Platoon (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Sunsoft’s 1988 NES game, Platoon. For the full review, soundtrack, and screenshot gallery, be sure to check out While this game does prominently carry the Sunsoft logo, don’t let that fool you. It’s an Ocean game, through and through, and you’ll probably notice the difference pretty quickly. This was one of those games that Sunsoft published shortly before focusing on their own in-house developed games. Platoon is based on the 1987 computer game (C64, Amiga), that was in turn, obviously based on the massive 1986 Hollywood Vietnam War movie with Willem Defoe and Tom Berrenger. It’s a good port of an okay game, but at least it’s so schizophrenic in it’s gameplay style that you’ll hardly have time to get bored before it’s over. It starts off in Level 1 with finding explosives to take out a bridge in a jungle maze, platform style. Level 2 switches to the tunnels dug underground, where (playin