Follow-up to Alpha Mission and Bermuda Triangle, placing the player in command of a small ship that must travel across the globe to defeat enemy forces.

Developer: SNK
Publisher: SNK
Available on: Arcade
Original release date: 1987

Articles about World Wars

SNK Essentials: World Wars - The loose “trilogy” of vertically scrolling shoot ’em ups from SNK’s early days that began with Alpha Mission and Bermuda Triangle finally concludes with 1987’s World Wars. Sometimes erroneously described as a reskin of Bermuda Triangle, World Wars offers an interesting blend between the gameplay elements of its two predecessors, and manages to carve out an identity … Continue reading SNK Essentials: World Wars →

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection: (Almost) Perfect Preservation - As the years advance and old gaming hardware and media gets more expensive, harder to find and even more difficult to maintain, the matter of gaming preservation is of increasing importance. I’ve previously talked about how emulation and ROM archives have an important role to play in all this — in spite of interference from … Continue reading SNK 40th Anniversary Collection: (Almost) Perfect Preservation →

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