I will never forget this music. I've been thinking about this since my childhood. It was so around 1990. I could hear this music for hours at a time - it's just unbelievable. I am now almost 40 years old. And when I'm dying of old age I will still remember this game / music. There are still some other video games with an epic music. But this is not to beat.
It's still too hard. Games back then were so unforgiving and not explaining well to the player why certain actions were not good. It worked cause there were no better games around but oh boy, today I couldn't play this anymore. I'd rather watch somebody play and save myself the frustration
Lost Patrol was the first really atmospheric game of my lifetime. That feeling of constant dread and pressure was absolutely unique. Never completed it though, nice to see that even the ending text is echoing the game's sincerity. I'd like a full 3D roguelike remake, please.
I remember playing this as a teen. Multiple ten minute naps always restored 2 stamina and morale each, to everyone. You just set the rations on full and rested like that whenever anyone was hurt and it didn't use any rations. Then you just dig in when it's too dark to move. I got to Du Hoc only losing one man that way, back in the day.
I really do not remember the tactics that i had used 25 years ago..but i remember that i arrived once at Duhoc without Bloom..and was so sad because of him..hahaha..really miss beaing a kid...hahaha
Somehow i remember that there was a limit to that as well. One had to walk a thin line between enough and too many naps, at least that is stuck in my head. Maybe im wrong.
Thanks so much for this! Tonight I was able to beat this game, about 28 years after my last attempt! Cheers! If anyone's having trouble finding the correct Amiga version of the game, the [cr QTX] version worked fine. The [cr Angels] version kills Weaver the first time the map scrolls.
I was 10 and spent all my birthday money on this game after looking at screenshots in Amiga Format. When I got it home it was way too advanced for me but I loaded it up all the time just for the music :-)
I only ever managed to complete this game once, and that was only because everybody died except Weaver (the leader), which meant that I didn't have to worry about troop morale or sharing food around. I remember the last half an hour being a tension extraviganza every time I clicked the mouse button!
Man, no one would make that kind of game any more. No save points, no tutorials, no hand-holding, no bullshit. Pitted against overwhelming odds, constantly being screwed by the game. Today kids would cry they eyes out. I remember hours upon hours spent replaying this game and getting screwed literally 2cm from the base. Good ol'times
Try "The darkest Dungeon". It's a quite cheap indy game on steam. It begins with the oh so true text "This game is making the worst out of a bad situation." You can't save as well, every death is permanently. It's not like Lost Patrol, but they are going the old way.
These games were far inferior to what we have today. We just remember them as greater because we weren't as saturated on games back then. If somebody had shown me a 2019 game in the mid-80's, I'd probably have an orgasm. The only way this game is better than anything today is in the nostalgic way.
Erik i tend to semi agree; today's games might have more room for complexity, but the majority of the games waste that potential on graphics and trivial, dumbed down gameplay to sell to the masses. Even today with games being abundant you have to look a bit around to find the gems. The old games where quite restricted by the low-tech state of the art from today's POV and they just had a different approach to difficulty and gameplay; they made the best out of what they had. So it is quite different; these old games aren't per se better over worse, but they sure as heck are totally different. Therefore, subjectively for some these games really are better, because of the very specific gameplay they offer, that you basically don't find today or only in indie-game settings.
Talking about flashbacks. This is the game that made me buy an Amiga (along It came from the desert). I did finish it at the time, even without the SAVE as it didnt work. The easiest way to finish it was to choose a path to avoid towns, roads and bunkers and disengage from most enemy contacts (except the hand-to-hand part). Not realy much fun but it worked, and intrestingly it is also the most sensible thing to do for an actual squad lost behind enemy lines.
I remember playing this game with my older brother back in the day. We never made it through though. For some reason the Platoon Leader had been killed by someone in the team, every single time. I heard that this was a unique copyright protection but we have had the original version. I know that we also used the 10 minute Power Nap, as soldiers wouldn’t consume food during that time. We read this hint in an Amiga Magazine. P.S. The guy doesn’t know how to utilise the grenades well during a firefight.
good times back in my childhood playing this game, entire gang was all clued to the screen trying to help out getting the patrol back home. And this Music, as Drfaul putt it, this Music has been stuck in my head for all these years. 10/10
This guy is so good at the game too that a lot of the mechanics don't even come into it. Food and morale issues from travelling too quickly or persistently is a thing. If you enter a village there are many options you can take to do with interrogating and searching, probably the same is true if you ever got into an NVA base (I wasn't able to). Also there is a fighting minigame where your scout gets into hand to hand combat with another enemy scout and a mine clearing minigame as well as you approach some of the bases. I wonder how much other stuff I never saw.
Wow, I never knew about the mine-clearing minigame! If you ask the village guy questions he sometimes tells you if there's a VC patrol in the area, so you can avoid it (by travelling slowly).
I remember playing this and then watchin "platoon B in Vietnam" a tv-series. I loved me som Zeke and also that guy who played Joeys buddy in "Joey" u know that guy!
@@Erik-vp5bm _"that show is called Tour of Duty_ *everywhere else"* --- I'd say, "everywhere else" is an exaggeration: Argentina - Nam, primer pelotón Brazil - Combate no Vietnã France - Commando Viêt-nam // L'enfer du devoir Germany - Nam: Dienst in Vietnam // Operation Vietnam Italy - Vietnam addio Peru - Nam, la misión del deber Poland - Rok w piekle Soviet Union (Russian title) - Срок службы Spain - Camino al infierno // Nam: El regreso Sweden - Pluton B i Vietnam UK - Tour of Duty USA - Tour of Duty Venezuela - Pelotón del deber
Loved the game, especially the sniper section. Seeing that brief muzzle flash & finally nailing him was SO satisfying! I'm shocked by the poor spelling & grammar in the "win" message on completion - never noticed that at the time 😮
I remember my copy of the game came with a cassette tape with the '19' Destruction Remix' by Poul Hardcastle. I never was able to make it back alive, I always ended up getting killed by booby traps or losing to morale loss after 'doing' VC villages..
I`ve never played this game... :/ My cousin gave me his Amiga 500 with games, but the Lost Patrol game was damaged :( But IMO the soundtrack is supposed to be a most trance-sending ever ;P
Low food rations and plenty of rest. That's how i beat the game. Barely. Only 3 guys made it. I played together with a guy who was a commando soldier in Iraqi army. The other dude was a Jew from Kazachstan. We went to the same language course for immigrants. The Iraqi dude wanted to play tactical and take the long way home. We didn't make it far. Sweden 1992. Ps. I beat the game when playing solo. The feeling of being vulnerable felt true. Game was a great experience.
Thats one lazy patrol :D 10 min rests nonstop hehe love this game, remember when i played it for the first time, got myself killed by a grenade in my backpack by my own platoon.
The excesive dificult of this games make it lake of playing hours...but it remains in the memory like a great amiga game with high graphic ans sound capacity,.
Main bug of this game was to be discovered by scientifically minded people: it was always better to make 6x10min rests than 60min rest. There was always better to have 6x10min rests than one hour sleep. The rest was about pushing against steepest hills, normal speed giving patrol detection chance, avoiding as much interaction as possible, at the edge of starvation, even sacrifying one-two wounded as they were living dead since the helicopter crash even without knowing it.
Kind of an open ending.. I wish there was a text crawl showing what all the army guys you saved did after Vietnam. i want to know they all made it back home alive :C
I forgot the name of the game, so I searched it for about 2 hours today on Google. And I found it!!!!!!!! brings so many memories back, when I played it in 1990. I was 10 then, and didn't know what I was doing, but 1 time I got to a village, and ended up murdering everyone :))
The only thing I found was you could kill off your own men using traps, so food lasts longer and can dispose soldier who challange your leadarship. Make a trap set the soldier you want to get rid of as scout/point and backtrack. I did come very close to the base using this tactic only to step on a mine.... poetic justice? Did never managed to finish the game.
Seems like a good tactic would have been to first obtain lots of food, then kill off all men except two (you should have had one backup man and pointman to take all the risks for you just in case)
![The Lost Patrol "All Minigames" [Amiga]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EQ_adlFprZg/mqdefault.jpg)
![The Lost Patrol "All Minigames" [Amiga]](/img/tr.png)
This music!! I had it in my ears for 25 years without hearing it again.
That's strange right? Me too.... it's a strong earworm :)
Same here. Bloody hard game...
Here too, i came to refresh my memory... I nearly forgot
THE MUSIC!...WE LOVE IT!
❤️
I will never forget this music. I've been thinking about this since my childhood. It was so around 1990.
I could hear this music for hours at a time - it's just unbelievable.
I am now almost 40 years old. And when I'm dying of old age I will still remember this game / music.
There are still some other video games with an epic music.
But this is not to beat.
type in mitch murder lost patrol. you are welcome.
Same here brother
@@jootai that was excellent. D4XX just released a remix of this song, and I came here to check out what kind of game this was.🙂
👍👍😉😉😉😍😍
When I was a kid this game was way too hard... Thanks for the memories!
i know that feeling, i played it as well, even worst.. i am not a english native 😂
Me too! I caught syphilis playing this game!
It's still too hard. Games back then were so unforgiving and not explaining well to the player why certain actions were not good. It worked cause there were no better games around but oh boy, today I couldn't play this anymore. I'd rather watch somebody play and save myself the frustration
Lost Patrol was the first really atmospheric game of my lifetime. That feeling of constant dread and pressure was absolutely unique. Never completed it though, nice to see that even the ending text is echoing the game's sincerity. I'd like a full 3D roguelike remake, please.
That music just blew me away. As soon as I heard it again. Ha ha ha. Man this takes me back. I loved my Amiga/s. Still in the loft.
So power naps are the secret to beating this game. That's, um...Well, not something I'd have guessed when I was playing this as a kid, certainly.
I remember playing this as a teen. Multiple ten minute naps always restored 2 stamina and morale each, to everyone. You just set the rations on full and rested like that whenever anyone was hurt and it didn't use any rations. Then you just dig in when it's too dark to move. I got to Du Hoc only losing one man that way, back in the day.
Having now watched the video, I didn't rest this often! This player rests when he doesn't need to.
I really do not remember the tactics that i had used 25 years ago..but i remember that i arrived once at Duhoc without Bloom..and was so sad because of him..hahaha..really miss beaing a kid...hahaha
Somehow i remember that there was a limit to that as well.
One had to walk a thin line between enough and too many naps, at least that is stuck in my head. Maybe im wrong.
Yeah, I was working them pretty hard and giving them long rests and stuff. LOL
This music always gives me goosebumps. Love it! My favorite game.
The soundtrack is, just, a, killer!
Thanks so much for this! Tonight I was able to beat this game, about 28 years after my last attempt! Cheers!
If anyone's having trouble finding the correct Amiga version of the game, the [cr QTX] version worked fine. The [cr Angels] version kills Weaver the first time the map scrolls.
Miss the early 90s, the sunny mornings or rainy days, the relaxed vibe... of course things were not like paradise, but much more better than nowadays.
I was 10 and spent all my birthday money on this game after looking at screenshots in Amiga Format. When I got it home it was way too advanced for me but I loaded it up all the time just for the music :-)
I only ever managed to complete this game once, and that was only because everybody died except Weaver (the leader), which meant that I didn't have to worry about troop morale or sharing food around. I remember the last half an hour being a tension extraviganza every time I clicked the mouse button!
Normally you lose when you're down to the last guy, or at least when it's time to sleep as you have no-one to keep watch over you.
Man, no one would make that kind of game any more.
No save points, no tutorials, no hand-holding, no bullshit.
Pitted against overwhelming odds, constantly being screwed by the game.
Today kids would cry they eyes out. I remember hours upon hours spent replaying this game and getting screwed literally 2cm from the base.
Good ol'times
Try "The darkest Dungeon". It's a quite cheap indy game on steam. It begins with the oh so true text "This game is making the worst out of a bad situation." You can't save as well, every death is permanently.
It's not like Lost Patrol, but they are going the old way.
That Sounds very much like the From Soft games.
i played this game 1990+ wirh a Amiga 500 - was fun, but never finished it - thanks for seeing it here - and nice to hear the music again
Good old times... The kids today dont know what they missed
You don't know what you're missing out today.
THE LOST PATROL is the best war survival game, i have ever played. Gotta find it for my Amiga 500 - again. And most of all... Great soundtrack. 😺👍🕹️
28 years, and I have completely forgotten that game...but never the music.
One of my favorite Amiga Games!
this song is so ferect even if it has just some short samples, i can listen on it in hours and I don't get bored...so legendary make some more !
These games were much better than the games today.
Good old times :)
Yes Amigo.. But... I never came to the end... Days or weeks i spent my time.. Thx to the uploader... Pete
cracksi001 yeah Good old times.. I wont See the end.. Of that vid now.. Lol.. No cheating anymore lol
Haha are they shite! I think you're just experiencing what we call nostalgia my friend
These games were far inferior to what we have today. We just remember them as greater because we weren't as saturated on games back then. If somebody had shown me a 2019 game in the mid-80's, I'd probably have an orgasm. The only way this game is better than anything today is in the nostalgic way.
Erik i tend to semi agree; today's games might have more room for complexity, but the majority of the games waste that potential on graphics and trivial, dumbed down gameplay to sell to the masses. Even today with games being abundant you have to look a bit around to find the gems. The old games where quite restricted by the low-tech state of the art from today's POV and they just had a different approach to difficulty and gameplay; they made the best out of what they had. So it is quite different; these old games aren't per se better over worse, but they sure as heck are totally different. Therefore, subjectively for some these games really are better, because of the very specific gameplay they offer, that you basically don't find today or only in indie-game settings.
This, Lemmings and Hostages were the first games i played on the Amiga 500.
This is like the inspiration for the music in every 90's tactical game.
This and the intro track from Shadow of the Beast are the two best scores ever made on the Amiga.
I always liked to talk to the peasant.
"Do you have toilet paper?"
Talking about flashbacks. This is the game that made me buy an Amiga (along It came from the desert).
I did finish it at the time, even without the SAVE as it didnt work.
The easiest way to finish it was to choose a path to avoid towns, roads and bunkers and disengage from most enemy contacts (except the hand-to-hand part).
Not realy much fun but it worked, and intrestingly it is also the most sensible thing to do for an actual squad lost behind enemy lines.
Wonderful game! I have been for months close in my bedroom playing with LP! I was 15 or 16.... now I am 44....
I remember playing this game with my older brother back in the day. We never made it through though. For some reason the Platoon Leader had been killed by someone in the team, every single time. I heard that this was a unique copyright protection but we have had the original version.
I know that we also used the 10 minute Power Nap, as soldiers wouldn’t consume food during that time. We read this hint in an Amiga Magazine.
P.S.
The guy doesn’t know how to utilise the grenades well during a firefight.
Thanks a lot for reminding me of my childhood, good times with very good games. Thanks "NOT" for reminding me that i couldn't finish the game :-)
well done. I've never finished this Game.
good times back in my childhood playing this game, entire gang was all clued to the screen trying to help out getting the patrol back home.
And this Music, as Drfaul putt it, this Music has been stuck in my head for all these years.
10/10
This guy is so good at the game too that a lot of the mechanics don't even come into it. Food and morale issues from travelling too quickly or persistently is a thing. If you enter a village there are many options you can take to do with interrogating and searching, probably the same is true if you ever got into an NVA base (I wasn't able to).
Also there is a fighting minigame where your scout gets into hand to hand combat with another enemy scout and a mine clearing minigame as well as you approach some of the bases. I wonder how much other stuff I never saw.
Wow, I never knew about the mine-clearing minigame! If you ask the village guy questions he sometimes tells you if there's a VC patrol in the area, so you can avoid it (by travelling slowly).
I remember playing this and then watchin "platoon B in Vietnam" a tv-series. I loved me som Zeke and also that guy who played Joeys buddy in "Joey" u know that guy!
You are most definitely Danish, and that show is called Tour of Duty everywhere else.
@@Erik-vp5bm _"that show is called Tour of Duty_ *everywhere else"*
---
I'd say, "everywhere else" is an exaggeration:
Argentina - Nam, primer pelotón
Brazil - Combate no Vietnã
France - Commando Viêt-nam
// L'enfer du devoir
Germany - Nam: Dienst in Vietnam // Operation Vietnam
Italy - Vietnam addio
Peru - Nam, la misión del deber
Poland - Rok w piekle
Soviet Union (Russian title) - Срок службы
Spain - Camino al infierno
// Nam: El regreso
Sweden - Pluton B i Vietnam
UK - Tour of Duty
USA - Tour of Duty
Venezuela - Pelotón del deber
Tour of Duty Tv Series? Season 1 was cool, season 2... not so much.
Loved the game, especially the sniper section. Seeing that brief muzzle flash & finally nailing him was SO satisfying!
I'm shocked by the poor spelling & grammar in the "win" message on completion - never noticed that at the time 😮
Yeah. Only 2 dudes did most of the legwork with a trio of extra coders. I guess they didn't have QC?
Excelent, thank you. Played it so much back then, never did it to the save camp. Well done!
One of those games I played only so I could listen to the music
What a fantastic game this was. Spent many hours on this with my mates. Great times and memories
Hello old friend. Good times we had :)
Masterpiece absolutely
I found this game very dark as I was a young teenager when I played it so ever finished it but it was still an interesting experience.
That's one the things that were great about it. It did not constantly promote war, you could see the dark sides even as a kid
It's an ambush! And we walked right into it!
Also one of my fave games ever, so difficult as a kid. I always went for that village first up, never even thought to bypass it.
A disc i found in my cellar sent me here. Dangit i loved this game as a child.
Wow remember playing this in my late teens.Never did finish it
Such a gorgeous game, still holds up!
Great game, great music!
He was only 16 then he did this.. it was bad loops and few sounds on the net then even so this is magestic! To bad that he quit.. :(
"Few sounds on the net"...? :D
I miss, in general, those times and, in this video, the disk sounds of the Amiga.
I remember my copy of the game came with a cassette tape with the '19' Destruction Remix' by Poul Hardcastle.
I never was able to make it back alive, I always ended up getting killed by booby traps or losing to morale loss after 'doing' VC villages..
A man with a bell sent me here.
Me too.
you mean those fuckers dressed as santa outside of the grocery store?
i love the music in this game...
This Music is awesome.
I`ve never played this game... :/ My cousin gave me his Amiga 500 with games, but the Lost Patrol game was damaged :(
But IMO the soundtrack is supposed to be a most trance-sending ever ;P
i have never see the end^^
Low food rations and plenty of rest. That's how i beat the game. Barely. Only 3 guys made it.
I played together with a guy who was a commando soldier in Iraqi army. The other dude was a Jew from Kazachstan. We went to the same language course for immigrants. The Iraqi dude wanted to play tactical and take the long way home. We didn't make it far. Sweden 1992.
Ps. I beat the game when playing solo. The feeling of being vulnerable felt true. Game was a great experience.
Adored this game and the music!
awesome music in this game too
Thats one lazy patrol :D 10 min rests nonstop hehe love this game, remember when i played it for the first time, got myself killed by a grenade in my backpack by my own platoon.
Excellent job. I was one of those who never played this through either and it's bugged me ever since. :D
The digital black and white video you see in the game is from "Tour of Duty"
Back then the Amiga's music capabilities were 2nd to none
Except if you owned a MT32, I can't play the Amiga version of Frontier for example...
Great playthrough, newer got to the end, only got to the paddyfield.
The 3 dislikes must be the VC that survived.
Every time I played this game there was someone in the team talking bad about me with the others. I guess I wasn't a good leader as a teen.
and a cool soundtrack!
at the end a Good Text from the programmer!
I can't remember most of the minigames, but the theme has never left me.
Thank you for the video. Well done.
Best game music ever made, i love this tune.
I love it. Thanks. What a restgame.
I saved my paperround money up to buy this game when I was 15. I got it home, loaded it up and before I knew it I had syphilis!
I never made it so far, thanks for playing. 🙃
This music 🤩
the end of game message is the complete opposite stance the call of duty franchise is taking this day
The excesive dificult of this games make it lake of playing hours...but it remains in the memory like a great amiga game with high graphic ans sound capacity,.
...lack of gameplay
Very nice. I could never win this game, but I sure as hell tried. Loved the atmosphere in it.
loved this game but on Atari 520 :). I wish that somebody makes a remake of this game. It would make great
game for tablet IMHO
Main bug of this game was to be discovered by scientifically minded people: it was always better to make 6x10min rests than 60min rest. There was always better to have 6x10min rests than one hour sleep. The rest was about pushing against steepest hills, normal speed giving patrol detection chance, avoiding as much interaction as possible, at the edge of starvation, even sacrifying one-two wounded as they were living dead since the helicopter crash even without knowing it.
Had completely forgotten this one..blimey
I read that the guy making the Music was only 16 at the time.
Quite plausible. Games weren't as big a business back when this game was out, many legendary composers of the era were just mere teens. :)
...best childhood memories
Dont make games like this anymore... True classic
+Triple Mega Super Threat I would love to see a remake of this game on PC
+MrBruno2000 I would be all over that! :)
This is true, as we have stopped supporting 16-bit platforms a long time ago.
one of the greatest soundtracks
lost patrol and wings were my fav 2 war games..amazing music and gameplay..cannon fodder more fun
Congrats for the longplay !
I can listen to this music all day...
Kind of an open ending.. I wish there was a text crawl showing what all the army guys you saved did after Vietnam. i want to know they all made it back home alive :C
The sad truth might involve heroin and drinking.
Damn I played this one mainly listening to the great soundtrack. In the here and now I also like listening to the version of the "fastloaders"...
This video should have more views than despacito.
I forgot the name of the game, so I searched it for about 2 hours today on Google. And I found it!!!!!!!! brings so many memories back, when I played it in 1990. I was 10 then, and didn't know what I was doing, but 1 time I got to a village, and ended up murdering everyone :))
memories ...
Memories that stay.
We’ll see if this gets to GOG under Ziggurat Interactive.
Always when the map flips my moral suddenly turns 0% and somone kills me! Thou I did it exactly like this video!
It's a known bug in one of the cracked versions of the game.
That is part of the copyprotection in this game
great game
I like it like that. I remember I was trying to beat this game on my amiga 500.
I remember being yards from victory and Gomez dropping a live grenade into my backpack.... WTF!!!?
Was it really useful to make traps? You were likely long gone when a VC stepped into your grenade trap or claymore....
The only thing I found was you could kill off your own men using traps, so food lasts longer and can dispose soldier who challange your leadarship. Make a trap set the soldier you want to get rid of as scout/point and backtrack.
I did come very close to the base using this tactic only to step on a mine.... poetic justice? Did never managed to finish the game.
Seems like a good tactic would have been to first obtain lots of food, then kill off all men except two (you should have had one backup man and pointman to take all the risks for you just in case)
Who is programed the music
best music
Where is It possibile to find a version without bugs? I tryed several version but unfortunatelly all of them are bugged!
First survival game :)
Could never finish it past the first village that was it
Best vietnam war game😏
This game is so legendary, i want to find it for my Amiga 500 - again 😺👍.
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