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The way that you can just barely see the shadows of the enemies in that night scene, is a nice touch. I had done something similar in an Atari 2600 tech demo, in 2016. It was a small demo for a Zelda-like game, and if you didn't have a lantern, the monsters would be rendered completely black, only being visible, against the walls of the caves.
Not entirely appropriate to turn a heavy anti-war drama like Platoon into a game. But let's face it, Ocean would have turned Schindler's List in to a platformer if they could've got the licence.
If only you could find the map to the jungle and it appear in a split screen section, like the tunnel level does... that would have been an excellent addition to that very tough first level 😇🕹️👌
This was such a great game! I was never able to complete it, I reached the final stage only a handful of times, I almost always died on the bunker section. My neighbor and I loved both the movie and this game (he played it at my place, he didn't have a C64, but he later had the first PC I ever saw, and his father convinced my father to get one too), he had some toy guns and plastic grenades, and we would play on some empty lots filled with tall grass near my building, pretending to be fighting in the Vietnam war, lol. Another thing my neighbor did was start drawing a comic book about Platoon. I don't remember how much of it he actually made. I started one too, but I think I only made the cover. Sadly, it was lost during my childhood. Nowadays I make a living as a comic book letterer, so who knows how that experience in my childhood influenced the direction I took later in life, lol. Although Platoon is not really high on my list of favorite C64 games (I truly love it, but there are other games I love more) I have a lot of good memories associated to this game because of my neighbor, this video brought back those memories, so thank you for that! =)
Yes and 100% yes, especially that jungle maze! Many would have got lost there and gave up on the game at the time... which would have been a shame 😇🕹️👌
Gah that sucks. Some of your graphics work on the games was superb and is 100% part of the nostalgic trip down memory lane... hoping to cover more in the near future 😇🕹️👌
@@simonbutler-bq8ybwhy isn't this comment full of likes I dont know, but such is life I guess. Thank you dearly for a truckload of extraordinary childhood memories, dear sir.
Thanks for the shoutout, and you almost spelt my last name right it's: Szyba. Not to make light of anyone's service in Vietnam, but the Platoon movie has so many funny lines. my friends used to get together smoke a little and laugh away. This game on the C64 is very similar to the NES, either game was about as much fun as hanging out with Sgt. Barnes
Ahh crap, I'll rectify that for the next Patreon reel, apologies. Like you say, Platoon was very quotable... in fact, I find that a lot of the most quotable movies were war films in general 😇🕹️👌
I got my C64 in 87, so closer to the end of it's commercial life, and I'm an American, so games were a little harder to come by here. This is one of the few boxed retail games I had, as most of my games were copies of a friend's, which were copies themselves. Never could figure out the maze in this game so I never got very far in it. I'd give up in frustration after about 15 minutes and then just fire up Space Taxi or Racing Destruction Set.
Games that had muliple sections were my favourite, like 'Kane' for example... yet I also remember the loading times as a kid. Arghhh... so glad we dont have to sit through that loading screen anymore! 😇🕹️👌
One of my favourite C64 games - though I could never finish it. I was able to go through the first level and the underground maze without using any maps (I was able to navigate both purely by rote memory - not surprising, given how often I ended up having to replay those sections! 😅). But that maze run to the bunker... didn't matter if I used a map or not, I'd either get turned around and run out of time, or stray too close to the barbwire... only made it to the bunker stage once, but Barnes made short work of me...I might have to give the game another go at some point, see if I can keep my nerve on the bunker run this time 🤣
This Oliver Stone movie tie-in so brutal, i never got through the first level 😹🕹️. On the plus side, i got to see the loading screen on the tape and to listen to the music 🎵🎶 by Jonathan Dunn 😺👍. David Whittaker also composed an excellent soundtrack 🎵🎶 on the Amiga 😺👍🕹️.
The 1st level is practically impossible without some sort of map. It reminds me a bit of the first level of Flash Gordon! (Captain ZZap) where I'd constantly get myself lost in the jungle 😇🕹️👌
David Whittaker is an excellent composer but what he did here on the Amiga version wasn't composing but arranging. All themes in the Amiga were just adapted and arranged from Dunn's original creation. Just saying. It's important to keep in mind what's what. With music, average people tend to get composition and interpretation mixed, comingled and confused way too often, and credit should always go where credit is due. With the dawn of AI in full force, that's more important than ever.
The first level of this game was virtually impossible, you could barely see the trip wires on my TV. I managed to get to the second level once and died within seconds as the excitement and pressure were too much for me to take. I used to look at the box and just imagine how amazing the level in the fox hole must be.
The difficulty of level 1 probably prevented many from progress, which was a big shame. I find a lot of the Ocean movie tie-in's have very difficult first levels! 😇🕹️👌
The foxhole level seemed to be all down to luck, sometimes I could get through it in a breeze and other times the flares would be used up far too quickly and then I'd get obliterated in the darkness 😇🕹️👌
One more comment. CCG can you imagine how awesome this would have been with the Samuel barber music track. Even if the game sucked I would have loved it just for that music which is actually my favourite all strings piece of music ever written. By the way if anyone is interested the piece is adagio for strings by Samuel barber. 😎
Probably a licencing issue... however, Jonathan Dunn always did a superb job with music for any game he put his musical wizardry to, a very memorable soundtrack in its own right 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer ok good I feel better I was starting to feel bad about my own skills lol. I'm still quite good at games it's just my reactions are slower. I know this for sure because there is a part near the end of god of war 2 for PS2 (spoilers ahead for that game!) where Zeus tries to kill you and there is one of those reaction command things where you gotta quickly hit the right button to survive. When I played this I can't remember maybe 12 years ago I did that section no problem. Recently I replayed it and tried it twenty plus times no joke and I just couldn't do it anymore. The only way I got past it was a cheating kind of way where I just hit every button on the controller at the right time lol. The game takes it that you hit the right button. 😎
You definitely wasn't the only one... that first level is brutal! Reminds me of 'Robin Of The Wood'... I'd get lost in that forrest for hours! Mind you, I really do love that game so I managed to almost memorise the screens eventually hehe 😇🕹️👌
I thought this was a great game! I had played the game enough that I memorized the 1st and 2nd areas and could get through them pretty quickly. After I had played it quite a bit... I think the last area was what gave me the most trouble. I seem to remember the last area having problems with enemies popping up suddenly resulting in what I thought were unfair deaths... but it's been so long ago I can't remember for sure. Very nostalgic. Although I'm sure I'd be lost if I played today. There's no way I could possibly remember my way around from that long ago.
Oh man this was one great, but HARD game, those programmers at Ocean were hard VC coders, attempting to bring our C64s under the influence of Communism! If it wasn't for one of the first trainers I ever saw allowing any level to be played, I never would have had the 'fun' of running through the tunnel complex getting stabbed in the face by little grunts leaping out of the water. My first jumpscare was the first one of those I ever saw. Fantastic game and a great pic as usual, Cheeky!
Was a nice touch from the programmers to have them jump out of the water... but like you say, I was on the receiving end of the same jumpscare when I first played it! A great game from Ocean 😇🕹️👌
Yeah I think that was the main problem with this game - many (including myself) would just get lost in the jungle maze and then eventually get fed up with it. Hopefully you can source a map and give it another whirl... the later levels are superb 😇🕹️👌
Of all the hard R movies to make a movie out of. Platoon isn't even a fun R movie, like Robocop or Terminator. It's just depressing. Cool game, but DAMN.
Visuals are neatly done, but generic looking with that. Which made me thinking that Ocean would've made good decision if levels were procedural generated - providing different mazes for each new play. Possibly with several levels of difficulty. Making a really challenging and replayable game for a long time. But that really wasn't Ocean's cup of tea with these movie tie-ins. Kept them simple, and people obviously liked it that way. Consumed short-term, like burgers. Ah, well, new games kept coming - more blockbuster movies, more Ocean's tie-ins. I am huge fan of Oliver Stone, and Platoon was incredible experience in cinema. When I got home so full of adrenaline, I loaded Commando in my C64 and had continual play beating it 6 times in a row. Constantly yelling F word, because movie action was filled with the word. I was an early teen, and I did get movie's complex psychological drama content, but heck - Commando did the tie-in extremely well for me!
I agree, the maze system of level 1 was too difficult to navigate so would have put many people off playing for long. However, for fans of the movie... I can imagine people would have wanted to continue to see the story unfold 😇🕹️👌
Had this only been a game, I would have loved it. But sadly, it's a subversion of what the movie was trying to say. Weirdly, it got me into being curious of Vietnamese culture and history, and let's just say that what that told me (Tonkin Bay lies and all), led me to see the real truth of the war.. not pretty... the US WAS the baddies
I was the same with the film Aliens... it was a conspiracy to say the Aliens were the bad guys, however if they were just left alone they'd have nobody to impregnate in the first place. Ahhh, games eh 😇🕹️👌
Yes, of course. Baddies. I'll give you a few more decades to get a true grasp on reality. Yes, I'm condescending. Because I was you at some point. You'll see.
I can usually place myself when we bought games back in the day too, its like a vivid memory! I even remember when my brother bought 'Friday 13th' and it came with a blood capsule... he was spitting out this fake blood on the grond and I instantly started crying haha. Mind you, that was all the way back in 1986 😇🕹️👌
@ yeah. I remember at Virgin on that day they were giving away “Free Nelson Mandela” badges on the counter. Coming from South Africa that was the first time I had ever seen Mandela face as his pics were banned there those days. 🤣
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Was Tarzan also made by Ocean Software? I remember it being very similar to Platoon's first stage.
My prime example of a GOOD game with movie licence...
Ocean made a good job with this game 😇🕹️👌
Super game. Brings back good memories playing this. The sound track was a stonker as well. 👍👍 Best war film for me was Full Metal Jacket.
Another superb film! Me so horrrrny, me love you long time 😇🕹️👌
The way that you can just barely see the shadows of the enemies in that night scene, is a nice touch.
I had done something similar in an Atari 2600 tech demo, in 2016.
It was a small demo for a Zelda-like game, and if you didn't have a lantern, the monsters would be rendered completely black, only being visible, against the walls of the caves.
I like the lighting effects on the foxhole level, it was probably my favourite section... that and the tunnels 😇🕹️👌
Not entirely appropriate to turn a heavy anti-war drama like Platoon into a game. But let's face it, Ocean would have turned Schindler's List in to a platformer if they could've got the licence.
@@sharkymouth what??
They would have called it 'Schindlers Lift' 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer 😂
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer There is a company named Schindler that makes lifts, escalators and moving walks. 🛗
one of my favourite Ocean games. Music was awesome, in top 3 with Wizball and Rambo First blood part II
Ahhh a nice set of 3 there for music! Now I cant get the Wizball soundtrack out of my head hehe. All those games are on the channel too 😇🕹️👌
My second favourite music in a C64 game after Frankie goes to Hollywood, and a great game overall.
If only you could find the map to the jungle and it appear in a split screen section, like the tunnel level does... that would have been an excellent addition to that very tough first level 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Amen to that matey 👌
This was such a great game! I was never able to complete it, I reached the final stage only a handful of times, I almost always died on the bunker section.
My neighbor and I loved both the movie and this game (he played it at my place, he didn't have a C64, but he later had the first PC I ever saw, and his father convinced my father to get one too), he had some toy guns and plastic grenades, and we would play on some empty lots filled with tall grass near my building, pretending to be fighting in the Vietnam war, lol.
Another thing my neighbor did was start drawing a comic book about Platoon. I don't remember how much of it he actually made. I started one too, but I think I only made the cover. Sadly, it was lost during my childhood. Nowadays I make a living as a comic book letterer, so who knows how that experience in my childhood influenced the direction I took later in life, lol.
Although Platoon is not really high on my list of favorite C64 games (I truly love it, but there are other games I love more) I have a lot of good memories associated to this game because of my neighbor, this video brought back those memories, so thank you for that! =)
I love hearing the stories of nostalgia, this is the whole purpose of the channel - to hopefully bring back some great memories 😇🕹️👌
Hi! Do I know you, maybe? What comics and companies have you worked with? It would be hilarious if it turned out we've worked together at some point 😅
Incredible music. Hard as balls.
Yes and 100% yes, especially that jungle maze! Many would have got lost there and gave up on the game at the time... which would have been a shame 😇🕹️👌
The music is epic!
I agree, Jonathan Dunn was a musical genius on the SID chip😇🕹️👌
Glad you liked it.
If this is THE Simon Butler, then may I begin by saying what an absolute legend you are and second... why was you never credited for this game?! 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Yes I'm that Simon Butler.
Ocean wasn't overly keen on their staff getting credit at this point. Such is life.
Gah that sucks. Some of your graphics work on the games was superb and is 100% part of the nostalgic trip down memory lane... hoping to cover more in the near future 😇🕹️👌
@@simonbutler-bq8ybwhy isn't this comment full of likes I dont know, but such is life I guess. Thank you dearly for a truckload of extraordinary childhood memories, dear sir.
Thanks for the shoutout, and you almost spelt my last name right it's: Szyba. Not to make light of anyone's service in Vietnam, but the Platoon movie has so many funny lines. my friends used to get together smoke a little and laugh away. This game on the C64 is very similar to the NES, either game was about as much fun as hanging out with Sgt. Barnes
Ahh crap, I'll rectify that for the next Patreon reel, apologies. Like you say, Platoon was very quotable... in fact, I find that a lot of the most quotable movies were war films in general 😇🕹️👌
I got my C64 in 87, so closer to the end of it's commercial life, and I'm an American, so games were a little harder to come by here. This is one of the few boxed retail games I had, as most of my games were copies of a friend's, which were copies themselves. Never could figure out the maze in this game so I never got very far in it. I'd give up in frustration after about 15 minutes and then just fire up Space Taxi or Racing Destruction Set.
Space Taxi will always go down as a complete classic - that can also be found on the channel too th-cam.com/video/JTahw206dyE/w-d-xo.html 😇🕹️👌
this game was 3 games in one and fine tuned. one of my favs from my childhood
Once I reached that tunnel section for the first time it was mindblowing, loved this game as a kid 😇🕹️👌
Wonderful game. Collection of tense mini games, like an updated Beach Head 2.
Games that had muliple sections were my favourite, like 'Kane' for example... yet I also remember the loading times as a kid. Arghhh... so glad we dont have to sit through that loading screen anymore! 😇🕹️👌
Loved this game so much. I think I must hum a version of this music every week but I forgot it came from this!
Superb music from a great game 😇🕹️👌
One of my favourite C64 games - though I could never finish it. I was able to go through the first level and the underground maze without using any maps (I was able to navigate both purely by rote memory - not surprising, given how often I ended up having to replay those sections! 😅). But that maze run to the bunker... didn't matter if I used a map or not, I'd either get turned around and run out of time, or stray too close to the barbwire... only made it to the bunker stage once, but Barnes made short work of me...I might have to give the game another go at some point, see if I can keep my nerve on the bunker run this time 🤣
It would have been nice if you could actually find a map to the jungle and it would appear in a split screen, just like the tunnel section.. 😇🕹️👌
Wow! I suck. I never made it to the bridge. I just remember the maze and tunnels. The tension was no joke with this game!
Pure atmospheric game 😇🕹️👌
I absolutely loved The Untouchables and Batman.
We're great games indeed, both of those also on the channel too 🕹😇👌
This Oliver Stone movie tie-in so brutal,
i never got through the first level 😹🕹️.
On the plus side, i got to see the
loading screen on the tape and to listen to the music 🎵🎶 by Jonathan Dunn 😺👍.
David Whittaker also composed an excellent soundtrack 🎵🎶 on the Amiga 😺👍🕹️.
Same here, I never got passed the first level. Oh shame.
The 1st level is practically impossible without some sort of map. It reminds me a bit of the first level of Flash Gordon! (Captain ZZap) where I'd constantly get myself lost in the jungle 😇🕹️👌
David Whittaker is an excellent composer but what he did here on the Amiga version wasn't composing but arranging. All themes in the Amiga were just adapted and arranged from Dunn's original creation. Just saying. It's important to keep in mind what's what. With music, average people tend to get composition and interpretation mixed, comingled and confused way too often, and credit should always go where credit is due. With the dawn of AI in full force, that's more important than ever.
The first level of this game was virtually impossible, you could barely see the trip wires on my TV. I managed to get to the second level once and died within seconds as the excitement and pressure were too much for me to take. I used to look at the box and just imagine how amazing the level in the fox hole must be.
I beat the first level.. then it crashed lol 😆. At least I think. I don't fully remember. This was 35 years ago. Roughly 😳
Agree. I found this one too difficult.
The difficulty of level 1 probably prevented many from progress, which was a big shame. I find a lot of the Ocean movie tie-in's have very difficult first levels! 😇🕹️👌
I never realized there WAS anything but the jungle maze when I was a kid!
Yeah! The game is quitean epic really... the tunnel level was the best for me.. and the foxhole 😇🕹️👌
Great game. I remember getting the big box version. Don't think that I ever made it past the foxhole level.
The foxhole level seemed to be all down to luck, sometimes I could get through it in a breeze and other times the flares would be used up far too quickly and then I'd get obliterated in the darkness 😇🕹️👌
One more comment. CCG can you imagine how awesome this would have been with the Samuel barber music track. Even if the game sucked I would have loved it just for that music which is actually my favourite all strings piece of music ever written.
By the way if anyone is interested the piece is adagio for strings by Samuel barber. 😎
Probably a licencing issue... however, Jonathan Dunn always did a superb job with music for any game he put his musical wizardry to, a very memorable soundtrack in its own right 😇🕹️👌
1:18 CCG that was a freaking epic dodge. Bhow good you got to be to actually jump over the bullet when someone tries to shoot you lol 😆
You should see the cutting room floor footage... many many deaths!! Haha 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer ok good I feel better I was starting to feel bad about my own skills lol. I'm still quite good at games it's just my reactions are slower.
I know this for sure because there is a part near the end of god of war 2 for PS2 (spoilers ahead for that game!) where Zeus tries to kill you and there is one of those reaction command things where you gotta quickly hit the right button to survive.
When I played this I can't remember maybe 12 years ago I did that section no problem. Recently I replayed it and tried it twenty plus times no joke and I just couldn't do it anymore.
The only way I got past it was a cheating kind of way where I just hit every button on the controller at the right time lol. The game takes it that you hit the right button. 😎
I struggled to get past the first level. great music and graphics
You definitely wasn't the only one... that first level is brutal! Reminds me of 'Robin Of The Wood'... I'd get lost in that forrest for hours! Mind you, I really do love that game so I managed to almost memorise the screens eventually hehe 😇🕹️👌
Wanted this game bad
Never too late to give it a whirl and get it fired up, maybe on an emulator? 😇🕹️👌
I thought this was a great game! I had played the game enough that I memorized the 1st and 2nd areas and could get through them pretty quickly. After I had played it quite a bit... I think the last area was what gave me the most trouble. I seem to remember the last area having problems with enemies popping up suddenly resulting in what I thought were unfair deaths... but it's been so long ago I can't remember for sure.
Very nostalgic. Although I'm sure I'd be lost if I played today. There's no way I could possibly remember my way around from that long ago.
Yeah, without the map I would never have been able to remember how to navigate the 1st level after all these years 😇🕹️👌
Brilliant movie licence........ For once....... 😅
Yeah there was some absolute humdingers from Ocean! I can't deny that 😇🕹️👌
Oh man this was one great, but HARD game, those programmers at Ocean were hard VC coders, attempting to bring our C64s under the influence of Communism!
If it wasn't for one of the first trainers I ever saw allowing any level to be played, I never would have had the 'fun' of running through the tunnel complex getting stabbed in the face by little grunts leaping out of the water. My first jumpscare was the first one of those I ever saw. Fantastic game and a great pic as usual, Cheeky!
Was a nice touch from the programmers to have them jump out of the water... but like you say, I was on the receiving end of the same jumpscare when I first played it! A great game from Ocean 😇🕹️👌
Played back in the and enjoyed but as u say u need a map otherwise u just wonder around forever
Yeah without a map the first level could be a nightmare 😇🕹️👌
I couldn't figure out the way to go as a kid I gave up sadly, the other levels look good
Yeah I think that was the main problem with this game - many (including myself) would just get lost in the jungle maze and then eventually get fed up with it. Hopefully you can source a map and give it another whirl... the later levels are superb 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer yea think I'll give it a go 😊
Of all the hard R movies to make a movie out of. Platoon isn't even a fun R movie, like Robocop or Terminator. It's just depressing. Cool game, but DAMN.
Try playing Mad Nurse!! Eishhh what was they thinking haha 😇🕹️👌
the war would have had a totally different vibe had the viet cong not spent so much time cutting paths and trails into the overgrown jungle.
If only there was a McDonalds franchise... would have made for a convenient place to visit whilst lost in a jungle 😇🕹️👌
This was way better the NES. C64 owners were touched by light.
I have no idea what that means but I'm pretty sure the NES version was absolutely slated back in the day 😇🕹️👌
Visuals are neatly done, but generic looking with that. Which made me thinking that Ocean would've made good decision if levels were procedural generated - providing different mazes for each new play. Possibly with several levels of difficulty. Making a really challenging and replayable game for a long time. But that really wasn't Ocean's cup of tea with these movie tie-ins. Kept them simple, and people obviously liked it that way. Consumed short-term, like burgers. Ah, well, new games kept coming - more blockbuster movies, more Ocean's tie-ins.
I am huge fan of Oliver Stone, and Platoon was incredible experience in cinema. When I got home so full of adrenaline, I loaded Commando in my C64 and had continual play beating it 6 times in a row. Constantly yelling F word, because movie action was filled with the word. I was an early teen, and I did get movie's complex psychological drama content, but heck - Commando did the tie-in extremely well for me!
I agree, the maze system of level 1 was too difficult to navigate so would have put many people off playing for long. However, for fans of the movie... I can imagine people would have wanted to continue to see the story unfold 😇🕹️👌
Had this only been a game, I would have loved it. But sadly, it's a subversion of what the movie was trying to say. Weirdly, it got me into being curious of Vietnamese culture and history, and let's just say that what that told me (Tonkin Bay lies and all), led me to see the real truth of the war.. not pretty... the US WAS the baddies
I was the same with the film Aliens... it was a conspiracy to say the Aliens were the bad guys, however if they were just left alone they'd have nobody to impregnate in the first place. Ahhh, games eh 😇🕹️👌
Yes, of course.
Baddies.
I'll give you a few more decades to get a true grasp on reality. Yes, I'm condescending. Because I was you at some point.
You'll see.
I bought this at Virgin at Marble Arch 1988. With Microprose Stealth Fighter
I can usually place myself when we bought games back in the day too, its like a vivid memory! I even remember when my brother bought 'Friday 13th' and it came with a blood capsule... he was spitting out this fake blood on the grond and I instantly started crying haha. Mind you, that was all the way back in 1986 😇🕹️👌
@ yeah. I remember at Virgin on that day they were giving away “Free Nelson Mandela” badges on the counter. Coming from South Africa that was the first time I had ever seen Mandela face as his pics were banned there those days. 🤣