Rampage (1986) - Video Game Review

I know that today most people are familiar with XBox One, Playstation 4 and the lot, but when I was a kid it was all about owning the latest awesome video game for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System...) And you know what? There was a lot of them! 

One of these games is actually believe it or not one of the first video games I ever played on any system... And this one... Believe it or up til recently I hadn't played since I was 4 years old! That game is, Rampage (1986) by Bally Midway (a.k.a. The former, 'Midway Games'!) 

Rampage... A classic NES game that maybe as much fun on other systems, but for my money, the original will always be the best!

Now this game started off as an arcade game back in the mid 80s... For myself though, I only got to try it the one time when it was an arcade game, and the truth is, is that this game was pretty amazing in the arcade... (I would go so far as to say that this game's format for me... I think that, that was probably in the arcade!) 

Anyway, basically this game's story tells of a group of humans (in the first one it is only two humans,) who end up being mutated in to giant King-Kong & Godzillaish style monsters, and the idea is that through the game you go through city after city in the United States destroying one after another until you have essentially made a full circle through out the country, and parts of Canada! 

King-Kong anyone?

I have to say that smashing buildings to rubble is a ton of fun! 

Ok, so that maybe the best part of the game... But there are some other good stuff in this game... I mean it is easy to control, and considering how long this game is, the music and graphics are pretty fun! 

Now for the bad part... This game has about 128 levels... And where as about the first 50 levels or so are a ton of fun to play in a row... Much after that the game starts to get a little dull... 

So if you are planning on going through the game from beginning to end, you might want to spend a few days or a week on this one... But if you do, you won't regret it! 

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Galaga (1981) - Video Game Review

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In the 70s the world of video gamming saw one of the most famous video games of all times with the release of the classic science fiction video game, 'Galaxian' (1979)! Why was this game (which was developed by, 'Namco' and Published by: 'Namco' and 'Midway') so great? Well simply speaking this game was not a particularly hard game, I mean the arcade game was extremely easy to control... Yet it is harder, the longer you play!

Well in 1981, we saw the next level for that game when Namco & Midway would go on to release the epic sequel, 'Galaga' (1981)!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="417"] A true classic![/caption]

A lot of the concepts from Galaxian followed through to Galaga, including the fact that you are essentially a spaceship which had to go around and destroy as many aliens as possible and get as many points as you can, and the more levels you go up, the harder it gets!

There was also a lot of differences as well including among these are the ability to fire more than one shot at a time, a count of the player's "hit/miss ratio" at the end of the game, and a bonus "Challenging Stage" that occurs every few stages, in which a series of enemies fly onto and off the screen in set patterns without firing at the player's ship or trying to crash into it. These stages award a 10,000-point bonus if the player manages to destroy every enemy, but otherwise 100 bonus points for every enemy destroyed.

Their is only one problem that I have found with this game, that is that it is dated, and if you are not a fan of older video games, then you might not like it, but if you do, then you might enjoy this one!

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