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Contra: Operation Galuga

Konami has kept the Contra series vaguely alive over the past decade, with the smartphone run-and-gun Contra Returns and the ill-advised twin stick shooter Contra: Rogue Corps. But 2024 saw a more proper revival with Contra: Operation Galuga, the first mainline game in the series since 2011’s Hard Corps: Uprising. It was developed by Wayforward, also behind 2007’s Contra 4 for the DS, which gives it some consistency in the way the series hasn’t seen for a long time.

Mercs Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3

Many of the games released in the wake of Commando borrowed themes from American action movies – Ikari Warriors was basically an unofficial Rambo: First Blood Part II, and even Sega’s Master System clone was an official tie-in with Stallone’s movies in North America. So for Commando‘s sequel, Capcom decided to go the same route and give it a punch-up, moving the setting from a vague jungle war to a modern military conflict, filled with beefy dudes blowing up helicopters and tanks. In Japan the game is called Senjou no Okami II, making it clear that it’s a sequel, though the overseas version goes by the name Mercs. This was perhaps done to avoid confusion with the 1986 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie named Commando, which the original arcade game inadvertently shared the same name with, despite having no official connection.

Rush N’ Attack

Of the many elements of popular culture the 80s introduced, possibly one of the most enduring is the idea of one single man taking down an entire army. Despite the strength of whatever enemy they might be facing, the Iranians, South American dictatorships, or the communists, they all fall to the power of one singular dude. Such is the case with Rush N’ Attack, a game no doubt inspired by the rash of American action movies made in the wake of the Cold War. Much like those movies, while it’s a bit of a short, shallow experience, it’s still pretty enjoyable in its own way even today, should you be a fan of its ilk.

Predator

The original Predator game is not particularly outstanding, but does a good job translating the movie into video game form. Players get to run from left to right shooting enemy soldiers while also avoiding being picked off by the Predator itself. When the time for a Predator game to be released on the MSX and NES came, however, it would be made by the masters of disastrous games, Pack-In-Video. Yes, Pack-In-Video, the makers of a great number of licensed and unlicensed video game tragedies like Back to the Future and Deep Blue, are responsible for Predator on the NES and MSX. The NES version was made for Pack-In-Video by Klon Co., Ltd., a little known developer that disappeared off the map after their first game until appearing out nowhere again as a developer of dating simulators for the 3DS in 2012. And of course that NES version of Predator was delivered to US shores via Activision, another publisher of outstanding examples of horrible licensed games on the NES like Ghostbusters, The Three Stooges, and Pack-In-Video’s own adaptation of Die Hard.

Commander Lawin aka American Commando (1980) by Eddie Nicart.

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