M.I.A.: Missing in Action - Arcade - last boss & ALL e
The game is a spiritual successor to Rush'n Attack.
There were three versions of M.I.A.: versions S and T, which were produced for the American and international markets, and a Japanese version. In some versions, the order of the first four stages is randomized. In the Japanese version, every second stage scrolls from left-to-right instead of right-to-left as in the international versions.
If you fail to keep at least one hostage alive, you'll get some sort of bad end.
No differences are shown on screen if you save every hostage or just only a bunch of them.
Many many many many thanks to @GirolamoReadyToPlay for playing this game with me, trying several time the last part of the game, to see if saving everyone could hide some surprise :D
This video is part of the videogame endings database, whose goal is to catalogue and create the world's largest archive of videogame endings! (what an humble and not ambitious project :D)
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