{"id":3623,"date":"2014-11-24T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2014-11-24T10:11:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:11:38","slug":"rocket-ranger-reloaded-a-21st-century-version-of-the-classic-cinemaware-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/24\/rocket-ranger-reloaded-a-21st-century-version-of-the-classic-cinemaware-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Ranger Reloaded, a 21st Century version of the classic Cinemaware game"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/rocket_ranger_reloaded.jpg\" alt=\"Cinemaware's Rocket Ranger reloaded\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\n<div style=\"width:100%;text-align:center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/850516062\/rocket-ranger-reloaded\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"> <\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in the late 1980s one of the most exciting game developers for the Amiga was Cinemaware. They carved out a unique, special niche with a combination of action sequences, storytelling, and puzzles in a series of games that were each based on some kind of movie making from the golden, silver, and (mainly) brazen eras of film.<\/p>\n<p>With titles like <em>Defender of the Crown<\/em>, <em>The Three Stooges<\/em>, <em>It Came from the Desert!<\/em> and <em>Rocket Ranger<\/em>, Cinemaware had a speedy rise that was eventually followed by a speedy fall. But in between, with ports of their games to all the popular computers of the day, they earned a place in the memories of game players of A Certain Age.<\/p>\n<p>These games have been given new life through remakes, reboots, and reimaginings, largely due to Kickstarter. As a follow-up to last year&#8217;s successful remastered edition of <em>Wings<\/em>, the company is now trying to gain support for this completely rebuilt, expanded edition of <em>Rocket Ranger<\/em> &#8211; the popular &#8220;I&#8217;m not the Rocketeer!&#8221; game that was itself a reimagining of the old serial adventures of the 1940s and 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"420\" scrolling=\"no\"  class=\"img_hang_right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/850516062\/rocket-ranger-reloaded\/widget\/card.html?v=2\" width=\"220\"><\/iframe>The new <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/850516062\/rocket-ranger-reloaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rocket Ranger Reloaded<\/a><\/em> pits the same kind of rocket pack hero against the same kind of inevitable Nazis. It&#8217;s a brand new version of the original idea, with its dogfights, gun battles, boxing, and rocket research; but in its reloaded form the game will sport completely new graphics, new locations and scenarios, an original soundtrack, and even more retro futuristic gear.<\/p>\n<p>At the basic funding goal of $89,999 there will be versions for Windows and Mac computers. The various stretch goals for the project add support for Android, iOS, PS4, Xbox One and PS Vita.<\/p>\n<p>Digital copies of the game are available for pledges of $19 or more; physical copies start at $55. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/850516062\/rocket-ranger-reloaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The project concludes on December 17<\/a> and rewards are scheduled for September 15, 2015.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Rocket Ranger Reloaded pits the same kind of rocket pack hero against the same kind of inevitable Nazis. It&#8217;s a brand new version of the original idea, with its dogfights, gun battles, boxing, and rocket research; but in its reloaded form the game will sport completely new graphics, new locations and scenarios, an original soundtrack, and even more retro futuristic gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}