Talk:Ikari Warriors

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Contents 1 Front Line 2 MAME 3 Alternate Names 4 Cleanup 5 Sources 6 tanks 7 Ending

[edit] Front Line

"Ikari Warriors was the first to use rotary joysticks: those which could be rotated in addition to being pushed in eight directions". Is this certain ? I remember playing in a Front Line machine that had a rotary joystick. But it was after 1986 so the machine could be adapted. I also think that Ikari Warriors and Commando were inspired by the older Front Line (1982)

[edit] MAME

Are there any ideas on how one might control this in MAME? If you have a sort of PS2 dual-shock-like controller with two analog joysticks, would it be possible to control movement on one stick and facing direction on the other?

I was going to ask the same thing. The answers appears to be here: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.mame/msg/5d79eae4c2ca868a Captain Zyrain 17:34, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate Names

I distinctly remember that Clark and Ralf had different names in the NES version of Ikari Warriors. They were referred to as "Paul" and "Vince." Does anyone know what prompted the name change, and has SNK ever attempted to explain it? M.Neko

[edit] Cleanup

The articles for the sequels need work. They both came out in arcades first.

[edit] Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Line_%28arcade_game%29

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=F&game_id=7859

[edit] tanks

it was the first shooting to allow the use of tanks if i remember correctly. actually halo is a rippof. Paris By Night 00:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ending

For those who played this game but never got to the end. Here is what happens (at least on the Atari ST): The scenery starts off in the jungle, it eventually moves to village like scenery and then you walk through what seems like high rise military type buildings. All the while the enemy attacks in the same fashion so there is nothing new there. Eventually you reach a very large tank and after that you see a really weird looking creature (kind of monkey looking or maybe alien) hooked up to a bunch of cannons firing. once you kill him you get to this giant sergeant (he takes up half the screen) and the game ends with the words similar to (i don't remember exactly): you have rescued sergeant someone or other and you receive 10000 points.