How to play Rampart online
- Move and choose options: arrow keys
- Fire: Z
- Start: F3 (Reset)
- Pause: F4
What is in this prototype
In the arcade original, released by Atari Games in 1990, you take turns building walls around your castles, placing cannons inside them and firing at enemy ships. This 7800 build contains only a small part of that. The title screen lets you pick a difficulty and the number of players, but the game’s name is missing from it. After that comes an early version of the shooting stage, where the enemy ships are still plain placeholder blocks labelled “NME”. There is no wall-building phase yet.
The story behind the 7800 Rampart
The conversion was started around 1991 by Imagitec Design, but it never came out. Rampart became one of the casualties of the 7800’s decline against the Nintendo Entertainment System. Internal Atari memos from 1993 describe the game as almost finished, so a more complete version may still exist somewhere. The build you can try here was found by Curt Vendel as a partly compiled program, and 7800 fans Robert DeCrescenzo, Mitchell Orman and Eckhard Stolberg got it running on real hardware.
