Navy SEALS (video game)
Navy SEALS is a shoot 'em up platform video game developed and published by Ocean Software. It was first released in the United Kingdom for the Amstrad CPC, Amstrad GX4000 and Commodore 64 in 1990. It was later re-released in the rest of Europe for the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Amiga home computers in the following year. It was then ported to the Game Boy on 1 September 1991 in the United States. The game is based on the film of the same name and follows the protagonist, Lieutenant Dale Hawkins, progressing through five side-scrolling levels.
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| Developer(s) | Ocean Software |
| Publisher(s) | Ocean Software |
| Programmer(s) | John Meegan |
| Artist(s) | Stephen Thomson |
| Composer(s) | Matthew Cannon |
| Platform(s) | Amstrad CPC, Amstrad GX4000, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Game Boy |
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| Genre(s) | Platform, shoot 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The game was developed by Ocean Software, renowned for creating video games based on films and other licensed properties. Navy SEALS focuses on Hawkins recovering caches of Stinger missiles from Arab soldiers in the Middle East. The game received positive reviews upon release, with critics mainly praising the graphics, presentation and challenging gameplay, but the criticism was directed at the ZX Spectrum port, which received disapproval over its monochrome graphics.