Total Carnage/Gameplay

Controls

 * Left Joystick: Use the left 8-way joystick to direct Captain Carnage (or Major Mayhem if you are player 2) around each battlefield to avoid enemies.
 * Right Joystick: Use the right 8-way joystick to make Captain Carnage (or Major Mayhem, if you are player 2) fire shots at enemies to destroy them.
 * 1 or 2 Player Buttons: Push these buttons to begin the game as player 1 or player 2; they can also be pushed during gameplay to lay a time bomb.

Doomsday Squad
The protagonists of the game; Player 1 controls Captain Carnage (who is shown to the left), while Player 2 controls Major Mayhem (who is shown to the right). Both players must use their left joysticks to direct the soldiers around each battlefield, while avoiding enemies, collecting bonuses (which now come in the form of new weapons, jewels and United States flags) and saving news reporters and other civilians - and they must also use their right joysticks to fire shots from their weapons at General Akhboob's mutants and kill them. In case of extreme emergencies, they can also push their Start Buttons to lay a time bomb (they begin with three and can collect up to a maximum of nine) or call in an air-to-surface missile strike; they will also lose one life whenever they are hit by an enemy or anything that is fired at them by one, but by collecting the 220 keys which have been hidden throughout the game's three missions, they may enter the "Pleasure Dome" (which has been carried over from Revision 8.00 of Smash T.V.) at the end.