Roc'n Rope

Roc'n Rope[lower-alpha 1][5] is an arcade platform video game developed by Konami and designed by Tokuro Fujiwara.[6] 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.

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
ReleaseArcade
Atari 2600
1984[4]
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Up to 2 players, alternating turns

Coleco released versions of Roc'n Rope for the Atari 2600[4] and ColecoVision.

Gameplay

The player has to avoid ferocious man-sized dinosaurs and red-haired cavemen against which there aren't any direct means of offense. The only ways to defeat the opponents are to either daze them with the flashlight, or wait for them to be suspended on a harpoon rope and cause 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).[7]

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.[6]

Notes
  1. Japanese: ロックンロープ, Hepburn: Rokkun Rōpu

References
  1. "News: Konami Buys Interlogic". Play Meter. Vol. 10, no. 23. December 1984. p. 9.
  2. "Overseas Readers Column: Konami Unveiled Its "Rock'n Rope"" (PDF). Game Machine. No. 210. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 April 1983. p. 26.
  3. 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.
  4. "Roc 'n Rope". Atari Mania.
  5. Written as Roc 'N Rope on the American flyer and in Konami Arcade Classics.
  6. 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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