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Platoon
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Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
The jungle in Platoon wants you dead long before the enemy shows up. Tripwires, hidden mines and booby traps line the trails, every path seems to fork into another dead end, and the squad you lead is already thin on luck. Ocean Software's adaptation of Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film, published on the NES by Sunsoft, is not a cheerful licensed cash-in. It is a grim, tense, surprisingly ambitious attempt to capture the confusion and exhaustion of the film in an 8-bit cartridge.
What makes it memorable is how often it changes shape. The opening is a side-scrolling slog through the jungle, hunting for explosives to blow a bridge before you can push on to a village, where a torch and a map of the tunnels are hidden. Then the view drops into first person for a maze of underground tunnels, where you navigate by that map, scrounge supplies and react fast to anyone who appears in the dark. A nighttime siege in a bunker follows, with flares lighting up the treeline just long enough to spot and shoot what is coming. The finale returns to the jungle against the clock, dodging fire as you push through the trees toward Sergeant Barnes and a last showdown fought with grenades. Along the way you rotate through a five-man squad, switching soldiers as each one takes punishment.
The soundtrack is by Naoki Kodaka, the Sunsoft composer whose bass-heavy work also powers Blaster Master and Batman on the NES, and his brooding score does a lot to sell the mood. Platoon has always had a reputation for difficulty, and it earns it: this is a game about patience, memorization and keeping your nerve when the map stops making sense.
For collectors of NES movie adaptations, Platoon is one of the more serious and unusual entries, a multi-genre experiment from the era when a single licensed cartridge would try to be four games at once. It is also a strong pick for anyone who appreciates Sunsoft's sound or simply wants a war game with real atmosphere on original hardware.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Sun Corporation of America
- Developer
- Ocean Software
- Genre
- Shooter, Simulation, Strategy
About the game
The NES port of Platoon. The film Platoon featured a squad of five soldiers on their mission for the US Army in Vietnam. In this action game based around the film, you take control of these five guys in turn, with the chance to switch between them as they each take one of the 3 hits that would kill them. The game recreates each of the sections of the film, starting with a side-scrolling journey through the jungle, with paths to cross both horizontally and vertically, and the ability to jump or duck hazards. You will need to blow up a bridge and then locate a village, which contains a torch, a map and a trap-door. The enemy has booby-trapped the area and are launching airstrikes, so the danger is not all from enemy ground soldiers.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayPlatoon on NES
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