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Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. The player(s) take control of gigantic monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is completed when the particular city is completely reduced to rubble.

Description

Up to three simultaneous players control the monsters George (a King Kong-like gorilla), Lizzie (a Godzilla-like dinosaur/lizard), or Ralph (a giant werewolf), created from humans who were mutated by various methods. They need to destroy all buildings in a high-rise city to advance to the next city. On their way they can destroy helicopters, tanks, taxis, police cars, boats, and trolleys, as well as eat people.

The monsters can jump and climb buildings, and attack enemies and buildings with punches. Buildings also take damage when jumped on.

The player receives damage from enemy bullets, grenades, shells, etc., or from falls. Damage can be recovered by eating the right food, such as fruit, roast chicken, or soldiers. If a monster takes too much damage, it reverts back into a human and begins walking off screen. If the player continues, the human will mutate back into the monster with a full life bar.

Smashing open windows generally reveals an item or person of interest, which may be either helpful or harmful. Helpful items include food or money, dangerous ones include bombs, electrical appliances, and cigarettes. Some items can be both, for example a toaster is dangerous until the toast pops up, and a photographer must be eaten quickly before he dazzles the player's monster with his flash, causing it to fall.

Each monster eats a "significant other" type of civilian, for instance George, who resembles King Kong, gets a large score bonus for grasping a lady in a red dress. This also causes the enemy soldiers to withdraw temporarily.

Ports

Rampage was ported to most home computers and video game consoles of its time, including the Atari 2600 and 7800, Atari Lynx, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sega Master System. The Atari Lynx version also adds a fourth character named Larry, a giant rat. More recently, Rampage was included in 2003's Midway Arcade Treasures, a compilation of arcade games for PC, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.

In July 2000, Midway licensed Rampage, along with other Williams Electronics games, to Shockwave for use in an online applet to demonstrate the power of the shockwave web content platform, entitled Shockwave Arcade Collection. The conversion was created by Digital Eclipse. It is currently freely available to be played within the shockwave web applet.

Image:ST_Rampage.png|Atari ST
Activision (1987) Image:C64_Rampage.png|C64
Activision (1987) Image:NES_Rampage.png|NES
Data East (1988) Image:Lynx_Rampage.png|Atari Lynx
Atari (1990) Image:SMS Rampage.png|Sega Master System

Legacy

Rampage World Tour was released in 1997 for arcade and ported to PC, Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and GameBoy Color, and is available on the Midway Arcade Treasures 2 collection, which was released in 2004 for Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and PC. Rampage 2: Universal Tour was released in 1999 for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and GameBoy Color. Rampage Through Time was released in 2000 for PlayStation. A puzzle game featuring Rampage characters, titled Rampage Puzzle Attack, was released for GameBoy Advance in 2001. A new installment called Rampage: Total Destruction will be released on April 25 2006 on the Nintendo Gamecube and Playstation 2.

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