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As it's announced that Dwayne Johnson's Rampage movie is to film this year, we look back at the 1986 videogame that inspired it...
If you wanted to experience the simple pleasure of punching a skyscraper until it collapsed back in 1986, then arcade hit Rampage was for you. A homage to American and Japanese monster movies like Godzilla and King Kong, Rampage was a comic action game that looked quite unlike any other coin-op available at the time.
Rampage doesn't waste much time with back stories, but the premise is this: three average joes - Lizzy, Ralph and George - are exposed to a toxin which transforms them into giant monsters. Lizzy becomes a Godzilla-like lizard, George a Kong-like ape and Ralph a toothsome giant werewolf of some sort. What follows is a comic caper of mindless destruction: each stage takes in a different 2D landscape of skyscrapers...
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As it's announced that Dwayne Johnson's Rampage movie is to film this year, we look back at the 1986 videogame that inspired it...
If you wanted to experience the simple pleasure of punching a skyscraper until it collapsed back in 1986, then arcade hit Rampage was for you. A homage to American and Japanese monster movies like Godzilla and King Kong, Rampage was a comic action game that looked quite unlike any other coin-op available at the time.
Rampage doesn't waste much time with back stories, but the premise is this: three average joes - Lizzy, Ralph and George - are exposed to a toxin which transforms them into giant monsters. Lizzy becomes a Godzilla-like lizard, George a Kong-like ape and Ralph a toothsome giant werewolf of some sort. What follows is a comic caper of mindless destruction: each stage takes in a different 2D landscape of skyscrapers...
- 2/4/2016
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
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