Navy Seals (C64) - Title Screen, Opening and Gameplay

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In the 80's and early 90's the British company, Ocean Software was one of the best-known European publishers of licensed games. While many of these were infamous for their poor quality, some licensed titles were genuinely good games. The latter include games like The Great Escape, Platoon, Frankie goes to Hollywood and Navy Seals.

Based on a 1990 film featuring the titular squad, Navy Seals may be one of those cases, where the licensed game is actually better than the original movie. Ocean released the game for various platforms, C64 included. With the possible exception of Game Boy version, these versions in general share the same game design with minor differences.

As was common at the time, the game is platformer taking place in the levels somewhat based on the plot of the movie. Strict time limit, behaviour and placement of enemies, level design and the nuances of control system require careful planning and developing an effective way to complete each level despite the seemingly simple gameplay. The game can be quite unforgiving to beginner and completing even the first level may take some time.

The C64 version of Navy Seals was released exclusively on a cartridge. In 1990 Commodore released Commodore 64 Games System, which was a game console based on the C64 (although the internal hardware in general was identical to the regular C64). Since it lacked many features of the C64 (such as keyboard, disk drive and cassette deck) and offered no enhancements over the original C64, it isn't a big surprise that the console failed commercially.

However, the games for this console were supplied on a new brand of cartridges, which were compatible with both the C64 and the C64GS. While the early cartridges for C64 had very limited storage space, these new cartridges had more than enough space for modern C64 games while having much shorter data access/loading times than tapes or disks. Unfortunately these cartridges weren't widely used despite their potential. However, Ocean was one of the most active supporters of the format and released several C64/C64GS games solely on cartridge. Other notable cartridge releases from Ocean include Robocop 2 (and to lesser extent Robocop 3), Shadow of the Beast and Battle Command.

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This kid is crazy way too into this lol

[MODDEDbyBACTERIA]

Good video, well made. The Amstrad GX4000 is much better on this game!

[genericflipper]

@cinqo7 stfu lol

[sgtsocom]

Wait, this is a real game?? O_O Seems better than Socom 4

[lucozader]

thanks i wanted to see this game in action