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Guerrilla War

Platform: NES Year: 1988 Developer: SNK Corporation Buy: Amazon

Guerrilla War is one of the better run-and-gun military games for the NES platform. The game allows two-player simultaneous action and a whole bunch of enemies, weapons, explosions, and bullets flying everywhere. While it is possible to make it through the game unscathed, you'll probably die a few thousand times. However, since the game gives you infinite continues, you shouldn't have any problem beating the game every time you play it. While this does take away some of the satisfaction of beating it, it also takes away all of the frustration found in games like Commando (NES) and Ikari Warriors (NES).

The game's story is of little importance, but it's there if you're interested. You are a guerrilla fighter who lands on an island that is under military occupation. You must advance to the leaders palace by wiping out his several thousand soldiers and rescuing hostages.

In the game you have unlimited ammo and unlimited grenades, so shoot generously. As you progress you'll uncover several weapons like spread guns, laser rifles, rocket launchers, and flame throwers. You can also drive tanks and run people over, which is great fun. There are ten stages in all and each stage had a powerful end boss to kill.

Guerrilla War offers about a half hour of non-stop excitement, but once you beat the game you'll become bored of it. However, the game keeps calling you back because it's hard to resist the mindless fun.

Screenshots

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Music

Although Guerrilla War's soundtrack rarely makes it onto anyone's top ten list, it is still professionally composed and above-average for the 8-bit Nintendo platform. All of the music has a thematically military sound which is, of course, apt for the game. The song title are unofficial and named after where they're played in the game. There is an unused song in the ROM as well.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Size	Listen
01	Approach	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	0:08	112 KB
02	Shore / Enemy Gates	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:33	1.3 MB
03	Jungle	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:55	1.7 MB
04	River	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:39	1.4 MB
05	Mine Entrance / Palace	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:01	830 KB
06	Mine Cart	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:46	1.5 MB
07	City / Capital	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:40	1.3 MB
08	Sewers	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:07	941 KB
09	Boss Music 1	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	0:46	756 KB
10	Boss Music 2	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	0:43	600 KB
11	Boss Music 3	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	0:48	753 KB
12	Stage Clear	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	0:09	138 KB
13	Game Over	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	0:04	67 KB
14	Ending	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:55	1.8 MB
15	Unused	Kenny, Oh Chan, Tarkun	Unknown	1:01	750 KB

Credits

• Ripper: Scott Worley
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Composer: Kenny
  • Composer: Oh Chan
  • Composer: Tarkun
  • Unknown Arranger: Unknown

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Game Rip

Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.

Releases

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Links

• Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_War_%28arcade_game%29
• Moby Games: mobygames.com/game/nes/guerrilla-war
• GameFAQs: gamefaqs.com/nes/587321-guerrilla-war