Rambo (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Pack-In-Video |
| Publisher(s) | Acclaim |
| Platform(s) | NES |
| Release date | JPN December 4, 1987 NA May 1988 |
| Genre(s) | Action/Platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Media | cartridge |
| Input methods | controller |
Rambo is a platform video game released by Acclaim on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) on December 4, 1987 in Japan, and May 1988 in North America. It is based on the plot of Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Another game called Rambo was released for the MSX.
[edit] Gameplay
While the game's cover art predominantly displays Rambo firing heavy ammo, unlike the movies the game has Rambo fighting mostly snakes, spiders, and animals at the beginning and then slowly moves on to fighting with actual people with better ammunition. Also, Rambo's primary weapon for the majority of the game is a knife. However towards the end a huge variety of weapons are collected.
[edit] Master System version
The Master System version of Rambo, was actually a North American localization of the Japanese Mark III game Ashura (阿修羅?). Since the game features characters and themes heavily inspired by the Rambo movies, Sega saw fit to pick up the Rambo movie license for the American version, replacing the original main characters of "Ashura" and "Bishamon" with Rambo and his partner Zane (a character created specifically for the game). The PAL version, known as Secret Commando, uses the title screen as the Japanese version, but features the main character sprites from Rambo instead of the Ashura ones .
[edit] Deviations from the movie/canon (NES version)
As with other video games of the era (see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves for the NES), Rambo's plot deviated wildly from the motion picture. Topics, plotlines, or entities included in the game that did not appear in the movie(s):
- The opening scene is similar to the movie in which Colonel Trautman visits Rambo in military prison. Rambo is given the option to say he would prefer to remain imprisoned, to which Trautman says the game will not begin until Rambo replies in the affirmative.
- A giant enemy spider in a large cave which must be defeated in order for Rambo to rescue a missing child.
- Rambo must use only grenades (fifty, to be exact) to defeat a helicopter teeming with enemy troops. (Although it is possible to acquire more grenades by killing soldiers who come out of the helicopter)
- Man-eating flying fish
- Man-eating large birds
- Flying heads of ghosts that can be attacked with corporeal weapons (knives, bullets, etc.).
- Soldiers with various colored outfits that will exclusively attack Rambo with jump or drop kicks
- A man who attacks Rambo with a motorcycle
- An alternate ending where Rambo does not decide to rescue the POW, and returns to base. The game then gives the player the chance to return to the POW rescue scene and rescue the POW.
- Rambo must escape from a bag-shaped house, that turns out to be a giant box.
- A portion of the game where Rambo is captured and the player plays as Co in an attempt to free Rambo. Co is asked by some Vietnamese soldiers if she is the general's wife, to which they then allow her access to the military base. (This is likely an intentional effort of behalf of the game designers as in the film Co gains access to the Vietnamese base by impersonating a prostitute, so the fact she impersonates a general's wife is more suitable for younger players).
- Co could be kept alive all the way to the ending, so long as the player kept Rambo from conversing with her during a certain portion in the game.
- At the end of the game, if Rambo attacks Murdoch, he will shoot out the kanji character 怒 (ikari), which means "anger", turning Murdoch into a toad.
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