Terminator: Rampage DOS game (Floor 1 & 2)

This is some gameplay footage from Bethesda Softworks' 1993 DOS game, Terminator: Rampage. The video shows footage of action on the first couple of floors of the game.

The game is basically a Wolfenstein 3D / Doom clone. You fight your way through tons of baddies in an office complex and pick up weapons and keys along the way. You are also looking for parts of a super-gun to combat the end boss. The "office" consists of gigantic maze floors with little ammo or health but lots of enemies.

Perhaps most annoying of all, the framerate maxes out at 15 or so, regardless of CPU speed. So it's quite choppy no matter how fast your PC is.

This was played in DOSBOX. Setting cycles to "max" and core to "dynamic" in dosbox.conf will get the game running as nice as is possible.
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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• terminator
• rampage
• dos
• game
• bethesda
• dosbox
• fps
• shooter
• 1993

[Nettacki]

I hear you can steal tampons from a drug store in this game. Is that true?

[swaaye]

@Nettacki lol. I think that is the older "The Terminator" game which plays somewhat like GTA.

[Dragonfury3000]

This game seems more complex than i thought and the music gives the game a really cool, gritty atmosphere! i gotta play it one of these days.

[swaaye]

@Dragonfury3000 I wouldn't call it complex as it is just a maze with pickups and baddies. Terminator PacMan. :) But yeah the music adds lots of atmosphere.

[discoder]

To be fair, the music's quite good on this one.

[ddaynyc]

Good lord, I remember when bethesda only made really forward thinking terminator games that crashed like gary busey in a maserati and required hardware specs far beyond anything else on the market...

It's kind of amazing how all this stuff led up to fallout. Remember those impossible to run x-engine games? woot!

[MyLittleDiscolite]

Oh man I remember this... The music was epic and back in the early 90s this was soooo good. Wiling away Sunday evenings playing PC, watching Bubblegum Crisis on VHS and enjoying the last bit of freedom before school on monday.

[PKrising24]

It really isn't that bad. I mean, the graphics aren't anything flashy but it's still a pretty decent game (for '93)

[Max0Inq]

I've downloaded this game and I'm asked for a password to begin. Please help.

[KingCommando32]

@swaaye

I have an N64 as well. I have at least Rouge Squadron, B-K and B-T, StarFox64, and South Park video game. I used to have a WWE game and Super Mario Kart 64. BEST games EVER. I wish I had more.

[swaaye]

@KingCommando32 Hey that was also the time of the SNES, Genesis, Saturn, PS1, N64, 3DO, GB, Game Gear, Neo Geo, awesome arcade games, etc? ;) You gotta realize that horrible games are present at every point in history. Nothing much different than today. Experimentation that makes you vomit, like Kinect, matches up with say "VR" and FMV trash.

[KingCommando32]

@G123333111122

You sir have been taking CoD VERY seriously. Go build a time machine, two go to a decent game store in the 90s were you can find tons of the most graceful classic games of the time. BEFORE the age of the x-box 360, Kinects, and Wii.

[habroxby]

I was one of the coders on that oooold game.... Now i work private

[runsaber1]

those aren't terminator's.... or HK's

....those are 0bamabots