Combat School

Combat School, is a 1987 arcade game produced by Konami where the player takes control of a military recruit who is undergoing basic training at a United States Marine Corps Recruit Training also known as a Boot Camp.

Released: 2 April 1987
Platforms: Amstrad CPC Arcade Commodore C64/128/MAX MS-DOS ZX Spectrum
Genres: Fighting Shooter Platformer Sports Arcade
Developers: Konami
Publishers: Ocean Software Konami
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person Side view
Themes: Action Horror Warfare

About

Combat School, released as Boot Camp in North America, is a 1987 sports action video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. The player takes control of a military recruit who is undergoing basic training at a United States Marine Corps Recruit Training camp, also known as a boot camp. The arcade game uses trackball controls.

In 1987, Ocean Software released ports of the game for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC in Europe. Konami themselves later released the Commodore 64 version in North America under the Boot Camp title in 1989 alongside an MS-DOS version. An Amiga version was announced, but never released.

›Story

the player takes control of a military recruit who is undergoing basic training at a United States Marine Corps Recruit Training also known as a boot camp.

Keywords

modern warfare
minigames
military
modern military
terrorists
button mashing
trackball

Media

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Gameplay

The control panel consists of a trackball and two buttons with different functions depending on the event. The game can be played against a CPU-controlled opponent or a second player. Player 1 takes control of Nick, a brown-haired recruit in an orange shirt, while Player 2 is Joe, a blond-haired recruit in a blue shirt.

The game is composed of seven training events whom the player must complete. Upon a near-success failure to complete an event (failing too severely results in game over), the player must do a set number of chin ups as punishment (this chance is given only once) in order to continue into the succeeding events, or it is game over.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Combat School on their July 1, 1987 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

Your Sinclair magazine gave the arcade game a positive review, comparing "Konami's new military arcade game" favorably with Konami's earlier Olympic video game Hyper Sports (1984).

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Amstrad CPC	2 April 1987	Europe
Commodore C64/128/MAX	2 April 1987	Europe
ZX Spectrum	2 April 1987	Europe
Arcade	1 May 1987	Japan
MS-DOS	31 December 1989	North America