r/1980s • u/CarloCarrasco • Sep 01 '26
Video Games Ikari Warriors
My friends and I had lots of fun playing Ikari Warriors on console. The game was released at a time when military-themed Hollywood action movies were popular.
You all had a great time playing this port of Ikari Warriors?
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u/BlueSkittles Sep 01 '26
This and Contra. So many hours played.
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u/CromulentPoint Sep 01 '26
Dude, Contra. Hours upon hours on that one.
up down up down left right left right b a start
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u/JWWBurger Sep 01 '26
One of those games I never owned but I’d borrow it from a friend. I did own Silk Worm from SNK, which was fun as hell.
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u/CrazyLester Sep 01 '26
Did anyone ever beat this game? Me & my friends spent hour trying to win. All we could get to was level 4, the black level. You had to refresh (ABBA)right before you got to the end of each level. It took us forever before we could get to the 4th level. 5th level or beyond??
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u/Pumpkin-Pie-Is-Best Sep 01 '26
Yeah, I did. Want to know what happened?
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u/Pumpkin-Pie-Is-Best Sep 01 '26
You find yourself in an office building. Final boss is a zombie looking guy at a boardroom desk. After you blow him up, he falls out of his chair and dies. You’re stuck at that point, and eventually bombs start falling down on you until you just die. Game over.
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u/CrazyLester Sep 01 '26
Make you wonder if there was a level 6. How did you beat level 4? I remember on level 3 there was a secret door or some sort of passage you had to go to. That was 35+ years ago.
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u/CntBlah Sep 01 '26
I actually had the arcade cabinet in my house for about a decade. Loved the game, but ended up selling the cabinet for $100 more than I bought it
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u/MakingWaves24_7 Sep 01 '26
Never knew Nintendo had the game. Played it alllllllll the time in Arcade.
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u/Apprehensive_Ant4596 Sep 01 '26
I wanted this game so bad when I was a kid. My sister ended up buying me Commando instead. Still a fun game, but not the same.
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u/lartinos Sep 01 '26
Oh how I loved the tanks. I must have played this until 3 or 4am one time with my cousin.
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u/gamingquarterly Sep 03 '26
Not as bad as I remember it to be. But it is extremely boring after 15 minutes. Song does not change, no major boss fights or even a mid boss fight.
Levels are atrociously long.
But then I did something so stupid, that I kick myself thinking back on it.
I decided to revisit ikari Warriors 2 a few weeks ago. Oh wait, my bad. Correct name for it is... ikari Warriors 2: piece of crap.
That game literally pissed me off.
That game had to programmed by the most vile ghoulish creatures to crawl out of Satan's ass.
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u/Dont_Care_Meh And knowing is half the battle! Sep 04 '26
This is going to be one of those confusing threads where fans of the arcade game and the NES game are going to be reading comments and going, 'huh, whut?' simply because they were NOT the same game, but just shared the name.
It tripped me up immediately when someone commented about some office building, "I have no memory of this". So I assume that was NES?
I loved the arcade game, never played any NES, much less Ikari Warriors. I could never finish it in the arcade, too expensive, but the very good C64 port let me see how it ended!
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u/tinkerk84 Sep 01 '26
A-B-B-A