Rocket Ranger

Trivia

The original Amiga version of the game has the most pictures, sound effects, digitized voices and animations of any version of the game. Various pictures, animations, etc. that were in the Amiga original didn't make it into ports to other platforms.

Rocket Ranger was named #45 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on May 01, 2008.

The sci-fi plot for Rocket Ranger is centered around a base on the moon that the Nazis built.

Oddly enough, there are some crackpot people, among them a man named Vladimir Terziski, that claim that the Nazis really did build a base on the moon during World War II.

One of the Game Over messages sees you remember your Grandmother telling you that "if God meant for us to fly, he would have given us wings". This was the famous quote of Rev. Milton Wright in 1903, 3 months before his famous sons Orville and Wilbur made the first flight. Before long, planes were in mass use - for more on this, check out Wings.

An alternate version was created for the Amiga where all references to Nazis and Germany were removed and replaced with a story of aliens invading Earth.

The end credits mention "Rocket Ranger 2", which has yet to materialize.

The NES version of the game omits all references to Nazis and World War 1 and changes the storyline to suit a science fiction plot: The year is 1990 and an alien moon appears. The aliens descend to earth and establish the country of Greater Leutonia (which happens to be where Germany is :) --Ed) as the first step on subjugating the world. Only the Rocket Rangers can stop them and eventually obtain the technology to build a rocket ship and destroy their moon.

Rocket Ranger is one of the few games that got code-wheel copy-protection right: You simply cannot play the game without the code wheel, and there is no way to "crack" the game because the code wheel is an integral part of gameplay.

Interactive Designs: Compression
John Reego: Neat Stuff
Mike Knox: Tandy (graphics)
Peter Oliphant: EGA and CGA (graphics)

Contributed by Trixter (8866) on Feb 28, 1999.