Bionic Commando, originally released as Hitler's Resurrection: Top Secret[a] in Japan, is a 1988 platform video game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

[3]: 4  Ladd is equipped with a mechanical arm featuring a grappling gun, allowing him to pull himself forward or swing from the ceiling.

Bionic Commando is a platform game in which the player controls Ladd, whose mission is to rescue Super Joe and to stop the Albatros project.

[4] When Ladd descends into an Area, the player must choose which equipment to take along,[5]: 10–12  and is then dropped into a sidescrolling platforming level.

Players can extend his bionic arm overhead, directly in front, and above at a 45-degree angle, and can grapple to higher platforms, swing across chasms, and pick up items.

Additional equipment such as weapons, protective gear, and communications devices can be found by clearing Areas or finding them in levels, some of which are vital to progressing further in the game.

Federation Forces discover top secret documents about "Albatros", an unfinished project developed by the Empire's predecessor, the "Badds" (also known as the "Nazz"[5]: 4  or Nazis in the Japanese version).

[5]: 4 [4] Ladd is a member of the FF (Double Force) Battalion, a team of commandos specially trained to use wired guns to infiltrate enemy bases.

However, the one person vital to the project's completion, Master-D (Hitler), is dead, and Generalissimo Killt has been unsuccessfully trying to resurrect him.

After doing so, Super Joe tells Ladd to defeat Killt and escape while he goes to destroy the base's power source.

[5]: 4 [7] The Imperial Army's Swastika insignia was changed to a symbol resembling the eagle emblem used by Nazi Germany; and the leader of the villains, originally called Weizmann in the Japanese version,[3]: 4  was renamed Killt, although the soldiers and characters keep their same Nazi-like appearance.

[8] One of the most prominent differences is the identity of the ultimate antagonist of the game, who is meant to be a revived Adolf Hitler in the Japanese version.

A second remake, Bionic Commando Rearmed, was developed by Grin and released in 2008 as a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows.

The main character is identified as Jack Markson, who loses an arm when ninjas attack his hotel room and kidnap Super Joe.

The Federation replaces his missing limb with a bionic arm that has a grappling hook and a number of other gadgets that are not featured in the game, like a flame thrower and a device that forces prisoners to tell the truth.

Like most books in the series, violence was toned down to non-lethality in most cases (he usually shoots enemy soldiers with tranquilizers), although certain events, like the deaths of Hal and Killt, are kept.