Who needs Black Ops Cold War when Konami’s Green Beret has returned? [Destructoid]

If you haven’t gotten enough Cold War action from Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops entry, then retro publisher Hamster are offering a more old-school peek behind The Iron Curtain this week, thanks to its latest Arcade Archives release.
Originally released in arcades in 1985 – before being ported to a plethora of home computers and consoles – Konami’s Green Beret, (also known as Rush’n Attack), sees a lone special forces agent infiltrate a Russian military base on a mission to rescue a party of P.O.W.s from behind enemy lines. This notoriously tough arcade sees our hero charge into battle against an entire battalion of soldiers armed with only a small knife, literally stabbing his way endlessly through an onslaught of military personnel.
Check out the action below, in this video from YouTuber Retrogaming Longplays.

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