Guerrilla War

• Title — Guerrilla War • Developer — SNK • Publisher — C64, MS-DOS Data East CPC, ZX Spectrum Imagine Software • Producer — Eikichi Kawasaki • Director — Koji Obata • Programmer — Yukio Kaneda • Composer — NES Kazuhiro Nishida Yoko Osaka Toshikazu Tanaka • Platforms — Arcade, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, NES, ZX Spectrum • Released — ArcadeDecember 1987 NES CPC, ZX Spectrum C64March 1989 • Genre — Run and gun • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

Guerrilla War follows the adventures of two unnamed rebel commandos (Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in the Japanese version) as they raid an unnamed Caribbean island in order to free it from the rule of an unnamed tyrannical dictator. Along the way, players vanquish hordes of enemy soldiers while attempting to rescue hostages (with large score reductions for any hostages killed in the crossfire), collecting weapons from troopers and operating tanks.

As the original title indicates, the game is based on the exploits of revolutionary Che Guevara, and the defeat of the Batista regime in Cuba in the late 1950s. In addition, player 2's character is Fidel Castro, who is ranked fifth in Electronic Gaming Monthlys list of the top ten video game politicians. Nevertheless, fearing anti-Communist sentiments in the West, SNK did a Language localization of the game's dialogue and instruction manual for its North American and European releases. The version of Guevara released for the Japanese Famicom is popular with video game collectors.