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Its North American title is a play on the phrase "Russian attack" due to its Cold War setting. It became a critical and commercial success for arcades and home computers.

The Story Behind Rush'n Attack

A Family Computer Disk System version of Green Beret was released in Japan on April 10, 1987, along with a corresponding version for the Nintendo Entertainment System (as Rush'n Attack) released that month in North America, and 1989 in Europe. It was released in North America in December 1986 and an unrelated IBM PC version was released by Konami for the North American market with the Rush'n Attack name in 1989.

The mobile port was re-released in China for Java phones in December 2008. The objective in the NES version was changed from rescuing prisoners to destroying a secret weapon being developed in the enemy's headquarters. The Spectrum version was programmed by Jonathan Smith.

How Rush'n Attack Plays

Extra lives are given at 30,000 and 70,000, and per 70,000 up to 980,000, and survival of the fittest mode thereafter. The omnipresent combat knife can be supplemented with captured arms. A second portable version is included in the 2007 compilation Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits for the Nintendo DS.

The flamethrower corps at the end of the Warehouse stage was replaced by a paratrooper unit. It became a critical and commercial success for arcades and home computers. The mobile version is a direct port of the Famicom version with a new health bar.

Why Players Still Load It Up

ACE reviewed the budget re-release of Green Beret for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC in 1989, calling it an "intelligently thought out shoot 'em up with excellent graphics". Commodore User said the arcade version is "a kind of rightwards scrolling Commando [but] much better" while praising "brilliant" graphics and sound. In Japan, Game Machine listed Green Beret as the third most successful table arcade unit of November 1985.

Green Beret was well-received by critics. The review said it is fast, "furious" and "terribly addictive". The MS-DOS version of Rush'n Attack was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon magazine by Patricia Hartley and Kirk Lesser, giving 3 out of 5 stars.

The Nintendo Entertainment System reached North America in 1985, two years after it launched in Japan as the Famicom, and it arrived into a market that had convinced itself home gaming was finished. It sold anyway, and the industry it rebuilt is more or less the one still standing today.

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