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Captain Commando

Description

Four good-guy psychos wade their way through hordes of bad-guy psychos in this horizontal scrolling punch and kick-em-up. You get to ride some mean robot walkers and pickup some useful limited ammo weaponry on the way.

Captain Commando was produced by Capcom in 1991.

Capcom released 229 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Capcom was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Captain Commando was produced include: 1941: Counter Attack, Magic Sword, Carrier Air Wing, Chiki Chiki Boys, Adventure Quiz 2 - Hatena? No Dai-Bouken, Block Block, Quiz Tonosama No Yabou, King Of Dragons, The, Capcom Golf, and Quiz Sangokushi - Chiryaku No Hasha

Specs

Name	Captain Commando
Developer	Capcom (Japan)
Year	1991
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7276
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Capcom CPS JAMMA
Game Specific	Captain Commando Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Captain Commando Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	4
# Maximum Players	4
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - AttackJump
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
PCB	Captain Commando PCB Image

Video Clips

Captain Commando (Arcade) Complete 1/4

Game Introduction

Captain Commando and his comrades have to save the world from a vile villain! Choose your hero and take him along with up to three additional players through the cities smashing bad guys and defeating the bosses.

Game Play

Choose your character from "Captain Commando", "Mack the Knife", "Baby Head", and "Ginzu the Ninja". This game does not pull any punches graphically when it comes to cutting the bad guys in half or skinning them!

Captain Commando KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.00 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 3.00

Overall Like	3.00
Fun (Social)	3.00
Fun (Solo)	3.00
Collector Desire	3.00

Technical Rating: 3.00

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	3.00
Originality	2.00
Sound/Music	3.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Game Logo

Trivia

Choose your characters from "Captain Commando", "Mack the Knife", "Baby Head", and "Ginzu the Ninja". This game does not pull and punches graphically when it comes to cutting the bad guys in half or skinning them!

Miscellaneous

Captain Commando also appears in the Marvel Vs. Capcom series of games, and has the ability to call upon his cohorts for a single shot.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Captain Commando Census

There are 15,211 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,644 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,563 machines (6,981 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 78 known instances of this machine owned by Captain Commando collectors who are active members. Of these, 10 of them are original dedicated machines. 4 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 64 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Captain Commando machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Captain Commando circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Captain Commando. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Captain Commando boards sets.

This game ranks a 19 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

The game uses Capcom's CPS1 System, also used in games like 1941, Strider, Final Fight and Street Fighter II - The World Warrior.

Fixes

This game uses a "suicide battery", located on the C-board of the PCB. When this battery dies, the game will no longer operate. You will be greeted with a blank screen upon power-up. This is one of the few CPS1 suicide games for which NO WORKING HACK EXISTS to revive it. Owners should get their battery swapped by someone with the ability to do it as soon as possible.

Manuals

Installing Your - Captain Commando Manual — **Installing Your**
(9 pages, 1.1 MB File)

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