Shock Troopers - 2nd Squad - MAME machine

SNK Neo-Geo MVS cart. published 26 years ago:

Shock Troopers - 2nd Squad © 1998 SNK.

More of an update than a full-blown sequel, Shock Troopers - 2nd Squad picks up where the first game - released a year earlier - left off. Once again, one or two players face the might of a terrorist army who are threatening to destroy the world by launching a newly developed weapon-of-mass-destruction if their wishes - to be given absolute control of the newly-founded nation of Billberk - aren't granted.

Like many Neo Geo sequels, 2nd Squad doesn't particularly do anything the original didn't do. There are some improvements, however; graphics have been given a brush up and level design is a little more imaginative than that of the already impressive original.

TECHNICAL
Runs on the SNK "Neo-Geo MVS" hardware.
Game ID: NGM-246

Players: 2
Control: 8-way joystick
Buttons: 3 → [A] Shot attack/Close range attack, [B] Bomb attack, [C] Jump/Get in a vehicle/Get out a vehicle
→ Leon > [A] Spread shot/Combat knife, [B] Power napalm
→ Angel > [A] Front shot/Tear gus, [B] Wide napalm
→ Lulu > [A] Wide shot/Revolver, [B] Normal bomb
→ Toy > [A] Laser shot/Stan gun, [B] Sonic bomb

TRIVIA
Released in October 1998.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Shock Troopers Second Squad, Shock Troopers - PCCB-00355) on 01/1999.

TIPS AND TRICKS
Here are the 4 characters with their codenames and statistics:

• Leon (aka Lion Heart): Speed 1 - Attack 4 - Defense 4 - Evasion 1
• Angel (aka Ceramic Arms): Speed 2 - Attack 3 - Defense 2 - Evasion 3
• Lulu (aka Lightning Eyes): Speed 4 - Attack 1 - Defense 1 - Evasion 3
• Toy (aka Ice Brain): Speed 3 - Attack 2 - Defense 3 - Evasion 2

SERIES

• Shock Troopers [Model NGM-238] (1997)
• Shock Troopers - 2nd Squad [Model NGM-246] (1998)

STAFF
Developed by Saurus.

Exective producer: Nobuyuki Tanaka
Producer: Yasushi Okahara
Exective director: Kenji Ishimoto
Main planner: Mitsuki Pkc Saito
Sub planner: Hotlips
Chief programmer: Jo.
Programmers: Levin Takasaki, Dis, Buttaku H. K
Tool programmer: Hiroaki Torii
Technical adviser: Yuki
Chief front designer: Kurara Kiri
Front designers: Masato Miyoshi, Tsuru-Chang, Michitaka Ishida, Satoshi Ishiguro, Naruhiro Kishimoto
Chief back designer: Miwako Kojima
Back designers: Yuko Hara, Matsumoto Kiyoshi, Kaori Nishioka, Takazumi Hirokawa
Character designer: Aki
Sound producer: Masahiko Hataya
Music composer: Masaki Kase (World Wide Wave)

PORTS

• COMPUTERS:

PC Windows [Steam] (September 28, 2016)
PC Windows [GOG] (2017)

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