There was another game that ran on the Commando hardware that never saw a release for the NES: Hyper Dyne Side Arms (1986). This Capcom effort is a horizontal (and vertical)-scrolling sh'm'up game in the style of such early Konami titles as Scramble, Super Cobra and Gradius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjFY0QQ8EKE
~Ben