History VideoGame / RetroCityRampage

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In a flashback, Player is disgusted when [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sweat Bomber]] tells him to kill the residents of a computer store he just stole from purely for the sake of profiting off of their funerals.

* DeathTrap: The Player (as Biffman) gets caught in one, in an AdamWest-era ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fashion.

'''''Retro City Rampage''''' is a WiiWare, PlayStationNetwork and PC (downloadable from {{Steam}} and Website/GOGDotCom) game released in October 2012; the XboxLiveArcade version was released in January 2013, and a Nintendo3DS release (as ''Retro City Rampage DX'') followed in February 2014.

[[caption-width-right:300:Now with [[CaptainErsatz Blurst]] [[SegaGenesis Processing!]]]]

* DevelopmentHell: The game was in development for around ''seven years'', some of which weren't spent considering a release on a contemporary format.

** The options menu allows for changing the border around the game to look like a vintage TV, a CaptainErsatz of the GameBoy, an arcade machine, and many more. There's also an option to change the colour filter in the game itself to allow for scan lines, a monochrome display, and to simulate the displays of the UsefulNotes/{{NES}}, UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum, UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC, UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, three variations of [[IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS]], and UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy.

-> ''The entire [[WideOpenSandbox open-world]] is in danger.''

** Goes even further with ROM City Rampage, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4xXhZMrU as documented here]], a continuation of the original demake meant to run on [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem actual]] [[UsefulNotes/AppleII 8-bit]] [[CommodoreSixtyFour hardware]], taking ''every'' limitation into account.

** Iced Tea, complete with VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry-esque CensorBox.

** Goes even further with ROM City Rampage, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4xXhZMrU as documented here]], a continuation of the original demake meant to run on [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem actual]] [[AppleII 8-bit]] [[CommodoreSixtyFour hardware]], taking ''every'' limitation into account.

** The options menu allows for changing the border around the game to look like a vintage TV, a CaptainErsatz of the GameBoy, an arcade machine, and many more. There's also an option to change the colour filter in the game itself to allow for scan lines, a monochrome display, and to simulate the displays of the UsefulNotes/{{NES}}, UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum, AmstradCPC, UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, three variations of [[IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS]], and UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy.

** The options menu allows for changing the border around the game to look like a vintage TV, a CaptainErsatz of the GameBoy, an arcade machine, and many more. There's also an option to change the colour filter in the game itself to allow for scan lines, a monochrome display, and to simulate the displays of the UsefulNotes/{{NES}}, UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}, ZXSpectrum, AmstradCPC, UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, three variations of [[IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS]], and UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy.

* MarathonLevel: The last set of story levels don't have any breaks in between the various parts, meaning you have to play through all of them in a single sitting. They include [[spoiler: getting captured by the police and being forced to participate in [[VideoGame/SmashTV Death Cam VHS]], having to outrun the police in a monster truck to get to where Major Lee will pick you up and give you a ride to the final level, having to pile up the enemy corpses in the water to reach the entrance, opening chests to find where the key is, finding out there's no key and having to survive enemies with rocket launchers that destroy the walls until you find a hole that leads to the sewers, taking the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Turtle Van]] for a ride through the sewers, having to go through another (thankfully brief) [[ThatOneLevel water level]], getting bitten by a radioactive [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros plumber]] and gaining ShockwaveStomp powers, smashing through the walls until you actually find the key and make it to Dr. Buttnick and defeat him, racing him through the [[CollapsingLair exploding base]] on a motorcycle, catching up to Doc Choc's time machine and making it to [[YearX 30XX]], actually catching up to his time machine and using the guns Buttnick told Choc to install on it to defeat him for good.]]

** The options menu allows for changing the border around the game to look like a vintage TV, a CaptainErsatz of the GameBoy, an arcade machine, and many more. There's also an option to change the colour filter in the game itself to allow for scan lines, a monochrome display, and to simulate the displays of the {{NES}}, {{Atari 2600}}, ZXSpectrum, AmstradCPC, {{Commodore 64}}, three variations of [[IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS]], and VirtualBoy.

* ShowWithinAShow: The in-universe arcade games, "[[VirtualBoy Virtual]] VideoGame/MeatBoy", "[[BitTrip Bit.Trip.Retro City]]", and "[[WebVideo/EpicMealTime Epic Meal Time: Epic Might Test]]". The latter is an implementation of ''MortalKombat'''s "Test Your Might" minigame.

* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: Graphically, the lava in Final Castle does look exactly like boiling kool-aid, but special mention goes to the moat surrounding the castle. It is pretty explicitly referred to as water, but here and nowhere else in the game, the water is a purplish red. This is not explained.

* VirtualPaperDoll: Played with. The player can buy new hairstyles, hats, glasses, tattoos, and even visit a plastic surgeon, but because of the retro style of the game this doesn't have much effect on the the actual character model. The customizations also don't overlap -- you can get a haircut, but your hair goes back to the default if you buy some sunglasses or a hat.

* VirtualPaperDoll: Played with. The player can buy new hairstyles, hats, glasses, tattoos, and even visit a plastic surgeon, but because of the retro style of the game this doesn't have much effect on the the actual character model.

* BigBad: Dr. Von Buttnik

* DevelopmentHell: The game's been in development for around ''seven years'', some of which weren't spent considering a release on a contemporary format.

** It it however implied that the milk is tainted.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler: Final Castle's Clubhouse and Grill]]
* TimeTravel: Happens early in the story.

* ShoutOut: Way too many to count. You'll find its separate page [[ShoutOut/RetroCityRampage here]]

* {{LavaIsBoilingKoolAid}}: Graphically, the lava in Final Castle does look exactly like boiling kool-aid, but special mention goes to the moat surrounding the castle. It is pretty explicitly referred to as water, but here and nowhere else in the game, the water is a purplish red. This is not explained.

* DeathTrap: The Player (as Biffman) gets caught in one, in an AdamWest-era ''Franchise/{{Batman}} fashion.