Rambo Arcade Game

About 12 years ago I worked for SEGA. This was shortly before their involvement with a little abortion called Gameworks. The Vegas Gameworks was one of the first ones built and 12 years ago it stunk and it still stinks today. I mean literally. Worst than taco meat and after shave.



Anyways I had an urging this previous Father's day to visit there to check out the new RAMBO arcade game. It was a cool looking game but nothing more than a typical light gun game. It might have been top of the line back when Virtual Cop came out but the novelty looks as though it would wear off the moment you pressed start.



Operation Wolf, rebranded as Rambo would have made a more exciting experience. However its possible to ruin a movie by over merchandising and considering the Rambo story line(s) are perfect for a video game its probably best there were only a few: Rambo on SEGA Master System. Rambo III in the arcade Master System and Genesis. Rambo for NES. There might be a few others but who cares none were memorable. Games that have pulled themes from Rambo have done much better... like Ikari Warriors for instance.



But anyways getting back to the arcade game. It's not worth the 8 credits that Gameworks expects you to fork over to play it. The gun(s) looks like something from the future and maybe in some small way takes away from the fact that Rambo was never about guns really... it was always about that knife of his. And his bow. And lets not forget his enchanted bandana. But this plastic double gripped monstrosity would be perfect for gunning down E.T. or executing a space ape gang-land style. Now that's a script for Rambo V. UPDATE: In looking at photos of the machine on other websites, it seems that other machines were equiped with UZI looking weapons and not the garbage I saw. I'm not sure if this this was just on the machine at Gameworks or if its on all of the U.S released machines, but what I saw was definitely not an UZI!



Anyways the whole thing is a big disapointment. But enjoy the photo of the marquee anyways.