My Lord, you finished the entire game in 5 minutes! I remember being 10 years old and trying dozens of times just to reach the camp, the energy bar just didn't seem to last long! And don't get me started on the gunship battle at the end, stupidly difficult, you made it look so easy!
@mantanz - Yes, that's the entire game but believe me - this game is HARD! Alot harder than you would think just by watching this video. Took me ages to just reach the helicopter to begin with back in the day. And surviving the gunship until the end? Even playing it now I struggle at that. One VERY tough cookie this one :) :)
@CitroenC407 Haha, still... as a game designer I could never release something that took under five minutes to complete, no matter how hard it was! Then again... would only take a day to make. LOL. How times have changed... lol. Kinda wish it was more like the old days... who really wants to be playing a game for 80 hours+ ?!?!?!
@mantanz - Yeah I know what you mean! Everyone complains nowadays when a game is over in 5 hours as being "too short". I'm quite happy the older games took shorter times, though, given they all had to be loaded from tapes!
Games were much harder back then, though, too. They were shorter but took LOTS more skill to eventually finish. This game is a fine case in point. Yes it's short but that Energy bar decreases VERY fast! It took me loads of tries just to reach the camp back in the day, haha :)
@CitroenC407 they all had to be loaded from tapes? Maybe over in Europe over here in the states the majority of our releases were on floppy not that it made load times any faster. But your right about the old days games didn't have to be that long as they were brutally difficult I think I only finished 3 or 4 games out of the 50 or so C64 games I had as a kid, my dad got a large amount of games from a friend of his who was getting rid of his c64 for a apple ][.
@Evilmonkey66699 - Well you could get them on 5 inch floppys here aswell but we didn't have a disk drive with our C64 :) So sadly we were stuck with the minefield of loading from tapes... ie, you spend 10 minutes waiting for the game to load and then it crashes, haha. Still loved it, though. I'd hate to be growing up in the current generation of games... they just don't have the magic of the old titles.
Martin Galway had done some fantastic pieces of music on C64 games especially with Ocean loaders 1 & 2. I always loved that the C64 played music when loading a game on cassette.
Nice. I finally did this a while back too after 20 years of playing...lol That's why I love the older games because the graphics might not be up to par with today's but they are hard as hell and way more fun.
What a bloddy suspens when you almost arrive with the low energy ... will he make it and YES. Just like when I was playing this game. Thanks for posting !!
Gee, I can still remember coming home from school in 86' and playing this damn video game! I never made it through the end, though, the enemy airplane would always kick my ass! :(
@pierneus That helicopter would mess me up everytime too. I always tried to fight it, never occurred to me to just try to evade. It killed me everytime until I found a cheat, if you plug in the 2nd controller and push forward on the 2nd while pushing back on the 1st, your helicopter flies backwards at 2x speed and the gunship can't catch you. Man, I can't believe I remembered that!
@pierneus OMG yes! It was back in 86, I saved the POW's (remember how u had 2 have the knife equiped to unlock the cage) I got in the chopper but the jet would kick my ass, I never figured out what to do back then.
God, I loved this game when I was a kid - it was like Commando, except you weren't runnin in just direction, and you actually had an energy bar instead of being killed with one hit.
omg I was like 12 playing this game it was so awesome, and I was alwys using it to piss off people owning atari, because no game on atari could beat this music, cybernoid was good for it too, huehue
For that time this game was a masterpiece....and still is und will ever be. We cannot reproduce this feeling with our technology again. We lost the sense for the essential. Besides i am a great Stallone Fan too.
HAHA ! I just remembered the same cheat. Except i kept pressing joystick UP and kept hitting keys around runstop and shift(?).
When that bug started the chopper went really fast to the end by flying backwards =). No 10 years old could have beat that enemy chopper other way LOL !
w końcu po 20 latach dowiedziałem się jak przejść tą zajebistą gierkę!!! :D jest naprawdę superrr!!! i ta czaderska muzyka!!! :D aż łezka się w oku kręci :)
WTF!!!!!!!! I tried for hours to beat this game as a kid! When I'd land at the wall, after rescuing the POW's, Rambo would get out, and would be attacked by Vietnameese until he died.....I could not figure out what I was supposed to do to beat the game!!! I must have had some sort of buggy version.
I think the problem is, that you're supposed to rescue the one guy on the cross, then go to the ship, then come back for the rest of the POWs, but it was easier to just do it at the same time. The game would let you do it at the same time, but it wouldn't register that you had rescued both.
Yes that is very impressive. I have started to look further now and it makes me wonder how programmers like Jeff Minter was creating games like Met-llamas and Gridrunner on the 3.5 VICs.
No, that was 38K for BASIC, as in "38911 Basic Bytes free."
There was an entire 64K available for programs, you could switch the ROM out to access the ram underneath, POKE (write) the ram underneath the I/O ports and all sorts - it had a true 64K unlike its contemporaries. A fantastic machine for its day.
yes, the animation was out of this world for 1985! and you had to decode an extraterrestrial alphabet to access new stages, right? do you know where can we find that game on youtube?
That is exactly right!, sadly I too have been searching for ages for a video of "V" the game. I can still play it on 64 but would have loved to watch a walkthrough video of it.
I'm 29 years old and still got this game, had a quick go on it a few weeks ago for the memories, as a few people have already said, the music is top quality ;-)
Great video. I remember playing this game some 20 years ago. I got to the helicopter boss, but never managed to get to the landing site. This video brought back fond memories.
I loved this game so much. I was good at it as a kid and completed it regularly, but when I first downloaded a C64 emulator I completed it 8 TIMES IN A ROW without dying once. Times change... I also remember discovering a really odd quirk using another joystick that doubled the speed of my helecopter! The gunship couldn't catch me!
I did this game ONCE when I was a kid (about 6). I had a different approach to the first mission, by using only my knife and sneaking around the top of the base and in through gaps in the trees. Hours of fun... well 20 minutes
Ok.. I have to put in my two cents about this game because it's such a dominant memory of my childhood... hehe
I was 8 years old.... and made it to the helicoptor stage and couldn't figure out how to get any further... but get this.. I survived that damn helicoptor for 10 minutes thinking it would just go away! :))))
By for me... being musically inclined.. I would load this game up and listen to the opening score for HOURS... if you listen close it sounds like "The Fly".
I remember this cool game, ZajSnoshaj, and that helicopter part I could never get through, either, but I found you could plug in two joysticks and hold up and down between them and you would outrun it to the camp!
haha I remember this one, was a cool game- only I never got to the finish cause I made the mistake to always fight that enemy heli...thanks for showing me (*finally*)...
this game was awesome and I played the hell out of it when I was a kid. The music is awesome and is one of the best parts of the game. I could never pass the gunship at the end.
Great game, I also loved this as a kid. I thought you'd die at the end there but you made it with the tiniest bit of energy left! Anyone else remember the cheat of using two joysticks to fly the chopper at ultra-fast speed? That's the only way I could complete it. Haha.
god, i almost cried when i saw this. one of my favorite games ever. must have put over a thousand hours into it as a kid. and that MUSIC -- damn, it's so rousing and heroic and awesome.
n the same year maby one year earlier or later was coming another War Shooter for the C-64 out.
I remember there was a digital Voice output in this game. If you shoot on a soldier the Voice says loud: "OH MY HEAD!!!!". Does anybody know the name of this forbidden game? ???????????
I feel like dr who looking at this, god this takes me back to my old skool days like about 25 years, I remember playing this for hours on end stuck up in my little old bedroom just pounding away on that old quickshot joystick, those were the days,just wish that I could go back now to them great times, oh well lives a funny old game.
Ah skooldaze was very good my friend as well, there were so many great games back in the day for these computers that I feel that I spent my youth stuck up in my bedroom bashing away on the old keyboard and the old quick shot joystick for what seemed like months on end
This is not the end of the game. You know how it says u must now return to get more unfortnate soldiers trapped by enemy forces. You go back an repeat rescueing the hostages and bringing them back if you do it enough times you can get out of your helcopter at the far side h. What u do after that I don't know I didn't know where to go and eventually got killed.
Thanx 4 that. Just like yesterday!!! Glad ya kept the music aswell. My kids dont belive that their father played such a "simple" game.... Bet their kids will be saying the same :-)
lol Brings back memories, me and my bro used to beat the gunship by holding down shidt and return if i remember correctly, used to turbo the chopper so he couldnt catch you. great fun
I dunno, I found Commando harder than this, at least you had an energy bar here so could absorb a few shots before dying. Still it does get pretty tough.
I'm pissed off. I must have had a buggy version of the software, because when I got to the end of the game, there was just a big wall. I'd land, and all the vietnameeze would shoot me till I died. I was baffled as a kid, as to how to beat this game.
It's totally not in the spirit of Rambo to not fight the Gunship, lol. I like how he avoided using guns too.
That said I think this game was 1000x harder than Commando, I never even got close to beating it.
Still if the actual movie ended like this, it would have been hilarious, more so than the film was in the end. "Good job Rambo!! You saved 10 people, now go back and save more!"
the music is / was always the thing that will stick with me regarding this game. I met martin Galway years ago at a computer show, people go on about hubbard all the time.. but tim follin / martin galway / jereon tel did great things. plenty more I could list.. =)
Now that game had so great music, just like so many other old C64 game did. And it was damn hard just like all the other games were back then :) I posted the rambo tunes if you wish to hear them fully. ;)
brings back lots of memories.. :) I always thought that turbo was more like specification than cheat back then. it was something like you had to keep RETURN-key pressed down and chopper flew super fast, and mi-24 never had a chance.
I never thought of just continuing to fly to outrun the gunship. I always tried to fight it and lost. It's a little sad to think how many hours I sank into that game and never won - and to think it can all be done in 4 minutes. Sigh...thanks for the memories.
I didn't know what to do after flying back to the POW camp. I leveled every building with grenades and never found the stupid prisoners -- it never occurred to me to use the knife on the one that wouldn't blow up.
This game was hard as hell. Victor Charlie coming at you from every direction, bullets everywhere, and you had to constantly switch weapons to get past various obstacles. I love the fact that rather walk under the canopy of the trees, Rambo has to blow the entire tree away with rockets to get past.
Beginning of Metal gear Solid reminded me of this.
Geert365 1 month ago
My Lord, you finished the entire game in 5 minutes! I remember being 10 years old and trying dozens of times just to reach the camp, the energy bar just didn't seem to last long! And don't get me started on the gunship battle at the end, stupidly difficult, you made it look so easy!
AchtungBaby77 2 months ago
C64, wow i spent hours and hours on the 64 ,the good old days, Rambo,Camando,Robocop,last ninja best console ever..:-)
Jamosutube 2 months ago
There was some cheat/bug on that helicopter. With 2 joystick, u could fly very fast, i cant remember, how i made it...
Pasi79 4 months ago
This game was CENSORED in Germany from 1984 to 2011, because of beeing to brutal.
In 2011 I lol at it. but like a lot of games it took them 30 years to allow them.
CAESARbonds 5 months ago
Wow, that's the ENTIRE game?
mantanz 6 months ago
@mantanz - Yes, that's the entire game but believe me - this game is HARD! Alot harder than you would think just by watching this video. Took me ages to just reach the helicopter to begin with back in the day. And surviving the gunship until the end? Even playing it now I struggle at that. One VERY tough cookie this one :) :)
CitroenC407 6 months ago
@CitroenC407 Haha, still... as a game designer I could never release something that took under five minutes to complete, no matter how hard it was! Then again... would only take a day to make. LOL. How times have changed... lol. Kinda wish it was more like the old days... who really wants to be playing a game for 80 hours+ ?!?!?!
mantanz 6 months ago
@mantanz - Yeah I know what you mean! Everyone complains nowadays when a game is over in 5 hours as being "too short". I'm quite happy the older games took shorter times, though, given they all had to be loaded from tapes!
Games were much harder back then, though, too. They were shorter but took LOTS more skill to eventually finish. This game is a fine case in point. Yes it's short but that Energy bar decreases VERY fast! It took me loads of tries just to reach the camp back in the day, haha :)
CitroenC407 6 months ago
@CitroenC407 they all had to be loaded from tapes? Maybe over in Europe over here in the states the majority of our releases were on floppy not that it made load times any faster. But your right about the old days games didn't have to be that long as they were brutally difficult I think I only finished 3 or 4 games out of the 50 or so C64 games I had as a kid, my dad got a large amount of games from a friend of his who was getting rid of his c64 for a apple ][.
Evilmonkey66699 4 months ago
@Evilmonkey66699 - Well you could get them on 5 inch floppys here aswell but we didn't have a disk drive with our C64 :) So sadly we were stuck with the minefield of loading from tapes... ie, you spend 10 minutes waiting for the game to load and then it crashes, haha. Still loved it, though. I'd hate to be growing up in the current generation of games... they just don't have the magic of the old titles.
CitroenC407 4 months ago
@mantanz in a sense yes, but it's like a old atari or Arcade game it keeps looping till you run out of lives so there is no real end to the game
Evilmonkey66699 4 months ago
I watched the longplay and played the game on the emulator cracking game
TheColchester1 6 months ago
LOL its short 0o
subaarro 7 months ago
Did you guys know that they have remade the C64. No bull. It looks pretty dynamic.
bergalini 9 months ago
rambo .. last ninja and robocop this was my best games of c64
EagleVolkan 9 months ago
I swear I just heard them playing the music to this game during a NHL hockey game on TV
AndrewOG3 10 months ago
Martin Galway had done some fantastic pieces of music on C64 games especially with Ocean loaders 1 & 2. I always loved that the C64 played music when loading a game on cassette.
jpwolf1701 10 months ago
It's funny even now when I see the guard towers I instinctively think it's an elephants head firing at Rambo
dan205 11 months ago
Beats the shit out of the NES version
theblacksheep1000 1 year ago
Galway IS God
mulder3035 1 year ago
lol!! hes killing the bad guys with his hand on his hip!!
1978761 1 year ago
So much homework was not done in the 80's thanks to this game. That gunship always got me.
bigmaxy07 1 year ago
Nice. I finally did this a while back too after 20 years of playing...lol That's why I love the older games because the graphics might not be up to par with today's but they are hard as hell and way more fun.
Matlike1 1 year ago
What a bloddy suspens when you almost arrive with the low energy ... will he make it and YES. Just like when I was playing this game. Thanks for posting !!
gazomu 1 year ago
w to też grałem i mam to
azael1978 1 year ago
Gee, I can still remember coming home from school in 86' and playing this damn video game! I never made it through the end, though, the enemy airplane would always kick my ass! :(
pierneus 1 year ago 4
@pierneus That helicopter would mess me up everytime too. I always tried to fight it, never occurred to me to just try to evade. It killed me everytime until I found a cheat, if you plug in the 2nd controller and push forward on the 2nd while pushing back on the 1st, your helicopter flies backwards at 2x speed and the gunship can't catch you. Man, I can't believe I remembered that!
jmorris023 1 year ago
@pierneus me too...
brewt1mer 3 months ago
@pierneus OMG yes! It was back in 86, I saved the POW's (remember how u had 2 have the knife equiped to unlock the cage) I got in the chopper but the jet would kick my ass, I never figured out what to do back then.
granpapi29 1 month ago
@granpapi29 Yep, and the solution was easy! You just had to avoid the damn jet until you could reach your base! :)
pierneus 1 month ago
I remember this music so well !
mobyboy 1 year ago
It's sad to see how close I was to beating this game all those years ago, but never succeeded. The gunship would kick my ass every time.
1234Molotov 1 year ago
The C64 "at the time" had amazing sound ...Rob Hubbard was a freaking God!
Back in the day the C64 pissed all over the Spectrum and amstrad by a long mile!
Jacksiin1 1 year ago
God, I loved this game when I was a kid - it was like Commando, except you weren't runnin in just direction, and you actually had an energy bar instead of being killed with one hit.
Suckfest83 1 year ago
@Suckfest83 You're right, I was playing both games, but I can vaguely remember commando
pierneus 1 year ago
God this game was hard , but awesome
darkhelmit1234 1 year ago
still f**kin' great!
INVOID666 1 year ago
I could never get passed the last mission... so that's how you do it.
theStubbsy 1 year ago
omg I was like 12 playing this game it was so awesome, and I was alwys using it to piss off people owning atari, because no game on atari could beat this music, cybernoid was good for it too, huehue
cruxer666 1 year ago
ich habe diesen sound geliebt! jedes mal gänsehaut am anfang
Tiffy4505 1 year ago
ich habe diesen Sound geliebt
Tiffy4505 1 year ago
The intro music really reminds me of Orbital's "Dwr Budr".
Martin Galway, what a legend.
Perhaps Orbital were inspired by him?
Jarren202 1 year ago
For that time this game was a masterpiece....and still is und will ever be. We cannot reproduce this feeling with our technology again. We lost the sense for the essential. Besides i am a great Stallone Fan too.
GPatsos 1 year ago
i m laughing my ass out, i used to have zx spectrum, and i see all u guys, just remembering good ol' days, it is F******* crazy shit !
old time rules!
wladosu 1 year ago
A shame the cool tune cuts out at the end (just prior to landing).
AmidLightningWheels 1 year ago
lol, my heart was pumping fast as you approached the end, well played. :-)
ANation0nceAgain 1 year ago
@ANation0nceAgain
There was a cheat where you could fly really fast using the helicopter. You had to have two joysticks plugged in for it though.
AmidLightningWheels 1 year ago
@AmidLightningWheels
HAHA ! I just remembered the same cheat. Except i kept pressing joystick UP and kept hitting keys around runstop and shift(?).
When that bug started the chopper went really fast to the end by flying backwards =). No 10 years old could have beat that enemy chopper other way LOL !
Juissimies84 1 year ago
The music makes me want to fart lol
169Phoenix 1 year ago
w końcu po 20 latach dowiedziałem się jak przejść tą zajebistą gierkę!!! :D jest naprawdę superrr!!! i ta czaderska muzyka!!! :D aż łezka się w oku kręci :)
pitstop84 1 year ago
When you're pursuited by the gunship, you can hold down Enter to fly really fast. It's cheating, but who cares...
Glargl 1 year ago
@Glargl
LOL!
Yeah I remember that!
AmidLightningWheels 1 year ago
Schmu.... Du bist der beste!!!
DerDickeTyp 1 year ago
the best is that you can throw the trees with a knife.. :D ntw. awesome music :P
Ndrwboi 1 year ago
this game is solid , never got this far
martin351974 1 year ago
WTF!!!!!!!! I tried for hours to beat this game as a kid! When I'd land at the wall, after rescuing the POW's, Rambo would get out, and would be attacked by Vietnameese until he died.....I could not figure out what I was supposed to do to beat the game!!! I must have had some sort of buggy version.
The days before the internet.....
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago
@LambadLambadLambda
I did the same shit. WTF so pissed when I see this. The fcking wall
CyberMarre 1 year ago
@CyberMarre
I think the problem is, that you're supposed to rescue the one guy on the cross, then go to the ship, then come back for the rest of the POWs, but it was easier to just do it at the same time. The game would let you do it at the same time, but it wouldn't register that you had rescued both.
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago
i just love it !
kocsmy 1 year ago
Wow...that is exactly how Rambo would of done it...Nice skills.
SpiffyBiscuits5 1 year ago
i ll never forget that fucking awsome music
muemaccash 2 years ago 58
yeah me too, it´s grandmaster goldsmith´s outstanding music in all it´s c64 glory!! i could listen to this for hours...
Lennyfred 2 years ago
@muemaccash I used to just have it (the theme) playing after a long day of gaming.
blueneon 1 year ago
@muemaccash
Yeah that tune rocked man!
It took me and my bro' a while to figure out what where the fcking pow area was on stage 2 of this game though.
AmidLightningWheels 1 year ago
@muemaccash Yeah, Rambo always had some memorable theme music.
Lunartrek 1 month ago
@muemaccash 52 guys are like me..cool im not alone :)
corgan59 3 weeks ago
your forgot to free the officer who was bounded on a woodenrack inside the camp!
CUR50R 2 years ago
sorry! maybe i was lightening my pipe just in that scene...
CUR50R 2 years ago
incredible galway yaq!
CUR50R 2 years ago
All this from just 64k of memory. makes you wonder it really does. Long live the 64!
Sclemtak 2 years ago
64kB ... and a whopping 1MHz CPU
cagerat 2 years ago
Agreed! It was simply an amazing Computer and programmers back then knew just how to work with what they had. Best years of my life.
Sclemtak 2 years ago
@Sclemtak i think only 38k was available for the actual games making it more impressive
uggla03 2 years ago
Yes that is very impressive. I have started to look further now and it makes me wonder how programmers like Jeff Minter was creating games like Met-llamas and Gridrunner on the 3.5 VICs.
Sclemtak 2 years ago
No, that was 38K for BASIC, as in "38911 Basic Bytes free."
There was an entire 64K available for programs, you could switch the ROM out to access the ram underneath, POKE (write) the ram underneath the I/O ports and all sorts - it had a true 64K unlike its contemporaries. A fantastic machine for its day.
zombiemod 1 year ago
wow, that was short. I wonder why they changed the formula so much for the sms game, this action adventure approach would've been pretty cool.
Alianger 2 years ago
does anyone remember the C-64 version of the "V" series? the stages where inside the mothership and Donovan had to make it to the shore
peluchetaiwanes 2 years ago
@peluchetaiwanes Yes i do! It was quite hard. The Animation of Donovan was pretty good indeed.
Sclemtak 2 years ago
yes, the animation was out of this world for 1985! and you had to decode an extraterrestrial alphabet to access new stages, right? do you know where can we find that game on youtube?
peluchetaiwanes 2 years ago
That is exactly right!, sadly I too have been searching for ages for a video of "V" the game. I can still play it on 64 but would have loved to watch a walkthrough video of it.
Sclemtak 2 years ago
this was 1st game woot i loaded with my C64. It have with Hollywood Collection played manytimes it and passed... C= 4va
tekopaa 2 years ago
man the graphics were so awesome to me at that time...
still amazing game...games nowadays cant beat the feeling from playing this!!!
marsiozo 2 years ago
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Timeline15 2 years ago
Is THAT the whole darn game???I had this when it came out and never got past the heli part.
raptormanx 2 years ago
I'm 29 years old and still got this game, had a quick go on it a few weeks ago for the memories, as a few people have already said, the music is top quality ;-)
AUDIS3ROB 2 years ago 7
AHhhhhhhhhhh!
I never could win this game, it kept telling me that I didn't rescue the POWs. I see now why, they were hiding in the wiry wall thingy.
Exitof99 2 years ago
Great video. I remember playing this game some 20 years ago. I got to the helicopter boss, but never managed to get to the landing site. This video brought back fond memories.
timbozar 2 years ago
Great music!
tplatt 2 years ago
amen to that
SteveSpicerPortsmuth 2 years ago
I loved this game so much. I was good at it as a kid and completed it regularly, but when I first downloaded a C64 emulator I completed it 8 TIMES IN A ROW without dying once. Times change... I also remember discovering a really odd quirk using another joystick that doubled the speed of my helecopter! The gunship couldn't catch me!
alanporic 2 years ago
Such good memories! And that music kicked ass.
Kiwimick28 2 years ago
I played this game 20 years ago or something ... :-) ... I remember I got to the boss in the helicopter,
but I think I did not manage to to get to the landingsite ... but the music is still great :-)
cyronix99 2 years ago
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press play on tape
pater429 2 years ago
John Rambo does not like ecology, he destroyed a lot of trees during his mission. :)
JeDorsBeaucoupTrop 2 years ago
I did this game ONCE when I was a kid (about 6). I had a different approach to the first mission, by using only my knife and sneaking around the top of the base and in through gaps in the trees. Hours of fun... well 20 minutes
tkhushrenada 2 years ago
Now THAT was close at the end! Phew!
odraconiandevil79 2 years ago
Ok.. I have to put in my two cents about this game because it's such a dominant memory of my childhood... hehe
I was 8 years old.... and made it to the helicoptor stage and couldn't figure out how to get any further... but get this.. I survived that damn helicoptor for 10 minutes thinking it would just go away! :))))
By for me... being musically inclined.. I would load this game up and listen to the opening score for HOURS... if you listen close it sounds like "The Fly".
ZmajSnoshaj 2 years ago
I remember this cool game, ZajSnoshaj, and that helicopter part I could never get through, either, but I found you could plug in two joysticks and hold up and down between them and you would outrun it to the camp!
odraconiandevil79 2 years ago
And people complain that todays games are short in playtime. :P
KiiiiingOfPaaain 2 years ago
It probably took longer than that to load back in the day!
Reverus 2 years ago 2
I once played this 9 times through with that one life :)
sikapena 2 years ago
haha I remember this one, was a cool game- only I never got to the finish cause I made the mistake to always fight that enemy heli...thanks for showing me (*finally*)...
hanola7 2 years ago
super cool thank you for posting. the good old days when i was a kid and the world seemed to be cool.
adamsv1000 2 years ago
Ow yes.
This is very good game.
Shit,very short...
nivavalin 2 years ago
Wish I that good. Memories of the good old specky. Thanks for posting.
mick818522 2 years ago
The cheat at the gunship part was to push "up" on the 2nd joystick, which made ur heli fly straight passed :)
stormshadow2k 2 years ago
yes!
sikapena 2 years ago
Two Joysticks?
Pretty feckin bourgeois mate. :)
£10 i paid for that game that must be like £60 in todays money.
bigmarky 2 years ago
I loved playin this back in the day. Long live the C-64!
camping101 2 years ago
that's music of the mind!!!!
ghicaccatta 2 years ago
I loved this game as a kid! :)
Ahhh... the music is legendary!
Thedon1981 2 years ago
omg play´d this till the score came out in letters:)
najbjergpoulsen 2 years ago
well done
krnboyee 2 years ago
Ocean Software ruled the 80s for C4 games! lol
KingUser2008 2 years ago
"C64"
KingUser2008 2 years ago
Well, as a kid, I used to play a lot with this. However I never reached the end.
bbenjoe 2 years ago
same, the heli always got me
wer325a 2 years ago
this game was awesome and I played the hell out of it when I was a kid. The music is awesome and is one of the best parts of the game. I could never pass the gunship at the end.
What a crappy ending you get for your troubles...
awb25mn 3 years ago
what sort of cunt ending is that
AbhiB 3 years ago
Great game, I also loved this as a kid. I thought you'd die at the end there but you made it with the tiniest bit of energy left! Anyone else remember the cheat of using two joysticks to fly the chopper at ultra-fast speed? That's the only way I could complete it. Haha.
RealSJ2571 3 years ago
This must've been the first game to have destructible enviroments :) Good memories to this game.
Vurt72 3 years ago
I fuckin loved that game.
AngryPirate74 3 years ago
god, i almost cried when i saw this. one of my favorite games ever. must have put over a thousand hours into it as a kid. and that MUSIC -- damn, it's so rousing and heroic and awesome.
mightyteegar 3 years ago 3
n the same year maby one year earlier or later was coming another War Shooter for the C-64 out.
I remember there was a digital Voice output in this game. If you shoot on a soldier the Voice says loud: "OH MY HEAD!!!!". Does anybody know the name of this forbidden game? ???????????
nelson2000000001 3 years ago
damn ,how many knives does rambo have there?
Wittmann73 3 years ago
all of them
mightyteegar 3 years ago 2
I feel like dr who looking at this, god this takes me back to my old skool days like about 25 years, I remember playing this for hours on end stuck up in my little old bedroom just pounding away on that old quickshot joystick, those were the days,just wish that I could go back now to them great times, oh well lives a funny old game.
terrancejohn 3 years ago
lmao me too i used to love skooldaze too and back2skool. remeber them?
leogets2006 3 years ago
Ah skooldaze was very good my friend as well, there were so many great games back in the day for these computers that I feel that I spent my youth stuck up in my bedroom bashing away on the old keyboard and the old quick shot joystick for what seemed like months on end
terrancejohn 3 years ago
I found "Green Beret" harder than this but Rambo II was more fun.
orb2007 3 years ago
lol it even has destructable enviroments
leogets2006 3 years ago
This is not the end of the game. You know how it says u must now return to get more unfortnate soldiers trapped by enemy forces. You go back an repeat rescueing the hostages and bringing them back if you do it enough times you can get out of your helcopter at the far side h. What u do after that I don't know I didn't know where to go and eventually got killed.
UltMitSinner78 3 years ago
Wow!!! I played with this game about 22/23 years ago!!! It was one of my favourite... incredible... i love the music, i still love!! Thank you...
binomoo 3 years ago
This game really frustrated me back in the day- glad to see how it ended over 20 yrs. on...
I love how the chopper can only make 90 degree turns!
joeyang1976 3 years ago
its a bit like 'the ninja' on sega master system
peckerdecker 3 years ago
Really . . this sort of stuff makes me feel old. Lol
Manta2015 3 years ago
god the music is so damn good ...gotta love the sid
MarcS4R 3 years ago 2
It sounds like the Good the bad and the ugly.
YukiTheLaughingMan 3 years ago
Best music on C64 ever! Thanks, Martin!
gjesdal 3 years ago
I love the way DerSchmu lets the title music run on at the start of his gameplay vids!
Very thoughtful for sid fanatics like myself!
djsmithy 3 years ago 3
Too bad he stops it just when the Rambo title tune gets good..
thepts 3 years ago 3
man i used to love this game!! cheat at the end helicopter level by pressing the spacebar!!
phildavies74 3 years ago
your reactions have to be soo quick on the old nes games! thats the thing the new games dont have which makes them less fun and too easy!
Leeeemonade 3 years ago
yeah!!! c-64 rules - too bad that you play so fast so we dont hear the great music to the end
zagor1974 3 years ago
Thanx 4 that. Just like yesterday!!! Glad ya kept the music aswell. My kids dont belive that their father played such a "simple" game.... Bet their kids will be saying the same :-)
Ubergruppenfuhrer 3 years ago
lol Brings back memories, me and my bro used to beat the gunship by holding down shidt and return if i remember correctly, used to turbo the chopper so he couldnt catch you. great fun
scumbolio 3 years ago
i prefer Rambo III Genesis/Mega-Drive
JasonLee332002 3 years ago
Finally..... 23 years after last attempt I get to see the helicopter land :-)
Magnificent music, remembered it perfectly though :-)
petshopboys1 3 years ago 11
It was all right, but no classic. Not in the league of Commando or Green Beret.
Music is still in my head though, after all these years.
awashima 3 years ago
i remember getting so many points on this game that the counter went back round to zero fucking awesome game
redhead1978 3 years ago
I dunno, I found Commando harder than this, at least you had an energy bar here so could absorb a few shots before dying. Still it does get pretty tough.
Superb and memorable tunes. 8)
cloudskipa 3 years ago
I had a POKE cheat where the energy didn't deplete when hit, it made the game more bearable instead of frustrating. :)
RealSJ2571 3 years ago
haha, oh man, that music. it sticks in your head.
classic times, I always got blown out of the sky by that gunship...
b3nje909 3 years ago
I'm pissed off. I must have had a buggy version of the software, because when I got to the end of the game, there was just a big wall. I'd land, and all the vietnameeze would shoot me till I died. I was baffled as a kid, as to how to beat this game.
LambadLambadLambda 3 years ago
It's totally not in the spirit of Rambo to not fight the Gunship, lol. I like how he avoided using guns too.
That said I think this game was 1000x harder than Commando, I never even got close to beating it.
Still if the actual movie ended like this, it would have been hilarious, more so than the film was in the end. "Good job Rambo!! You saved 10 people, now go back and save more!"
BlazingOwnager 4 years ago
this game.....was hard. dam my childhood, dam it to hell!
johnsy88 4 years ago
You mean you cant blow that gunship up? Gee, thats like 50 hours of wasted time... LOL!!! I never did finish that game because of that!
ARGH!!!
jerryfudala 4 years ago
my all time favorit :)
laufweg 4 years ago
Gone are the days when you can complete a game in four minutes!
Simon0 4 years ago 4
the music is / was always the thing that will stick with me regarding this game. I met martin Galway years ago at a computer show, people go on about hubbard all the time.. but tim follin / martin galway / jereon tel did great things. plenty more I could list.. =)
cosine303 4 years ago 3
Now that game had so great music, just like so many other old C64 game did. And it was damn hard just like all the other games were back then :) I posted the rambo tunes if you wish to hear them fully. ;)
prowokator 4 years ago
Cant get enough of that SID chip. I loved this game, even though I sucked ass at it. Of course, I was only about six at the time.
halidefox 4 years ago 3
brings back lots of memories.. :) I always thought that turbo was more like specification than cheat back then. it was something like you had to keep RETURN-key pressed down and chopper flew super fast, and mi-24 never had a chance.
:D
lerxst77 4 years ago
Lol I remember this game.. Great sound and graphics but very Easy. But I never could use the bow. Does anyone know how to use the bow?!
razor71 4 years ago
I never thought of just continuing to fly to outrun the gunship. I always tried to fight it and lost. It's a little sad to think how many hours I sank into that game and never won - and to think it can all be done in 4 minutes. Sigh...thanks for the memories.
Galpik 4 years ago 4
haha I would always try and fight the gunship as well. C64 games were brutal.
Bezowski 4 years ago 3
I didn't know what to do after flying back to the POW camp. I leveled every building with grenades and never found the stupid prisoners -- it never occurred to me to use the knife on the one that wouldn't blow up.
Eidako 4 years ago
This game was hard as hell. Victor Charlie coming at you from every direction, bullets everywhere, and you had to constantly switch weapons to get past various obstacles. I love the fact that rather walk under the canopy of the trees, Rambo has to blow the entire tree away with rockets to get past.
Eidako 4 years ago
push space 4 knife throw the good old days -.-
supadon101 4 years ago
Havent played since 1988. Very nice post.
harrycrumb1989 4 years ago
That sound in the beginning must affect somehow in ur brains
WrestlingRage 4 years ago
Jesus, I haven't played this game since around 1995! Ah the memories!
kazimann 4 years ago