Editing Commando (video game) (section)

==Legacy==
''Commando'' was a highly influential game, popularizing the [[Run and gun game|run-and-gun shooter]] genre along with military shooter themes. It led to run-and-gun games becoming the dominant style of [[shoot 'em up]] during the late 1980s to early 1990s, when ''[[Your Sinclair]]'' called ''Commando'' "the great grand-daddy of the modern shoot 'em up" genre.<ref name="ysguide2">Bielby, Matt, [https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/your-sinclair/56#19 "The YS Complete Guide To Shoot-'em-ups Part II"], ''Your Sinclair,'' August 1990 (issue 56), p. 19</ref> It has also been credited as the "product that shot" Capcom to "8-bit [[silicon]] stardom" in 1985, "closely followed by" ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins (video game)|Ghosts 'n Goblins]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Capcom: A Captive Audience |magazine=[[The Games Machine]] |date=18 May 1989 |issue=19 (June 1989) |pages=24–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-games-machine-19/page/n23/mode/2up}}</ref>

''Commando'' spawned numerous clones following its release.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wolf of the Battlefield Commando |url=https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Arcade/Wolf-of-the-Battlefield-Commando-280130.html |website=[[Nintendo of Europe GmbH]] |date=17 December 2010 |access-date=6 April 2021}}</ref><ref name="Continue12"/><ref name="Continue0"/> Home computer clones and imitators released later the same year include ''[[Who Dares Wins II|Who Dares Wins]]''<ref name="Computer-Gamer"/> and ''[[Rambo (1985 video game)|Rambo]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ACE/Issue26/Pages/ACE2600113.jpg |title=Blasts from the Past |magazine=[[ACE (magazine)|ACE]] |issue=26 (October 1989) |date=November 1989 |pages=113–115 |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref> The most successful ''Commando'' imitator was [[SNK]]'s arcade hit ''[[Ikari Warriors]]'' (1986), which spawned two sequels.<ref name="Continue12"/><ref name="Continue0">{{cite magazine |title=「怒」を作った男 |trans-title=The Man Who Made "Ikari" |magazine=[[:ja:CONTINUE (雑誌)|Continue]] |date=March 2001 |url=http://shmuplations.com/snkgoldenage/}}</ref> The run-and-gun shooter format of ''Commando'' was also adapted into a [[side-scrolling]] format by [[Konami]]'s [[Rush'n Attack|''Green Beret'' (''Rush'n Attack'')]] later the same year.<ref name="CU30">{{cite magazine |title=Konami's Barmy Army |magazine=[[Commodore User]] |date=26 February 1986 |issue=30 (March 1986) |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-30/page/n12}}</ref>

===Sequels and successors===
''Commando'' was followed by a sequel titled ''[[Mercs]]'' in [[1989 in video gaming|1989]], which was known as ''Senjō no Ōkami II'' in Japan. However, it was not as successful as ''Commando'' or ''Ikari Warriors''. Tokuro Fujiwara was disappointed that he did not develop a ''Commando'' sequel sooner, as the arcade market already had numerous ''Commando'' imitators by the time ''Mercs'' released.<ref name="Continue12"/><ref name="Continue0"/> A second sequel, ''[[Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3]]'' was released as a downloadable title for the [[Xbox Live Arcade]] and the [[PlayStation Network]] in [[2008 in video gaming|2008]].

Outside Japan, the arcade version of ''[[Bionic Commando (arcade game)|Bionic Commando]]'' was marketed as a sequel to ''Commando'' and the main character, a nameless soldier in the game, is identified as "Super Joe" in an American brochure for the game. Super Joe would appear as an actual supporting character in the later versions of ''[[Bionic Commando (NES)|Bionic Commando]]'' for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] and [[Game Boy]], as well as in ''[[Bionic Commando: Elite Forces]]''. In the [[2009 in video gaming|2009]] version of ''[[Bionic Commando (2009 video game)|Bionic Commando]]'' for the [[PlayStation 3]] and [[Xbox 360]], the character of Super Joe is identified as Joseph Gibson, one of the three player characters in ''Mercs''.

The game ''Duet'' by Elite Systems Ltd was also called first "Commando '86" then "Commando '87".<ref>{{WoS game|id=0001534|name=Duet}}</ref>