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===Accolades=== ''Computer Gamer'' magazine's Game of the Year Awards gave the original arcade version of ''Commando'' the award for best coin-op [[List of Game of the Year awards|game of the year]], beating ''[[Paperboy (video game)|Paperboy]]'' and ''[[Marble Madness]]''.<ref name="CG11">{{cite magazine |title=Game of the Year Awards: Best Coin-Op Machine |magazine=[[Computer Gamer]] |date=February 1986 |issue=11 |page=15 |url=https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gamer_Issue_11_1986-02_Argus_Press_GB/page/n13}}</ref> After being ported to home computers, ''Commando'' was voted best arcade-style game of the year at the 1986 [[Golden Joystick Awards]],<ref name="Golden">{{cite journal|title=Golden Joystick Awards|journal=[[Computer and Video Games]]|date=May 1986|issue=55|page=90|publisher=[[EMAP]]|url=https://archive.org/stream/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_055_1986-05_EMAP_Publishing_GB/Computer__Video_Games_Issue_055_1986-05_EMAP_Publishing_GB#page/n89/mode/2up}}</ref> and won the award for best [[shoot 'em up]] game of the year according to readers of ''[[Crash (magazine)|Crash]]'' magazine.<ref name="crashonline">{{cite web|url=http://www.crashonline.org.uk/27/awards.htm|title=CRASH 27 - Readers' Awards|publisher=crashonline.org.uk|access-date=2015-09-03}}</ref> In 1996, [[GamesMaster (magazine)|GamesMaster]] rated the game 57th on their "Top 100 Games of All Time."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 1996 |title=Top 100 Games of All Time |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/c/cf/GamesMaster_UK_044.pdf |journal=GamesMaster |issue=44 |pages=76}}</ref>
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