I remember when the arcade installer put this game in, it was brand new. He tested the game and left a zillion credits still in the machine and left. I played the game for the next three hours flipping stage after stage. My hands hurt by the time I gave up, there were still credits in the machine. Great kid memory I played the newest game for free.
Finding free credits on an arcade game for me in the mid-80s when I had no money and my mom thought video games were a waste of money was like finding a winning lottery ticket. Or sometimes you'd see an unused credit on a game and quick jump on it and play it before someone else saw it. Or somebody left a quarter in the coin return slot.
Seriously.... Make the multiplayer have procedurally generated cities and enemies, different environments and ecosystems and smash away! Rampage: Next Up?!
Literally came to me as well when he talked about how anyone can drop a quarter and become co-op and whoever died! Or did you just come up with it lol? I totally forgot that f ya didn’t have quarters or a good gameplay you didn’t have much time lol.
@@swampdonkey4919 I think so, it's the best thing you can do for a game like that to maximize it's replay value. Just adding the ability to play with faraway friends or randoms online would make me want to pick it up a lot more. The host can set monsters being able to hurt each other or not.
They could just update the last Rampage game that came out for Wii way back, but minus the trash motion controls. It had somewhere around 40 playable monsters.
Every time The Patman releases a new video, it makes me grin from ear to ear. One of the best video game history channels on RUclips. Keep up the good work!
I love how much the creator cared about his vision and did the legwork despite the pushback and lack of cooperation. This was one of my favorite games and certainly helped me sort out the jerks in my friend group. "We agreed no attacking each other Bill".
Great video! I remember saving up allowance money to buy Rampage World Tour for the N64. I met Brian Colin a couple of times at conventions, and I loved hearing him talk about making Rampage and other games. He even autographed a couple of my games!
Brian Colin is legitimately one of the nicest people I’ve met in the industry and it makes it even better he had a large hand in this game, Spy Hunter, Sarge and Blasted. General Chaos on the Sega Genesis as well.
Spy hunter was, by far, the best driving game of the 80s. I cannot tell you just how many quarters I fed into Spy Hunter as a teenager in the 80s. It's one of those games that is only good in the arcade. All the home ports suck . Even MAME sucks for Spy Hunter I still remember the first time I heard the Peter Gunn theme and was like, "Hey, I know that! It's Spy Hunter."
I went to high school with his daughter and have so many great memories of hanging out in his basement arcade. He is genuinely one of the greatest people on Earth.
I've always loved this game for its art style. I remember seeing this style on a lot of games from that time. I didn't realize it basically all came from one man. Very informative. Rampage will never get old.
This is an absolute classic and one that I dumped many many quarters into back in the 80s. The first time I played, smashed up the buildings and ate the humans, was an incredible experience and I couldn't get enough. Plus the fact that two others can join in on the madness made it all that much more fun.
Rampage is a game near and dear to the hearts of myself and my childhood friend. Ages ago, he used to play peewee league hockey, and the hockey rink he played at had a Rampage cabinet on property. Long story short, he and I would always have to play against each other on that cabinet before we left after his hockey games. To this day, we still play a round against each other if we can find a still working cabinet in the wild.
Rampage was my favorite game back in the day. Lizzie was my favorite because she reminded me of Godzilla.(even tho you just destroyed my dreams by telling me it wasnt, lol) Thanks for the flashback into memory lane as always.
Lizzie was based on Godzilla though. Just as George is King Kong and Ralph is American Werewolf in London. Don't believe me? In Rampage Universal Tour you find Lizzie in Japan, Ralph in London and George in New York.
No offense but I talked to Brian the creator of the game Who told me who Lizzie Was based on. He had no involvement with universal tour .@@ZombifiedBuizel
Always loved this game. I have many home ports and all the sequels also action figures in a special Rampage display in my game room. Awesome history coverage, thanks!
Loved this game. Had it on the C64 and it was on constant rotation, particularly when I had friends over. My parents used to take us to Canvey Island on some weekends in the summer, and it was the only place I ever got to play the arcade version.
Soooo many great memories playing this as a kid in the arcades and even in more recent times with my neighbors on MAME for PC. Thank you Patman for a wonderful stroll down memory lane of yet another fine Bally Midway game, thanks for all you do brother. 😎👍
I was at an arcade bar in Chicago a couple months ago and was playing a rampage world friend world tour. And found it crazy that there was Michigan city and Gary Indiana! Im from the region so love this!
Great job! .. I can't say it enough other than the Nostalgia the content that you produce is of the highest quality, I truly appreciate all the work you put into this
Wow, I had absolutely NO idea there were so many sequels to one of my favourite arcade bust-ups of time when I was a literal 14 year old boy! Excellent choice for a history of video, I learned a ton from this one. My friends and I did a lot of co-op city smashing back in the day, but of course it always broke down and we'd end up dukeing it out and eating the loser. What a great quarter-sucking idea! 😆 Time to bust out MAME and bless the unlimited quarters. I think ima do a full cycle of cities in memory of old great times.
World Tour is always my choice (I've only played the 3 on the Total Destruction disc) My friend had World tour on the N64 and so I played the bunch with him. He'd get mad at me if I ate a cat and eventually actually puched me IRL.
Great video as always. Love all histories of arcade games !!! Plus you are very funny at times !!! Love all the comparisons of the Home ports. !!! The game does not need any music.
When I first played Rampage in the arcade, I was instantly hooked. I have a version of it on my parent's Tandy computer and on my NES. I even met Mr. Colin at Corgscon back in 2022, and heard how he got to meet The Rock on the final day of filming the Rampage movie.
Rampage was always a great way to recongregate with my buddies at the arcades, due to the co-op simultaneous play. The arcade version felt great to play, the responsiveness made you feel truly in control of your monster, and you owned your mistakes rather than blaming them on the way the game played.
Thank you PatMan! Love it when you go back and do updated videos. LOVE the version differences but also the history of the games as much! Maybe a complete retrospective on Double Dragon in the near future!
Thanks a lot for watching. Some of these old videos were done using a handheld microphone with the limited information. I've also grown a lot as a creator and wanted to give one of my favorite games its rightful place in the sun
Brian Colin is a gem and i loved all his games. They really stood out in the 80s and 90s with there huge color character and excellent sprite work. Xenophobe is still one of my all time faves but i really loved Sarge too. All just really excellent games.
Excellent choice and video. My six year old niece LOVES Rampage and always asks me to put it on for her whenever she visits us. I love winding her up by eating her character when they die, especially as she hasn’t quite got the hang of doing it back to me yet. I had the EU version on the C64 as well back in the day but actually thought it was decent enough but that’s me. Anyway, thanks for another great video! 😊
Growing up I had both versions of rampage. Clearly the European version was first and I played the heck out of it despite its limitations. Once the American version came out that was it for the European version
THANK YOU Patman; Really Great re-telling of the RAMPAGE origin stories. You even reminded me of a few things I'd forgotten. Well Done! . . . One tiny thing though, a common mistake. My name is pronounced with a long 'o' (...rhymes with Bowlin' )
...and THANKS to everyone for all of the love shown in the comments! You have no idea how much I appreciate hearing that you enjoyed, and Remembered, playing RAMPAGE!
Sorry about the mispronouncing of your name. Being an avid bowler myself (I just bowled in league last night) I should have realized but at least you enjoyed the video. Thanks for being helpful and providing some insight.
Patman, as always, you bring content that i love and makes the childhood memories flood back. in your video without the sounds of the morphing back to normal, i could hear it just like i was back in the arcade. thank you!!!
I first played this game in a 7 11, and I was blown away by it. I still like to play from time to time when I get a chance. Thanks for another well - made video, top quality as always.
@@BrianColin I remember standing in line waiting to play games; they were that much fun ( and it was all brand new back then, in the years before internet ... it was like the Dark Ages. )
i remember playing ram page in the arcade year's ago. but i just picked up the midway arcade origins on the xbox just for ram page. one thing i wish they would do is come out with a ram page collection.
Hi, new subscriber here! You got me, Rampage was my favourite Master System game back in my childhood (which it was pretty common here in Italy) but not so common as an arcade cabinet: for most of us in Europe (or maybe just in Italy, I don't know), Rampage was just a Master System game. It was another time when informations were few and poor, but at the end I've played all the version of it and personally I think the Master System version, so the version I grew up with, was even better than the arcade original (which it was awesome too). I still play it today, with a Mega Drive (the Genesis in North America) where I mounted a Master System cartridge converter, so I play my childhood cartridge with it. If it only I had more space and money, with good probability I would have choose to get myself an Arcade 1UP machine, which it also features two of my most favourite classics ever, Gauntlet (I can't describe how much I love it) and Defender (I prefer the sequel Stargate, but Defender is still Defender). See you next, beer & cheers from Italy.
Hello and thank you for subscribing. Those little arcade machines from 1up Are extremely cool but even with those I still don't have any space for them. Greetings from the USA. Thanks
This is the first video of yours I have watched. What a great job giving us a huge overview. I still remember playing the C64 version and powering through the NES version to completion. When I had FINALLY finished it, I thought "This really wasn't worth the time" lol
Watching this video because I plan to do a small clone since I start making my own little games. It was very informative. Thanks for the hard work you put into this, I learned a few things I never heard elsewhere.
Rampage is one of many video games I drew fan art for. For this particular drawing, I incorporated the plots of World Tour and Total Destruction. I also decided to feature not only the monsters but also their human counterparts adding a hint of origin story to each one.
In 1987, my parents took me to Atlantic City, and gave me a hundred dollars, to spend the day at the arcade, while they were at the casino. I remember Rampage… I was mesmerized by this game. I have no idea how much money I spent, but I had a blast that day
Thanks so much for this. Not only is it a fascinating look into a really underrated arcade classic, but your footage of the game has been very helpful in assembling sprites of the monsters for an app that uses pixel art characters. I’m only able to find sprites that are separated into the torso and limbs, and the head and one arm. It’s difficult to determine how the sprites are assembled without references, and most gameplay footage on here only features George.
I met Mr Collin at my old job working for large retail chain a few years back. He was going to a convention, so he had a ton of prints made up of his artwork at the photolab to autograph and sell them to fans. One of my coworkers waved me over, so I checked it all out before we gave it to him. He had mostly rampage pictures, but was some General Chaos prints in the mix. He came shortly after I came over and we talked briefly. I just assumed he started Rampage in Peoria because Game Refuge was from the Chicagoland area, and he then said the exact line you did to me, "If plays in Peoria, it will play anywhere. " I was like oh, didn't realize that was the reasoning. I just assumed was a fun jab at the locals having the wave of destruction here in the midwest before branching out.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yeah I only met him for a short window, but seemed like really good and talented guy. It was a very pleasant surprise to run into him that day.
...I was an award winning filmmaker before I joined Bally/Midway... and the phrase "Will it Play in Peoria?" was a well known question asked by Studio Producers.
My friend once punched me IRL not in game because I ate a cat. The cat actually hurts you if you eat it though so even the game doesn't want you to. This friend had a bunch of cats but he didn't know how to take care of them properly so he'd pick them up by their tails no joke.
I remember the first time I saw this game. It was at a water park, and it sat right next to a Ghost n Goblins cabinet. Unfortunately, I didn't have a quarter and I spent an hour or 2 standing there, waiting for someone to plop a quarter into either machine so I could watch. My parents always were angry with me because if I went to a water or amusement park, I'd spend hours in the arcade section just to browse the latest entries. I didn't know there was a second game in the series.
I can recall going to great America in Chicago and being amazed at all the new arcade games I had never seen before such as return of the Jedi so I feel your pain :-)
Great history of the classic Rampage, Patman, thanks! World Tour was fun too. Never played the Gargoyle monster yet. I play Rampage a few times a year. The arcade version is the best, but the other versions are fun too. The SMS version is great too for Sega's first console. Thanks, Patman!
Rampage is a classic game indeed. I played it with freinds in the arcades quite a lot. Also i had this on the atari 2600 and loved it. I also played on STe and Amiga, but overall i just loved it on the master System. This for me is your best docu yet Patman - Its always a forgone conclusion that your docu's are outstanding. Thankyou , thankyou and thankyou sir. You are the greatest. tell you what tho. Id love to watch a documentary on......PatManQC. Great job brother.
I was lucky enough to get my hands on the smaller 40th anniversary Arcade 1up Defender cabinet before it seemingly disappeared from the internet.... Rampage is one of the games included in it so it's SO much fun to be able to play it and all the other games it came with whenever I want! Two things though.... I laughed out loud at the Clark Griswold reference! And the music in the Nintendo version sounds like the music in the Nintendo version of Paperboy.....
Great video as always! Brian Colin did such a great job with this game, creating a whole genre and business model for the arcade. 36:00 check it out, the Amstrad port recycled music from Capcom's Trojan!
Brian Colin was at the Midwest Gaming Convention and I recognized his face at his booth immediately! He was so kind to me and my autistic son and allowed us to come into his exhibit and posed with my son for a selfie. Meeting Brian and Ben Heck made our visit to the convention one of our best memories. Good men.
Love Rampage! And Betty Veronica, aaah my dream pixellated woman! Working at Scumlabs is 1 step up from being in Finance so can just about forgive her! Thanks Patman!
Little known Movie Fact: ...they shot a Cameo of me fleeing the toppling Tower (Willis Tower), but just before the Premier, WB execs had them cut 30 minutes from the film; so my cameo ended up on the cutting room floor. The BlueRay disc special version still has my on-set interview tho, so I still point to that. ;)
Big Rampage and T2 fan. I bought the VHS of t2 and we watched it a ton and looked for Easter eggs and mistakes. That's why the arcade seen was rewound over, and over. I'm from Montreal and I love hockey. So in that scene, I was happy to see, 'Hit the ice and completely missed Rampage untill a few years later!!! That was such a rewatchability that I probably saw it 200 times.! Cheers from Canada
t2 Is one of those movies that is timeless in my opinion. I can watch that over and over especially the arcade scene :-) I love seeing arcade cameos in movies and TV shows. Cheers from the USA
I loved the cartoon style of the original and I was getting older for world tour- and taste comes into it- but I never liked the digitized look of later games. Rampage arcade the film, I never knew that existed until now, it looks great except.. if you only need 3 hits to take a building down they missed the point. If you don't feel like there's weight or consequence to where you hit a building who cares how many times you bring one down. Fast paced isn' straight away better. A mix between that and the original would have been Grrreat!
I always preferred either the pixel art or the claymation style. The 2018 version was cool as well but I would like to see the monsters resemble their original counterparts only with the updated technology
I remember seeing it for the first time at Aladin's Castle in 1986, I was 8... I still have my Sega Master System copy from Toy's R US, purchased 1988. Now I picked up the Arcade 1up XL MIdway cab to experience the arcade port once again....
I played this game in the arcades in the 80s when I was a kid, it was one of my favorite and remember always putting quarters in this game and got a bit obessed with it back then. It was great. I never got passed high levels but things changed after 90s. I did enjoy the movie but surprised the plot didn't keep them human.
I remember getting a Rampage game for the GBC on our first road trip. I also got a Men In Black game for GBC, the little plug in light, and a box of batteries. I was in elementary school and it was my first introduction to Rampage
Rampage will always be on of the greats. Remember dumping tons of quarters into that one as a kid and playing it into oblivion on NES. Another unique concept that was common then but can never be recreated now. They nailed it the first time and that's that.
I remember when the arcade installer put this game in, it was brand new. He tested the game and left a zillion credits still in the machine and left. I played the game for the next three hours flipping stage after stage. My hands hurt by the time I gave up, there were still credits in the machine. Great kid memory I played the newest game for free.
Finding free credits on an arcade game for me in the mid-80s when I had no money and my mom thought video games were a waste of money was like finding a winning lottery ticket. Or sometimes you'd see an unused credit on a game and quick jump on it and play it before someone else saw it. Or somebody left a quarter in the coin return slot.
@@jamesnoble3502 Same, great memories.
Shit try finding 3 games on p inball
Nothing beats being a kid and casually looking under machines for quarters or tokens.
I remember getting this as a kid. My brother and I played it way past my bedtime that night! It was my favorite NES game for quite some time.
It really baffles me to no end they haven't released a new Rampage with online and offline drop in, drop out co-op. Infinite replay value
Seriously.... Make the multiplayer have procedurally generated cities and enemies, different environments and ecosystems and smash away! Rampage: Next Up?!
Would that many people be interested in playing it online, though? I like the game, but there's really not much to it.
Literally came to me as well when he talked about how anyone can drop a quarter and become co-op and whoever died! Or did you just come up with it lol? I totally forgot that f ya didn’t have quarters or a good gameplay you didn’t have much time lol.
@@swampdonkey4919 I think so, it's the best thing you can do for a game like that to maximize it's replay value. Just adding the ability to play with faraway friends or randoms online would make me want to pick it up a lot more. The host can set monsters being able to hurt each other or not.
They could just update the last Rampage game that came out for Wii way back, but minus the trash motion controls. It had somewhere around 40 playable monsters.
Every time The Patman releases a new video, it makes me grin from ear to ear. One of the best video game history channels on RUclips. Keep up the good work!
Thanks my friend, I sure do appreciate that
I love how much the creator cared about his vision and did the legwork despite the pushback and lack of cooperation. This was one of my favorite games and certainly helped me sort out the jerks in my friend group. "We agreed no attacking each other Bill".
😂 every group of friends has a "bill"
LOL comment of the day
Great video! I remember saving up allowance money to buy Rampage World Tour for the N64. I met Brian Colin a couple of times at conventions, and I loved hearing him talk about making Rampage and other games. He even autographed a couple of my games!
Very cool! He is a very nice guy
rampage is good fun for a game or two. congrats on the 80k, you deserve success for the grind!
Thanks a lot my friend
If you were lucky enough to rent a video game as a kid for the weekend, this was one to get. Because it took THE ENTIRE WEEKEND TO BEAT! Loved it.
LOL no kidding. That's pretty much what I did was rent games because they were so darn expensive
Brian Colin is legitimately one of the nicest people I’ve met in the industry and it makes it even better he had a large hand in this game, Spy Hunter, Sarge and Blasted. General Chaos on the Sega Genesis as well.
Spy hunter was, by far, the best driving game of the 80s. I cannot tell you just how many quarters I fed into Spy Hunter as a teenager in the 80s.
It's one of those games that is only good in the arcade. All the home ports suck . Even MAME sucks for Spy Hunter
I still remember the first time I heard the Peter Gunn theme and was like, "Hey, I know that! It's Spy Hunter."
He has done a ton of classic arcade games, really nice guy
Dang! Those are some great games. I haven't thought about General Chaos in years.
Such a great guy!!!!!!! I grew up with him on my block and he was the nicest guy on the block. 🤘✌️
I went to high school with his daughter and have so many great memories of hanging out in his basement arcade. He is genuinely one of the greatest people on Earth.
I've always loved this game for its art style. I remember seeing this style on a lot of games from that time. I didn't realize it basically all came from one man. Very informative.
Rampage will never get old.
Thanks a lot, I agree it's always fun for a little bit of mindless bashing action
This is an absolute classic and one that I dumped many many quarters into back in the 80s. The first time I played, smashed up the buildings and ate the humans, was an incredible experience and I couldn't get enough. Plus the fact that two others can join in on the madness made it all that much more fun.
This channel is going to blow up. Great videos
That would be absolutely fantastic, thank you for the nice words
Just subbed
Classic game!
Looking forward to more vids
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy the channel@@Bluemortal001
One of my favorite games! Arcades at their best! Thanks for covering this one!
Absolutely, quite you enjoy it
Congratulations for 80k ! You roxx.
Another tremendous vidéo 👍
Thank you so much 😀
Rampage is a game near and dear to the hearts of myself and my childhood friend. Ages ago, he used to play peewee league hockey, and the hockey rink he played at had a Rampage cabinet on property. Long story short, he and I would always have to play against each other on that cabinet before we left after his hockey games. To this day, we still play a round against each other if we can find a still working cabinet in the wild.
That is fantastic, thanks for sharing your memoriies
PatmanQC always delivers the biggest, meanest and baddest videos on RUclips.👍
How nice of you to say, thanks so much
Love Rampage. Thanks for doing a history on this fun series.
Absolutely, I hope you enjoy it
Great video as always Pat.
Thanks a lot
I don't think Patman has ever made a bad video. Thanks for the entertainment, information, and nostalgia as I battle a cold.
How nice of you to say, I'm glad you think so. Thanks
I loved Rampage as a kid. I still love it today!
Absolutely it's a classic
Rampage was my favorite game back in the day. Lizzie was my favorite because she reminded me of Godzilla.(even tho you just destroyed my dreams by telling me it wasnt, lol) Thanks for the flashback into memory lane as always.
LOL, sorry about that. I always thought it was Godzilla as well growing up
Lizzie was based on Godzilla though. Just as George is King Kong and Ralph is American Werewolf in London. Don't believe me? In Rampage Universal Tour you find Lizzie in Japan, Ralph in London and George in New York.
No offense but I talked to Brian the creator of the game Who told me who Lizzie Was based on. He had no involvement with universal tour .@@ZombifiedBuizel
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I understand that but it's too perfect to be a coincidence.
Always loved this game. I have many home ports and all the sequels also action figures in a special Rampage display in my game room. Awesome history coverage, thanks!
Absolutely, thank you for watching
Loved this game. Had it on the C64 and it was on constant rotation, particularly when I had friends over. My parents used to take us to Canvey Island on some weekends in the summer, and it was the only place I ever got to play the arcade version.
Very cool, I liked both 64 versions but preferred the US version
Soooo many great memories playing this as a kid in the arcades and even in more recent times with my neighbors on MAME for PC. Thank you Patman for a wonderful stroll down memory lane of yet another fine Bally Midway game, thanks for all you do brother. 😎👍
Thank you for watching, I'm glad I could scratch that nostalgic itch for you
I was at an arcade bar in Chicago a couple months ago and was playing a rampage world friend world tour. And found it crazy that there was Michigan city and Gary Indiana! Im from the region so love this!
Very cool, glad you enjoyed it
Great job! .. I can't say it enough other than the Nostalgia the content that you produce is of the highest quality, I truly appreciate all the work you put into this
Glad you enjoy it! Sure do appreciate that, thanks
Wow, I had absolutely NO idea there were so many sequels to one of my favourite arcade bust-ups of time when I was a literal 14 year old boy! Excellent choice for a history of video, I learned a ton from this one. My friends and I did a lot of co-op city smashing back in the day, but of course it always broke down and we'd end up dukeing it out and eating the loser. What a great quarter-sucking idea! 😆
Time to bust out MAME and bless the unlimited quarters. I think ima do a full cycle of cities in memory of old great times.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate that.This game was always fantastic especially in multiplayer mode
World Tour is always my choice (I've only played the 3 on the Total Destruction disc) My friend had World tour on the N64 and so I played the bunch with him. He'd get mad at me if I ate a cat and eventually actually puched me IRL.
Great video as always. Love all histories of arcade games !!! Plus you are very funny at times !!! Love all the comparisons of the Home ports. !!! The game does not need any music.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoy my content
When I first played Rampage in the arcade, I was instantly hooked. I have a version of it on my parent's Tandy computer and on my NES. I even met Mr. Colin at Corgscon back in 2022, and heard how he got to meet The Rock on the final day of filming the Rampage movie.
Yes I was instantly hooked as well
I'm high AF right now and your channel is the best to watch while stoned!
LOL thanks buddy
Congratulations on 80K! I can't do too much besides like and retweet, but thank you for all the effort you put into these videos.
That's okay, I appreciate all the sharing and tweeting. Thanks
I was introduced to what would be one of my favorite classic games on the Sega Master System! I love the heck out of Rampage!
It is so much better on the master system than the NES
Rampage was always a great way to recongregate with my buddies at the arcades, due to the co-op simultaneous play. The arcade version felt great to play, the responsiveness made you feel truly in control of your monster, and you owned your mistakes rather than blaming them on the way the game played.
That is pure Grade a gameplay right there. The controls have to feel just right otherwise it's not Any fun. Thanks for sharing
Thank you PatMan! Love it when you go back and do updated videos. LOVE the version differences but also the history of the games as much! Maybe a complete retrospective on Double Dragon in the near future!
Thanks a lot for watching. Some of these old videos were done using a handheld microphone with the limited information. I've also grown a lot as a creator and wanted to give one of my favorite games its rightful place in the sun
Brian Colin is a gem and i loved all his games. They really stood out in the 80s and 90s with there huge color character and excellent sprite work. Xenophobe is still one of my all time faves but i really loved Sarge too. All just really excellent games.
It's amazing the classics has created. You can tell his distinctive art style a mile away
Excellent choice and video. My six year old niece LOVES Rampage and always asks me to put it on for her whenever she visits us. I love winding her up by eating her character when they die, especially as she hasn’t quite got the hang of doing it back to me yet.
I had the EU version on the C64 as well back in the day but actually thought it was decent enough but that’s me. Anyway, thanks for another great video! 😊
Growing up I had both versions of rampage. Clearly the European version was first and I played the heck out of it despite its limitations. Once the American version came out that was it for the European version
THANK YOU Patman; Really Great re-telling of the RAMPAGE origin stories. You even reminded me of a few things I'd forgotten. Well Done! . . . One tiny thing though, a common mistake. My name is pronounced with a long 'o' (...rhymes with Bowlin' )
...and THANKS to everyone for all of the love shown in the comments! You have no idea how much I appreciate hearing that you enjoyed, and Remembered, playing RAMPAGE!
Sorry about the mispronouncing of your name. Being an avid bowler myself (I just bowled in league last night) I should have realized but at least you enjoyed the video. Thanks for being helpful and providing some insight.
... No problem, nearly everyone pronounces it the way you did. I should probably spell it "Coal-in" 😆
Are you heading back to the Midwest gaming classic this year?@@BrianColin
I'd like to, but I have family thing in Southern Illinois that same weekend; ... hoping I can work everything out.
Patman, as always, you bring content that i love and makes the childhood memories flood back. in your video without the sounds of the morphing back to normal, i could hear it just like i was back in the arcade. thank you!!!
Keep it up ! This is hands down the best Gamedoc channel!
Thanks a ton, glad you enjoyed them
I first played this game in a 7 11, and I was blown away by it.
I still like to play from time to time when I get a chance.
Thanks for another well - made video, top quality as always.
Still fun to play to this day
... Although not specifically mentioned in the video, the location that removed the game because of the Crowds was a 7/11 store!
@@BrianColin I remember standing in line waiting to play games; they were that much fun ( and it was all brand new back then, in the years before internet ... it was like the Dark Ages. )
That's some good information Right there
@@BrianColin I was lucky enough to be the only one there at the time, had the whole machine to myself.
i remember playing ram page in the arcade year's ago. but i just picked up the midway arcade origins on the xbox just for ram page. one thing i wish they would do is come out with a ram page collection.
That's a good idea
Loved this game back in the day.
It still one of my favorites
I grew up in bowling alleys, pool halls and bars and played all these games! I will be playing this tonight on my arcade machine!
Sounds like me, I can recall being five years old and my uncle take me to a bar to play a bowling game. Couldn't get away with with that nowadays
Hi, new subscriber here! You got me, Rampage was my favourite Master System game back in my childhood (which it was pretty common here in Italy) but not so common as an arcade cabinet: for most of us in Europe (or maybe just in Italy, I don't know), Rampage was just a Master System game. It was another time when informations were few and poor, but at the end I've played all the version of it and personally I think the Master System version, so the version I grew up with, was even better than the arcade original (which it was awesome too). I still play it today, with a Mega Drive (the Genesis in North America) where I mounted a Master System cartridge converter, so I play my childhood cartridge with it. If it only I had more space and money, with good probability I would have choose to get myself an Arcade 1UP machine, which it also features two of my most favourite classics ever, Gauntlet (I can't describe how much I love it) and Defender (I prefer the sequel Stargate, but Defender is still Defender). See you next, beer & cheers from Italy.
Hello and thank you for subscribing. Those little arcade machines from 1up Are extremely cool but even with those I still don't have any space for them. Greetings from the USA. Thanks
Loved this one as a kid.
So did I
Ralph the Wolf and Harley Hog from Rampage through Time are my two favorite charachter's from this game franchise.❤
I love Ralph
This is the first video of yours I have watched. What a great job giving us a huge overview. I still remember playing the C64 version and powering through the NES version to completion. When I had FINALLY finished it, I thought "This really wasn't worth the time" lol
Watching this video because I plan to do a small clone since I start making my own little games. It was very informative. Thanks for the hard work you put into this, I learned a few things I never heard elsewhere.
I’ve had this video saved in my watch later forever. Finally watched and I’m glad I did. Subscribed now :)
“If you have an idea you believe is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.”
-Stan Lee
Rampage is one of many video games I drew fan art for. For this particular drawing, I incorporated the plots of World Tour and Total Destruction. I also decided to feature not only the monsters but also their human counterparts adding a hint of origin story to each one.
That sounds really cool, is available to view online
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I think there's a video of it on my channel. It's also up on DeviantArt.
I remember when this came out in the arcades in 86, it was a huge hit at the time.
Yes it was, wildly successful
Ive been waiting for you to cover this one Patman. One of the best games ever. Thanks for the memories.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks a ton
Such a great game. Enjoyed playin the master system version when i was a kid. And luckily got to play the arcade version of it at BARCADE.
I really liked the master system version. Honestly, for the most part I liked all of them
In 1987, my parents took me to Atlantic City, and gave me a hundred dollars, to spend the day at the arcade, while they were at the casino. I remember Rampage… I was mesmerized by this game. I have no idea how much money I spent, but I had a blast that day
Great video as always. I had the Sega Master System version. I loved it in the arcade for years so it was a no-brainer to pick up once it was adapted.
Thanks, I really enjoyed the master system version
Thanks so much for this. Not only is it a fascinating look into a really underrated arcade classic, but your footage of the game has been very helpful in assembling sprites of the monsters for an app that uses pixel art characters.
I’m only able to find sprites that are separated into the torso and limbs, and the head and one arm. It’s difficult to determine how the sprites are assembled without references, and most gameplay footage on here only features George.
Thanks for putting this together. What a great trip down memory lane.
Glad you enjoyed it, Thanks a ton
I met Mr Collin at my old job working for large retail chain a few years back. He was going to a convention, so he had a ton of prints made up of his artwork at the photolab to autograph and sell them to fans. One of my coworkers waved me over, so I checked it all out before we gave it to him. He had mostly rampage pictures, but was some General Chaos prints in the mix. He came shortly after I came over and we talked briefly. I just assumed he started Rampage in Peoria because Game Refuge was from the Chicagoland area, and he then said the exact line you did to me, "If plays in Peoria, it will play anywhere. " I was like oh, didn't realize that was the reasoning. I just assumed was a fun jab at the locals having the wave of destruction here in the midwest before branching out.
That's what I always thought as well before I started researching the video. That was the exact line he told me.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries He's extremely consistent then hehe.
Seems like a really nice guy@@Lastjustice
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yeah I only met him for a short window, but seemed like really good and talented guy. It was a very pleasant surprise to run into him that day.
...I was an award winning filmmaker before I joined Bally/Midway... and the phrase "Will it Play in Peoria?" was a well known question asked by Studio Producers.
My friend once punched me IRL not in game because I ate a cat. The cat actually hurts you if you eat it though so even the game doesn't want you to.
This friend had a bunch of cats but he didn't know how to take care of them properly so he'd pick them up by their tails no joke.
I remember the first time I saw this game. It was at a water park, and it sat right next to a Ghost n Goblins cabinet. Unfortunately, I didn't have a quarter and I spent an hour or 2 standing there, waiting for someone to plop a quarter into either machine so I could watch. My parents always were angry with me because if I went to a water or amusement park, I'd spend hours in the arcade section just to browse the latest entries.
I didn't know there was a second game in the series.
I can recall going to great America in Chicago and being amazed at all the new arcade games I had never seen before such as return of the Jedi so I feel your pain :-)
I am from Peoria, Its was really cool to boot this game up for the first time and the very first city is your hometown!
I'm so glad you're covering this ❤
Hope you enjoyed it!
Loved Rampage in the arcade! Always played as George. I have the Wii version of Rampage: Total Destruction, but haven't played it in a long time.
I liked that version as well
This was my favorite NES game. I just loved the destruction aspect that no other game captured.
I thought the NES version was pretty good although preferred other versions over
Another great video from my favorite channel!!
Wow, thanks!
Great history of the classic Rampage, Patman, thanks! World Tour was fun too. Never played the Gargoyle monster yet. I play Rampage a few times a year. The arcade version is the best, but the other versions are fun too. The SMS version is great too for Sega's first console. Thanks, Patman!
Thanks pal. Clearly it's one of my favorite games, thanks for watching
Rampage is a classic game indeed. I played it with freinds in the arcades quite a lot. Also i had this on the atari 2600 and loved it. I also played on STe and Amiga, but overall i just loved it on the master System. This for me is your best docu yet Patman - Its always a forgone conclusion that your docu's are outstanding. Thankyou , thankyou and thankyou sir. You are the greatest. tell you what tho. Id love to watch a documentary on......PatManQC. Great job brother.
Thanks a ton for watching. Glad you enjoyed the content, cheers my friend
I was lucky enough to get my hands on the smaller 40th anniversary Arcade 1up Defender cabinet before it seemingly disappeared from the internet.... Rampage is one of the games included in it so it's SO much fun to be able to play it and all the other games it came with whenever I want!
Two things though.... I laughed out loud at the Clark Griswold reference! And the music in the Nintendo version sounds like the music in the Nintendo version of Paperboy.....
Thanks, never noticed about the Nintendo music so I will have to check it out
Your videos are awesome!! Thanks pacmanqc
Glad you like them! Thanks a ton
One of the greatest multiplayer arcade titles ever.
It is a lot of fun
Thanks for another solid documentary Patman!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video as always! Brian Colin did such a great job with this game, creating a whole genre and business model for the arcade. 36:00 check it out, the Amstrad port recycled music from Capcom's Trojan!
Good call, I didn't catch that
I thought I was losing my mind when I heard the music from Trojan!
I had no idea Rampage ever had a sequel, let alone so many of them.
It's a franchise that's for sure
This one fizzled pretty quick for me. Great video as always.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brian Colin was at the Midwest Gaming Convention and I recognized his face at his booth immediately! He was so kind to me and my autistic son and allowed us to come into his exhibit and posed with my son for a selfie. Meeting Brian and Ben Heck made our visit to the convention one of our best memories. Good men.
Extremely nice guy
I'm surprised how much detail and mechanics was packed into that original Arcade game. Fun video.
Yes, there was a lot thanks
Love Rampage! And Betty Veronica, aaah my dream pixellated woman! Working at Scumlabs is 1 step up from being in Finance so can just about forgive her! Thanks Patman!
LOL, I hear you. Thanks
I used to go to the local arcade as a kid and bounce between Rampage, King of Monsters and Wardner. Thanks for the memberries.
Absolutely, I'll probably do came with the monsters at some point
Damn, the original game seems to look and play way better than any of the sequels.
World tour has good gameplay but yes I prefer the original
As a person that loves giant monsters I absolutely love the rampage series and I also love the live-action movie as well
Little known Movie Fact: ...they shot a Cameo of me fleeing the toppling Tower (Willis Tower), but just before the Premier, WB execs had them cut 30 minutes from the film; so my cameo ended up on the cutting room floor. The BlueRay disc special version still has my on-set interview tho, so I still point to that. ;)
Maybe I could include that if I do a rampage 2.0 video, very cool
The original Rampage was so bad ass. Holds a special place in my heart. Great documentary. 👍
I love it as well, thanks
Loved me some rampage. When I was a 10 yr old gorilla fan this definitely scratched that itch. Congrats on another awesome video.
Thanks a ton, always enjoyed this game
I love this game. I use to love watch people playing it as a kid too.
It's a lot of fun especially in multiplayer mode
Big Rampage and T2 fan. I bought the VHS of t2 and we watched it a ton and looked for Easter eggs and mistakes.
That's why the arcade seen was rewound over, and over.
I'm from Montreal and I love hockey. So in that scene, I was happy to see, 'Hit the ice and completely missed Rampage untill a few years later!!!
That was such a rewatchability that I probably saw it 200 times.!
Cheers from Canada
t2 Is one of those movies that is timeless in my opinion. I can watch that over and over especially the arcade scene :-) I love seeing arcade cameos in movies and TV shows. Cheers from the USA
Ahhh General Chaos, another one of my faves💪 the Atari 2600 Rampage looks like an angry fetus banging on buildings. Excellent video as usual Patman🏆
LOL comment of the day. Thanks buddy
I play Rampage at the arcade when I was a kid it's excellent and it's still awesome today. 😀👍🎮
Couldn't agree more!
I loved the cartoon style of the original and I was getting older for world tour- and taste comes into it- but I never liked the digitized look of later games. Rampage arcade the film, I never knew that existed until now, it looks great except.. if you only need 3 hits to take a building down they missed the point. If you don't feel like there's weight or consequence to where you hit a building who cares how many times you bring one down. Fast paced isn' straight away better. A mix between that and the original would have been Grrreat!
I always preferred either the pixel art or the claymation style. The 2018 version was cool as well but I would like to see the monsters resemble their original counterparts only with the updated technology
I remember seeing it for the first time at Aladin's Castle in 1986, I was 8... I still have my Sega Master System copy from Toy's R US, purchased 1988. Now I picked up the Arcade 1up XL MIdway cab to experience the arcade port once again....
I laughed at the Will Shít reference. Subscribed :)
Thanks a ton, welcome aboard
Love Rampage.
So do I
Patman RULES! Awesome vid!
I agree, thanks a lot
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries autocorrect messed me up! I edited it back to my originally intended message!
I played this game in the arcades in the 80s when I was a kid, it was one of my favorite and remember always putting quarters in this game and got a bit obessed with it back then. It was great. I never got passed high levels but things changed after 90s. I did enjoy the movie but surprised the plot didn't keep them human.
Had this game on Master System. Thank you for the documentary.
Excellent, thank you for watching
I remember getting a Rampage game for the GBC on our first road trip. I also got a Men In Black game for GBC, the little plug in light, and a box of batteries. I was in elementary school and it was my first introduction to Rampage
I had one of those plug-in lights as well
Such a great series! I have a ton of found memories from playing it on the nes. Great retrospective as always Pat!
🙌✨️
Glad you enjoy it! Lots of fun going back and replaying this
8:36 I love that image on the left. The silhouette of the monsters trashing the city at night.
Yes, absolute love the artwork in this game
Rampage will always be on of the greats. Remember dumping tons of quarters into that one as a kid and playing it into oblivion on NES. Another unique concept that was common then but can never be recreated now. They nailed it the first time and that's that.
Been Praying for you Brother stay strong much love ❤️
Playing this and SMB with my parents in ‘89 is one of the earliest memories I can recall.
Good times
One of my alltime fav arcades❤. I still play this game on emulation with my brother. Thanks for the video and history❤