Editing Commando (video game) (section)

{{Short description|1985 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
|title     = Commando
|image     = Commando flyer.png
|developer = [[Capcom]]
|publisher = {{vgrelease|JP/EU|Capcom<ref>{{cite web |title=Video Game Flyers: Commando, Capcom (EU) |url=https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=219 |website=The Arcade Flyer Archive |access-date=30 May 2021}}</ref>|NA|[[Data East]]<ref name="CB43">{{cite magazine |last1=Compasio |first1=Camille |title=Around The Route |magazine=[[Cash Box]] |date=June 8, 1985 |pages=43–4 |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/d/dd/CashBox_US_1985-06-08.pdf#page=43}}</ref>|UK/IRE|Deith Leisure<ref name="GM263">{{cite magazine|title=Overseas Readers Column|magazine=[[:ja:ゲームマシン|Game Machine]]|issue=263|publisher=[[:ja:アミューズメント通信社|Amusement Press, Inc.]]|date=1 July 1985|page=26|lang=ja|url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19850701p.pdf#page=14}}</ref>|DE|Nova Apparate GmbH<ref name="GM263"/>|SPA|[[Sega, S.A. SONIC]]<ref name="GM263"/>}}
|designer  = [[Tokuro Fujiwara]]
|composer  = [[Tamayo Kawamoto]]
|platforms = [[Arcade video game|Arcade]], [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[Apple II]], [[Atari 2600]], [[Intellivision]], [[Atari 7800]], [[BBC Micro]], [[Acorn Electron]], [[Amiga]], [[Atari ST]], [[ZX Spectrum]], [[MSX]], [[Amstrad CPC]], [[Commodore 64]], [[Virtual Console]], [[PlayStation 3]], [[Xbox 360]]
|released  = {{vgrelease|JP|May 1985<ref>{{cite web |title=Commando (Registration Number PA0000246461) |url=https://cocatalog.loc.gov |website=[[United States Copyright Office]] |access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=ゲームで見るカプコンの歴史|magazine=[[Gamest]]|volume=7|lang=ja|date=April 1987|url=https://archive.org/details/gamest0007/page/n17/mode/1up}}</ref>|NA|May 1985<ref name="CB43"/>|EU|July 1985<ref name="CVG"/>}}
|genre     = [[Run and gun video game|Run and gun]]
|modes     = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
}}

'''''Commando''''', released as {{Nihongo foot|'''''Senjō no Ōkami'''''|戦場の狼|Senjō no Ōkami|group=lower-alpha|lead=yes|extra=lit. "Wolf of the Battlefield"}} in Japan, is a 1985 vertically scrolling [[run and gun video game]] developed and published by [[Capcom]] for [[Arcade video game|arcades]]. The game was designed by [[Tokuro Fujiwara]]. It was distributed in North America by [[Data East]], and in Europe by several companies including Capcom, Deith Leisure and [[Sega, S.A. SONIC]]. Versions were released for various [[home computer]]s and [[video game console]]s. It is unrelated to the [[Commando (1985 film)|1985 film of the same name]], which was released six months after the game.

''Commando'' was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing arcade video games of 1985 and one of the bestselling home video games of 1986. Though not the first miitary-themed run and gun video game, it spawned numerous clones following its release while popularizing the genre. Its influence can be seen in many [[shooter games]] during the late 1980s to early 1990s.

The game later appeared on ''[[Capcom Classics Collection]]'', ''[[Activision Anthology]]'', and on the [[Wii]] [[Virtual Console]] Arcade, as well as ''[[Capcom Arcade Cabinet]]'' for [[PlayStation 3]] and [[Xbox 360]]. A sequel, ''[[Mercs]]'', was released in 1989.