

A second player can play at the same time and control Rambo's partner Zane (a character created for the game), who wears a yellow headband. The first player controls Rambo, who is armed with an M-60 machine gun with unlimited ammunition (which can only fire two shots on-screen) and a limited supply of explosive arrows used to take out tougher obstacles such as tanks and gates. Rambo is an overhead action shoot-'em-up in the vein of Commando and Ikari Warriors. A separate game based on the same film had previously been released on the 8-bit computers.

It was originally released in Japan as Ashura ( 阿修羅 ( アシュラ )), where it was released without the Rambo license.Īnother version was released in Europe and Australia titled Secret Command (stylized on-screen as Secret Commando), which also lacked the Rambo license. Rambo: First Blood Part II (stylized on-screen as Rambo) is an overhead action shoot-'em-up video game loosely based on the 1985 film of the same name that was released in North America by Sega for the Master System in 1986 and then re-released as a budget title in 1990.
