#rush'n attack

[fancypantsrecords]

Konami Kukeiha Club - Konami Classics: The Best Of The NES | Spacelab9 | 2023 | Pink | /800

[bangjiazheng]

Rush'n Attack (NES) Playthrough

[tuliptheoshawott]

[jeffgerstmann]

Your favorite NES games, ranked and listed out via cold, hard science. This week includes Tecmo Bowl, Mach Rider, MULE, Rush'n Attack, The Karate Kid, The Little Mermaid, and more!

[orionsangelarcade]

Rush'n Attack, Realistic Arcade Bezel using The Mega Bezel Shader

[voidbears-oc-stash]

Rush: heh! sure! get him here! he's NEVER been to A city before! he's gonna have a HEART ATTACK! >:D! love bullying (playfully) my honey bear! Tree angle: Fusion? Mr Ultra did give you a travel device yes? mind picking up the lad? *cue an adventure of Rush'n all them just- being treated like Heroes! XD! by all the cacti! XD! end of RP- XD!*

Fusion nods and gets Hero

[darker-than-darkstorm]

The earliest one I can remember with actual boss music was NES Rush'n Attack (1985, a few months before the Legend of Zelda), but I can't say for sure whether it's *the* earliest. Also, I'm not sure whether most people would call a group of enemies that all die in one hit "bosses", but the game's instruction manual did, so I'm counting it.

If you count the entire Rivets Stage of Donkey Kong (July 1981) to be a boss fight, then that may be the earliest example, but I want to check a few things first (namely, my MAME library) :D

Oh! Actually, it might be Vanguard (also July 1981), which doesn't have music on most stages, but one of the stages that does have music is when you face Gond. (Back in the day I was more familiar with the Atari 2600 version, which doesn't have any stage music at all, which is why Vanguard didn't immediately spring to mind)

Given that Vanguard is also one of the earliest games to have a boss at all (at least as we know the term), this is probably it.

Is that the sort of thing you're looking for, @the-iron-shoulder?

I’m curious, since you know a lot about games history: do you know if there’s any consensus on what video game had the first “boss fight song,” i.e., the first game to have a different musical piece that plays when the player encounters something we would recognize as a boss? (I’m aware that “what is a boss” is a question in itself, but i guess that’s just part of the whole mix, and hopefully there’s enough you-know-it-when-you-see-it to facilitate the discussion.)

The oldest one I’m personally familiar with is The Legend of Zelda 1986 (which IIRC doesn’t have unique songs for normal bosses but at least has a little entry fanfare for Ganon), but I’m also acutely aware of the fact that I’m more or less completely unfamiliar with anything pre-NES, so I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t something earlier than that, and also just having entry fanfare is, to be honest, kind of weak imo compared to a proper dedicated song. (The oldest one I personally know of that has a song for non-final bosses is Mega Man 1987, but the same blind spot to pre-NES stuff applies.)

Are you able to offer any insight into this matter, please?

That's an interesting question. Most video games published prior to the NES era tended to lack background music of any description, so they wouldn't have had anything that could be described as "boss fight music" simply because they didn't have music. The earliest title I can think of off the top of my head that does have a discernible boss theme is Dragon's Lair (1983), though that's kind of an edge case because the arcade version of Dragon's Lair is more of an interactive movie than a game per se. I'd love to know if anyone reading this post has an earlier example in mind!

[theactioneer]

Green Beret (Konami, 1986)

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Konami (Boot Camp, Contra, Jackal, Rush’n Attack)

“Konami hits are heading home.”  (Video Game & Computer Entertainment #3, Apr. 1989)

[anthonyvaccarelli]

Art for PecoDeGuile’s ‘ol Pokey World Tour where he will tackle every port of Rush’n Attack!

[fancypantsrecords]

Konami Kukeiha Club - Music From Konami Antiques ~Family Computer~ Vol. 4 | Universal Music Japan | 2024 | Black

Music from Green Beret/Rush'n Attack, Final Command: Akai Yousai, Contra, and Super Contra: Alien no Gyakushuu

[g4zdtechtv]

FULL EPISODE: Cheat! - Animal Crossing the End Zone

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[arcadequartermaster]

JUNE 2019 UPDATE www.arcadequartermaster.com

A trio of arcade shrines are up and live on the site!

SURVIVAL ARTS: The featured “kusoge” of the month, Survival Arts is one of many attempts to cash in on the ultra-violent and gory digitized graphics popularized by Mortal Kombat in the early 90s. Take control of one among eight Survival Arts competitors, each with their own agendas, along with taking down the mysterious host, Dantel. Aside from the unique arsenal of special moves, weapons can also be used to varying but lethal effect, akin to beat-em-up games. Of course, the gore gimmick is there by finishing the opponent on the second win with a special property or a weapon, resulting in gibs and guts galore. 

RUSH’N ATTACK: Inspired by the Cold War and espionage movies of the time, guide a Green Beret operative to sneak in the hostile military base in the Siberian frontier to recover your captured fellow soldiers. Armed with a knife, it’s up to your skills to obtain more powerful weapons as you break through each outpost on the way to your goal! This game’s engine is later reused for Konami’s Western sidescroller, Iron Horse.

BURGER TIME: One of the quintessential 80s arcade classics, help Peter Pepper to make the most delicious burgers -- problem is, sentient food are out to get him! Use the layers of giant burgers to squash these pesky pursuers to limit their threat, then run across every patty, slice and bun to make the best sandwiches before your food foes get back on their feet!  

Enjoy the new shrines!

[gummorgue]

Ruscha'n Attack

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[iamsoretro]

Rush'n Attack - Magazine Ad

Rush'n Attack, originally released in Japan and Europe as Green Beret, is an action/platform arcade game released by Konami in 1985. It is remembered for its Cold War setting & reliance on the player using a knife to dispatch enemies. A sequel was released for the arcades titled M.I.A.: Missing in Action in 1989.

[hadescavedish]

Rush’n Attack stage 1 in  orchestra style, still done by musescore.

(not really a rearrangement again)