Green Beret

This was another great game The man copied for me, I knew it was going to be tough and it didn't disappoint. I often wondered as I got my bottom whooped by the relentless enemies why my guy brings a knife to a gun fight? Green Beret is difficult but also very addictive and fun to play. You do get flame thrower and a rocket launcher so you're not totally dependent on your puny pig-sticker. Nice artwork and decent tune make Green Beret a very playable port of the coin-op big brother.

Great game, always loved it... Music so good ... Hated the arcade original but felt this was better ...

Managed to complete it despite how difficult it was ...

What might haveen been the idea to make a game this difficult?

Gameplay Video Link:
youtube.com/watch?v=nlzhXbHX2CE

It's an excellent conversion but I never really liked the original arcade version. So for me the C64 version is just a good copy of a game that wasn't all that great in the first place.

Good game, which I put quite a lot of hours into. The game was tough however and it was rare for me to get past the 1st level.

Found it impossible to finish, but we did love it back then.
I think this still is a very good copy of the arcade.

@stooart I read the first comment and thought: "what? This is actually a pretty decent comment from Monk".

Then I read the one below it, and yeah, it never fails, the same garbage, stupidity-filled nonesense...

Green Beret rules!

Monk fills another game's comments with utter drivel!

Played on the C64 before the arcade you start off with just knife and killed as many bad guys as you could before picking up more powerful weapons. Enemies would come from both the left and right of the screen so it could be quite tricky at times. There was a lot of excitement about this game coming to the home systems but I'd never heard of it before and wasn't that impressed with either version.

Too fast bullets, often fired at point blank range.

Green Beret is as perfect an arcade-conversion as it was possible to make at the time. This is how conversions should be made.

As far as dybdal's whining; I am the first to complain about difficulty in games - most classics are too difficult for me, so I can only enjoy the atmosphere and graphics+sound, but not the gameplay, really.

Still, Green Beret is not -that- hard, and anyone should be able to complete at least the first level.

The difficulty is not the problem per se - heck, I completed two levels without cheats (well, almost - I died right at the end of the second level).

The problem is repetitiveness - but what can you expect from a game made in 1986 AD?

Green Beret is pretty difficult, but dybdal's whining is mostly an example of 'not enough practice', and 'not using intuition'. It's pretty easy to know when the guards are about to shoot, and if you play anticipating it, you can make it a spine reaction to go down just before they shoot. I almost never get shot in the game (though I do die from letting the enemy punch the bottom of my boot with his forehead (and such) very often - these are some seriously tough guys!).

This game is a magnificent classic from the eighties with an incredible Galway Masterpiece as the title music that really makes the soul glad to exist.

Green Beret belongs to everyone's Commodore 64 game collection, even if they only have two games in it (the other one would of course be Maniac Mansion, the best computer/video game ever created that I know of).

And it's probably the best arcade conversion after Bomb Jack, Kung-Fu Master and Midnight Resistance.

Everything this game does, it does too fast and its a real shame.

It's a lot harder than the arcade version, allmost unplayable at times.

1) The Enemy's move to fast
2) The Bullet's move to fast
3) There isnt a seperate sprite for the enemys that can shoot, so you never know if the enemy thats chasing you is going to shoot you or not.
4) The animation delay of the enemys shooting is missing, in the arcade version the shooting enemys will sit down and take abit of delay before shooting you, in the C64 version they just sit down and shoot instantly, meaning if an enemy decides to do this a few pixels away from you.. Your left with this unfair feeling and that is never a good thing.

A solid game on the arcade, zx spectrum & nes. Would be the same on the C64 if the gameplay issues were ironed out.

What a pity.

Great graphics, great music, but the game-play is indeed as hard as a game straight from the arcades. I need trainers for this one.

I remember playing this in the arcade, and then one day I came across it for the C64 and bought it. It didn't seem as fun playing it if I wasn't potentially paying a quarter to play. I guess placing my skill up against my hard earned lawn mowing income made the game a little more enjoyable... And tense! Fun game for what it was. Had some tricky parts in it, with some well paced game play.

I remember, back in early 90s when I got my C64C I was always thinking about how to improve Green Beret so that it would have been really playable. As some spotting people have said: the enemies just should not shoot that quickly. It does not happen in the coin op version, it does not happen in the NES version, it does not happen in the Spectrum version. As a result, the Commodore version has the best sound, very good graphics, poor gameplay. Another lost opportunity I'm afraid. 6/10. Thank you.

Incredibly difficult to the point that it's just not fun to play. Outstanding music from Martin Galway makes this an essential purchase.

Great game, but extremely tough

Not the best graphics around, however it came with two brilliant tunes, and performed a very intense and FAST gameplay.

I played this game for AGES during my adolescence.

It's still one of my fav titles on the 64.

The random shooting from the blue dudes was a real nightmare... The bullet was very fast, and they tend to shoot you when the distance was too short to avoid it.

The only con I find about this title is having lives lost when your character grounds on the face of some enemy after a jump.

I don't think anybody could stand a kick like that. But well, that would require to change all the gameplay...

No need to change.

I remember the US Army Base in my hometown still had the Green Beret arcade machine in 1994. I've spent a few quarters only to find out that the C64 conversion was much more playable.

No, it had all four game levels - the same as the arcade version.

I think, if memory serves me, the reason it was so hard was cos it only had three of the arcade game's levels. As I said before, one for the masochists...

Tremendous game with a wonderfully intense and frantic atmosphere. I remember a friend of my father's copying this game for us and that it was first on the tape. I'd sit in awe at the beautiful loading theme and to this day, it's one of my favourite sids of all time. It took me a long time to make progress - made it to only stage 2 a few times as a kid. Sometimes I'd even get my sister to hit the spacebar! I remember being captivated by just the wintery touches on the first level.

But returning to it many years later, I bought an original on tape for the SID from a kind member on Lemon and have been making several concerted efforts the past couple of years to finish it. I consistently make stage 3, but as of yet, haven't quite managed it! *salutes to the difficulty of the game*. Maybe one day.

Brilliant game defiantly one of the best on C64 what all games should live up to, although I do agree its very hard buts thats its only downfall if you can call it one

One of The Best games for C64, im playing all the time, its difficult but not impossible! . The best music of all C64 times..

I beat this. Its easy.. But its probably one of the best shoot em ups ever.

A classic of the Commodore 64 !! Good game, good convertion, very difficult

I think it was a pretty good arcade conversion but gotta agree with the few opinions out there: it was so RIDICULOUSLY hard, it was insulting. Playing it years later on the MAME arcade version, I realised that what the C64 programmers did was put like a level 3 difficulty on the game from the start. I mean, the guys I the original coin-op hardly shot at you, and you saw it coming. On the C64 version, they shot at you ALWAYS at point blank range at some stage or other. I couldn't get past stage 3 either on the C64 but beat the arcade version quite a few times with only a credit.

We're masochists!

Naahm this one's not good at all, what's the matter with you guys?

Insanely hard, but good fun nonetheless. Great music.

At the local US Army Base in my hometown they had a GB arcade machine until 1992. When I first played the arcade version I learned that it is a KNIFE you have... Wasn't so clear in the C64 conversion
But it is a great game and I still play it!

Green bert's name reminded me, when i was a kid i was completely confused by the manual and i thought the player's name was green bert, and that the enemy was red albert (red alert)! Never liked the game much though, although it's definitely gotten better with age.

Oh man, this game was hard. Looked great and was fun to play until I kept getting frustrated and ultimately threw in the proverbial towel.

A Claaaaaaaaaasic! This game rocked on C64! Still awesome, great playability, nice graphics and a good SID coverage. This means WAR!
9/10

Its lovely - it really is. I just wish they had not made it sooooo hard. The thing that kills it is the speed of the enermy's gunfire. It is way to quick.
The speccy version at least got this part right.
Too tough but still fun.

The finest arcade conversion of all time. I ony saw the arcade version when MAME came out and I'd much prefer the C64 one any day.
A hard as bricks game but pretty fair with it, I still play it today. 1010.

Total classic but tough as old boots.

Perfect maniability for this title... One of the best conversion with Shinobi.
It take ages to finish without cheating... But when I went to the end (after about 1000 try), I felt kind of a super-hero...

Another real Must-Have for 's lovers.

One of the best arcade hit translation on the C64!
a must have for all Commodeore lovers!

I actually prefer this version to the NES and Arcade versions... Not quite sure why, but I really do.

This was a great game but very tough as the levels progressed. Great music and sprites made this a highly playable arcade conversion. I still remember nearly breaking the space bar when things got heavy!

The title tune is so good!

This game to C64 is Shadow of the Beast II to Amiga, difficulty-wise speaking. I would give it a perfect 10 if it wasn't because of the unbalanced difficulty level. I remember I spent many hours on hacking the game to give myself infinite lives, and finally I succeeded. But couldn't finish it because my hack caused the game to go to hell in a handbasket in the middle of the 4th level everytime...

By the way, there IS actually an easy method to the dogs at the end of level 2 - stay down the whole time, right in the middle of the screen... Kill one side then turn and you'll just be able to kill the other... Keep going! And the kung fu guards don't do any fly kicks so don't worry about moving!

And for level 3... The grenade weapon is tough to use, but it works better if you duck to throw it (kills mortar dudes below as well)

Better than the arcade.. Funnier, more frustratingly addictive, and invincibly memorable. Yes, its hard, hard as nails... But that's what these classic C64 games are all about... That nail-biting finish... That last second faceplant as a bullet whistles past, the thing about this game was there was never one easy method to get through... You had to be on your toes always, not rushing, but always moving, ducking, laddering, back and forth... Green beret, for me, is 10/10 for memories; a classic iconoclastic 64 game. Unforgettable. And an absolute bitch at times. One of the few games where it could concieivably be good for your physical fitness to play, beause when you get good, you really work up a sweat and a heart rate!

An excellent conversion of the Arcade Classic! Game play is bang on! Very nice graphics and sound too. Well worth adding to anyone's collection. 9/10

Not a huge range of movement, not as responsive as one would like it. Made the game hard.
Still there's nothing like a good challenge. If I remember correctly it helped not to try to go through it at lighting pace.

Not too good conversion of the coin-op game... Greatly controllable but why so HARD???
Also, the graphics is just average and the music... That's millitary groove!
GREEN BERET:Kill the whole army with a knife(and with some cheats... )!
6/10

A nicely presented game which goes downhill a bit once you start to play it. Something seems lacking, I can't put my finger on it. Maybe the lack of death animation? Maybe the rather uninspiring incarnations of the enemies, ("Well, we've had guys that shoot stuff and kick stuff? What else can we do, I know! Lets have a guy that floats down on a parachute and drops stuff), any interest wears off rather quickly.

That's because its a conversion of that very game (with a more politically correct name). Rush'n attack = Russian Attack

Hmmm this game looks suspiciously like the arcade game Rush'n Attack

This was a fab shooter (even if the man on the loading screen did have breasts). It could get real hectic with several enemies at once. They used to pile out of the back of the van at the end of the level!!!

Ahh the joyous memories of this game... Yes it was FRICKIN' hard... And so many times would I get to a point near the end only to be robbed by a point blank gunshot etc... But how good did it feel to finally run past the captives and have them give you a salute at the end when finally, after achieving the near-impossible and FINISHING the game!!
memories...

Good game, but as almost everyone else has said it's far too difficult.

I remember loading it up, playing it once or twice and throwing my joystick to the floor in rage!

I was good at games but this seemed a little unfair at points. Midnight Resistance was better (but this is still a good game).

Technically excellent with great graphics and sound. Great fun to play, up to a point, but the difficulty level was set way too high which meant that frustration soon set in. A shame, cuz apart from the difficulty is was a fab game.

Cool game, one of the best arcade-versions for the C64!

This is one of the games that kept me returning to it, time after time. I now play it on MAME.

Cool

Picture this. It's the dead of night and I am tormented by familiar sounds in my dreams. These sounds drive me to wake and switch on my 64, load Beret and stare in bleary eyed concentration at the screen. The sounds in question?They could only be the klaxons announcing my arrival as a Green Beret dealing death with comparative ease to dozens of weapon wielding North Koreans? Out ta kill me!

Brilliant - but too hard. The kung-fu guys in green were impossible to kill without the flamethrower - and the times you were just about to stab someone and they shot you from 1mm away giving you no time to duck!!

A well put together game that might have been a lot of fun had it not been so unreasonably difficult. Enemy bullets moved so quickly that they required inhuman reactions to dodge. A better game when played with the infinite lives POKE.

The First Game I bought on my C64 back in 1987 .
Fantastic action , graphics, and sound but the game was so damn difficult !!!
The variety of weapons and enemies and very good controls makes this game a masterpiece! .
I think its better than the arcade version .

If you've only played this on emulator get the loading music, it's superb.
The title music is also a amazing, but anyone else noticed the little ditty bit nicked from Wham's Young Guns.

Oh crap, you know I've listened to Wham.

This is the definitive arcade version of Rush N Attack (Green Beret). I got this game and Yie Ar Kung Fu on the Double Header diskette. I can beat the arcade game two or three times in a row on one quarter but this one was insanely difficult and addictive! The gameplay is faster and more merciless and that damn space bar really makes you adjust because you have to reach down to use it very quickly and keep your eye on the screen. The game is tough but beatable. The NES version was licensed from Konami and more levels were added. This game is excellent on the new Gameboy Advance SP with two new levels and arcade perfect. This is my fave C64 game next to Impossible Mission.

Rubbish loading screen... The background graphics were very close to the original aracde version (which I loved and completed) & I would give the sound 10/10 it was so spot on!!! ... One of the better C64 arcade conversions for sure. 8/10

Tough game. I think you had to be a green beret to finish this one. No hard feelings though. It was definetly a good game for improving your skill levels.

This game was (is) so damn difficult, despite having excellent controls! Great music too, and I liked this more than the arcade version...

Very tough game. Managed to get to the end of level 2 a few times, but would get destroyed by those jumping dogs! I wonder if anyone has finished this game without any trainer. I suppoe the secret was in using the bazooka and flame thrower effectively

Another case when the C64 conversion outshines the arcade original. Better GFX and music but most importantly, this is more challenging - almost to the point of frustration. Also the main character has got more balls than his wimpy and shoddily animated arcade counterpart.

Well, what should I say... This is just it... Perfect and challenging gameplay at its best. I can't understand those who say it's too hard though - it ain't. I hate games that are too easy to master. Dave Collier has always found the exact edge between being unplayable and hard but fair. Another example of this is Terra Cresta. Green Beret can make me highly concentrated and stick to the 64, cursing like crazy at myself if I do a mistake and swearing at the game if it wasn't my fault like not too many other games around. It's just one of these games... That keep you going on... An on... For hours and hours!

Good game, good music, very hard though. Got to level three I think. The coin op was easier!

Excellent! Funnier than the coin-op!!!

Wonderful game! Me and my brother had to play this game for ages before we managed to complete it. I fired it up with an emulator a while back and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get passed level 1 I would also like the add that the C-64 version of the game looks great compared to the Atari 130XE version I used to play. In my opinion one of the best games made for the 8-bit range of computers!

Excellent! . Ridiculously difficult though, which makes it the exact opposite of commando. Something in the middle would be best.

Can you transform a mediocre coin-op in a fast-paced, difficult and addictive C64 game?Ask to Imagine!
9/10

This is a hard game man, Killing people with guns, ninja's with only a knive.

A real C64 game !!!
Score 8

Very difficult, but one of the greatest hits. I love the title screen music!

One of my favorites. Although it's not easy I like the fact that one doesn't have to remember attack waves to get forward, but rather get into the rhythm of relentless knife slaughtering

Very, very playable horizontal scrolling shooter, but damn hard (IMHO this game is unplayable without cheat/trainer) ... Great graphics, good sound, great conversion

AArrrrghhh this game is sooooo hard. Only enjoyed playing with infinite lives (still took ages). Strange loading music didn't fit the game at all. POWs danced with their elbows when they heard you were out to rescue em. But all in all a terrific arcade conversion. Flamethrower great fun! Why were bullets mini german flags though? Strange...

The title screen music is so good I keep listening to it over and over again. Brilliant

Brilliant game, I played it lots and lots and lots. I even made a PC version of it, go to www.tdbsoft.tk to download it.

The music in the title screen I could listen to for days on end! It's sooo good! One of the best features of the game! Also, there's no way I could finish it without unlimited lives, and even then it took ages Definitely one that I played heaps on the 64!

One of the best games ever. Good graphics, fantastic game-play and great music. Fantastic intro-tune, and the original-game gave a "loading" tune that is just so f**king great...

One of the best games on the 64. It was much much better than the arcade version. I played it so many hours until I finished it. Even today when somebody talk about C64 days the first that come to my mind is GREEN BERET

Uhhhh... So many good memories... Never forget the first time I played this wonderfull game

I always thought the beret jumped like a dickhead. I played this game thousands of times but never got past level 2.

Never really liked this one, though I played it quite a lot

Does anyone know if Nintendo ripped their game "Rush'n'attack" straight out of this one, or did they actually get the copyright before so blatantly copying a game?

Great game but to difficult for me.

Difficult but fun. Graphics good.

One of the best rambo games on the C64
ofcourse we may not forget who dares wins!!

This game rocks! Nice graphics, good controls and lots of action! One of the best Imagine games! Do you remember the title tune from martin galway? Even today its a marvellous melody and composition!!!

Really great conversion of a just plain awful arcade game.. Very hard though..
I Rate 76/100

Great Game! Great Music! Difficult!

I used to play this game freezed from tape lots of times cause Ghost'n'Goblins was after that game on Tape. Today I have just found out how Arcade Perfect this game is. I used Mame and used Green Beret its awful.

I never finished this game, but I want to! I always lost at the end of the harbour, with the dogs running at me...

Oh I loved this game! I felt so cool running along shooting bad guys, I'm almost ashamed today:-) The loading titles and music never was better, it almost made the waiting a bigger thrill than the game itself!

Colorful graphics with good backdrops, good sound and great playability makes this one of the real classics to the C64!!
It's more playable with unlimited lives IMO, in fact it is hard enough in that mode