'Probably' everything that NAM-1975 ripped off

Blatantly modelled on Cabal and Dynamite Duke, the first developed for the Neo Geo MVS and AES platforms was the only game without boot screen.

Before getting into the Summer of 1975, here's nonsensical Prologue.

∎NAM-1969

In the battlefields, Silver & Brown were running through the flames to the helicopter of the allied army.  Bombings were going off indiscriminately. Death awaits both friend and foe. Only the men who escape will witness the bloody sunrise of tomorrow.

Two left the hell behind with the buzzing of the helicopter.

Sunrise reflected the battle on the fields like a curse.

◼NAM-1975

They were on the camouflaged boat preparing for action. The smell of the morning grass made them forget about the war momentarily. The sounds of the enemy's rifles reminds them that they are at war.  The two men running up the deck had a hunch the nightmare was starting again.

WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS.

Summary

Silver and Brown are recalled to Natorm Headquarters for a mission to save Dr. Richard Muckly and his daughter Nancy who have been kidnapped.

Cover art

Silver vs Mark Hamill - The Big Red One

Chris Helper¹ vs Raquel Welch - One Million Years B.C.

¹NPC assists when rescued.

Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket

Two seminal classics are unofficially adapted.

Silver vs Willard

Shortly after, dude transforms into Animal Mother.

Wait a mo, 'to Kill', as in Born to Kill?

Adam Baldwin's headgear is inscribed with I Am Become Death, a quotation from Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita.

So motto on Joker's helmet was erroneously 'borrowed'.

(Rolls eyes).

Pvt. Pyle

Colonel Kurtz

Sniper

House and floor appears to be lifted from the 'Ride of the Valkyries' sequence.

Digitised image behind high score table looks like the patrol boat scene with Chef and Willard.

Miscellany

I'm far from done.

Nancy vs Marian - Double Dragon

Dr. Richard Muckly vs Belger - Final Fight

Here's a close-up of antagonist.

Before screaming Dr. Robotnik of Sonic the Hedgehog fame, Mega Drive original was released a year later in 1991.

So who (if anyone) was crazy scientist based on?

I have an outlandish theory.

Charles Bronson

How would Britain's most famous prisoner react?

Oh I know.

"SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH! SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU CUNT!... SHUT IT!"

Title screen vs photograph of U.S. Army Sgt. Philip Fink, June 12, 1965

Undeniably similar, yes?

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Enemy vs Lt. Tay

As a whole.

When Murdock learns that Rambo disobeyed orders, rescue mission is aborted.
Lifer holds Trautman at gunpoint and warns him not to be a hero.

And.

Operation Wolf
The location of the concentration camp was sweated out of the enemy.

Finally, I'm going manual overdrive.

Soldier vs John Matrix - Commando

So they made Arnold Schwarzenegger a silhouette.

HA HA HA!

Commander may be from something too, but then again - maybe not.