'Maskers,' ninjas, and creatures attempt to foil your mission through the New York streets and underground in circa 1960. Secret agent code-named Albatross of the World Crime Police Organization set out to rescue female agent Leila Blitz from the evil terrorist organization called Geldra. It was a side scrolling run-and-gun action game that I would describe as 'Shinobi with guns and no magic.' Your objective was, of course, to rescue a girl.
Produced by Namco and distributed by Atari Games, Rolling Thunder was released to US arcades in 1986.
I still enjoyed it though and remember a point in time where it was my 'go-to' game. Games that laughed at you when you failed made me want to punch the screen. That stupid laugh from the Green Goblin (or whoever he was) when you met your demise. I remember it being a pretty difficult game so it was easy to burn threw those couple of quarters.
Rolling Thunder is one of those games I associated with waiting for food. Remember those days when it seemed like every restaurant had a couple arcade machines? You would walk in the restaurant, scope out the arcade games, sit down at your table, order, and then it was begging dad or mom for a couple quarters to play while your food was being prepared. As a matter of fact, I remember it being at a local restaurant as well as the local arcade. Rolling Thunder is a game I remember well at the 80s arcade.
