"Bellowing Atmosphere") in Japan and Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road in North America,[4] is a run and gun video game released by SNK for arcades in 1986.
The original arcade game featured an 8-way rotary joystick that could be twisted in place to rotate the onscreen character allowing the player to face in one of eight directions while moving in another.
The game reuses the single-stage design from its predecessor, but added mini-stages where players fight a boss when entered through the green door.
In Japan, Game Machine listed Victory Road on their December 1, 1986 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
[5] The Spanish magazine Microhobby reviewed the ZX Spectrum version of the game with the following scores: Originality: 20%; Graphics: 70%; Motion: 70%; Sound: 70%; Difficulty: 90%; Addiction: 80%.