Rampart (video game)

Rampart
Rampart
	North American arcade flyer
Developer	Atari Games
Publishers	NA/EU: Atari Games; JP: Namco;
Designers	John Salwitz; Dave Ralston
Programmer	John Salwitz
Artist	Dave Ralston
Composers	Don Diekneite; Brad Fuller
Platform	Arcade NES, Genesis/Mega Drive, Atari Lynx, Super NES, Game Boy, Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Mac OS, Game Boy Color;
Release	October 1990 Arcade NA: October 1990; JP: April 1991; NES JP: November 29, 1991; NA: January 1992; Lynx NA: May 1992; Super NES NA: August 1992; Game Boy JP: October 30, 1992; NA: 1993; EU: 1993; Master System EU: December 3, 1992; Genesis/Mega Drive JP: December 11, 1992; NA: 1992; Amiga, Atari ST, C64, CPC EU: 1992; MS-DOS UK: 1992; NA: 1992; Game Boy Color NA: November 18, 1999; ;
Genre	Strategy
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer

Rampart is a 1990 strategy video game developed and published by Atari Games for North American and European arcades; with distribution in Japan handled by Namco. Presented from a top-down perspective, the game tasks the player with defending their territory from enemy invaders. The gameplay alternates between a building phase, where the player constructs walls around vulnerable castles, and a combat phase, in which cannons are used in an attempt to drive back hostile forces. A trackball is used to control the game.

It had a limited US release in October 1990, followed by a wide release in February 1991. Rampart is a precursor to the tower defense genre, popularized in the 2000s.