Ikari Warriors

Ikari Warriors
Promotional poster
Developer(s)SNK
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Koji Obada[9]
Designer(s)Koji Obada[9]
Programmer(s)Daimajin
Artist(s)Tama
Keiko Iju
Platform(s)Arcade, Apple II, Amiga, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari ST, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, NES, MSX2, IBM PC, ZX Spectrum
ReleaseArcade
NES
CPC
MSX
Genre(s)Run and gun
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Ikari Warriors, known as Ikari (怒, "Fury") in Japan, is a vertically scrolling run and gun video game released for arcades by SNK in 1986. It was published in North America by Tradewest. At the time there were many Commando clones on the market. What distinguished Ikari Warriors were rotary joysticks and a two-player cooperative mode.[10] The rotary joystick controls were in turn based on SNK's earlier TNK III (1985). Ikari was originally intended to be an official licensed adaptation of the film Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), but SNK were initially unable to acquire the rights to the film.

The game was a major commercial success in arcades. It was Japan's second highest-grossing table arcade in 1986, and London's third highest-grossing arcade game that year. It was also a major breakthrough US release for SNK, ranking among America's top five highest-grossing dedicated arcade games for two years in a row, in 1986 and 1987.

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