Absolutely Love this game! My friends and I spent an insane amount of quarters on this at our local arcades. I still play it to this day on the Capcom Classics Collection Vol.1 for Playstation.

Oh, SWEET, this is one of my all time favorites! It was ported so well on the Genesis, especially with the "Original" edition, addition. Mercs is the underrated Contra to me. *After watching now, great job as always! Want to mention, the Genesis version has a rapid fire option that makes that version of the game even better.

Commando is one of the games of my childhood (amstrad cpc version) but i'd never realize Mercs was a sequeal till a few years ago. Thanks for the video, you speak so clear and slow... Perfect for the non english native like me!!

Loved playing the Genesis version and the arcade version of Capcom Arcade Collection.

yes!!! this was such a great game. thank you for bringing back the memories. i still hear the arcades and smell the mall food court. great job!!!

A timeless classic.

I'll never forget the first time I saw this game at the arcades, I couldn't get enough of it with my friends. It always stuck with me at how when the mercs get dropped off at the beach by the helicopter, the soldiers get out to secure the area and salute them with that intro music in the background. Definitely a highlight of the arcade era.

Mercs on the Megadrive was and still is my favourite Megadrive game of all time - original mode is tremendous fun. Great video as always Pat, thanks. Happpeee little viewer 😂

I loved this game so much. Great memories

That Mercs remake looks pretty great. I never knew about it until this video. I think I will give it a try.

Mercs was so awesome when it came out in Arcades, played the hell out of it and Final Fight!

You gotta do Caliber .50 next, such a weird game. I played the hell out of it over a few years at a local pizza place back in the day until I could almost one credit it.

That SNES Capcom jingle at the beginning......... Along with the presentation of the best KZfaq channel ever.......... Makes me think of lots of positive things!! Especially now that summer's coming to an end!!! YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!

Count me in as one of those that didn’t realize it was a sequel to Commando until a few years ago. I played this at the local Sega’s Time Out arcade as a break between Street Fighter and MK. Picked up the Genesis version and played that a ton as a kid. I revisit it every once and a while.

Almost the end of the week perfect time for one of your awesome videos. Keep up the good work my man

One of my favourite run & guns EVER. I played the arcade version on the Capcom Generations Vol. 4 for the PlayStation 1 and also on the Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 for the PlayStation 2.

I've been watching all your videos - top notch, sir! I particularly like when you show off all the different home computer/console versions!

Excellent documentary as always, Patman! Great games and a blast to play😁

I had it as a 8 year old on sega megadrive and absolutely loved it , I had it all the way upto secondary school and still never got past the train boss part . I bought it again for 99p on the capcom collection as a separate on sale with progear , powered gear and giga wing ,cyberbots and these games would absolutely distroy your bank balance seriously in an arcade. I don't know about coin killer, they would send your money to hell and back and send you the bill!!! .... yeah I finished mercs eventually aged 40

Always good to see a new upload!

Great video. This brought happy old memories, I used to love Mercs and played this with an old school friend and we pumped so much cash into it. Totally worth it.

Always happy to see a new video, keep up the great work.

WOW! How have never seen or heard of this game?! This is right up my alley. Great work, Pat! Thanks!

Another great episode as always. I loved Mercs (still do) and threw a ton of quarters in that machine back in the day, and to this day I still suck balls at it. You know it's a good game when you're terrible at it for 30+ years and still play it from time to time.

Thank you. Love your videos. ♥️

Another funny and truly immersive video. Wonderful job.

I love your videos, good sir. Keep 'em coming.

How have I never heard of this game?!? The arcade game still looks fun in 2022!

Capcom in the 90s was unstoppable! One thing that keeps me plugging along through middle age is firing up games like Mercs, UN Squad, Magic Sword and Street Fighter II on weekends with the speakers blaring.

Love your videos and humor..great content

Thanks Pacmanqc great work Sir

Another stellar video!

I loved mercs back in the day. The Sega version was awesome too.

Good stuff. Thanks for the video.

This game, characters, music, script; all are pure 80's movie and pop culture.

Top vid as always

MERCS 🙌🏻 Freak yeah 😎 I had it on the Genesis and it was one of my favorite games, that first level music is still playing inside my head 🙌🏻

It never occurred to me that Commando and Bionic Commando were the same series until you mentioned Super Joe and I remembered him being mentioned in Bionic Commando.

My friends and I playing at the Huskie Den. Bowling and Mercs. Good times… sadly only 3 of the 5 of us left from those days.

RAD!!! we were lucky snuff to have an Amiga and this was one of my faves, didn't even realise I had the Japanese version for Switch on their Arcade compilation!!! great channel thanks for the vids!

I saw this game at my local arcade and thought it looked way cool. I was happy to see it was on my PS2 Capcom Collection. Thanks Patman

The best retro gaming Channel, you will find the amazing history of the games,arcade,console and more 👍🎮👍

Always loved this game but I feel that Shock Troopers perfected this style of game. Another awesome video Patman.

The local corner store, a place my parents mostly bought cigarettes, also weirdly had a Mercs cabinet for a short period of time. No other arcade machines, just Mercs in the corner opposite the video rental section. And we're talking corner store size, beyond the rental and magazines it was all just snacks. Sadly it was only there for maybe a handful of months around 90/91 so by the time I was old enough to walk down there on my own it was gone. Didn't get much of a chance to play it until compilations years later.

Oh man I'm all excited... I'm gonna play the shit out of this tonight!!

I didn't even realize Commando had a true sequel until I found it on the PS2 compilation.. It's basically Contra & Metal Slug but top down.. Good stuff!

I was not aware this game was related to Commando; thanks for another fun, informative video!

This game is on Nintendo Switch and Xbox and Playstation under Capcom arcade stadium

Love this game. Great review

How come I've never seen this game?? It looks great!! Thanks again Patman for heads up!! Time to emulate!😏😁

Great video.

How many arcade games were based on saving a kidnapped person? From the time of Donkey Kong, if not sooner, the easiest video game plot was about killing hundreds due to a single kidnapping. The president, the president's daughter, the mayor's daughter, your karate master's daughter, a princess, your girlfriend, your princess girlfriend, your cow girlfriend, POWs, a secret agent, the guy from a previous video game, Aerosmith...the list goes on. When you've got only a few seconds worth of scenes to get the plot going, kidnapping is the answer.

Hmmm I still play Mercs up too this day is one of my favorite arcade game next to Rastan 👾🎮👾👊🏽

Oh man, My friend and I would always play this at the movie theater after the movie. Thanks for doing Mercs.

Wow! Slipped under my radar. I never knew this game existed. Thanks for the video. 👍

The faster you blow the faster you go!🤣🤣🤣🤣 You slay me! You've got the best dad jokes out there!

I used to always pop a few quarters in this one back in the day but could never commit myself to completing it because it was so easy to die. I ended up beating it on the home console and loved the Commando reboot on XBOX Live arcade.

I was expecting you to talk about how you have to assemble a super weapon by collecting all six parts. Turns out that my memory had grown rusty over the decades: I had confused Mercs with Heavy Barrel.

Played the hell out of this in co-op with buddies at a Ft Bragg satellite PX. Had a lot of fun with it, but it was replaced by Arch Rivals by the time we got back from Desert Storm😔

The return of the wife jokes!! I love it.

This was one of the games I would always gravitate towards in the arcade when I was a kid. Even if I sucked at it, it was always worth the quarter for the few minutes I could play. Is it just me, or are some of the sound effects you played from the arcade version very reminiscent of some from the GI Joe arcade game?

Good game, played this one in the arcades back in the day.

Sorry it's not senhō but Senjō no ōkami. By the way, I just love your videos. Thank you for your great work. Greetings from France

glad I was able to pick up "Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3" on the PS3 PSN years ago, these games are fun

Wild, I never knew this was Commando 2. I'd always thought of Bionic Commando as the sequel, and maybe this one as the third.

this was a pretty fun game. beated it on the compilation.

Shock Troopers looks like it lifted a lot of its ideas from Mercs. I'll have to give Mercs a try eventually on Launchbox.

MERCS was a great game for the SEGA Genesis, which had both the arcade & original modes.

Another great history outline on a game. My suggestion: do a video on a notoriously bad game with the intro "Crappy little games". 😆

Yes, everyone who was old enough knew this was a Commando sequel. We weren’t idiots, it plays just like Commando.

We like a lot of the same games, and this is no exception, such a great game. Although they should've called it it commando returns to directly tie it in to the first one.

Cool, one of my all-time favorite arcade games. Didn't know there was a potential bad ending if you took too long on the final boss.

Broke my heart that the genesis version wasn't multi-player. I loved that game

I liked the arcade the couple of times i played it back in the day. Didn't have a chance often

I had Commando for the NES, but i never played the arcade version. I don't recall ever playing Merc. I really like the arcade version of Ikari Warriors. I need to get all these games for PS2

I don't recall ever getting to join in on a three player assault but I'm sure it would've been awesome.

I adored this game. Arcade and megadrive.

Couldn't help but think of patman when I opened the xbox marketplace this morning and saw PBA Pro Bowling 2023 is in the new releases lol

I'd love to see this get an HD remake, or even just 16:9 with online multiplayer.

Another great video. Did you notice the MERCS logo is in the same style as the word NERDS in the revenge of the nerds movie poster? I'm pretty sure nerds came out in 84 so maybe they got the idea from that.

Man, that thumbnail Screams testosterone

I didn’t even about the SQL game thanks bro.

Never saw this one in the arcades. Seems like a decent game.

the soundtrack waz bangin.

I was never much of a fan of Commando (I sucked at it), but I absolutely loved Mercs.

That super sexy cps1 hardware u showed cost me do much money because i had no idea about the suicide battery issue with it disabling the software forever. I finalized cane across the pheonixing fix and now im one happy man. Hard 220 dollar lesson learned.....over a ten cent battery

Thanks

Never played MERCS, but I think I'll MAME it one of these days. Hey Patman, what about doing an episode on Pang!, Super Pang!, Pang! 3 and Mighty! Pang? (kind of a weird placement for the exclamation point...) Anyway, I think the games were called Buster Brothers, Super Buster Brothers and Buster Buddies in the States. I don't know about Mighty! Pang in the states because I only recently discovered it on MAME, but I think it is honestly the best in the series, followed by Pang! 3. When I was stationed in Louisiana in the late 90s, the PX near my barracks had Pang!3 so I got quite good at it.

Insanely Retro Good fun!

The one true sequel to Commando. There would eventually be a Commando 3 but ...

This game was so good. I traded my friend Growl for this on Genesis. But you could die super quick if you didn't take your time until you know what's coming. I wonder what this game would have played like if it had a twin stick or a rotary joystick like Heavy Barrel.

Hey Patman, Does your wife know that you crack jokes about her in good fun? "Drop faster than I do after smelling my wife's SBDs." I needed a good laugh. Thank you.

These contra like games remind me of the Salamander/Life Force Games. Also the Imari warrior games , Heavy Barrel.

Hey ZX Spectrum guy, how do you prepare for battle? "I just blue myself"

Just to add, Commando, MERCS, & Bionic Commando are all the same series 😎.

I had no idea it was basically Commando 2.

Hope you’re feeling better now.

One my fav. Bee cool if do remake

Capcom had high hopes that MERCS would hold its own against the TMNT arcade game and even nicknamed it the "turtle killer". That probably was a bit too arrogant on their part but it was an awesome game, especially the flamethrower 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍😁😁😁‼️‼️ PS I always thought that the MERC was Guile before he went to join the hand to hand mayhem in Street Fighter 2! I guess you learn something new every day.

I've never even heard of Mercs.