Rambo is a fight you’ll have to win the old-fashioned way: all at once. Don’t even think about trying to stick quarters into the Master System. Otherwise, your lives will run out faster than a yak in heat, and there’s no continues (unless you’re playing with an additional person, in which case, there are continues up until the second level). Take a friend through the sultry Nicaraguan landscape, so you can double-team the never ending suppressors of the people. You’ll need some encouragement before each subsequent round.Įven though Rambo almost always works alone, as The Legend of Zelda taught us, it’s dangerous to go alone. Eventually, the barricade will glow, which means it’s time to launch an arrow bomb. Rather, the end of each round is a barricade, where soldiers and grenades are hurled at you, like a child throwing toys during a temper tantrum. There aren’t any bosses, per say, until the final round. Blow up the huts and you’ll free a prisoner, allowing them to bless you with additional arrow bombs or screen-clearing explosions. The arrow bombs can take out multiple guys at a time, but they’re best used against huts with glowing rooftops. Those rascally soldiers never stop moving and often walk in awkward zig-zag directions, forcing you to shoot multiple times in their general direction and hope the bullets hit. The machine gun is solid, but the trick is aiming it in the right direction. Rambo might be greased up, but he’s not naked: he’s armed with an M-60 machine gun and arrow bombs that decimate entire areas. “Rambo, behind you! In the bushes!… I’m not yelling! I’m helping!“ Despite your all-encompassing pectorals, one hit is all it takes to fell poor Rambo. The majority of soldiers drift aimlessly, spewing bullets that look like tennis balls in miscellaneous directions, while the occasional sniper, flamethrower-er, rocket spewer, and grenade launcher appear throughout each level to liven things up. Soldiers come at you unceasingly, and they both move and shoot faster than you. You control Rambo, moving him slowly through fields, villages, jungles. If you’ve dabbled in Ikari Warriors, SNK’s Rambo-esque franchise that also kicked off in 1986, you know what Rambo‘s about. The only way out is to keep fighting until you meet your own bloody end or surrender and wish you were dead. He’s all guns blazing (red bandana flying) against an army of presumably corrupt government scum. Even if Sega wasn’t trying to channel Stallone in Ashura, the original Japanese Mark III version, the main character more than looks the part. His name evokes the lone wolf, the soldier who’s too good at war, and thus, can never escape exotic deathscapes. The character does have some versatility he is able to shoot diagonal and horizontal.Yeah, Rambo… he’s got a pair I can get behind. In this game the main gameplay involved scrolling vertically on a screen and shooting moving targets that return fire. ![]() Rambo First Blood does not deviate from the formula. It was the ability to create nuance on a few simple mechanics or to add a small additional mechanic to an existing formula that really made some games shine. Game developers were hoping they could find a small core of in game activities that would keep player interested for the duration of the title. ![]() Gameplay elements in 1986 were simple and repetitive. This is always a difficult category for retro titles. Looking at the whole package here I would give the sound 4/5 Gameplay The game does a great job of rendering multiple enemies but, when the battle heats up it feels like many of the sound effects are truncated to accommodate a small resource buffer. While the music is well done the sound effects could have been brought a little more to the foreground. At times I found myself trying to time explosions to go along with the beat. ![]() This is one of the games where you will find yourself humming along as you blast baddies with softball size bullets in a virtual jungle. This game has a slick little soundtrack that isn’t too repetitive. The sleek midi ditties that keep us bobbing along as we side-scrolled our way to high scores. If you are anything like me, you have a nostalgia for the simple sounds of early video games. Overall, the graphics in this game are above average for the time I give it 3/5. It renders large numbers of enemies to the screen without slowing down. The game does do a good job of using the limited hardware of the time. The white bullets while highly visible are a bit gawdy. Speaking of the bullets black or silver may have been a better choice for the color than white. This effect while visually pleasing can negatively affect gameplay as it becomes difficult to see the oversized circular bullets that opponents will be firing at you.
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