

There are villages, NPCs, levels, and even fetch quests. Instead they crafted a game that borrows from Zelda II and Metroid. It probably would have been a better game too.

It would have been easy to create a side-scrolling action game along the lines of Contra or the Master System version of Rambo. I’ll give the developers credit for trying something so different. Despite everything I’ve just said that’s not even the strangest shit in the game! It quickly goes off the rails when you start fighting flying skulls, giant spiders, sea serpents, and flaming tigers. For the most part the game follows the events of the movie. For some god forsaken they decide Rambo is the man for the job. The game begins with the military in need of someone to go behind enemy lines in Vietnam and photograph the POW camps but not free the hostages. For those unfamiliar the first movie ends with Rambo in jail as a result of his psychopathic rampage. For Acclaim it was Tuesday.Įven though the title is Rambo the game is based on the events of Rambo: First Blood II. For gamers Rambo was another reason why licensed video games had a bad reputation. I distinctly remember my family going into it with low expectations and still coming away disappointed. It really is pretty amazing just how badly a game can fail on nearly every conceivable level yet Rambo does so with style. Rambo for NES is commonly accepted as one of the worst games of all time. Thank you for all of your support throughout the years - CoolROM will continue strong.Developer: Pack-in-Video Publisher: Acclaim Released: May 1988 Genre: Action Platform: NES

We feel we have reached this goal and helped cure more cases of nostalgia than we could have ever imagined. From the very beginning, our goal was to allow users to re-live classic moments from video games that they have lost and cannot purchase anymore. We are very grateful to have served the emulation community for so many years and to have CoolROM still exist today. This page has been removed due to a request from Nintendo of America Inc.
