Heavy Barrel

I recently had another spending spree with http://www.pedrogames.com/.  This time I concentrated on Data East titles.  I'll have post about that later, but one of the games I purchased was Heavy Barrel for Nintendo...

I don't ever recall seeing this game in the arcade, though I've always known one existed. My prior experience with Heavy Barrel was the DOS version which sucked terribly. But the Nintendo version is just dandy.

Heavy Barrel isn't the first angled-top-down war game. Ikari Warriors and Guerrila war (and even Commando) had pretty much perfected the genre. But Heavy Barrel is unique to me because it resembles the NeoGeo game "Shock Troopers". Take a look and decide for yourself: