In Games

i'm trying to determine the name of a war game.

here's what i can recall:
- you play a soldier
- top-down perspective
- you can run, but can also go prone and shoot while on your belly
- toss grenades
- perhaps published by SNK?
- NOT Contra, Ikari Warrior, or guerilla war

any ideas?

I'm not sure of the game, but you could try looking here to see if anything reminds you of it:



it's not complete, but it does have a large selection of titles screens and images from games.

Checking out over 900 games
Seems funny.

You wrote that you think it's from SNK. Try this list in combination with Luke's link. NES Games from SNK are listed there.


Good luck.

Sounds like Commando. It's a top-down view and you can throw grenades. It's from Capcom.

If none of the above is the game you're looking for, here's a link to the top down perspective games released on the NES. The list of games is in the text box on the right.



Hope you find what you're looking for!

Where do you dig out such lists??
Good work, man. That's a cool site you found there.

Where do you dig out such lists??
Good work, man. That's a cool site you found there.

Moby games is a great site for research on particular games. You can search by company, by year of release, by genre, by perpective.... It's a really well put together site. Just something I stumbled on when I was first making playlists of NES Games for Media Player. Before I made my own screenshots I would go there and collect them for the thumbnail view in the My Music folder. I like the site alot

Roth is the human search engine.

i'm trying to determine the name of a war game.

here's what i can recall:
- you play a soldier
- top-down perspective
- you can run, but can also go prone and shoot while on your belly
- toss grenades
- perhaps published by SNK?
- NOT Contra, Ikari Warrior, or guerilla war

any ideas?
The whole "going prone on your belly" thing is baffling me. I don't think I've ever seen that on a top-down perspective game (except Metal Gear 2 on the MSX2).

Commando and Heavy Barrel are the only two I can think of with grenade tossing (but no prone positioning).

Hey, I like that! The Human Search Engine... Sounds like some kind of cyber legend or something!




That's what's throwing me off as well. I can't think of any NES Games that have that feature. In Snake's Revenge you can go prone, but that's only on the generic side view perspective of the game... I fear we may have a case of mistaken system identity...

I just did some research and came up with a game called 'Cabal'.

It's not entirely top-down perspective, but close enough.




You can also kneel down (don't know about lay down) and toss grenades.
It was manufactured by a company called Fabtek.


And that's the closest I can get to finding a game that matches your description.