C64 Longplay - Commando

an complete walkthrough from the c64 version from the arcadegame "Commando"

[@bigmaxy07]

Possibly the greatest game on the C64 ever? I was so hooked on this.

[@ramireza6904]

Yeah, defenatly better then Pirates, Gunship, Maniac Mansion, Uridium, Paradroid, California Games or Summer Games II.

[@agustingarzon2308]

Thank you for your website with C64 longplays, in a blink you carried me to the best times of my life !

[@TheLastLineLive]

NES version definitely looks better, but damn that C64 music sounds pretty badass.

[@JamesHannagan]

I was just thinking the same thing about NES vs C64 in general - prettier graphics, but not as good with sound/music.

[@gabrielirlanda]

I can't believe this game long last only 3 MINUTES!!! I've been playing years in my teenhood and never got the end! I feel so stupid!!

[@RT-zk7yr]

I played it non stop and i dont even think i got past 1st level lol

[@dondom4154]

If Commando was 'hard" in your standards how about the other C64 games. :D

[@gabrielirlanda]

@@dondom4154 Not good really, my bullet wasn't a 1px sprite but my brain for playing Chess or Checkers.

[@Jayce_Alexander]

Wow, good player! It looks so much harder now than it did back then. I remember when I was little my brother and I would play this on his c64 all the time. What a classic. I still play the tune every now and then on the piano, some 20 years later!

[@satasoyy]

I VE COMPLETED THİS GAME 25 YEARS AGO AND LOVED THE SONG VERY MUCH

[@don__hector7845]

remember being in some computer shop in tottenham court road when this game came out mid 80s i think,good times

[@TheCodedtestament]

True Classic! Became far too easy and still is today. Countless Bugs, Great Music, Excellent Gameplay. I just thought the game was a bit too short. As you can complete the 3 stages in about 5 mins!

[@lokiss88]

one of the c64's finest soundtracks, Good conversion for the 64, doesn't suffer from the normal blocky lack of detail

[@sickbastard151]

wowa that was my first game i played on a c64!!!!! and it was addictive,

[@morrisfalker2773]

Same here.

[@LeeCarl1974]

Who else used their toe on the space-bar for the grenades?

[@samuel_rowbotham]

LeeCarl1974 damn. I wish i woulda thought of that way back when.

[@robertmiles9942]

YES! Another trick I used was to keep a Wico joystick in my lap, plugged into port 1. I'd bump the stick-top button with the heel of my hands holding my other controller..

[@chadster123]

Lol...I used to let my little brother hit the space-bar for the grenades. What a team! Lol

[@Simon0]

I headbutt the keyboard. Nah just joking! I remember using space bar in green beret though

[@AudieHolland]

I just had the joystick right next to the keyboard, so reaching the spacebar wasn't a problem. Played the arcade version only once though. It was a few years before I got a Commodore 64 and me and my friend knew it was a hard game. So we divided our manpower. One would steer the commando with the joystick, the other would franticall keep hitting the firebutton.

[@duochrome818]

I'm sitting here jammin' to this music....lol. It brings back memories that I had forgotten.

[@RedNovaMedia]

Between Commando, Boulder Dash and California Games... I was sorted.

[@majinsnake]

holy shit, i played game for commodore 64 back around 1989. Fathers pc. i was 5 or 6.

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

The music rocks in this game! -kidThunder

[@phazze]

Nope, not when you throw the bomb or other effects. The sound is missing one channel (someone mentioned filters). Listen to original tune and hear that one channel is missing in this video.

[@FlowerofDissolution]

Uggla03: You're absolutely right about the sfx. But I was more thinking about the music on the title screen, and at the very beginning. To me it sounds like the main melody line is off ALL the time (those really high pitched sounds for one). Just compare it to another longplay...

[@MrFruitylooper]

I love this game!!! :)

[@DerSchmu]

@zom247 Tool assistence Gamingvideos are made with an emulator an the option to use savestates. In the case you made an error or lose an live you can jump back to an older Savestate. That`s the reason tool assisted videos seems to played so perfectly.

[@AFancyHippo]

channels did not allow for grenade / helicopter noises and sound... all the channels were there... you just have a more sophisticated ear than back then.

[@uggla03]

loved this on the c64 and xz spectrum quite dissapointed really now knowing it could be completed in 3 minutes

[@SaltTheFries86]

I was growing up playing this game. Fantastic music :)

[@e57michel]

awesom, this was a very good time! it is about 20 years ago.

[@bignose023black]

Yeah SUPER!!! grown up with this game :) NOSTALGIA!!

[@ZX71K]

Yes, Kookoon, there's definitely a channel missing on the sound. This Hubbard tune is one of my fave SID tunes.

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

Load "comm*",8,1 Loading Ready Sys976

[@Sclemtak]

Brilliant memories..Great Vid!..But thats definately not the original music score by Rob Hubbard.Could possibly be a Freeze Frame copy or something.Music sometimes did get corrupted when they were Freeze framed.

[@LoparXL]

Yeah, I used to play this game a lot. Still have it and my old C64. I remember the NES version was anemic.

[@mavlok]

If you thought this was hard, you should play the Spectrum version. Although C64 versions were indeed usually harder than the Spectrum ones.

[@kookoon]

was the sound like this? i think not.. i think an audio channel is missing.

[@samwyse2006]

The video is missing one of the sound channels.

[@zom247]

@DerSchmu Man I loved this game back in the days. This and Ikari Warriors but when you say Tool assisted what does that mean? iv seen speed runs with it but I dont know what it is

[@tommarshall5566]

the tune is a contender for rob hubbard's finest hour

[@crazylevipinball]

Great looking and sounding c64 game but SOOOOO easy. I think I won this the 2nd or 3rd time I played it.

[@rupert916]

man the music is sick!

[@DerSchmu]

@TiesTorN You can use the C64-Emulator WinVice. This emulator allows to record wave-files from the games.

[@capzisediam5845]

Das waren noch Zeiten !!!

[@Sclemtak]

I think you are probably right!.Sounds very much like it.

[@hotwiredTARDIS]

It's not broken, that's what it sounded like when you played. It's a C64, not exactly tons of overhead for running things. I remember trying to time grenade throws to the music!

[@madderscientist23]

Yes, flowerofdissolution- You are correct, the melody voice is not present! I should know as I was listening to the mp3 of this tune in my car today!! ( i have a cd full of c64 sountracks ha ha.) You posted this 8 months ago, so have prolly lost interest by now, but it annnoyed me too lol.

[@uggla03]

only had 3 sound channels so some music is replace by the sound effects i agree awesome music

[@cintulator2]

The man did not kill handsome men on the motorbikes.

[@teemu8647]

Haha, this was fxkin awesome! We zeroed the points counter with my friend by playing that scene in the loop over and over at one session. Friend threw granades 4 me. Great memories 😁

[@ChrisSpikehSebok]

There were only 3 levels?! Damn it! I don't think I ever got off the first, hah!

[@ncry]

Gotta love the ending on C-64 ^^ "Congratulations" or just "The end"

[@lithium1911]

I always remember this game for its awesome musictrack.

[@donovanjd3]

this was a great game,but the c64's music was prob the best out of any of the consoles/computers

[@Nostrum84]

What can you say... C64 was a feeling. And it was damn good and continues to be :) I never played Commando through, but seeing this I'm quite surprised that it's pretty short :D

[@Pappy55]

I used to play this with my Farther. Was hard as balls then.. fired up the c64 emulator and its still hard as balls..

[@uggla03]

yeah thought you meant the game i owned this on my c64 but cannot remember 20 years ago lol maybe the guy who grabbed it had the setup changed on the emulator i believe the later non chunky c64s has a slight change in the sid chip design

[@johnnyk427]

Just the kind of game I would smash my controller for after dying 50 times in a row

[@cosine303]

thats where who dares wind 1 and 2 got the idea from i bet, the commando arcade machine. They did a great game called "guardian 2" which is a great clone of the williams game defender , as is like dropzone etc =)

[@modder1975]

C64 at his best.

[@DerSchmu]

@MentengElites No. The videos are played tool assisted but without collisions- or other cheats.

[@gazomu]

One of my favourite game on my C64. but i've always wondered what is the square thing with a motor at the beginning of the second area ? :)

[@Sclemtak]

I know this might sound silly but i loved the C64 version better than the arcade.

[@jzero4813]

The clock timing of the C64 was tied to the line frequency, so people playing on PAL systems (50Hz) had everything run slightly slower - CPU, gameplay, music, etc, as compared to NTSC systems (60Hz). Commando sounded like this on European C64 - faster on Canadian/American NTSC ones.

[@Masta686Yamato]

I played this one in my childhood. Now I'm tryin' to finish the DOS version.

[@mbrauer]

holy shit I remember this game so bad!!

[@TheShockful]

@Werwolfwer That's Commando Libya part I.

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

The C64 version has amazing music...why is this not on Amiga or ST? Hmmm...

[@hotwiredTARDIS]

Okies, I think I hear what you're talking about, or /not/ hear it as the case may be; this one is somewhat muddy-sounding compared to other recorded versions. Giving it a listen carefully does find something lacking; good ears, man. As first posed, it looked like you meant the effects hogging the mike. :)

[@AFancyHippo]

Number of channels did not allow for weapon noises, engine noises and all music channels. Could that be it?

[@Dynergy]

That brings back memories...

[@54spatula]

Screw the gameplay, this was all about the music!

[@b3nje909]

wow flash back..... thanks

[@aasi545]

I remember once when I played score back to hte zero again when reached over 1000000. It was a sort of stupid feeling after that when high score was only about 1000 :D. Commando had maximum score 999999.

[@GeneralAMSEL79]

Fist 2 Sountrack is very nice

[@FantasyWargnome]

Yes, but there never was one, not even for the arcade version. Check out Guerilla War, it featured arcade sticks that you could rotate.

[@JonZMovies]

yeah it was, but the game looped to infinity until you game over but I ended up being bored instead and hit the reset button.

[@foxtuba]

Ah, I remember those days - After some of those C64 games were done loading, it was already bedtime.

[@SD78]

I once clocked Commando 72 consequtive times, tag-teaming with my friend. The score resets at one million...

[@MtyGalvatron]

Whoa what happened at the end of the game, did our hero just rush into the building and slaughter everyone there?

[@SD78]

I once clocked Commando 62 times in a row with a friend when I was 10. The score resets once it gets past a million..

[@rojman123]

Sound effects use up sound channels too, that's why the music is 'broken'....duh

[@bacardi666]

I love the music !

[@charliemac1974]

wicked game seeing it now and hearing the music makes me laugh so much :) i was a demon at this finished over and over.

[@SD78]

Who dares Wins was a blatent clone of Commando. They may have faced legal action along the lines of the Giana Sisters (Mario) and Katakis/Denaris(R-Type) iirc...

[@AudieHolland]

Does anybody know what the strange figure is that steps out first when the gates are opened? Looks like a bear in surgical clothes.

[@LazyJones1]

Correct, there's definately something missing. If a lot of people heard the beautiful piece in this watered down version, I can better understand that no more people praise it. It is one of my favorite C64 pieces ever, but not in this version.

[@LeeCarl1974]

Hands up if you used your toe on the space bar to throw the hand grendades?

[@j.t2548]

Longplay: 3 minutes. Lol I played this game when I was 5, in 1995, could never beat it. Then I downloaded it on emulator when I was 17 or smg like that and completed it the first time in a couple of minutes.

[@Anuskasv0]

Haha, whole game finished in 3 minutes :). Well you can always listen to the song, for hours.

[@dargay]

ha! i remember this game v well!

[@VengaboysRbackINtown]

Dude's got GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMME!!!! :-D

[@ZBRMusic]

I still remember my high score in this game : 1.212.500.. the reason I remember was, I got tired in my hands after playing so much and that the score counter resat itself! :)

[@airix10]

Is there underground bases you can uncover with grenades like on the nes version or no?

[@Novaqua1]

I duno if it's true for C64, but in NES version you need to complete the game 4 times to get the true ending.

[@bloodsling]

jeez I can't believe I beat this game so many times..looks harder then I remember lol

[@TheViceman]

what is that thing what drives by in the beginning of 2nd area? :D i didnt figure that out 25 years ago and i still dont get it :D

[@DeckerFI]

The music's the best part of the game, and it's messed up in this video.

[@Werwolfwer]

does anybody remember "Mission Lybia" ?..just popped into my head

[@mikehunt5558]

Commando vs Rambo

[@somebose7395]

Mike hunt..lol

[@munari100]

Does anyone remember commando loader music?Where can i listen that song??????

[@FCCAGut]

I too played this game on a Java site but the only problem was, I couldn't beat any of the games.

[@stunthumb]

@donovanjd3 Yeah, especially Commando's music, probably my favorite SID tune. Shame it's a bit messed up in this video.

[@FlowerofDissolution]

Why is only half of the music playing? :/ Otherwise a great piece of music...

[@NULUSIOS]

This is not normal C64 audio. Something is wrong.

[@tassay]

i remember this game i played it really often . the last time was when i played one round for hours. I had millions of points and lots of extra lives. then My mother switchet out the computer

[@DethOfDrgnz]

When I was a kid I always thought this was based on the Schwarzenagger movie Commando, I was not allowed to see rated R movies as a kid.