

Power-ups are obtained by killing a specific amount of enemy soldiers or as bonuses from the prisoners when they are freed from the huts located throughout the first four stages (which are only destroyable with arrows). However, enemies can shoot upwards in diagonal. When the player moves downward, they will have his weapon aimed upwards. Unlike the aforementioned games, the player can only shoot his weapons in five directions (left, up, right, or diagonally up-left or up-right), even though movement is allowed for all eight basic directions. A second player can join-in anytime during the first stage as well until the second stage, in which the game will end for either player if one loses all of their lives. The player starts off the game with three lives and gains a new one every time he completes stage. The objective of the game is to fight through the enemy's defenses, reach the gate at the end of each stage and then defeat as many enemy reinforcements as possible until the gate starts flashing in different colors. A second player can play at the same time and control Rambo's partner Zane (a character created for the game), who wears a yellow headband.

The first player controls Rambo, who is armed with an M-60 machine gun with unlimited ammunition (which can only fire two shots on-screen) and a limited supply of explosive arrows used to take out tougher obstacles such as tanks and gates. Rambo is an overhead action shoot-'em-up in the vein of Commando and Ikari Warriors. A separate game based on the same film had previously been released on the 8-bit computers. Another version was released in Europe and Australia titled Secret Command ( Secret Commando on its title screen), which also lacked the Rambo license. It was originally released in Japan as Ashura (阿修羅), where it was released without the Rambo license. Rambo: First Blood Part II (simply titled " Rambo" in-game) is an overhead action shoot-'em-up video game loosely based on the film Rambo: First Blood Part II that was released in North America by Sega for the Master System in 1986.
