Jack is the dude in green with a gun, and Chang is the bald dude beside him.
- The peril came from outer space...A Meteorite entered the Earth's atmosphere bringing chaos...After observations, the scientists found out the meteorite was radioactive and had to be destroyed...Unfortunately, terrorists from G.H.O.S.T want the meteorite too. The Iron Commando's Mission is to retrieve the deadly body and avoid genetic mutation...
Iron Commando: Koutetsu no Senshi is a 1995 arcade Beat 'em Up action game developed by French company Arcade Zone (by Carlos Perconti and Lyes Belaidouni, the same two Frenchmen behind Legend (1994) a year ago) for the SNES.
As detailed in the backstory, a meteorite is en route to crash on planet Earth. While scientists and astrologists are coming up with a plan to neutralize the meteorite threat, a terrorist organization called G.H.O.S.T, wants the meteorite for themselves for reasons unknown. And its up to two agents from the elite Iron Commando Force, Jack the soldier and Chang Li the martial artist, to stop G.H.O.S.T. at all costs.
"It's good to do some exercise."
- Angry Guard Dog: Guard dogs are a minor enemy guarding G.H.O.S.T. compounds, and can be taken down with just a few punches. They tend to be slightly harder to hit due to their size though.
- Auto-Scrolling Level: The "Chase" levels, in which Jack and Chang pursues enemy mooks on motorcycles, trucks, and minecarts.
- Background Boss: The Final Boss, Golgot 21, a Humongous Mecha who stands at the back of a platform trying to attack Jack and Chang in the foreground with its fists.
- Batter Up!: Baseball bats are a recurring item drop, which can be picked up for smashing heads. It has better range than knives and does decent damage in combat.
- Booby Trap: The G.H.O.S.T hideout in the Lost Temple is loaded with traps, from dropping boulders to pitfalls and spiked walls that closes in behind Jack and Chang, and plenty of mooks trying to prevent them from escaping.
- Comet of Doom: The backstory details a potentially harmful meteor about to wipe out all life on earth about to enter the atmosphere. And a terrorist group called G.H.O.S.T. wants it to happen, for some reason, so it's up to Jack and Chang to prevent G.H.O.S.T. from hijacking said meteor.
- Dark Action Girl: The "Tina" enemies, machete-wielding female mooks who can put up quite a fight and shows up regularly in later levels.
- Excuse Plot: The backstory about some meteor about to hit the earth sounds complicated, but it's barely touched upon after the opening scene. The sub-plot about some meteor can easily be skimmed over for all the action and the players won't miss a damn thing.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Come think of it, the Huago brothers - a pair of supernatural deities unleashed by G.H.O.S.T in the Lost Temple - pretty much falls into this. For the whole game you're fighting human enemies, and while the natives in the temple seems to come from nowhere, they at least make sense since you're in an ancient temple in the middle of the jungle. And then suddenly a pair of floating monstrosities with burning skulls in place of their heads and can throw energy blasts from their hands come at you... what?
- Harmless Liquefaction: Mutant Couba, the second-to-last boss, who appears from a septic tank as a humanoid Blob Monster form and can alternate between human and liquid goo forms at will.
- Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: More often than not, mooks armed with knives will try to attack Jack and Chang, even when they're holding firearms. It ends as predictably as you'd expect.
- Minecart Madness: The escape sequence from the Temple have Jack and Chang getting on minecarts and speeding their way out, avoiding pitfalls, obstacles and mooks on other carts. And also battling the second Huago brother on the way out.
- Psycho Knife Nut: The first boss, a vicious mercenary named Big Tom armed with knives, which he wields two at a time. Besides stabbing and slashing he also constantly throws them at Jack and Chang as projectiles, and seems to have an unlimited supply of combat knives.
- Skull for a Head: The Huago brothers from the Lost Temple stage have burning skulls in place of craniums, befitting their supernatural nature.
- Soldier vs. Warrior: Jack, the soldier with a military background, and Chang, the martial arts practitioner with his own philosophies. In that order.
- Throw a Barrel at It: At the end of the motorcycle chase stage, Jack and Chang catches up with the G.H.O.S.T truck, blows it's top off, and must confront the stage's boss, Sam the burly henchman who fling barrels from behind the truck at the heroes.
