Platoon

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Section 1 And 2

Jungle And Village
You must lead your Platoon deep into the depths of the Vietnamese jungle and ultimately the village. Once there, you will search the huts for useful objects and ultimately find a trap door in one of the huts that will lead you to an underground network of tunnels.

List of objectives in this section:

1. Find explosives
2. Find bridge
3. Place explosives on bridge
4. Find village
5. Search huts for a torch and map
6. Find trap door

Section 3

Tunnel Network
When you enter a room, move the crosshair and press FIRE to examine objects. If needed, they are automatically taken. To leave the room, press FIRE with the crosshair over the exit icon (bottom right).

Section 4

The Bunker
You have your machine gun and a supply of flares to light up the night sky in order to see the enemy silhouetted against the horizon but be prudent - supplies are limited, as is the time of illumination.

Section 5

The Jungle
The compass (top right) indicates the direction that you are facing always head in a northerly direction. Each screen depicts a view of a portion of the jungle you are in. Run to the top of each area, avoiding the Viet Cong fire, snipers and other hazards such as barbed wire and half-buried mines.

Section 6

The Foxhole
You must remove Barnes from the bunker in order to avoid the napalm. The cover that is afforded Barnes makes machine gun fire rather ineffective leaving you with the only option of a frontal assault with your grenades. You must, in fact, score five direct hits with your grenades into the foxhole. You will find the box of grenades at the start of the screen and these must be picked up immediately.

Game Controls

Keys are fully redefinable.

Use joystick to move up, down, left, right and fire.

Note: The key for throwing grenades is redefinable for both joystick and keyboard options. In stages 1 and 2 only, the key for calling up the status panel is also redefinable as above.

Loading

LOAD"" (ENTER)

The 128K version of the game is on Side A of the tape. This loads the complete game in one load.

The 48K version of the game is on Side B of the tape. Due to the enormous amount of code involved, the game loads in three parts which are played consecutively. (You will only be able to load the next section upon completion of your current one.)

The game sections are as follows:

1. Jungle 1 and Village
2. Tunnel Network and Bunker
3. Jungle 2 and Foxhole

Side A of the tape includes common data which is loaded into memory and then loads 1, 2 and 3 successively on top of the data. Should you lose on sections 2 or 3 (and need to restart), it is not necessary to load in the common data again; just turn the tape to Side B and load in the first section (to do this rewind Side B and load in sections as before).