Frogger pops up in Deus Ex, Pipe Dream was Bioshock’s hacking minigame. These games have been cribbed for years, as well. What most people don’t remember (or willfully forget) is that so many of that era’s games were shovelware – cheap carts that your aunt bought you because “ the man at the store said this is a good game for kids your age.” For every Kung Fu – which, play it now and realize how dumb it is – there’s a half-dozen Wheel Of Fortune Junior Editions. I think with a title like Retro City Rampage, we all know what we’re getting into here. These ham-fisted ‘jokes’ may show a love of all things relating to popular culture almost 30 years ago, but they certainly don’t warrant the giant “THIS IS A PARODY” warning label that pops up before the title screen. And yes, I do see that FROG trying to CROSS A ROAD. But the obvious ones lose their humor very quickly. Most of these are easy to miss, like the Data East spoof logo on the side of the building or “Skate n Buy” stores riffing on now 30-year-old NES games.
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It’s loaded with callouts from late 80s and early 90s games, from Pro Wrestling (A Winner Is You!), Ninja Turtles, a half-dozen Mario games, Sonic, and literally hundreds others. It really shows the level of dedication that went into the game to bring an “authentic” retro experience. That it was done near-entirely by one person and can actually run on an 8-bit machine like a Nintendo is slick as hell. On a technical level, RCR is an absolute marvel. There are several improvements on the old formula, though – Health Bars are a good thing, remember getting killed in GTA after one hit? Jumping and taking cover are also here, which gives a better feel to combating all those cops that will no doubt be following you.
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The DX-added Free Roam mode is basically all this – without Story Mode’s shoehorned in references to Nintendo games you’ve forgotten about. Taking several pages from GTA’s playbook, getting into a cab will let you pick up fares, minigames abound in arcades, weapons need to be bought, and rampage locations can be found to blast away at people. But the open-world shenanigans you can get into are far more interesting than many of the missions. The parody nature of the game – this game is a parody, did you know that? Because they’ll tell you at every opportunity in case you’ve forgotten – comes in with follow stages, like when you need to track someone moving so slowly in their car that you need to walk. These sorts of top-down open world games mostly have missions like driving a person to a spot, shooting up people, and other tropes we’ve all experienced. From there, you meet up with Doc Choc to repair a time machine and get back to your own time, all while running missions, collecting things, driving over people, and generally creating mischief.
Starting in 1985 Theftropolis, RCRDX has PLAYER committing felonies with his crime boss Jester – until a bank robbery escape sends you to the year 20XX. And the new DX inclusions – reworked missions, new letterboxing, and a host of other changes and modes – will make old fans want to come back.
It’s everything you wanted back then, with a fair amount of extra gameplay enjoyability to spare. Retro City Rampage’s gameplay is what 15 years of game design evolution will do to a relatively simple top-down like the original GTA. When we discovered cheat codes, it was like someone turned on a light in a dark room. We compared scores in hushed tones at our lockers. We split custody of it like a divorced family – I got it during the week, he got it on weekends. All we had to do was pool our money together to buy it. Rumored to have been banned all over the world, anecdotally responsible for people stealing cars and running over Hare Krishnas, and there it was. On the shelf in front of us was the game that would start a revolution – it was Grand Theft Auto. Over 15 years ago, I stood in an EBGames (ask your parents).
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