Iron Tank

Iron Tank
Also known as: Great Tank (JP) Developer: SNK Publisher: SNK Platform: NES Released in JP: July 29, 1988 Released in US: July 1988 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has regional differences.

Iron Tank is a game featuring one of the most pissed-off programmers in the history of the NES.

KNT's Rant

Present at 0x1B518 in both the US and Japanese ROM is a rather colorful rant by Yukio Kaneda, who also programmed Guerrilla War. (Note that line breaks were added for readability; the original contains none.)

PROG. NO KNT DESU.
NINTENDO NO BOKE AHO-KASU SHINE TSUBURERO-
FAMICOM NANKA KIRAIDA-!
Aho no Mr.T!! Koroshitannen!

Original	Japanese	Translated
PROG. NO KNT DESU.	PROGのKNTです。	This is the programmer, KNT.
NINTENDO NO BOKE AHO-KASU SHINE TSUBURERO-	任天堂のボケ、アホ滓！死ね！潰れろ！-	Those asshole scum Nintendo fools! Die! Go bankrupt!
FAMICOM NANKA KIRAIDA-!	ファミコン何か嫌いだ！	I hate the Famicom!!
Aho no Mr.T!! Koroshitannen!	阿呆のMr.T！！殺したんねん！	That idiot, Mr. T!! He fuckin' killed it!

(Translation: GlitterBerri, RahanAkero)

Regional Differences

To do: Crosses, staff roll.

Japan	US

The title screen was redesigned.

Japan	US

All of the Nazi imagery was scrubbed from the US release. The evil mansion at the end of the game was also changed from red to blue.

Credits

The staff members used aliases in the Japanese version, but their real names were used in the USA version:

Role	Japanese	USA
- Art Design -	WARA WARA	Hideki Fujiwara
	CRAZY GON GON GON	Isamu Kawasaki
	MADAKA	Osamu Kamada
	RSHANA	Junko Satoh
- Program -	KNT NO KINCHAN DEATH	Yukio Kaneda
- Music Effect -	J	Masakazu Yuasa
	BINCHAN TANAKA	Toshikazu Tanaka
	KENNY	Kazuhiro Nishida
- Planning -	VENRY	Toshiyuki Nakai
	Mr OBA	Kohzi Obata
- Produce -	Kawasaki Eikichi	Eikichi Kawasaki
- Special Thanks -	Kouno Kazuto	Kazuto Kouno
	Shiochan Minoru	Minoru Shiota
	Kita Kitsuteru	Kituteru Kita

Also, the USA version adds Jim Hernandez to the Special Thanks list.