. The only thing that that I don’t like about the presentation is the recycling of the buildings. Your rampage takes you all around all sorts of places and yet it is the same buildings each time, just laid out differently or with a tram line or river in front of it. I can’t really fault the ST version here, because the arcade original did it first, but repetition is the one thing that lets the title down.

Overall I do like Rampage, it’s a fun arcade game that lets you blow off a bit of steam and cause some serious property damage without ending up with a huge legal bill.

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