Captain Commando
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Release date(s)	1991, 1995
Genre(s)	Beat 'em up
Mode(s)	Up to 4 players simultaneously
Platform(s)	Arcade, Super Nintendo, PlayStation
Input	Joystick; 2 buttons
Arcade cabinet	Upright
Arcade system(s)	CPS-1
Arcade display	Horizontal, Raster, resolution 384 x 224

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The player chooses from the four members of the "Commando Team": Captain Commando, whose costume allows him to shoot electricity through his palms (Which Captain Commando calls "Captain Thunder"); Sho, a ninja (known as Ginzu in American and World versions); Jennety (Mack the Knife), an alien mummy wielding short, acid knives that melt anything they touch; and Hoover (Baby Head), a super-intelligent baby who rides around in a fast mech. The Commandos must fight their way through an army of genetically engineered super-criminals, traveling through a bank, a museum, and an aquarium, among other locations. Their quest eventually leads to an interplanetary journey to Callisto, where the evil mastermind "Scumocide" (known in the Japanese version as "Genocide") awaits. Captain Commando in Namco x Capcom . Captain Commando is a video game character, and the former mascot of the video game company Capcom, his name being derived from that of his company (Captain Commando). ... For the fictional robot, see Mecha. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Some main differences that stood out in this game at the time of its release were: the option to play with four players simultaneously, the ability to run and launch an attack (whether on the ground or an aerial one) for some distinct techniques, and mecha that the players can ride. The characters can add some variation in their combos by pressing forward during their attacks.

The game never became popular with arcade goers, contributing to Capcom's abandonment of the Captain Commando character. However, modern players may be surprised at the level of cartoon violence in the game, including characters being sliced in half or burned alive.

Ports

Despite its relative unpopularity, a scaled down 2-player port for the SNES was made in 1995, late duirng the console's life cycle, with its violence intact (although without the sprites of the characters being sliced in half). A near-perfect port of the game existed as a Japanese-only PlayStation release, which on a visual and aural level was on par with the arcade version, but still lacked the 4-player option. A perfect arcade port now exists for the Playstation Portable as part of Capcom Classics Collection Remixed & will also appear on Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for PS2 & Xbox. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, also known as Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES (pronounced either as a word or acronym), is a 16-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, and Australia. ... The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... The PlayStation Portable , officially abbreviated as PSP) is a handheld game console released and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment. ... Capcom Classics Collection Vol. ... PS2 can mean: PlayStation 2 (Sony PS2), sixth-generation video game console PS/2 (IBM Personal System/2 office PCs, or the interface standard for mice and keyboards that the PS/2 series set) Phantasy Star II, second in the Phantasy Star seiries of video games. ... See also: Xbox 360 The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ...

Trivia

• Captain Commando is Capcom's own homage to classic American sci-fi shows and magazines and the works of artists like Frank R. Paul. It was not the only game though; Battle Circuit is an even better example of enthusiasm for the genre.
• Captain Commando re-appeared as a playable character in Capcom's crossover games Marvel vs. Capcom and Namco x Capcom. In the former game, his Hyper Combos include the remaining members of the Commando Team joining him to attack his opponent. He also has several special attacks in MVC where the other characters will jump in and attack, each in a unique way. In NxC, the entire Commando Team is playable, and Sho is paired with Guy from Final Fight. All four members, plus Guy, contribute to the Commando Team's Multiple Assaults.
• Some characters of the game also appear in Ken's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2.
• Sho (Ginzu) possess the ability to cut his enemy in two halves with his ninja sword.
• Jennety (Mack the Knife) has special "acid knives" that melt the enemy.
• The boss of the Circus Camp level (Known as "Monster" in the American version) is a Heedra from Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Whether or not this is a "borrowing" or an "homage" is unclear, but the character has unmistakeable similarities to the manga monster.
• Sho is probably named after 80´s ninja actor Sho Kosugi

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External links

• Captain Commando at the Killer List of Videogames
• Captain Commando at MobyGames