

The game was one of the first to feature controllable vehicles (a helicopter), and also one of the first to feature stealth elements.

Rambo starts off with just a Bowie knife and grenades (both of which have an unlimited supply, as with all the weapons), and gains points for killing the enemy, and for collecting the following equipment: Rocket Launcher, M16 Rifle, and Bow & Arrows (Explosive & Non Explosive). The player, controlling Rambo, has to find his lost equipment, locate the POW camp, rescue the hostages and make it back to the extraction point, while being pursued by constantly respawning enemies. The game is viewed from a semi-top down perspective, and follows the movie's story.

The game was so successful that it was released for several systems under different games, including Rambo for the Nintendo, and Rambo: First Blood Part II for Sega. The Commodore 64 version's music is by Martin Galway, incorporating melodies from the film's score, which was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. It was produced by Platinum Productions and published by Ocean Software for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64. Rambo is a 1985 video game based on the film Rambo: First Blood Part II.
