Rocket Ranger

In 1990 technology from the future is sent to the hero to stop nazis aliens from finally winning WWII that has continued to be waged despite ending much earlier in the original time line. One of the bits of technology is a rocket pack that uses on lunarium, which only occurs on the moon. In this time-line, mankind has not yet reached the moon and in fact lacks the technology to do so. This is possible because Aliens have joined the Axis Alliance. The hero, now the Rocket Ranger, has a rocket pack, but needs lunarium to fly it and the Allied Countries need parts and additional lunarium to complete and pilot a rocket to the moon and shutdown the mining operation there. The Rocket Ranger will be stealing these from the aliens. Due to heavy censoring, the "Axis Alliance", "Allied Countries", and of course "Nazi" have been remove. That leaves human looking aliens capable of interstellar flight, fighting the Rocket Ranger with 1940s era technology such as ME 209s and their fists. The only advanced 'technology' they have is lunarium which turns out to have the side effect of lowering the IQ of males. Which they plan to use by dropping it from high altitude zeppelins where conventional aircraft and artillery cannot reach them. I guess it can be assumed by 1990 the physics have been overcome that prevented zeppelins from making a round trip from Axis territory to London while carrying enough firepower or chemical weapons to make an effective attack from high altitude. Ok, so perhaps the aliens do have some advanced technology. And of course they assume that if the Earth has more dumb males that it'll be easier to win. The other piece of future technology is a radium pistol which the Rocket Ranger can use to shoot down ME 209s that try to intercept him when he's in coming or going from lunarium and rocket parts stealing missions.

(Zerothis) - # 2009-07-29 04:10:29

The 21st century needs you! Across the boundaries of time and space you have been chosen to save Planet Earth from a monstrous alien invasion. Rise to the challenge with courage, skill, and the help of three fantastic devices: a rocket suit, ray gun and powerful wrist computer. Only you can change our planet's destiny as the world's first hero of the future... ROCKET RANGER!

# 2018-05-16 12:37:52 - official description

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Rocket Ranger (Amiga)
Rocket Ranger (Atari ST)
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Rocket Ranger (Apple IIGS)
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Rocket Ranger (MS-DOS)