So in 1997, Rampage World Tour was released in the arcade. However, while I had “forgotten” about Rampage, the people running Midway didn’t.
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I never saw the arcade version again as a kid. And I had to play that game by myself that night, which was a much different experience than playing it with someone in the Arcade. Sure the game puts you into the role of a monster (much better than King of the Monsters, by the way), there’s sadly not a lot of depth to it. It was a fun game sure, but felt very repetitive even to the elementary school version of me. Prior to this, Mike Tyson in his NES game was the only time I had seen something from the real world included in a video game (I wasn’t playing simulation sports titles at this time).Īfter that weekend, I didn’t think about Rampage very much. And despite the lack of Ralph, the giant wolf, the game was a lot of fun that weekend, especially seeing cities I knew on the list (my grandparents lived two hours from Little Rock, and my actual home was Memphis during this time). That arcade game I had to put quarters in was something I could play on my uncle Brett’s NES? Sign me up! So we rented it and I stayed up playing it all night. Courtesy of Īnd then something magical happened: The game was on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Notice that Midway really cranked up the sex appeal in the late 90s. Ralph is blue now, as opposed to grey in the original. Courtesy of įront of Flyer for Rampage World Tour. in the alternate, more detailed Rampage flyer. Sure you had one specific goal, destroy the city without dying, but letting you do it on your own terms within that time period added to the charm for this little kid. I think the game was very smart to give you that sandbox, albeit timed, that you could go through, instead of some generic platformer. You could eat this person, or attack the helicopter instead. You could climb this building, or that other little building. It just felt like there was so much to do. I doubt I lasted very long during that initial play through, but I was hooked.
RAMPAGE PS1 PLAYTHROUGH FULL
What little boy didn’t want to be a monster stomping through a giant city full of skyscrapers? For a kid who was about 7 or 8 years old (the year eludes me, but the game had a 1986 release date and was at least a few years old at this point), this was the virtual version of all those games you played with your toy cars and tan army figures. Here was a game where you got to climb buildings, eat people, and blow up helicopters. A handful of pool tables, a jukebox, numerous arcade games (Mercs stayed there through the early 2000s) and pinball machines (Elvira is the one I vividly remember).īut this trip to Pizza Barn was memorable because of Rampage. What made Pizza Barn great though was the game room off to the side of the dining area. The pizza was decent, although they could have cut down on the amount of cheese.
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RAMPAGE PS1 PLAYTHROUGH MOVIE
It was a monster movie come to life in the Pizza Barn.ĭuring a visit to my grandparents house, we’d occasionally go out to eat at the Pizza Barn in Waldron, one of those stereotypical mom and pop pizza places that proliferated the 1980s. I will only write about games I remember playing in an actual arcade, not games I only discovered through MAME.
RAMPAGE PS1 PLAYTHROUGH SERIES
The following is part of a series about my past experiences with arcade games and running them in MAME. Chasing Ghosts: One Quarter at a Time There’s a Monster in my Pizza Barn! Rampage series is a childhood fantasy