Game:

Commando (1985)

Duration: 52:18

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http://www.recordedamigagames.org

Played by: Ironclaw

A game based on the movie, and for once (in my opinion) it's pretty accurate, unlike a lot of other games where the game's only likeness of the movie is the title.

This game runs in 50fps, but YouTube doesn't support that frame rate so it has lowered it making stuff in the game different. The scrolling is not so smooth now, all flickering (like when the player gets hit and meteors destroyed) which normally is 50fps now makes stuff disappear etc.... Download the video from our site for a full fps version.

This game is very hard (in my opinion) and the collision detection is a bit off. The enemies are hard to kill with normal jump-kicks and punches and only sliding seems to work the best. I added a part at 42:10 where you can see in slow motion how I miss some stuff, when I clearly should have at least landed on the edge...but I missed the spring and the platform thingy and fell to the ground. Was very frustrating getting though this game. Jumping from moving platforms made me fall of them a lot, as I wanted to run to the end of the platform and jump, like in most games. But in this one I fall if I get too close to the edge, which is like 2 feet from the edge in some cases, which is silly.

In the middle of recording this game, I felt like watching the movie this game is based on, as I haven't seen it since I was a kid :) (15 years ago or something, I'm 32 now). Ahh, brought back memories :). Sure, the movie isn't exactly a masterpiece, but it's decent anyway and has some silly stuff which I like. I added some clips from the movie at the end of this movie. These clips are not played in its original 30fps because THIS movie is in 25fps. (so, these clips are not running smooth).

01:06 - Level 1
05:51 - Level 2
13:52 - Level 3
25:28 - Level 4
42:10 - Bad collision detection example
42:27 - Bonus

Edit: I saw a clip of the PC version before playing this game and saw how the player jumped on enemies to kill them. I tried and it didn't work so I thought it was just the PC version that had this move. While typing the above comment I though about trying to press DOWN when jumping and that worked. Too bad I found out about this now. Oh well.... the steering while in air still sucks anyway and it's a bit hard to land on them with the precision needed to kill them. If I'm off by just 3 pixels or something, I land on them and they hit me. -
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