Editing Commando (video game) (section)

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The [[home computer]] ports of ''Commando'' topped the UK software sales charts in December 1985,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Software Chart |magazine=[[Computer and Video Games]] |date=16 January 1986 |issue=52 (February 1986) |page=64 |url=https://archive.org/details/computer-video-games-magazine-052/page/n63/mode/1up}}</ref> becoming the seventh best-selling [[1985 in video games|game of 1985]] in the UK.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=News Desk: Exploding Fist tops Gallup 1985 charts |magazine=[[Popular Computing Weekly]] |date=20 March 1986 |page=4 |url=https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1986-03-20/page/n3}}</ref> It topped the charts again in January 1986,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The charts |magazine=[[Your Computer (British magazine)|Your Computer]] |volume=6 |issue=3 |date=March 1986 |page=17 |url=https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1986-03/page/n16/mode/1up}}</ref> and went on to become one of the top three best-selling [[1986 in video games|games of 1986]] in the UK.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Yie Ar tops charts for 1986 |magazine=[[Popular Computing Weekly]] |date=12 February 1987 |page=6 |url=https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1987-02-12/page/n5}}</ref> In the United States, the home computer versions received two Gold Awards from the [[Software Publishers Association]] in 1987 for more than 200,000 units sold in the region.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Petska-Juliussen |first1=Karen |last2=Juliussen |first2=Egil |title=The Computer Industry Almanac 1990 |date=1990 |publisher=Brady |isbn=978-0-13-154122-1 |location=New York |pages=3.10–11 |url=https://archive.org/details/computerindustry00kare/page/n265/mode/2up}}</ref>

The NES version released in 1986 sold {{nowrap|1.14 million}} copies worldwide.<ref name="capcomplatinum">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116224723/http://ir.capcom.co.jp/english/data/million.html|archive-date=2008-01-16|url=http://ir.capcom.co.jp/english/data/million.html|title=Platinum Titles|publisher=[[Capcom]]|access-date=2008-11-10|date=2008-09-30}}</ref>

''[[New Straits Times]]'' reviewed the BBC Micro, Amstroid CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum versions in January 1986, calling it a "must-have" war simulation "to end all war simulation games" with "fast and furious" action "bordering on the impossible."<ref name="NST"/> ''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' said in 1988 that "few cartridges can equal [''Commando'']'s non-stop action" on the NES.<ref name="cgw198809">{{cite magazine | title=Video Gaming World | magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]] | issue=51 | date=September 1988 | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_51.pdf#page=52 | access-date=2016-04-17 | last1=Worley | first1=Joyce | last2=Katz | first2=Arnie | last3=Kunkel | first3=Bill | pages=52}}</ref> ''[[TouchArcade]]'' reviewed the [[iOS]] version in 2017 and gave it a score of 2.5 out of 5 stars.<ref name="TA">{{cite web |url=https://toucharcade.com/2017/03/24/wolf-of-the-battlefield-commando-mobile-review/ |title='Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando Mobile' Review – Don't Disturb My Friend, He's Dead Tired |last=Musgrave |first=Shaun |date=2017-03-24 |website=[[TouchArcade]] |access-date=2018-09-25}}</ref>

''[[NintendoLife]]'' wrote, "Commando might be one of the few examples of the stripped-down ports actually being stronger than the original game. These later ports added powerups, better music and depth to the gameplay that are all sadly lacking in the arcade original."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Philip J |date=2010-12-10 |title=Review: Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando (Virtual Console / Virtual Console Arcade) |url=https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/2010/12/wolf_of_the_battlefield_commando_virtual_console |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Nintendo Life |language=en-GB}}</ref>