The History of Rampage - 2024 arcade console documentary 

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

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.

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.

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!

rampage is good fun for a game or two. congrats on the 80k, you deserve success for the grind!

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. 😎👍

PatmanQC always delivers the biggest, meanest and baddest videos on RU-vid.👍

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!

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.

One of my favorite games! Arcades at their best! Thanks for covering this one!

Love Rampage. Thanks for doing a history on this fun series.

Congratulations for 80k ! You roxx. Another tremendous vidéo 👍

I loved Rampage as a kid. I still love it today!

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! 😊

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.

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!

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.

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!!!

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.

Loved this game back in the day.

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!

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 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.

Keep it up ! This is hands down the best Gamedoc channel!

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.

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

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.

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🏆

Ive been waiting for you to cover this one Patman. One of the best games ever. Thanks for the memories.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

This was my favorite NES game. I just loved the destruction aspect that no other game captured.

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.....

Such a great series! I have a ton of found memories from playing it on the nes. Great retrospective as always Pat! 🙌✨️

Thanks for putting this together. What a great trip down memory lane.

“If you have an idea you believe is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.” -Stan Lee

I used to go to the local arcade as a kid and bounce between Rampage, King of Monsters and Wardner. Thanks for the memberries.

I'm so glad you're covering this ❤

Great video as always Pat.

8:36 I love that image on the left. The silhouette of the monsters trashing the city at night.

I play Rampage at the arcade when I was a kid it's excellent and it's still awesome today. 😀👍🎮

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 laughed at the Will Shít reference. Subscribed :)

Another great video from my favorite channel!!

Been Praying for you Brother stay strong much love ❤️

This was one of my all time favorite games and I also played it on arcade at the bowling alley 🎳 Pac-Man tabletop cabinets is what I started on and I've been hooked since.

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.

Thanks for another solid documentary Patman!

As a person that loves giant monsters I absolutely love the rampage series and I also love the live-action movie as well

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!

Rampage World Tour, Battle Tanx, and Battle Tanx Global Assault are the three games I played the most in my childhood, because they were all three games my dad would play with me.

I hope we get a new rampage soon. Was so much fun!!

I lived on the same block as brian collin in the 90s. He had a whole arcade in his basement and let all the neighborhood kids play anytime we asked. Tron and xenophobe were my favs. He also gave my older brother an arcade game(blasted). It had two guns and you shot bad guys out of brick windows. Tons of fun 🫶 He also set up the best Halloween haunted trail in his backyard every year. Beyond epic!!! Also "general chaos" is sooooo underrated!!! Arch rivals too!! Brian is a stellar human and was one of my favorite people growing up. I dont know if you will see this but thank you for being the absolute best!!! 🙏🫶

Loved this one as a kid.

Man these games are masterpieces. I literally just yesterday tried searching the xbox store to try and fine any if these games because I missed them so much.

I had the Coco version and I had completely forgot about this! Thank you!

One thing to mention is Antoine Bauza designed "Rampage", a board game where you knock over buildings. But it was renamed to "attack on meeples city", assuming it got licensing issues

Loved me some rampage. When I was a 10 yr old gorilla fan this definitely scratched that itch. Congrats on another awesome video.

King of the of the Monsters... now that's a core memory unlocked. That was one of the first games I owned on the SNES.

I'm surprised how much detail and mechanics was packed into that original Arcade game. Fun video.

I played this plenty of times as a kid (arcade and NES), but I never really knew how the game worked-it wasn’t until today I learned you could grab your damsel and they enemies would stop shooting at you, or that the different damsels were specific to the different monsters!

My brothers and I rented this Nintendo game a couple of times. One fateful time, we almost made it through the entire game. We even “saved” our game by turning the tv off and leaving the Nintendo on when mom told us to go to bed. I can’t remember how far we made it, but I remember most of the country had been destroyed on the map. It’s one of my favorite Nintendo memories.

Rampage is the first video game I ever saw the end of. My uncle who is 6 years older than me, had the Sega Master System, and a copy of the game. He showed it to me and the graphics blew me away, I was convinced the Sega was better than my NES. After playing for a while and losing, I asked how far he could get, he said he could beat the whole thing, I doubted him, since I had never seen the end of ANY video game, because everything I had was NES-hard. He sat down, turned on the game, and played it from start to finish over 3 hours. I was stunned.

Thank you, I have always loved this game.

As a kid I loved playing Rampage on the Amiga and Master System, cool to know they were the best ports!

Loved this game. Always thought it was so underrated. It was one of my first, I had this when I was little on my sega master system, I remember constantly playing it with my joypad. I also had it on my iPhone on an app called midway arcade but it’s not compatible with iOS anymore even though I paid for it.

Had this game on Master System. Thank you for the documentary.

The 90s to early 2000s era of put your quarter on the cabinet counter to claim your spot as next was incredible. Whoever it was that could outlast everyone and play seemingly for hours on a quarter was a god.

Playing this and SMB with my parents in ‘89 is one of the earliest memories I can recall.

I've always thought rampage looked cool to me as a kid....but I've never played one oddly enough. Looks like a really fun series. keep up the great work pat. and as another user said. congrats on reaching the 80k subscriber point.

Our bowling alley in my hometown was where my favorite arcade was. No redemption gaming - all current and past arcade titles. Trying to remember all my favorites from that arcade. 1. MK I and MK II 2. Street Fighter II 3. Time Killers 4. Simpsons 5. X-Men 6. Turtles in Time 7. Mr. Do 8. Mario Bros

Being a fan of both Godzilla and King Kong, the premise of this game was brilliant to me.

I didn't even know this had an ending until I played this on Midway Arcade Treasures 2. Fun as hell to play, but also kinda long.

Hey hey. Cool video as always. Also there was a neat version for the Gameboy Advance (bundeled with Paperboy)

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 actually had the Tiger handheld game. It really speaks volumes how simple, yet addictive and fun this game design was that even Tiger couldn't screw it up. It was probably the best LCD game they ever made.

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!

3 player on the commodor 64 2 joysticks one on keys, Felt like the future

That Atari 2600 port was far better than I would have expected. If a kid had never played the arcade and only experienced Rampage through the 2600, I think it would have been a fun game

Though there's no new Rampage game, there is a spiritual successor to Rampage that came out recently called Terror Of Hemasaurus, which was released for PC computers on the Steam and Epic game stores along with the Playstation 4/5, Xbox One/Series X, and Nintendo Switch. This indie action platformer developed by Games By Loren (a solo Finnish developer) is set in the year 2030 in which global warming released 3 dinosaurs and a giant ground sloth out of their iceberg prison and wreck total destruction and carnage upon various cities followed by an occult named the church of the holy lizard. The game features 2 modes: Story mode and Endless Destruction. Endless destruction is your typical arcade mode in which you destroy various cities until you lose all 3 lives and cut to the game over screen featuring 2 aliens commenting on humanity's Doom while playing the game in a destroyed city. The gameplay is similar to Rampage World Tour but the graphics inspired off the original Rampage. However unlike Rampage, this game is out for blood as the game features a ton of blood & gore with victims getting chopped in half, burning into a skeletons, and the defeated monster explode into meaty pieces. The story mode is hilariously dark and certainly not appropriate for children for the amount of foul language, blood & gore, intense violence, adult humor, and cynical nihilistic tone. Playing the game myself, it is a fantastic game and truly a worthy successor to Rampage. Plus, the game runs smoothly on a Windows 10 laptop. Loren is currently working on a new monster, Paingo, the giant pangolin and a new mode similar to grab the coins mode from the Super Smash Bros series. Overall, I highly recommend playing this game.🦖🦥

I actually thought Lizzie was based on Godzilla cause she reminded me Godzilla. I never heard of Ymir but I see the resemblance and I had a feeling George was inspired by king kong but as for Ralph I thought he would be based on the wolfman. they never explained how they decided for the 3rd monster to be a wolf. what is also funny is that on the nes version they don't have Ralph which I think is stupid. I also never knew their names were based on actual real people that existed especially Ralph was the name of one of the programmers.

Awesomeness. I've got Patman fever. I'm going outta my mind.

AAARGH! for DOS released in 1988 by Arcadia Systems, Inc. always reminded me of Rampage.

Love your content! Keep it up!!!!!

Really fun game. Interesting thing about the arcade game at least in Mame. On each level if you do not destroy any of the buildings yourself, the military will start to dynamite each building one by one. Doing the work for you.

I remember playing rampage on Nintendo. My brother and I spent hours tearing down cities

My dad got the Rampage World Tour on the PC and I played it a lot. I always wanted them bring it back on Steam. Oh well.

Thank you for another episode covering 80s video games. 🙂 From the home conversions I found that while the Amstrad version looks nice, I found the animation of the monsters choppy. You hadn't mentioned it. May be it is just me.

This game definitely ate damn near all my quarters every time my parents took me to an arcade

great video as always! On the NES I was super bored and bea the entire game one day. Yep, beat all the cities TWICE.

There was also a version of original rampage released on the Gameboy Advanced. It was a combo cart with paperboy. it was a pretty good conversion good graphics.

I remember when my parents and grandparents took me to a nickel arcade for my birthday, It was full of awesome games but this was the one that I spent around 60-65% of my coins on.

Wish i could play universal tour on my os5,,, i ahd it burned when it was on out on ps1 and i remember loving it.... now i have there actual copy and no ps1 hooked up, my ps3 that plays all 3 eras is shot .....DANG lol. Youre my fav Patman

Thanks. Another excellent video

I played the original some but played World Tour a lot more. I remember when I played Universal Tour being annoyed that Dr. Veronica was MIA. I always thought her shrinking the monsters and bringing them back rather then abandoning or killing them proved she wasn't evil.

Congrats! I love your videos, your voice is so smooth and relaxing, I often fall asleep at night watching your videos. 🙂

As far as i remember arcade Rampage followed by US Commodore rampage, are my first gateways to gaming. Here i am still playing shit at 40. Always love to see how far gaming has come and being onboard as it evolved every generation.