Combat School

Combat School
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Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Distributor(s)	Konami, Ocean Software
Platform(s)	Arcade, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Release	April 2, 1987
Genre(s)	Track and Field
CPU	Z80 cpu @ 1.5 MHz M6309 cpu @ 5 MHz
Sound	YM-2203 audio @ 3.5 MHz uPD7759 audio @ 0.64 MHz
Display	Raster, 256×224 pixels (Horizontal), 128 colors

Combat School (コンバットスクール, Konbatto Sukūru^?, distributed in North America as Boot Camp), is a 1987 arcade game produced by Konami where the player takes control of a military recruit who is undergoing basic training at a United States Marine Corps Recruit Training camp, also known as a boot camp.

The control panel consists of a trackball and two buttons with different functions depending on the event. The game can be played against a CPU-controlled opponent or a second player. Player 1 takes control of Nick, a brown-haired recruit in an orange shirt, while Player 2 is Joe, a blond-haired recruit in a blue shirt. The game system is similar to Konami's Track & Field series.

The game is composed of seven training events whom the player must complete. Upon a near-success failure to complete an event (failing too severely results in game over), the player must do a set number of chin ups as punishment (this chance is given only once) in order to continue into the succeeding events, or it's game over. The events are as followed:

After all seven events are cleared, the player graduates from basic training only to be sent on a mission (the 8th and the final stage) to rescue the U.S. President from armed terrorists. The final stage consist of a single side-scrolling level where the player must fight off terrorists using all the skills acquired during the course of training. This stage can only be played by one player. Without a continue feature, without spare stocks of lives, and the player dies with one hit (minus the part that pits you in a hand-to-hand combat against the terrorist leader) from anything, the final stage is extremely difficult to clear.