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for the

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developer Arcade Zone. It was scheduled to be released in

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by Sony Electronic Publishing (who also published Arcade Zone's previous title, ''

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'') sometime between 1994 and 1995, but was cancelled after

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discontinued its third-party publishing business on the Super NES in order to focus on the

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, leaving the title orphaned without a publisher. A

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localization was produced and published by

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's Poppo subsidiary under the title of , which was released on February 10, 1995.

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ended up acquiring the international publishing rights to ''Iron Commando'', initially releasing the game digitally on

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in 2016, before eventually producing a reproduction cartridge for the Super NES in 2017. BlazePro also produced a reproduction the Super Famicom version for the Japanese market during the same year.

Gameplay

A soldier named Jack and a

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master named Chang Li are the Iron Commando field team. They must cross ten different environments to save the world, fighting against punks, gunfighters, knights and any kind of strange creatures.

Reception

Famitsu gave the SFC version a 20/40.https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=17759&redirect=no

References

External links

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