Commando

[LMan]

I wasn't aware that the c64 version of the game contained only a small part of the arcade version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qctKI_t5eY

Rob's interpretation of the music surpasses the original by miles, though.

[Dumper]

Yes there was too much to squeeze into the C64 and I guess multi-load would have been too much of a pain for such short levels.

[Vosla]

Yes there was too much to squeeze into the C64 and I guess multi-load would have been too much of a pain for such short levels.

As far as I Know it was planned to be shipped on tape and floppy disk was a later option, so they didn't want the trouble with loading levels from tape into the game?

[merman]

I think it was in the ZZAP interview that Chris Butler mentioned cutting levels out of Commando to make room for the music?

[NecroPolo]

I haven't seen the original, thanks for the link!

Extra levels, better graphics... Add Robb to the scales and the C64 conversion wins it for me

[Mayhem]

I think it was in the ZZAP interview that Chris Butler mentioned cutting levels out of Commando to make room for the music?

Yep. He had the first four levels in the game and Rob's music (at 5k or so) was too big to fit into the remaining space, so he hacked out level 3 to make room for it instead. Hence the C64 conversion only has levels 1,2 and 4 from the 8 in the original arcade.

[vurtX]

Hi, you can play the original arcade Commando in all its glory on the PC with the MAME arcade emulator, I play all those original C64 conversions on it, its fantastic!

grab mame from here, its free! > http://mamedev.org/

oh yes the arcade music is awful compared to Rob Hubbards Commando, its offensive to call that a remix! He took the original and expanded it into the work of wonder we all know and love

[Doddsy]

I think the Commodore Amiga version is almost an arcade copy so cheers to the guys at Elite for making it!