Rampage

Rampage is the monster-movie fantasy as a game: up to three players pick George the gorilla, Lizzie the lizard or Ralph the wolf and spend the whole game demolishing cities - punching buildings into rubble, swatting helicopters, eating civilians, and moving west across North America one smashed skyline at a time.

The destruction has real mechanics under the comedy. Buildings are floor-by-floor structures you climb and dismantle, and they fight back: windows open with shooters, the military escalates from cops to army to tanks to helicopters as the day count rises, and your monster has a health bar drained by everything - hits, falls, even overeating. Eating restores it, which turns every stage into a rhythm of smash, snack, dodge the army, climb the next tower. The 768-day campaign was enormous for 1986, the three-player simultaneous mode was a rarity, and the movie-license energy is genuine rather than borrowed - it is blatantly Godzilla and King Kong, played for laughs, and it works.

• ▸Three-player simultaneous monster mayhem (gorilla, lizard, wolf)
• ▸Floor-by-floor building demolition with counterattacks from windows
• ▸A full 768-day cross-country campaign of city destruction
• ▸Eat-to-heal system - punching, falling and overeating all cost health