Rocket Ranger

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arly in Cinemaware’s game, players are given an urgent mission to rescue the kidnapped Dr Barnstorf and his daughter Jane from a Zeppelin making its escape over the Atlantic. The Nazis want to use his knowledge to produce Lunarium bombs which will lower the IQ of all adult males in the vicinity of detonation by about 30 points. As making Americans stupider is a big no-no, you need to don your rocket pack and helmet and get up there sharpish, soldier.

After a short intermission, as you reach for your blue cardboard secret decoder wheel to figure out how much fuel you need to get past the game’s copyright protection, normal flight is resumed. And while the skies around the giant airship thunder with exploding German AA fire, our hero must use his radium pistol to take out several of the pesky shells and get close enough to blast the flak gunners from the back of the Zeppelin’s gondola. But aim carefully, because if you hit the hydrogen-filed airframe you’ll see an almighty explosion and two tiny parachute canopies drifting down to a waiting U-boat below, leaving the Nazis to have a party… a very big party.