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==Reception== {{Video game reviews | ARC = true | C64 = true | NES = true | PC = true | ZX = true | ACE_C64 = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="ACE"/> | ACE_PC = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="ACE"/> | ACE_ZX = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="ACE"/> | CVG_C64 = 34/40<ref name="CVG56">{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=C+VG/Issue056/Pages/CVG05600019.jpg|title = Computer & Video Games}}</ref> | CVG_NES = 83%<ref name="CVG">{{cite journal |title=Complete Games Guide |journal=[[Computer and Video Games]] |date=16 October 1989 |issue=Complete Guide to Consoles |pages=46β77 |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/9/98/CompleteGuideToConsoles_UK_01.pdf#page=46}}</ref> | CVG_ZX = 34/40<ref name="CVG56"/> | Dragon_PC = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Dragon142"/> | CRASH_ZX = 88%<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue28/Pages/Crash2800118.jpg|title = Crash}}</ref> | SUser_ZX = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairUser/Issue051/Pages/SinclairUser05100035.jpg|title=Sinclair User}}</ref> | TGM_NES = 81%<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Console Dawn |magazine=[[The Games Machine]] |date=18 May 1989 |issue=19 (June 1989) |pages=16β22 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-games-machine-19/page/n15/mode/2up}}</ref> | YSinclair_ZX = 9/10<ref name="ysrnry">{{cite web|url=http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/greenberet.htm|title=Green Beret|publisher=ysrnry.co.uk|accessdate=3 Sep 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705103934/http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/greenberet.htm|archive-date=2006-07-05}}</ref> | rev1 = ''[[Commodore User]]'' | rev1_ARC = Positive<ref name="CU30"/> | rev2 = ''[[Computer Gamer]]'' | rev2_ARC = Positive<ref name="CG8"/> | award1Pub = ''Your Sinclair'' | award1 = Hot Shot<ref>Game review, Your Sinclair issue 6, [[Dennis Publishing]], June 1986, page 30</ref> }} In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Green Beret'' in its November 15, 1985, issue as the third-most successful table arcade unit of the month.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - γγΌγγ«εTVγ²γΌγ ζ© (Table Videos)|magazine=[[:ja:γ²γΌγ γγ·γ³|Game Machine]]|issue=272|publisher=[[:ja:γ’γγ₯γΌγΊγ‘γ³γιδΏ‘η€Ύ|Amusement Press, Inc.]]|date=15 November 1985|page=21|lang=ja}}</ref> In Europe, ''Green Beret'' was considered one "of the first military shoot 'em ups" on the market and became a major hit in arcades.<ref name="ACE">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ACE/Issue26/Pages/ACE2600114.jpg |title=Blasts from the Past |magazine=[[ACE (magazine)|ACE]] |issue=26 (October 1989) |date=November 1989 |pages=113β115 (114) |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref> The home computer conversions topped the UK [[Gallup (company)|Gallup]] sales charts in June 1986,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Chart Chat |magazine=[[Commodore User]] |date=July 1986 |issue=35 (August 1986) |page=53 |url=https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-35/page/n52}}</ref> becoming one of the top four best-selling 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> and one of the year's top three best-selling [[Commodore 64]] games.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Top 50 Games of 1986 |magazine=[[Commodore User]] |date=26 March 1987 |issue=43 (April 1987) |page=12 |url=https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-43/page/n11}}</ref> Its budget re-release later topped the UK budget sales chart in July 1989.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Top Ten Budget Games |magazine=[[New Computer Express]] |date=27 July 1989 |issue=38 (29 July 1989) |page=5 |url=https://archive.org/details/NewComputerExpress038/page/n4/mode/1up}}</ref> ''Green Beret'' was well-received by critics. Mike Roberts and Eric Doyle of ''[[Computer Gamer]]'' magazine gave the arcade game a positive review, comparing it favorably with the [[action film]] ''[[Rambo: First Blood Part II]]'' (1985) while calling it an "incredibly violent game" that is "brilliant to play".<ref name="CG8">{{cite magazine |last1=Roberts |first1=Mike |last2=Doyle |first2=Eric |title=Coin-Op Connection |magazine=[[Computer Gamer]] |date=November 1985 |issue=8 |pages=26β7 |url=https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gamer_Issue_08_1985-11_Argus_Press_GB/page/n25/mode/2up}}</ref> ''[[Commodore User]]'' said the arcade version is "a kind of [[Side-scrolling|rightwards scrolling]] ''[[Commando (video game)|Commando]]'' [but] much better" while praising "brilliant" graphics and sound.<ref name="CU30"/> ''[[Computer and Video Games]]'' reviewed the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum versions, calling the game "Konami's answer" to [[Capcom]]'s ''Commando'' (1985) and comparing it favorably with the ''Rambo'' film series. The review said it is fast, "furious" and "terribly addictive".<ref name="CVG56"/> The MS-DOS version of ''Rush'n Attack'' was reviewed in 1989 in ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine by Patricia Hartley and Kirk Lesser, giving 3{{frac|1|2}} out of 5 stars.<ref name="Dragon142">{{cite magazine|title=The Role of Computers|last1=Lesser|last2=Lesser|last3=Lesser|first1=Hartley|first2=Patricia|first3=Kirk|magazine=Dragon|issue=142|date=February 1989|pages=42β51|url=https://fapestniegd.xen.prgmr.com/dragon/Drmg142.pdf#page=44}}</ref> ''[[ACE (magazine)|ACE]]'' reviewed the budget re-release of ''Green Beret'' for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC in 1989, calling it an "intelligently thought out shoot 'em up with excellent graphics".<ref name="ACE"/> The NES version ranked 99 on [[IGN]]'s top 100 NES games list.<ref name="ign">{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/top-100-nes-games/99.html|title=99. Rush'n Attack - Top 100 NES Games - IGN|publisher=ign.com|accessdate=3 Sep 2015}}</ref>
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