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Zzap!64, issue 34 (February 1988)

Zzap!64 editors. 1988. “Zzap!64, issue 34 (February 1988).” Zzap!64, issue 34. Newsfield.

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Zzap!64 34
Original
https://archive.org/details/zzap64-magazine-034
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https://archive.org/download/zzap64-magazine-034/ZZap_64_Issue_034_1988_Feb_djvu.xml
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2026-11-06
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© Newsfield (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
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Scan in the Internet Archive item "zzap64-magazine-034"; the pin is the item's OCR as DjVu XML.
Notes
Contains the Commodore 64 review of Ocean's Platoon (a Sizzler) on printed pp. 88-89, and the cover story. The OCR is poor; read quotes on the page image (image number = printed page here).

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Zzap!64 reviewed Ocean's Commodore 64 Platoon in its February 1988 issue, on cassette at £8.95, joystick only.p. 88 (image 88), review headerp. 88 (image 88), review headerMagazine
Zzap!64 made the Commodore 64 version a Sizzler with 94% overall: presentation 94%, graphics 93%, sound 93%, hookability 88%, lastability 92%.p. 89 (image 89), ratings boxp. 89 (image 89), ratings boxp. 89 (image 89), ratings boxp. 89 (image 89), ratings boxp. 89 (image 89), ratings boxp. 89 (image 89), ratings boxpp. 88-89 (images 88-89)Magazine
Zzap!64's verdict called the Commodore 64 game a superb combat simulation and the best film tie-in to date. One reviewer called it a milestone in film tie-ins.p. 89 (image 89), verdict boxp. 88 (image 88), comment initialled J.R.p. 89 (image 89), comment initialled P.S.Magazine
Zzap!64 described the Commodore 64 game as following five young Americans through the Vietnam war in four sections, and its package as holding a film-style poster and an audio soundtrack of Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of my Tears".p. 88 (image 88)p. 88 (image 88)Magazine