Matt's Rampage Retrospective!

[@MattMcMuscles]

I apologize for my voice here; kinda ragged and worn out. Just came back from PAX East, so it was a bit fucked.

[@defmagica9139]

Matt McMuscles It's all good, man. Keep doing you; It's inspiring

[@jiin6]

Matt Filled with Con Flu

[@Monstermania101]

Matt McMuscles I was wondering what was up but it's all good! Good episode glad you did this.

[@nick_1312]

but in general, you speak faster in SBFP and with a more fluid pace than in your solo videos. i know it's not as easy as it, uh, sounds, but these videos would do well if they were just a little more snappy. i know a lot of youtubers speed their voices up artificially, though i'm not sure if that's something you'd need to do or would be interested in, as just more practice w/script reading should be enough. i hope this advice doesn't come off as hyper-critical or condescending though! i still love the videos, and like i said, i know it isn't as easy as some people think, but it's just something i've thought about when watching these. hope you get lots of rest after pax east now!

[@franzhopper7631]

I know it didn't tickle your fancy but Universal Tour was my shit. It was my first rampage so I didn't have nostalgia for the other games. But Boris the Rhino was my favorite by far with his insta-kill building charge I loved it. That music too I recognize even today years later.

[@andrewgibson3550]

There should be a television series based on Rampage: Total Destruction. And it would feature characters like: . George, a gorilla monster and the wrecking crew's team leader who's brave, strong, smart, willing, and always looking out for his team. . Lizzie, a dinosaur and one of the female members who enjoys fighting and she supports her teammates. . Ralph, a wolf who is full of surprises and hanging out with George and Lizzie most of the times. . Ramsey, this ram is the one who is always doing things the hard way when it comes to fighting. . Gilman, a blow fish who enjoys swimming in a lake, a river, an ocean, and the pool where their base is at. . Rhett, this rat is a sneaky vermin who sneak-attacks his enemies from everywhere. . Boris, a rhinoceros is the brute of the team, he likes to use mostly his fist against his foes. . Ruby, a lobster who likes to collected treasures in the bottom of the sea. . Cal, a short-tempered squid who doesn't take things kindly when people don't respect him. . Leon, this lion is no coward, he attacks his enemies with his powerful roar, and when his enemies are defeated he calls himself "A True King". . Crock, a crocodile monster from a swamp that uses his jaws to crush vehicles and stuff . Kyle, this raging cyclops loves to ram his enemies until they fall to the ground. . Squirmy, who's body is made up of multiple worms and it is unknown about him, and everybody, including his fellow teammates know little about him. . Fabio, a flea that jumps on top of buildings to land right down on his foes. . Marco, a shark that is urging to win in every fight, but what his fellow crew doesn't know is that he has a crush on a certain nautilus. . Rojo, a bull who enjoys boxing, showing his fancy moves like doing a pile drive, running 5 miles, and doing reflexes. . Plucky, is a crazy chicken monster that goes psycho when she attacks people. . Fifi, the poodle that loves to go for daily walks near a park. . Icky, an echidna that uses his spikes to tear apart his enemies. . Venus, a plant creature that loves to drink water to make her strong and talking to non-living plants. . Wally, the warthog that loves to eat chicken legs, steak, and he likes to crush buildings non-stop. . Harry, this yeti can climb very fast to reach at a top of a skyscraper, then smash it on top. . Shelby, she maybe slow tortoise but with the help of her shell for protection from shootings. . Amanda, an armadillo that can curl up into a ball to roll and get to places faster, such as her favorite golf course. . Natalie, a nautilus who loves cleaning, doing laundry, making sure the floors at their base isn't to dirty, but no one knows is that she has a crush on a certain shark. . Kingston, a king cobra that uses his venom to paralyze his enemies. . Rocky, the granite monster that crushes his foes by shooting lava blast form his body. . Sarah, a large spider monster that preys on humans. . Brian, a very smart brain like creature that uses his mind powers to eliminate people. . Edwin, the invader that has a intelligence attitude that outsmarts his enemies. . Joe, a big-foot/wolverine like monster that can be very shy sometimes, but with the help of his team leader George to help him with his confidants. . Bart, a bat that is always energetic, much to the annoyance of his fellow teammates. . Jack, the jackalope monster with a mind of a warrior going to battle. . Jill, a jellyfish with an will to spread fear in every area, and people say it is 'shocking' to see her raging in a city. . Nick, now this demon is immune to fire, but ironically he's not immune to peppers. . Cyril, a squirrel monster that can go 'nuts' when he attacks his enemies. . Vern, now this abomination is highly able to get the drop on his enemies, and he also considers himself very well-balanced than his fellow teammates, such as, Joe, Gilman, Shelby, George, Cal, Harry, Kyle, and Philbert. . Philbert, an ungulate who has a lot of issues, like being the most harassed monster in the series, even his fellow teammates, and he taking it out on the world. . Eyegore, an alien that has great eye-sight for any intruders who comes near their base. . Bubba, a blob that is one of the most,if not the most powerful member of the team.

[@kingbeastben1465]

Might as well be called rampage school!

[@deejno.4758]

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[@ryanb9863]

I love Total Destruction. Yeah it had a bunch of issues but I thought it had some charm to it

[@lordcapucino]

you havw to like it .since theres nothing more to play .like , no one made a new game , so ...man. a coop indy game about this would look cool . even if it wasnt the original characters. some indy company should take the charge of making something like this franchise .who cares, if the original company doesnt care about it. make original creatures overflowing with charisma and there you have it .

[@AwesomeMooseSmile]

@@lordcapucino The sad thing is there's definitely never gonna be another rampage game. Most know about the canceled kinect game, and everyone knows that one canceled reboot is bad enough, but the sad thing with rampage is that it happened again with rampage x, so you have 2 failed attempts at a reboot. This game series is fucking dead.

[@JohnSmith-se7pp]

@@AwesomeMooseSmileNOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@ElGordoBandito]

I must've spent a small fortune playing World Tour at my local pizza joint. They also had a Primal Rage cabinet there, so it was Kaiju mania.

[@HiddenShadow124]

Lizzie is best girl.

[@LightStreak567]

Damn right. I ALWAYS play as Lizzie.

[@crazydude610]

I saw the movie yesterday, and BOY was there some unexpected gore. People chopped in half, prolonged shots of people being eaten and rag-dolled, and a LOT of blood. It's a great, dumb, action movie though. Watch it if you want to turn your brain off for a couple hours.

[@tydyman2003]

Callum Parkes good thats what I wanted not really the gore part but it being a cool dumb movie, I really want more of those

[@kingkurok3149]

Woohoo, that's all I wanted, basically it's how the original games use to be

[@skullface2694]

Callum Parkes I can tell you watch AMC movie talk...

[@Jdsteele96]

Callum Parkes “Watch it if you want to turn your brain off for a couple of hours.” So basically, the exact same reason to play any of the games? 😝 The movie was super faithful to the games considering they’re mostly just BIG MONSTER SMASH BUILDING GO BOOM

[@cyoagamebooker5479]

I played so much World Tour with my sister. Even if all the levels started to blend together, it was a blast. I got a kick out of the lightning hitting you when you ate nuns.

[@victorh6036]

That's what the lightening strike is from?!? It was always wild to have it happen while I was playing with my brother, I thought it was random

[@Roufus55]

I actually liked the inclusion of Ruby because the color palette desperately needed some red. The mouse and overly gray rhino didn't help matters.

[@Islandswamp]

Rampage was the first game I played where you got to be the bad guys.

[@Seantendo]

I was hoping you would mention the *full frontal nudity* in World Tour.

[@harlannguyen4048]

Wait what?

[@SeruraRenge11]

Or that in World Tour you could become a flying mutant monster called Vern

[@tartrazine5]

You weren't kidding. www.therobotsvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rampage.jpg

[@PancakesAndHammers2426]

Rampage world tour was so much fun. I remember playing it all the time.

[@IbexGundyr]

MAKE MORE RETROSPECTIVES! I loved every second of this and I had never even heard of Rampage before.

[@SamuraiGoth]

Wow, there are way more than I thought. Quite an underrated series, it's nice to see it get some love. I played the hell out of Total Destruction on PS2 as a kid

[@madmaxim3965]

Nice i have very fond memories of Rampage world tour playing w my brother. When we finally beat the game we ran over to our neighbors house ( who also played) just to tell them

[@francofernandes2006]

"Warner Bros. decided to make a movie based on the game, then a game based on the movie." *looking at Capcom *: Ah yes, because that's always a good idea.

[@JMartini810]

I grew up playing Rampage World Tour!! Loved that game and loved turning into that little flying demon when you ate toxic waste was very fun to play

[@Famygdala]

I have fond memories of Rampage 2. Still can't even remember what it was about or why I was trashing things but dunking on my little brother rather than doing the game's objectives (?) were some of the greatest memories of my youth.

[@EWOODJ]

A godlike 2D sandbox

[@rossman8919]

we need a console rampage, i believe they need great controls add tons of modes tons of unlockable skins, maybe add a versus mode cause i would love a console kaiju fighting game, maybe upgrade-able monsters

[@jacobbrowning3804]

I played the N64 game with my friends back in the day, and remember it as just wacky, dumb fun. The movie looks like it's just rolling with that attitude, not puffing it up with unnecessary grittiness or gravity.

[@Oburi7]

I remember Rampage Through Time since I would play it all the time when I was a kid

[@MateusDrake]

One of my first games ever was Rampage World Tour in the Sega Saturn. That game went on forever, but it was great to see so many cities (even a couple from my country) and so many cool little details. I was so disappointed when I played the games that came after it, never played more than a handful of stages in them. Never understood how it was so difficult for then to make another good Rampage game.

[@retroentertainment1340]

I played most of the Midway Rampage games with the exception of Rampage Through Time and Rampage Puzzle Attack. I played the original Rampage through Midway Arcade Treasures and Rampage: Total Destruction for Nintendo GameCube. I played Rampage: World Tour for Nintendo 64 and through Rampage: Total Destruction. I even played the original arcade version of Rampage: World Tour at Hershey Park. Rampage 2: Universal Tour was also played on Nintendo 64. I didn’t know about Rampage Though Time or Rampage Puzzle Attack until around the late 2000s and early 2010. I played Rampage: Total Destruction on both Nintendo GameCube and Wii, but I prefer the GameCube version because it has a better control scheme for me. I didn’t get a chance to play the Rampage 2018 arcade game to promote the movie that I actually enjoyed watching. Overall I enjoyed the series and I hope that we get a new Rampage game in the future from Warner Bros.

[@TheBox3113]

Don't forget that Rampage had a cameo in the Midway arcade level pack for Lego Dimensions. Great video.

[@PcPFilmsDayton]

I discovered you via Wha Happun, and have slowly branched out into discovering all these other, lesser known, but equally as entertaining series, over the last 2 or so years. Thanks for the quality content!

[@TeamNerdHerd]

oh man i remember playing the wii version as a kid, i loved it but I was also a dumb kid xd my favorite monster back then was plucky the chicken, bless he

[@ShaneMurphyHendrickson]

I wish the Super Smash Bros. series has playable stages from the Rampage series with George, Lizzie and Ralph appearing in the background similar to the Metal Gears in the Shadow Moses stage, but they can actually attack the playable characters.

[@NicoBleackley]

World Tour will forever be an incredible beer game

[@MisanthropicMarxist]

I remember playing Rampage World Tour in a local bowling alley as a kid, and loving every second of it

[@FretzlemaniaPod]

Rampage NES and Rampage 2 Universal Tour just brought back some amazing memories!

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Love when videos used to be concise lengths like this

[@peterfairchild258]

Pure old school Gold 🥺💓 I remember renting it all the time too,it's so funny how much distance seperate us,and yet games like this make us feel Close 🌟 Great video Matt 🙏🙏

[@cherylremling8789]

On the Destroy Eat screen, George is destroying the buildings and a car while Lizzie is eating a bad villainess with the last name Wyden.

[@HyperKeiyum]

Yes yes yes yes yes fuckin yes. WORLD TOUR UP IN HERE

[@zackschilling4376]

Total Destruction is worth it for the arcade versions of the OG and World Tour, and its pretty cheap, even complete in box. Rampage Through Time for ps1 is the only game I still need, but its really creepin up in price($40+)

[@InugamiTheHound]

Rampage World Tour is my favorite game. I love it in the arcade and on n64. I would play as Lizze.

[@weaponsigma]

Ah, the memories I have of the original. First the arcade, then playing it on my C64 and Amiga. Never ended up getting it for my Master System, but always wanted it! Cheers for the history lesson Matt! Going to look out for Total Destruction so I can play the arcade original again!

[@tediz8280]

I really hope that they will make a great Rampage game again..i miss these games! the N64 games were awesome! my first rampage was in the Arcades :P

[@blackoverblueskies6221]

Ladies and gentlemen, the exclusive arcade game went on to be an exclusive console game, then returned to arcades exclusively. This is a full circle.

[@XxsuperconsolebrosxX]

Not exaggerating, I have been lucky enough to meet Brian Colin in person, great guy, and we got to talk game design for an hour and a half, he was very impressed. And as guy who's working on a game thats heavily rampage inspired, it made me happy

[@TheBandoBandito]

I love your retrospective videos.

[@kelendalkazama9926]

Rampage NES is the first game I can recall specifically trying to stay up all night long to attempt to beat. Fond memories. Game was hard as hell.

[@TheVioletBunny]

My cousin had it for nes, I was obsessed with this game as a kid and Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage my cousin had both used to be so excited to go there and play it.

[@Farmeryeti]

Total Destruction was the first one I played as a kid. Would alway stick it on, go "...nah" and play Godzilla Save The Earth instead. When I was a little older I decided to play the arcade ports in TD and have more fun with them than I thought I would have, considering their age.

[@kevypaul]

First Rampage I played was a handheld game made by Tiger electronics in the 90's.

[@HmmmmNiceBike]

World Tour is such a good game! Our local arcade has it! :)

[@kyleisreal_tv]

Rampage 2 is the best one. I so dream we get a remake of the first 2 PS1 games

[@CrossoverGameReviews]

Data East: "Hey, can we publish rampage on the NES?" Midway: "Sure, just give us credit for making it." Data East: "Okay." Boxart: Data East Rampage

[@chocobros1]

Rampage is the best videogame film adaptation ever. Fight me

[@josephlien8875]

That's not saying much.

[@Dragmire1905]

Even the community is saying its a good video game based off movie

[@PopeBrandonBrownson]

Gonna have to disagree with you on the new monsters in Rampage 2, Matt. I can agree with you that the rat was a flop, but you cannot say that a giant Rhino and a giant Lobster aren't hype as fuck! I guess I went into it knowing that you could unlock the original three, but I still usually went with one of the two new dudes. Turns out that 9 year old me and 29 year old me share one thing in common, we like the giant lobster because lobsters are cool as fuck! That one eyed bastard was pretty neat, too! Man, I just really want a new Rampage. We're getting all these new retro-style games for everything else, can we please get a new Rampage game? I don't need you to reinvent the wheel, just something simple please!

[@fs9096]

Aw man, I remember being a baby and playing the PS1 version of World Tour with my cousin and being a total crybaby when he kept punching me in game.

[@Eidlones]

I really like the idea of Rampage, but the gameplay is just way too repetitive. They need to do something, because you still do the exact same things you did in the original release. I was kindof excited for Total Destruction, because of the amount of monsters you could play as. It's really the only thing they change over the years.

[@AwesomeAceZ]

My entire childhood revolved around Rampage: Total Destruction on the PS2. I spent a lot of time playing Rampage World Tour on it.

[@keyoteamendelbar8742]

In my thought process the three humans weren't naked before they transformed into giants but, when they transformed their clothes were ripped to pieces. They didn't notice that they were naked until they returned to being human.

[@ivanaguilar5306]

Total destruction might objectively be a bad game but I but hundreds of hours playing that game. I didn't have a PS3 and my parents wouldn't buy me one so I got this game instead. Honestly it's one of my favorites. I remember unlocking all the monsters and ranking then up. Great times.

[@BMW-sd6nn]

Total destruction is awesome. I won't tolerate this slander.

[@ApenBaard]

Hey Matt, just wanted to say this is maybe your best video yet. Would love more stuff like this. Great job!

[@depressivetangela2033]

The best part of Total Destruction is that it contains the original game and World Tour.

[@jacobhennessey1034]

I remember playing this on arcade machines at a ice skating rink.

[@Cassie-q3k]

I has a blast playing world tour with my friends growing up. I had Universal tour as well but it wasn't nearly as good and I completely forgot through time was even a thing.

[@falkaseltza]

Nicely done. But do you remember the Rampage version for the C64? The third monster you could control over the keyboard :)

[@baronvonsvengoonie1767]

Lizzy is based on Ray harryhausen's creature from 20 million miles to Earth

[@Rozza2k]

War of the monsters was a sick game, I remember playing it to death as a kid

[@Jdsteele96]

I first played Rampage at a neighborhood kids house too, except he was a rich kid so his parents had one of those full size arcade cabinets in their garage with tons of old midway games on it. I would go over there all the time just to play the original Rampage with that neighbor and I’d always make him so mad when I’d end up beating his ass for the higher score 😂 good times

[@cortfoster1543]

World Tour was my jam on N64 as a kid

[@rosenrot234]

Lizzie x Godzilla forever

[@snarfoogle]

I played Rampage on N64 as a kid but never knew about any of the sequels. Rampage Through Time made me want Rampage vs. Primal Rage though, make it happen WB!

[@sludgefactory241]

Man I played the NES version so damned much when I was a kid that the cart it self was almost to the point of being too hot to touch side when I finally took it out after one session.

[@Jatycre]

You didn’t talk about the unlockable aliens in Universal Tour. I always enjoyed unlocking both.

[@crispitycrunchy]

Honestly, I just want World Tour to be released under the Arcade Archives brand or something.

[@Tonybmw1988]

I had sooooooooooo much fun playing Rampage on the PS1.

[@Monstermania101]

I played the new one a save and busters few weeks ago and had a lot of fun with it. Hope they make a home port of it because I'd buy that shit!

[@MechanicOrga]

I remember Brian Colin saying he originally wanted to make a 3D Rampage game for arcades, kinda like DOOM but with kaiju.

[@theinsaneone_]

I found this series through rampage total destruction. I owned, the wii version. I could not tell you how it played it's been years. But this all kinda sounds right....

[@virgogaming6488]

World Tour and Universal Tour are the best games in the franchise.

[@wakimaki1336]

I remember playing the crap out of the NES rampage game when I was a kid. I didn't really know what I was doing, though.

[@MegamanXV0]

Trying to figure out which Rampage the theme in the title card is from... Awesome as always, Mr. McMuscles

[@energforce8287]

Total Destruction was prolly still the best one. It’s the only one with incentive to play, bosses unlockables and a competitive vs mode.

[@bobobobo568]

There's a Rampage The Movie "VR Experience" on one of the cell phone VR headsets

[@durrburger2905]

Rampage world tour is awesome.

[@Toptom924]

Man I remember playing the Game Boy Colour one when I was a little kid. I gotta check when that came out, must be rough now.

[@HannibalBeerus73]

>Rampage Total Destruction FUCK YEAH >"Which is probably one of the most crushing disappointments for a comeback" WHAT

[@MattMcMuscles]

I state my reasons why I think that. Bad clunky controls that ruin pretty much everything.

[@AwesomeMooseSmile]

Total destruction I think plays fine, but honestly I think it's just because I've played it so many times as a kid. I will say that I really hope we get a new game with updated designs and bring back every single monster from the series, well maybe not every single monster, I don't think we need 3 rat monster's and 2 pigs, but it would be really cool to get somewhere close to that. Also make it like the old gamecube godzilla games, which is basically just a big brawl where you fight as giant mosnters.

[@drockman92]

So they DID make a new game for the movie! Maybe it'll eventually get ports like how it used to be done.

[@charlestoefield2659]

I'm curious what a new rampage like game would look like if they changed two features.. 1. They used the visual style that you displayed in your intro art here. 2. If they made the combat behind the shoulder one sided (think Naruto Ninja Storm Shippoden 4. I thnk a game like would prove to be a small Indie hit.

[@juggalo_kronikturdzgaming7075]

Mmmmm... world tour was my rose colored glasses of awesomeness😁

[@Acrylick42]

I just realized they're doing a movie because WB picked up a bunch of Midway licenses when they went bankrupt. I wonder if they'd do a Gauntlet movie?

[@theTAT3R]

My only real experience was with World Tour on gameboy color. My friend did have one of them on N64 and I remember us trying to volleyball people back and forth lol

[@1Soniccool]

Also, there is Primal Rage another arcade game by Atari Games (Midway)

[@Tumbleweed871]

Hey man great video, keep it. We love rampage! Only the OGs though by Game Refuge

[@pauliegualtieri9372]

I fucking loved world tour 2 when I was a kid. I liked the new monsters, especially lobster woman.

[@d.c.stranded7134]

Holy Shit, apparently the 25 to Life game developers Avalanche Software are apparently also the same folk behind Disney Infinity... did not know that.

[@Neighsayin]

I had Total Destruction as a kid and found it super fun.

[@DudeLoopNoob]

I played the crap out of rampage on my ps1. It was simple enough for me to understand back then

[@sansan-ew5kf]

How dare you, (all) rampage games are butiful

[@ngmajora6986]

I remember having Rampage on my game boy advance and just auto assuming I was playing Godzilla, King Kong, and Wolf...thing?

[@fongtastic9368]

My first intro to the kaiju genre was Reptar from the Rugrats.

[@dyldragon1]

Ruby is honestly my favorite monster

[@firstlast-ey4ly]

Same, though her redesign in Total Destruction was pretty meh.

[@Windwalker88]

I played Rampage 2 so much with my brother, but i havent played the others.

[@ethanr3480]

I remember the original and it brings back memories

[@OMGg4m3r]

I played the wii game as a kid and actually kinda enjoyed it but idk if it was cause I was a dumb kid, cause it's the only one I've played or both