Roc'n Rope

Roc'n Rope
Roc'n Rope
	European arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami; Kosuka; Coleco (ports)
Designer(s)	Tokuro Fujiwara
Platform(s)	Arcade, Atari 2600, ColecoVision
Release	Arcade JP: March 3, 1983; WW: April 1983; Atari 2600 ; 1984
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Up to 2 players, alternating turns

Roc'n Rope^[a]^[4] is an arcade platform video game developed by Konami and designed by Tokuro Fujiwara.^[5] It was released in arcades in 1983, by both Konami and Kosuka/Interlogic in some markets. The player, a flashlight and harpoon-gun equipped archaeologist, must ascend a series of rocky platforms in a Lost World scenario to reach a Phoenix bird.

Coleco released versions of Roc'n Rope for the Atari 2600^[3] and ColecoVision.

Gameplay[]

The player has to avoid ferocious man-sized dinosaurs and belligerent red-haired cavemen against which are there aren't direct means of offense. The only ways to defeat the opponents is either temporary (dazing them with the flashlight) or indirect (waiting for them to be suspended on a harpoon rope to make them fall down), an element which adds a certain amount of trickiness to the game. Bonus items to collect include fallen phoenix feathers and phoenix eggs, which grant the player invulnerability from the prehistoric denizens for a short period of time.

Reception[]

Roc'n Rope was an arcade hit. It was among Konami's early arcade hits, along with titles such as Scramble (1981), Frogger (1981) and Yie Ar Kung-Fu (1984).^[6]

Legacy[]

Roc'n Rope was the first "wire action" game. It became the basis for Capcom's 1987 game Bionic Commando, which Tokuro Fujiwara intended to be an expanded version of Roc'n Rope.^[5]

Notes[]

^ Japanese: ロックンロープ, Hepburn: Rokkun Rōpu

References[]

^ Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 120–1. ISBN 978-4990251215.
^ "Overseas Readers Column: Konami Unveiled Its "Rock'n Rope"" (PDF). Game Machine. No. 210. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 April 1983. p. 26.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Roc 'n Rope". Atari Mania.
^ Written as Roc 'N Rope on the American flyer and in Konami Arcade Classics.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The Man Who Made Ghosts’n Goblins: Tokuro Fujiwara Interview, Continue, Vol. 12, 2003
^ "A Conversation With... Kaz Kozuki: the Konami chief who put TNT into video's arsenal with TMNT". RePlay. Vol. 15 no. 6. March 1990. pp. 201–2.

External links[]

Roc'n Rope at the Killer List of Videogames

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[4] Japanese: ロックンロープ, Hepburn: Rokkun Rōpu

[1] Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 120–1. ISBN 978-4990251215.

[GM210-2] "Overseas Readers Column: Konami Unveiled Its "Rock'n Rope"" (PDF). Game Machine. No. 210. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 April 1983. p. 26.

[mania-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Roc 'n Rope". Atari Mania.

[5] Written as Roc 'N Rope on the American flyer and in Konami Arcade Classics.

[Fujiwara-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b The Man Who Made Ghosts’n Goblins: Tokuro Fujiwara Interview, Continue, Vol. 12, 2003

[7] "A Conversation With... Kaz Kozuki: the Konami chief who put TNT into video's arsenal with TMNT". RePlay. Vol. 15 no. 6. March 1990. pp. 201–2.

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