The Story of RAMPAGE - It Changed Gaming Forever - Gaming History Documentary

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[@actually_a_circle]

What's the first game featured with the big red xenomorph

[@elmono6299]

Just curious? Who's your favorite monster? 🦍🦖🐺

[@dyscotopia]

Can we also admire how much character their sprite work had for the time? If I recall, the board this ran on was capable of higher resolutions than its contemporaries allowing the artist more detailed expression.

[@Stalopicus]

This game ignited my everlasting love for videogames. I still can hear my six years old self thinking: "Wow, in videogames I can be the bad guy, a hulking destructive beast! Or Superman! Videogames are cool!".

[@GTMQ8]

This is a game I truly loved playing in the late ‘80s here in Kuwait. You tend to make a lot of history videos about games that I have my own history with and that’s one of the main reasons why I subscribed to this channel. I remember this game being an instant favorite from the very first time I played it at a local arcade that sadly does not exist anymore.

[@bedwablackburn]

I loved playing the Arcade version of Rampage.

[@matthewlane518]

So fun!

[@3rdalbum]

Lynx version for me, but it was a brilliant game.

[@MrPoestyle]

Excellent video !!!! My older brother and I fell in love with this game when a local department store put this cabinet in their lobby . We would play from the start of our parent's shopping trips till the end when they would have to tell us multiple times to stop playing because we were going home . One time we went in and a technician was servicing the cabinet and let us play for free the entire time . We were on cloud 9 . Then it finally came to the NES and I was so disappointed because Ralph was my favorite character and the NES didn't include him .

[@javaly78]

Whenever his games come up I will always go on about how friendly Brian Colin was in person. I had the pleasure of meeting him at a Texas pinball convention. I still wish him well on being able to get the General Chaos completed.

[@esotericmissionary]

Wow, it turns out that I've loved almost every game Colin and Nauman have created, and I never even knew who they were before. Another smashing documentary, Top Hat Gaming Man! 🧐🎩

[@lordoflizardsp]

Never played the original Rampage, but played the N64 one. Loved playing as Curtis the mouse.

[@Ernesto87]

I remember going ham with the cheats in universal tour.

[@renslo689]

Films based around movies haha I know what you meant but still funny. I loved playing Rampage as a kid at a family friend's house on the amiga. Then on the N64. We definitely need a new Rampage game seeing as lots of old franchises are getting rebooted etc. Would be cool.

[@glennt69lol]

Had it on Sega master system as a kid in 1993, great memories

[@3Rayfire]

Incredible video, great history. I honestly didn't realize Rampage had that much impact. Thanks Top Hat Gaming Man.

[@freddysandoval4252]

I still remember playing the NES version of Rampage for 7 hours straight to finally beat it as a kid. It was the longest sitting I had spent playing a game up to that point.

[@sarsattacks5760]

Same here. Thought you'd get such a cool ending, but wasn't this the game that spelled congratulations incorrectly? Almost as disappointing as the time my Nana and I beat level 99 in Galaga thinking something cool would happen. The counter stoked back to 01 and just kept going.

[@hatchetmouth8211]

Rampage Universal Tour was my favorite.

[@br1qbat]

General Chaos is such a Genesis hidden gem. Loved the heck out of it back in the day.

[@ColeFam]

I had the NES version of Rampage and thought it was the only version that existed for years. Really happy to see it has such a fun legacy

[@Hwi1son]

This is one of my favorite games of all time. It's not the best in anything that it does but it did change everything. (It was so cool and so unique. It just garnered attention. Nothing like it before)

[@IsaacKuo]

A noteworthy predecessor was _Crush, Crumble, and Chomp,_ a popular computer game where you went around trashing a city and trying to survive attacks from its pesky defenders. You could play as ripoffs of Godzilla, The Blob, and Rodan ... but weirdly not King Kong (most games like Donkey Kong of the time were inspired by the popularity of the 70's King Kong movie). Epyx would also follow up _Crush, Crumble, and Chomp_ with _The Movie Monster Game_ in 1986, but I don't think the latter was as popular. Another game that might have served some inspiration for Rampage was the C64 game Save New York. While the goal of the game is to _save_ New York, the skyscrapers get in your way and it's a lot more fun to destroy New York. When you shoot out an entire floor of a building, everything above that floor collapses down.

[@cashordeals3672]

I remember having rampage on the 64

[@section23]

Classic! This and Gauntlet are such good games

[@markjenniferwolkotte8221]

I loved the arcade cabinet. Got excited when 1UP released one to bring home!

[@matthewnikitas2904]

Perfect timing for a video on this game 😂😂😂😂 I just bought the Atari 7800 version on eBay

[@thecunninlynguist]

Always loved the NES version.

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

I did too, as I never saw the machine in the wild at any arcades, it was the only way I could play it. Imagine my surprise years later when World Tour launched, that Ralph wasn't a new character! lol

[@for8bitgamers]

I first played this at the arcade in 1986 I believe in the arcade at Granville Island Vancouver. It was the prime game front and centre at the time and there was a lineup to play it.

[@noskoolikeoldskool]

World Tour was the funnest.

[@deathcatg]

Great episode, I had good memories of owning World Tour for PC. Bravo on using Budd Root's Cavewoman on the thumbnail.

[@aztecwhistle9122]

I played this on NES, it wasn't hard at all but it took hours to clear. Although every level looks nearly the same, It was fun to see all of the names for the locations pop up before each stage. Well done Top Hat Man. You and your wife are my favorite retro game and system critics.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

Love rampage. It was the second arcade machine I ever played on as a kid in the 80's (the first being operation wolf). Man, as soon as I've had my tea I'll play both of them.

[@ressljs]

I enjoyed this in the arcade, although I didn't really appreciate Rampage until my roommate in college had it on his Atari Lynx. That port was great for a hand held. Unfortunately, once I finally tracked down a copy, it was for the 7800. Even for the standards of that system, it's not great. It's graphics look terrible, and while the game play still feels like Rampage, the characters move slow to the point that avoiding damage is nearly impossible. And because of that, I hit game over at the same level every time I play.

[@aztecwhistle9122]

Try the NES version it's the easiest game I've ever played.

[@dyscotopia]

Thanks for covering this. One of my favourite games as a yute. Before I got an Amiga, it was one of the only 8088 PC Arcade ports that could almost keep up, especially after upgrading my gfx card to 16 colors.. Oooh.

[@frankdux5785]

Old man born in 83’ and rampage arcade is perhaps my first gaming memory (also had a c64 with endless pirated games care of my father so cant put a 100% finger on it, but rampage is what stands out most to me)

[@Wilkidw]

I have some fond memories of elementary school parties at the skate ring where this game always seemed to be free. Every9else wanted in on Mortal Kombat but I knew the joy of that old school fun.

[@elleCX01]

My first experience with Rampage was via the SMS version through emulation. It really was ported everywhere. I bought this pirated CD filled with emulators and roms. In hindsight, the port was excellent. Not certain if I actually see Rampage's influence in game development history as you've pointed out in the video. I personally don't see the causal connection. (The RAID: Shadow Legends plug made me chuckle, but congratulations on the sponsorship👏)

[@SorcererLance]

My first introduction to Rampage was World Tour on the N64, regardless it was a 2D game on what was largely known to be a 3D console, I still had a blast with it and loved the characters, music and art style. I also remember getting the Game Boy Color port of it... and unsurprisingly it was trash. Though it did a surprisingly decent job replicating the people screaming with the limited soundfont it had. Though personally I miss the sexy scientist girl from World Tour (named Elizabeth Veronica, apparently a reference to Archie comics' Betty and Veronica), she never made a reappearance in any other game afterward.

[@anonamatron]

I rented that and was so underwhelmed. The NES version was better.

[@tomelliott73]

Loved watching older gamers playing this game whilst I kept a close eye on the 2p machine randomly dropping a load of cash for me to play with as well

[@TommyCrosby]

Rampage was my first Gameboy Color game, it actually worked really great on the portable system.

[@MrAllekzander]

I'm still befuddled that we didn't get some sort of anthology or something when the movie was in its hype cycle. Toss them on a switch cart and I'd scoop it up on auto buy.

[@streetman88]

Top Hat. How did you manage to get a pic of my wife on the title screen? Lol 😆. Glad to see my baby Cavewoman get some attention for a change 😁👍

[@ojalfonso]

Budd Root art on the thumbnail.

[@Awprod2000]

I remeber after playing rampage on the commodore 64 at my cousin's house, I went to bed with a stick, closed my eyes and pretended it was a joystick and imagined that I played the game. Not exactly the same, but you work with what you got :)

[@gleaming999]

I played this on the C64 Also.

[@stonetic2515]

Midway games from this time always have the same weird high-res / low-res thing going on. The sprites are high resolution but the score and backgrounds are done low resolution for some reason. Rampage, Pigskin, Xenophobe, they all do it.

[@Invidente7]

The máster system version looks and plays better than the NES version but it doesn't matters because both will eventually bore you, they really shoulda added more gameplay variety.

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

Speak for yourself. I can play the NES version for hours on end. Humans love smashing!

[@OldNick999-real1]

I have a soft spot for Rampage. It’s a long time favorite of mine.

[@riskey6788]

I ❤️ Rampage ‼️

[@JosieBnuy]

I've honestly never played the original Rampage game till it was ported via Lego Dimensions. I mainly grew up playing World Tour in the arcade and having lots of fun with that one instead

[@marcgoesblindgaming2076]

Had great fun playing rampage on my ZX spectrum as a kid, OMG I'm old

[@ressljs]

Yeah, when he said, "I was not even born when this game came out" I just had to sigh.

[@konstantinkoverchenko9587]

The arcade original was awesome. World Tour was super cool on the PS2.

[@willynymbus5030]

**Zooms In On Cheeks** “...but at the same time deep enough for experienced players.”

[@PANTYEATR1]

i love Arch Rivals and General Chaos! super fun games💪

[@BladeCuttervita]

Top Hat Gaming Man is clearly just a talking head for Lady Decade 😏 😂

[@ShinSeikiEvan]

I had it for the C64 back in the day. It was the superior USA version of the game and not that buggy version the EU got. It was absolutely amazing as a kid that we got to play as the bad guys and trash everything.

[@KevinRodriguez-cm7uh]

Needs more Lady Decade

[@ArenClegg]

I never thought of it as a gaming movie, but I did like the rampage movie. I don't remember when or where I played rampage, but it was always a fun game, but kind of got repetiive after a while.

[@derekshropshire2513]

I'm surprised you want with Rick kicking out the tv and not Vyvyan smashing well everything.

[@Ttw1976]

You left out Dave & Buster's has what looks like a live-action video game version of the movie

[@MeThinks995]

You forgot to review Rampage: Universal tour and Rampage through time for the PS1.

[@tingler1313]

Rampage was always best played on the arcade system. Because you were standing make for the best game play

[@darrellgardner4561]

Being born in '92, my first interaction with the series was with Rampage: World Tour. I later got Rampage 2: Universal Tour, and remember playing that one a lot more. The only downside to the series is, after a handful of levels, it gets kind of boring. It really is the same thing on every single level, and there are a lot of levels, like 130 of them. At least UT added 5 new characters and special moves. Rampage through Time added another monster, but i remember that game being pretty bad.

[@bobbynick5358]

Rampage, wish it was rebooted, or a game that plays like War of Monsters with a dash of I Was An Atomic Mutant game and Override: Mech City Brawl.

[@dyscotopia]

Films based around movies are always suspect!

[@Lord_Deimos]

Arch Rivals and Pigskin... I haven't heard these names in a long time

[@KingstonTV334]

that grab and knee in the head from double dragon will forever feel inappropiate.

[@malopezg]

My parents gave me the NES version as a Christmas gift because I was a huge Godzilla fan but after hours of destroying buildings and not getting other characters or bosses, I was bored quickly 😟

[@killiancraftofcraftyworks975]

I loved world tour

[@billcook4768]

I’ve played Rampage hundreds of times. Today is the first time I’ve heard the cities were named. And take your thumb for calling it the VCS instead of 2600.

[@TWKIC]

Are we going to get a Big Daddy Top Hat hero in Raid? Would be cool to powerbomb some rivals

[@streetfighteringrid2446]

How about the history of Twisted Metal.

[@themostokperson]

I first played Rampage in the Atari!!

[@Mamiya645]

NYC/Austin/Seattle/LA/SF/Vancouver/London/Etc Real Estate Manager Simulator.

[@armorbearer9702]

I am surprised the creators did not try to innovate in World Tour. Maybe they should give the players the ability to pick up cars and launch them at buildings.

[@LesterDariusDoesThings]

Total destruction

[@animezilla4486]

You know I absolutely love the Rampage movie I would like to know did other people like the movie by the way I really do wish we get another Rampage video game

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

Never saw it. Ever since Battleship, I've steered clear of any loosely licensed cash grabs in the movies. I'm sure one day I'll probably stream it on a rainy day, turn my brain off, and have a little blast.

[@animezilla4486]

@@Lost_n_Found_1 believe me the Rampage movie is not that bad I really love the designs of the monsters and trust me they really deliver on the destruction

[@Invidente7]

@@animezilla4486 there was videogame rampage arcade tie-in but it was arcade exclusive and only alvaible at Dave and buster's.

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

@@Invidente7 Reminds me of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game

[@animezilla4486]

@@Invidente7 yeah I remember seen footage of that game on KZbin I wish I could play that

[@maybetoby]

Have you played Fight'n Rage?

[@actually_a_circle]

What's the first game featured with the big red xenomorph

[@Hulkitout]

Sure wish they would make and new rampage

[@AHoraeAVezdaPoesia]

0:44 Ralph is a wolf? I always thought he was a rat.

[@Invidente7]

There is a rat monster in the lynx version.

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

A friend of mine always thought that too, but we came to the conclusion that it was because of his association with Ralph, the name of The Mouse on the Motorcycle, lol.

[@Daskamania]

16:34 films based around movies 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KennethKolano]

"Films based around movies"? What do you have against Schenectady NY and In the Mouth of Madness?

[@strategry]

Top 🎩 san, I cannot find you on Patreon. What is your handle? I do all of this on mobile and clicking your Patreon link brings up the nightmare pseudo browser in the KZbin app for me.

[@Grayman222]

i also enjoy DEEP rpg

[@Zeitgeist997]

I screenshot @12:02 and that is what failure looks like. There is no reason for the existence of an Atari VCS/2600 version of games like Rampage or double dragon. That's why Atari failed. They couldn't just give up on the poor folks who couldn't afford their later systems. You have to make things obsolete to move forward. Atari shot themselves in the foot by trying to please everyone, especially the poor who couldn't afford the newer systems

[@subzippo]

Any chance you could cover Revolution X?

[@megagrey]

Lynx version was the best for the ratto.

[@orinanime]

16:36 "Films based around movies" Pretty sure you meant "films based on games"

[@happyglaze6304]

Its not a film about a movie. It film about game. See 16.36

[@Sayzee_YFRWN]

top hat, top of the ..hats

[@armoredvistitor2197]

budd root's cavewoman on the thumbnail

[@streetman88]

Glad to see Cavewoman get some love. She's a favorite of mine 😁. I feel she doesn't get enough attention in comics as she should. But seeing the current state of comic books as it is, perhaps that's for the better 🤔.

[@jagergerg9771]

Did I hear this right GTA earned $1 billion in three days

[@AjayESharma]

films based around movies

[@GreatBigRanz]

Rampage is own by Midway, Midway's assets went to is own by Warnerbros. WarnerBors, HAD the rights to Godzilla....you fallowing my logic?

[@nathanfoster3667]

Usually love the videos but it's hard to take seriously while promoting Raid Shadow Legends....?

[@nux3960]

yeah, welcome to the world of e-beggin on youtube lol

[@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames]

Like drop 👍

[@3rdalbum]

16:33 Films based around movies are totally bad?

[@germainetaylor1757]

Of course rampage would be popular human beings love mayhem just think about the Roman colosseum or destruction derby’s look at how popular guns are in America there is a reason people like to watch extreme contact sports we are still kinda savage regardless of how much progress we make also if not for the villains what would the heroes do you can only watch Superman stop natural disasters so many times before it gets old people like Sauron just as much as Gandalf.

[@demgutts]

Loved rampage arcade but after King of the monsters rampage felt dated

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

Corps is pronounced "core" you silly, silly man.

[@ressljs]

Another case of the English not knowing how to use their own language?

[@baronvonsvengoonie1767]

Graderation?

[@dragonstarplanet]

I've seen your video and I have one question, where is the scene that talks about the female comic book heroine Cavewoman? I've seen your thumbnail and its more of a clickbait.

[@streetman88]

I know right 😆. You a Cavewoman fan as well?

[@dragonstarplanet]

@@streetman88 Yes I am 😊👍❤💖

[@streetman88]

@@dragonstarplanet That's awesome man. Hey if you've kept up with her comics as of late. Check out her newest issue Cavewoman: Movie Mayhem. It just came out today. Picked up my copy and it's great.

[@dragonstarplanet]

@@streetman88 Awesome! 😊👍❤💖 Yeah I love Meriem. She's the hottest jungle girl there is. 😍

[@dragonstarplanet]

@@streetman88 I wanna ask, besides her jungle girl attire,, do you like Meriem when she swings on vines or when has herself in peril situations?

[@AcornElectron]

Although… raid shadow legends? I’m a bit surprised you sold out to this. I’d support you being sponsored by almost anyone or anything but I can’t support this. Sorry dude.

[@Klipschrf35]

Downvoted for raid

[@MarkMcDaniel]

Reagan era wasn't about urban blight, it was a economic powerhouse in America. Keep your left politics to yourself, TopHat.

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Left politics...I am British, I know nothing about Reagan...I am quoting a developer.

[@NoSpamForYou]

@@TopHatGamingManChannel 80s blight would have been leftovers from Jimmy Carter's time in control. Democrats changed tactics after they failed to keep black Americans segregated. Instead they pretend to be their friends while keeping them impoverished and dependent, stringing them along for votes.