Playing Rampage


The first time I had ever played Rampage was sometime between the late 80's and the early 90's. My mom and grandma would take me to this laundromat that had arcade machines. They would give me a bunch of quarters to play games while they were doing laundry. 

I would spend most of my time there playing Rampage and trying to see how far I could get. I was big into monster monster movies when I was a kid so when I saw the game was about giant monsters destroying cities I got hooked on it.

Rampage was released in 1986 in arcades and was developed by Midway. 2 years later it got a release for the Nintendo Entertainment System in December of 1988. That version was also developed by Midway and published by Data East.


You could play as 3 different characters who were humans that turned into monsters from experiments gone wrong. George who was an ape, Lizzie who was a lizard, and Ralph who was a wolf. If you play with other people you can fight each other or help each other through the levels.


When I found out that it was released on the N.E.S. my mom took me to the video store to rent it and she would play it with me. It was still similar to the arcade version but this version didn't have Ralph in it, who was my favorite character.

There are items in the game like food, money, and appliances. Some items like food can help you regain health or gain points while other items can hurt you. You can also regain health and get points by eating people. Items can be revealed when punching holes in the side of buildings while trying to destroy them.


There are enemies that can hurt you like soldiers, tanks, and helicopters.

If you lose all of your health you turn back into a human and begin to walk off of the side of the stage and if there are other players they will have a chance to eat you.

If you have more lives, you can come back and your character will fly into the screen holding on to a blimp.


There are 128 days in cities across North America. After that the cycle repeats 5 times. If you get through all that, the game resets back to day 1. I've never been able to get that far.


In later years I would own the NES version and add it to my game collection since I didn't own it as a kid. I still play it occasionally for nostalgia and the 8-bit graphics and sounds take me back to when I would rent it back in the day.

Rampage was also released on other consoles but I had only played it in the arcade and on the NES. The game would later have several sequels that are pretty great and I've added those to my collection as well. I'm hoping that one day I will be able to get my hands on a Rampage arcade cabinet for my game room.




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