Platoon: Level 1 - Commodore 64

Check out Ken's metal cover of this track here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycGxoJ8p8FU&lc
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Unlike the very inferior Nintendo version, the commodore 64 port of this game was one the best games ever released on the c64.
It had great graphics, music and imagination for its time.
Its pretty cool the way Jonathon Dunn managed to get ethnic Vietcong sounding instruments out of the SID chip too.

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The Jungle Confrontation.

You must lead your platoon deep into the depths of the Vietnamese jungle.

Locate the explosives left by the other platoon, and proceed to blow up the bridge.

This will prevent a VC squad from following you.

Once the bridge is destroyed, proceed to the village.
Once at the village, find anything that will become useful, and find the entrance to the underground network of tunnels.

You must avoid civilian casualities, and beware of Vietcong trip wires & booby traps.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Platoon
• chiptune
• c64
• commodore
• 64
• computer
• video
• game
• music
• jungle
• vietnam
• sid
• chip
• charlie
• sheen
• synth

[djsmithy]

Check out the metal cover of this track,

search for Platoon C64 metal cover!

[LordCuze]

Man this it the jam right here! I had this song in my head last night, but couldn't remember the game. Combed through the titles of C64 games on wikipedia and here I am.

Anyone have some sheet music for this? Not too hard I know, but would love to see it.

[djsmithy]

@LordCuze

Hi Lord, theres a sid2midi program you can get, that will convert the tune to midi format.

And from the midi file you can get the score. Can help you with it if you like.

[calervo]

once heard the music, ull never forget - great!

[draconpost]

The game was great. I played this game on the SNES when I was a kid. Then in about 2004 I found a C64 emulator. And I was like "what the hell?" The C64 version looks MUCH better than the SNES and you can't even compare the sound with the snes version because the music in that game on Commodore is just astounding. One of the greatest games ever. I can only compare this game to FarCry.

[MrFruitylooper]

I love the music!!!

[Doommaster1994]

@djsmithy Yes, you can convert it to MIDI, but it doesn't convert to the correct tempo. I did a cover of the NES version which is the same exact thing. I could convert it to sheet music if I had a program for it.

[ineebriate]

This game kicked my ass.I could barely make it through level 1 without using up half of my lives.I remember,that the game shipped with a cassette version of 'Tracks of my tears' by Smoky Robinson. Great movie too.

[talentedMrRead]

used to love this game... and the music was spot on!!!!

[kylereece1979]

Ive commented on lots of platoon commodore footage over the last coupla years-and Il say it again- this game was great. All I need to do is to see and hear things like this and BOOM- Im right back in my old room infront of the black and white telly with this playing. I only made it to the tunnels-the music of which was stuff of legend and memory. The c64tunes return me to lost days of innocence-a place in my mind Im always happy to go to.

[MrMainio]

Such a great C64 game which was ruined with sadistic difficulty. There should have been difficulty setting and password system to access other levels once you finished them. I rarely made past 1st level.

[Ratintheflat]

@LordCuze check out Castle Master's music..also from this age...u will love it!!!

[hippieyuppienerd82]

cool game and glorius music! Dunn rules...

[EagleVolkan]

the hardest game of all time ...man the game was so hard for me but i like this game