Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue - NES

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Available from Al's Music & Games when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue for the NES is the third and final entry in SNK's Ikari Warriors trilogy — and a radical departure from its predecessors. Where the first two games were top-down run-and-gun shooters, The Rescue ditches the guns almost entirely and reinvents itself as a beat-'em-up. A shadowy organization called Crime Ghost has kidnapped the President's daughter Elise and is threatening to execute her unless the President resigns. He turns to the only two soldiers he trusts: Paul a