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from armed terrorists. The final stage consists of a single side-scrolling level where the player must fight off terrorists using all the skills acquired during the course of training. This stage can only be played by one player. Without a continue feature or spare stocks of lives, and because the
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and two buttons with different functions depending on the event. The game can be played against a CPU-controlled opponent or a second player. Player 1 takes control of Nick, a brown-haired recruit in an orange shirt, while Player 2 is Joe, a blond-haired recruit in a blue shirt.
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The game is composed of seven training events whom the player must complete. Upon a near-success failure to complete an event (failing too severely results in game over), the player must do a set number of
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player dies with one hit (minus the part that pits the player in a hand-to-hand combat against the terrorist leader) from anything, the final stage is extremely difficult to clear.
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After all seven events are cleared, the player graduates from basic training only to be sent on a mission (the 8th and final stage) to rescue the
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magazine gave the arcade game a positive review, comparing "Konami's new military arcade game" favorably with Konami's earlier
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as punishment (this chance is given only once) in order to continue into the succeeding events, or it is
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on their July 1, 1987 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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in Europe. Konami themselves later released the Commodore 64 version in North America under the
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Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005)
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camp, also known as a boot camp. The arcade game uses
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Index

Combat School (TV series)

Developer(s)
Konami
Publisher(s)
Konami
Platform(s)
Arcade
Commodore 64
Amstrad CPC
ZX Spectrum
MS-DOS
JP
Genre(s)
Sports
action
arcade video game
Konami
basic training
United States Marine Corps Recruit Training
trackball
Ocean Software
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC
MS-DOS
Amiga
trackball
chin ups
game over

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