[7] Up to three players control a trio of humans transfigured into animalistic kaijus due to various experiment-related accidents: George, a scientist who has become a King Kong-like gorilla due to the influence of experimental vitamins; Lizzie, a woman who has become a Ymir-like[8] reptile after foolishly swimming in a radioactive waste-laden lake; and Ralph, who has become a werewolf-like kaiju after foolishly consuming a hot dog laced with an enhanced food additive.

The trio must raze all buildings in a high-rise city to advance to the next level, eating people and destroying helicopters, tanks, taxis, police cars, boats and trolleys along the way.

If a monster has taken too much damage, they will return to their former, but nude, human state and walk off the screen sideways, covering their body with their hands.

Some items can be both; for example, a toaster is dangerous until the toast pops up, and a photographer must be eaten quickly before he dazzles the player's monster with his flash, causing it to fall.

When a civilian is present waving their hands at a window signaling for help, a player's points rapidly increase when the person is grabbed.

Out of the 50 US states, only Connecticut, Delaware, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont are spared from the monster rampage.

To this end, he wanted to eschew the common video game concepts of having a set objective, competing for a high score and dying.

The developers had to work within the technical limitations of the time - cities are largely identical in appearance, Ralph and George are the same character palette and head swapped and the dust effect from crumbling buildings conceals glitchy animation.

[10] In the opening cutscene reporting on three humans who had mutated into the monsters, Colin put pictures of himself as George, his wife Rae as Lizzie, and Nauman as Ralph.

[12] Conceiving a graphically impressive title within the technical constraints of Midway's then current arcade hardware, designer Brian Colin took inspiration from monster films King Kong and 20 Million Miles To Earth.

The Lynx version was developed by Epyx and it was originally started off as an unrelated clone called Monster Demolition, before turning it into a port of this game.

So unless you intend to play it three-handed, when the fun factor increases a little, or you're a monster fan of the original, you might just give this a miss for something with more lasting value".

[25] In 1997, Rampage World Tour was released, developed for Midway by the original designers, Brian Colin and Jeff Nauman.

[26] A theatrical film adaptation loosely based on the game was developed by Warner Bros and New Line Cinema, directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne Johnson with John Rickard and Beau Flynn as producers.

The film features the classic trio of George, Lizzie and Ralph, this time as mutated animals rather than transformed humans.