Rampage (1986)

Rampage is a 1986 arcade video game developed and published by Bally Midway. Inspired by monster films, players control a trio of monsters: George, Lizzie, and Ralph, humans transformed into creatures due to various experimental mishaps. The objective is to destroy cities and combat military forces while staying alive. The game is set across 128 days in cities throughout North America, with each cycle repeating five times. Gameplay includes destroying buildings, eating humans, and avoiding damage. Up to three players control a trio of humans transformed into giant animalistic monsters due to various experiment-related accidents: George, a scientist who has become a King Kong-like gorilla due to the influence of experimental vitamins; Lizzie, a woman who has become a Ymir-like reptile after foolishly swimming in a lake contaminated with radioactive waste; and Ralph, who has become a gigantic werewolf after unwisely consuming a hot dog with an unknown food additive. The trio must raze all buildings in a high-rise city to advance to the next level, eating people and destroying helicopters, tanks, taxis, police cars, boats and trolleys along the way. The player can climb any of the buildings, punching them to pieces and reducing them to rubble. Non-playable human characters within the levels can also be punched or grabbed and food items can be eaten. The player's monster receives damage from enemy bullets, sticks of dynamite, shells, punches from other monsters, and falls. Health is recovered by eating food items such as fruit, roast chicken or soldiers. If a monster has taken too much damage, they will return to their former, but nude, human state and walk off the screen sideways, covering their body with their hands. In this state, players can be eaten by another monster. If the player continues, the person returns to their monster form or (if the person walked off the screen) flies in on a blimp (but has lost their score) with a full life bar. Smashing open windows generally reveals an item or person of interest, which may be helpful or harmful. Helpful items include food or money, while dangerous ones include bombs, electrical appliances and cigarettes. Some items can be both; for example, a toaster is dangerous until the toast pops up, and a photographer must be eaten quickly before he dazzles the player's monster with his flash, causing it to fall. When a civilian is present waving their hands out of a window signaling for help, the player's points rapidly increase after the person is grabbed.