non-stop in this attractive shoot 'em up". Legacy Front Line was one of the first video games to feature a ground combat theme and grenades, a precursor to many similarly-themed games of the mid-to-late 1980s. It was one of the earliest overhead run and gun video games, preceding Capcom's Commando (1985) by several years. Front Line was the basis for SNK's TNK III (1985), known as T.A.N.K. in Japan and Europe. A programmer from SNK discovered Front Line at an arcade and thought that SNK could go further with the gameplay format. The team improved on Front Line with the addition of a rotary joystick. In turn, SNK went on to combine elements of T.A.N.K. with Commando (1985) to produce the arcade hit Ikari Warriors (1986). Jaleco's Field Combat (1985) also has similar gameplay to Front Line. A Game Boy Color spin-off entitled Sgt. Rock: On the Frontline was published by Taito in 2000. The game follows the template of the original arcade game, but is set within the DC Comics universe. The arcade original was included in Taito Memories Gekan for the PlayStation 2 console in 2005, and in Taito Legends 2 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Windows platforms in 2006. The Famicom version was released for the Virtual Console service in Japan in June 2007 for the Wii and January 2014 for the Nintendo 3DS. The game was released for the Switch via the Nintendo eShop in February 2019 by Hamster Corporation as part of their Arcade Archives series. It was released for the PlayStation 4 in January 2018 as part of the same series. Notes References External links 1982 video games Arcade video games Atari 2600 games ColecoVision games FM-7 games MSX games NEC PC-6001 games NEC PC-8801 games NEC PC-9801 games Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo Switch games PlayStation 4 games Sharp MZ games Sharp X1 games Tank simulation video games Virtual Console games Taito arcade games Taito SJ System games Video games developed in Japan Hamster Corporation games Multiplayer and single-player video games