Bazooka Bill
Bazooka Bill is a side-scrolling video game created by Melbourne House in 1985 for the Commodore 64. It was also ported to the ZX Spectrum. It is a clone of the video game Green Beret. The game starts off with a soldier known as Bazooka Bill on a mission to rescue General Douglas MacArthur.
Gameplay
Bazooka Bill has to rescue General MacArthur who is being held on an archipelago consisting of the Leyte, Mindano and Corregidor Islands, making up levels 2-4 of the game. The first level tasks Bill with getting to Clark Airbase to fly to each island where he is accosted by enemy soldiers and must fight his way through them.The player can use punches, a throwing knife, machine gun, flamethrower, and later a bazooka. With the exception of punching, each weapon is picked up as Bill moves through the level, and lasts for a timed duration before reverting Bill back to basic punching. Despite the game name, the bazooka only appears as a timed weapon on stages two and four.
Each level is in the run and gun format, with enemies approaching Bill from both sides of the screen. Levels also include helicopters out of Bill's range, that drop bombs on him as they pass. After completing each main level a sub-level consists of Bill flying to the next island. These stages are similar to the previous run and gun format with enemy planes and helicopters approaching Bill from both directions, but Bill has movement over the entire screen to engage or avoid them.