Platoon (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@ws306]

This was in that age of games where you had zero idea what you were doing, where to go, what the objectives were. You did your best and just gave up. Platoon on the NES almost captures the essence of the movie in that war is chaotic hell.

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

So true. This game captures the hell of war.

[@Sammydx1]

Absolutely true. We sat down so many times in the late 80s trying to figure it out. We never did

[@JustRelaaaxASMR]

The game isn't good, but it does have that "I don't know where I am, and everything is trying to kill me" vibe. Lol

[@joshuasawyer5886]

What an eccentric pile of garbage... in a good way

[@lostasadorespr]

Yep it ALMOST captures the full essence of war especially with bullets traveling at 2 mph and bodies just vanashing in thin air after been shot.

[@elronaldese]

I always found this games music very haunting. Brings a strange but cool atmosphere to its levels. Really great soundtrack

[@phettywappharmaceuticalsll8842]

Great point…especially level 2…menacing

[@joshwagner7243]

Sunsoft

[@gopats85]

Yes the soundtrack was very good but haunting, I never beat it but remember playing it as a kid. I’d like to go back and try to play it again. Definitely played along with the atmosphere of the movie.

[@WanderlustZero]

It's even better on the C64

[@WanderlustZero]

@@joshwagner7243 Ocean... the genius of Jonathan Dunn

[@deoglemnaco7025]

My dad fought in the ‘Nam. When I showed him this game.....he grew very silent. Turned to me and basically said this was “exactly” how it was.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

Viet fucking Nam

[@mz4036]

Lmao

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

Nobody really calls it 'The 'Nam'.

[@levikim8194]

@@ZiddersRooFurry lol (I think he just meant 'Nam')

[@neftaliriverajr6767]

Wow that's Seriously Is Deep,no fooling, your Dad came back from that terrible war like so many other wars and by Viewing this game probably gave him some flashbacks,Deep!😔

[@miroslavopavski9011]

My dad bought this game to me as a birthday gift back in a day. Oh sweet memories... I miss him so much 😢

[@kcmsterpce]

Dang man, that soundtrack is fantastic. I remember playing this and having no clue where the heck I was going, and never got anywhere. I must've played it for 40 hours, but never understood what was going on.

[@t.mendoza1396]

lol same here but i kept playing it because my dad loved this movie😂

[@TheSarge1911]

I never knew there was a game hidden past that maze

[@dex4463]

Same! Unbelievable.

[@Sammydx1]

I never got past the maze

[@LorenHelgeson]

Spent so many hours on that first level as a kid back in '89, but it was the tunnels where I always tripped up. I still play it to this day, it's good for killing a quick 10 minutes while waiting for a phone meeting or Zoom call. If nothing else, it got me to see the film, which is one of my favorite war movies.

[@LorenHelgeson]

Still playing it to this day. I have that first level burned into my memory. I can navigate without a walthrough. Same for th maze in that last level... But that tunnel system in level 2 STILL kicks my butt so hard, The reaction time needed to get through the tunnels is so unforgiving. Find the items, get to the exit, get both boxes of flares, and final the remaining bonus stuff... FOR POINTS! Still a good ten minutes if I need a test of my reflex. A lot like fighting Cleo the Colorcomancer in Battle Kid.

[@a.d.7117]

My dad in 1988 “whoa, this looks so real!!, the graphics are amazing!!” 😂😂😂😂

[@miket8394]

A.D. My dad in 1996 when DVD first came out “ THAT SOUNDS SHARP AND LOOKS SO CLEAR!” Lol

[@m.a.packer5450]

That was ME in 1988

[@ChipsAhoyMatey]

Your dad in 2021: “whoa, this feels so nostalgic!!, the games were amazing!!” 😁😁😁😁

[@opaljk4835]

To be fair, this does look pretty awesome, even if it’s not the best playing game on the nes by any stretch

[@jerrym1218]

My Dad fought in the Vietnam War and he later bought an Atari 7800 for me and he would buy me video games for me on Atari, and video games for himself on Atari, he bought games like Choplifter, Commando and some other aircraft game. The games that I had were Karataka, Galaga, Pitfall, Desert Falcon and Donkey Kong. Then the Nintendo came out and in the year of 1990 on my birthday, my Mom and Dad bought it for me and it came with Super Mario Bros 1 and Duck Hunt of course and two controllers, and Zapper. A few days later, my Dad contacted a friend of his and he brought over a suitcase full of Nintendo games and he told me to pick 4 of them, I picked Punch-Out, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania II Simon’s Quest, and Maniac Mansion. Then my Dad had his choice to pick 4 Nintendo games and he chose this game right away “Platoon” because he had seen the movie and he loved it a lot, and boy oh boy did he love this game too, and still does lol. The other 3 games my Dad chose were, Metal Gear (which I am so grateful that he did, because I am a huge fan of the entire franchise), 1943 which is awesome and Tiger Heli. His friend actually liked how happy I was to have video games that he decided to throw in Super Mario Bros 2 for free fun and I am happy that he did, because I love the strangeness of SMB 2 and how different it was from the original. (Damn Doki Doki Panic Rip-off, but hell, was it worth and so damn memorable to all of us old school video game fans).

[@alphadrewaz88]

One of the hardest games you'll ever play. One of the best movie games ever made. Soundtrack is amazing, gameplay is tight and intense and the cinematics were amazing for their time. The OG Call of Duty.

[@atfinch]

Got this one in a lot on eBay. I can’t even get to the part where you walk to the other screen.

[@Bigbacon]

Incould never finish the last level

[@FlightsOfOdyssey]

Thanks for uploading. Always wanted to see what was after that damn tunnel.

[@jgaskell80]

Flights of Odyssey got this for Christmas when I was 9. Never even saw the tunnel

[@kramalerav]

I remember when this game was released, Entertainment Tonight did a small segment questioning the sensitivity of it. They asked a couple Vietnam vets about the game, who mostly just laughed it off.

[@arekkusutsuki1119]

The soundtrack was so eery to me when I was a child. It still is now, but it’s also so nostalgic.

[@jamesl.anderson1384]

“Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.” - Chris Taylor

[@NintendoComplete]

It's a fairly odd choice of a computer game to port to the NES, but it works out well enough. Just don't expect the typical Sunsoft game here - it was developed by Ocean.

[@danalong1237]

WRONG! (insert TPIR contestants' row buzzer) The NES port of Platoon was not developed by Ocean, but by SunSoft themselves, but Ocean DID develop and publish the C64/Amiga version while SunSoft developed and published the NES port under license from Ocean. BTW, where was the Georges Delerue score in the NES port anyway?

[@NintendoComplete]

Dana Long Err, you're right. I meant that the original game was an Ocean game, but yeah, Sunsoft did the NES conversion themselves.

[@adamdefibaugh9674]

Ocean. Now that's a name that I haven't heard in a long time. A very long time.

[@Jac2Mac]

@@NintendoComplete Meanwhile, the computer versions that were released in the US were distributed by Data East who was best known for Burgertime.

[@flashlight06]

​​@@Jac2Macata East? I know them from Midnight Resistance. God did loved the C64 version of MR and was never able to beat the tree.

[@cdreamworld]

First time I've ever seen this whole game in full. Bucket list checked.

[@victorjimenez805]

there should be a version where you get to play as Bunny and gain morale for killing villagers

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

When we reach the ending of this game, Charlie Sheen's closing narration always comes to mind; "I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy. We fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now. But it will always be there, for the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession of my soul. There are times sense, I felt like a child, born of those two fathers. But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach to others what we know, and to find the goodness and meaning to this life."

[@snkfan7506]

This game used to creep me out and made me nervous but, the graphics and music were excellent. Bought the cart from my friend (who sadly committed suicide in 2001) in back in 1990. We were fellow Army Brats who met in elementary school on Post. His name is still written on the cartridge.

[@mattcarter6505]

Nintendo 8 bit games will never die

[@arlondon2434]

Music was what intrigued me the most

[@matthatter56]

It's an 8-bit Sunsoft game so good interesting music is kind of give in.

[@turrican3839]

@@matthatter56 It's not Sunsoft's, it's Jonathan Dunn's original work (C64) and David Whittaker's (Amiga)

[@matthatter56]

@@turrican3839 Cool. Thanks.

[@scottythegreat1]

The music is limited on this version. The Sound effects are also limited compared to other versions. Nintendo likely objected to death screams heard throughout the game on this version when someone gets hit with a bullet.

[@Karemaker]

I hated this game when I was a little kid. I would just wander around the maze until I died. Never got past the opening jungle section and just seeing what came afterwards for the first time today, lol.

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

it took me a year to get out of the jungle

[@JohnnyCasey]

Sewer and the dugout section almost feels like you're playing a horror game.

[@UnblockedOne2]

this music in burnt into my head for an eternity

[@jonbarbour6771]

I had this game as a little kid. This game is really hard but you make it look easy. Well done.

[@wesleyhalpern184]

I remember playing this when i was a kid around 88' or so. It looked better than most at the time. A sorely forgotten one was Predator the NES game. That was one of my top favorites

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

When i joined the army in 1997 they asked me if i was prepared. I said hell yeah i beat that game platoon and watched the movie a 1000 times

[@WanderlustZero]

And they put you straight in as a Major

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

@@WanderlustZero under those circumstances they make you a Sgt and you change your names to Barnes

[@dopaminetrigger]

I always wanted to play this game as a kid because it was on a tips and tricks for NES games VHS that somehow I had back then. Never played the game but did watch the movie years later, and to this day easily one of my favorite movies. I'm kind of surprised at how short this game is but I guess a lot of NES games were if you knew exactly how to beat them.

[@troybilko]

This failed to show the opening cut scene which is pretty great considering it’s NES era

[@namelessjedi2242]

Not to mention it is the iconic scene/image of the film!

[@commandervile394]

They were in the trees maaaan! They were in the treeeeees!

[@RSK412]

Damn. Nostalgia alert. We are gonna have a field day with all this material!! You are a beast, NC.

[@BeerDad69]

What a fire fucking soundtrack

[@jamesremington8056]

That Tunnel Rat section is intense.

[@avalond1193]

I love this game sunsoft made some classics they had their own style of nes music that rocked

[@scottythegreat1]

This game was originally by Ocean Software. Like most computer game makers at the time, they used other companies to port games over to the NES. I admit though, while Naoki Kodaka did a great job at porting the music over to the NES, the Commodore 64 version is superior.

[@mtbd215]

The music on the first part is still epic! I always got destroyed in the tunnels. Made it to the Night part 2 or 3 times but was wasted in seconds. Never saw the end til just now. Seems so short when you’re good enough to just blaze through. You run out of ammo and you’re just eFFed!

[@bluekewne]

Honestly as a kid (and even today) I could never get past the jungle part - this game was stupid hard with it's clunky controls & confusing mazes.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

That’s why you weren’t selected to go to Vietnam. You would have sucked

[@johnswanger8474]

I was always that close to beating the game?!?! Goddamnit!

[@misterkuda704]

This looks really good for a 1988 game.

[@jcrocky]

I never knew there was a game based on one of my favorite war movies of all time😅 when I was younger, I was blown away that Goldeneye on the N64 was a movie cause I played the game first before knowing that it was already a movie.

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

I do like the music in this game. It sounds pretty dark and gloomy, and it fits well with the atmosphere of the game.

[@wiisalute]

AVGN should review this next

[@Thomas-dw1nb]

I could never get past the Jungle Encounter; never knew I was that close to winning the game.

[@bigdave95]

It has great music!

[@daniellee8162]

Red Hot Chili Pepper song "Can't Stop" had to got that rift from this game.

[@phillipyoung8773]

Is it sad I still have the levels memorized on how to complete them to this day lol.

[@HendarsChannel]

LOL why does this exist? That's so cool, I had no idea but it's so funny as well. I have to try this game, thanks for the playthrough.

[@Brainhorn]

The night part with the flares is surprisingly cool for an NES game, but I'd be pissed off if I bought this game full price just to find it was so short

[@vanderful2397]

Without walkthrough this wouldn't be a short game! Most gave up during the 1st level. Rest of the game is way easier, but the first level requires >50 tries to beat & who has the patience for that.

[@Ttox229]

@@vanderful2397 That was the bad thing. Finding out that the first level would only hide how short this game really is.

[@johnchoate6909]

I had this as a kid, I think something was wrong with my copy. I could never get past level 1, and there were no enemies either. I think it was an early glitched copy of the game, I literally tried everything possible to get past that level for several years that I owned it.

[@havgzee]

Thats weird so was mine no enimies

[@RafaelFilho]

The 2nd minigame showed me exactly how the Vietnam's rat tunnels inspired D&D and Akalabeth-Ultima dungeon crawlers.

[@hitmixhyepock9405]

Imagine buying this and beating the game in 15 minutes..... I had this and it kicked my ass in the bushes.

[@AnonimAnonimoos]

в детстве купил такую понравилась наклейка на картридже и музыка заставки впечатлила фильм не смотрел до этого.купил ее вместе с игрой Rygar тоже тот еще трэш😂 но Platoon так и не смог пройти.Сначала я не понимал что нужно мост взорвать и меня убивал танк но потом через пару лет я все таки дошел до сцены ночью в джунглях но я не знал что надо запускать осветительные ракеты😢 ps фильм посмотрел наверно лет через 20 после этого-вообще не знал что такой фильм есть…

[@justindloski9129]

I could never get past the first level in this game. Still love it 😅

[@dkay636]

Me too

[@wsem_dobra]

Спасибо Вам большое! Хотя бы спусть 26 лет, но я прошел эту игру пусть и на ютубе!❤

[@iloginu]

Я много раз проходил ее в детстве. Но перед этим были сотни попыток. Помню как с отцом рисовали план туннеля на бумаге :) А третий уровень для меня был очень тяжёлым и я просил его помочь мне. Я в шоке от того, что ее можно пройти за 13 минут! Кажется это занимало целую вечность.

[@jmdollison]

Man.... I never knew there was a game beyond the initial jungle map. Never made it out of there alive as a kid. Gave up on it eventually. Nice!

[@theteki84]

Rhah at the end was a nice touch.

[@nexo768]

I definitely want to add this to my humble collection!

[@vanguard4065]

this game was hard for me. i never got far.

[@kramalerav]

Cold sweats? Hearing chopper blades from the ceiling fan?

[@moonlightbliss4791]

God this brings me back.

[@hunterlee1081]

best graphics ive ever seen

[@thekingsean92]

The first real casualty of War is innocence

[@lancasterbristow9410]

Let me be straight on this, this game is like a difficult woman not popular by casual gamers. A Game worthy for Hardcore NES Ninja Gaiden Part One gamers and is definitely not for the fun play Mario gamers. The gameplay is a punishing one with the fact that every level is different - It starts with side scrolling Jungle then into the Pseudo 3D underground tunnels and bunker defence mission - retro 'Punisher' gameplay with scope sight and finally 'Gain Ground' game style angle for the final mission. The game is crude and truly test your patience at times. But Once you tamed this difficult wild ugly horse, you wish to ride it again just so because you broke it. When we learn the patterns of the game, it's Chuck Norris all the way. 😁 Only Hardcore gamers will know what I mean. A Toast to the game developers who made this wild horse with the limited NES tech. 🍷🍷 Now I want the developers to go wild using today's generation game software on this one. Platoon Rebooted.

[@blandoworthlessness]

I could never pass the first level. That maze all looks the same I think you would have to try to draw your own map. Surprised to see how different the other levels are.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

That’s why you could have sucked in Vietnam and didn’t go

[@macurban7946]

Incredible music.

[@Trainy2]

Maybe the weirdest movie adaptation in the history of video games. It's such a dark and disturbing movie that I have no idea how anyone would think to make it into a video game.

[@unconditionalprong]

There was going to be an Atari 2600 game based on The Entity that was cancelled. That was even darker and more disturbing of a movie.

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

If it won a award they made a game out of it, They should have made a grand theft auto one with a driving miss daisy scene. And a shawshenk redemption

[@ilil813]

I use to rent it as Kid. Difficult but always returning . Liked very much the enviroment. Remember the first time I found the FPS level I freaked out. Years latter could beat it

[@volvoguy804]

I remember my cousin buying this game for me about a year after it came out (only $20!). I never could play it for longer than an hour at a time. The first level was so monotonous and never got past it.

[@SavageScientist]

i remember having the NES advantage and putting it on slow motion the only way i could beat levels 2 and 3

[@shizyninjarocks]

I remember trading my X-Men card collection for this game. It brutally sucked ass. I kept dying over and over in the first level, until I finally quit. Later I found the kid and demanded he give me back my cards, but he'd already sold them. Fuck this game and fuck War, too.

[@chizpa305]

Ahh finally a game that I can run at 30 fps in my computer.

[@bakihanma644]

Had this game as a kid. Could never get past the maze in the beginning

[@krimbii]

same here

[@jrg4094]

I made a map lol! I remember drawing it out to figure out where I had been and how to get out.

[@TR-Mead]

@11:09 Anyone else notice "sectiom" completed? WTH is a sectiom? Haha.

[@Signal6000]

Omg i used to play it 20 years ago

[@shivanshpachauri2855]

soundtrack is just a Banger

[@spacepirateivynova]

The good guy's bullets are always faster :P

[@toastedjoe1013]

Were we the good guys? Went to another country and destroyed it for no reason.

[@everwake2689]

Seems an odd subject for a video game. Vietnam was one of the darker moments in U.S. history.

[@nahuilegorreta6572]

WW2 was pretty dark too...

[@crystalwater505]

Seems like it could've been a really cool game. The graphics, music and sound had a pretty cool feel to them, too bad it wasn't very well executed.

[@UnblockedOne2]

We used to skip school & break in our friend's house & play his NES all day. One time this game Platoon was there. We, for some reason, stole it. Like 20 years later I found out that his dad rented it for him & he got his azz beat by his dad for losing the game.

[@dex4463]

You were a pierce of shit then and look what became of your life. Sad.

[@Patriots3492]

I always had to get my dad to help on the mission where you go into the tunnels

[@PatBrody]

The soundtrack 🔥

[@StoicNatsoc]

Proof that you can make a good looking FPS section in an NES game, Friday the 13th and others were just slacking.

[@stefanozorzi1896]

Grafica migliore del C64 il gioco sempre bello

[@Tell_It_Right]

Imagine spending $45 in '88 and accidentally getting lucky and randomly picking the right way through the woods your 1st try. $45 back then was like $1,ooo,ooo as a kid. I'd be pissed.

[@WanderlustZero]

£7.99 on the C64 :D Guess that'd have been US$16 or so

[@neftaliriverajr503]

I hope the programmers remake this game or bring this original game back for us players to stream and enjoy again playing, 👍👍

[@ОлександрКондратьєв-в3л]

Моя самая первая игра. дошёл до последней миссии как сейчас смотрю. Любимая игра! Жаль что не прошёл(

[@puppiesarepower3682]

I lot of thought went into this game. We could have easily ended up with an LJN title.

[@jpadilla779]

I never finished it. I always got killed int he foxhole... Great job.

[@rafaellima83]

This is a japanese developed port of an european game. It was usually the other way around, heh. Can't remember many C64 or Amiga games ported to consoles by japanese teams. It was a pretty solid port though.

[@Sammydx1]

The hardest game we ever played growing up

[@cheshire_skatkat9093]

That was it!? Damn....

[@lucluc7063]

Very realistic they came from the trees

[@saintsrown]

EXACTLY like the movie!

[@Padre619]

CHARLIES IN THE TREES

[@waffleMccoy]

if you consider the speed of the character and his bullets and then look at the enemies it looks like the values were exactly reversed for some reason.

[@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

oh my god it's real I was sure it looked fake

[@Sordatos]

You can't say that it doesn't represent the concept of getting lost in a jungle

[@krimbii]

As a 6 year old I thought this game was hard AF

[@CustodianHadrian]

It's sorta like Contra except in Vietnam, looks pretty fun though, I'd play it if I had a good emulator or NES console and game copy.

[@spikejago]

So, there was a game after that maze?!

[@korosoid]

Tfw i never used flares...

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

neither did i you could see charlie in the shadows

[@topdamagewizard]

at least it got the ending right

[@namelessjedi2242]

It got everything right. Pretty tense game!

[@m.a.packer5450]

Looks like Jurassic Park 2