Anyone good at Commando Raid?

[Krytol]

I just started playing this game and I like it. It reminds me of an early PC game... can't remember the name.

 

Anyone have any strategy tips? Any reason to shoot for helicopters first besides higher points?

[Robert M]

I think a key strategy for Commando Raid is to strategically allocate damage across the 4 buildings so as to avoid letting the enemy build tunnels as long as possible. The buildings repair over time, but tunnels remain forever once they are dug. So I like to focus on protecting one side 100% and the other side as much as possible. When the less protected side is almost to the point of tunnels being built, then I switch and give 100% coverage to the damaged side. With luck/skill the damaged buildings will repair, and you can repeat this process indefinitely.

 

Cheers!

[Krytol]

Thanks, Rob.

[Brad2600]

I had Commando Raid when I was a kid and I found it really interesting.

[+Atarius Maximus]

It reminds me of an early PC game... can't remember the name.

 

I haven't played Commando Raid much, but I do remember playing an old shareware game on my PC called "Night Raid" many years ago that was similar. Could this be the game you remember?

 

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Night+Raid

 

AM

[tkarner]

The original, as far as I can tell, is much older than Night Raid.

I think it was simply called Paratrooper. It used CGA graphics

and the keyboard for input. This was a pre-mouse, pre-joystick

game on the PC XT. We're talking early eighties, the first game on

an IBM that I recall ever seeing.

[tkarner]

By the way, Commando Raid is tough, it doesn't let up.

It's the only game that causes my hands to cramp up.

Most of the time I have to end a game not because I've

lost but because my hands are too fatigued. (No double

entendres please about fatigued hands...)

[Krytol]

I think it was simply called Paratrooper. It used CGA graphics and the keyboard for input.

 

Yup. That's the one.

 

[broncoman]

i remember playing for hous on my atari now being 31 one im like damm i can't keep up . fun getting older

[AtariDude]

That is the newest game that I got for my Atari. I haven't played it too much but my basic strategy is shoot first and ask questions later

[Jeff Lodoen]

I think it was simply called Paratrooper. It used CGA graphics and the keyboard for input.

 

Before that there was "Sabotage" for the Apple ][.

[Krytol]

Before that there was "Sabotage" for the Apple ][.

 

Indeed. 1981: