The Most Awesome Tank Sim: M1 Tank Platoon | Astonishing First Experience with a DOS PC 

It's crazy seeing how far we've come when comparing this to "Gunner Heat PC".

I have this in the origianal packaging, with the floppy disks

It took the F-19 and this game video to get me to subscribe. Quality editing, great commentary, and good game knowledge!

Great video about a great simulation! That manual is really worth the money! Gaming back then gaming was an experience for all human senses!

I used to play it on the Amiga and cried when my crews were killed :D

Great review! I liked RTS games like these, I remember Carrier Command where you had to control drones, ships and aircrafts.

Thank you I remember seing my dad play this game back then. I so hope you do a video for M1 Tank Platoon 2, you have the same voice as the tutorial narrator in that game.

Played this a ton on my 286 back in the day. I miss keyboard overlays.

Subscribed. High quality presentation and quite original

Love the video and the storytelling you did to make it all really connect. A+ dude nice work.

Tanks for the deep dive into this game! I don't have a lot of free time but I always watch your videos because I'm especially interested in the "filled polygon" era of gaming

I played M1 Tank Platoon for hours on my first PC, a Olivetti 286. The manual was a piece of art and I read and re-read to exhaustion when I was a kid. This game made me a tank-lover forever.

Thanks!

I loved these early Microprose games. The simulations were amazing. The manuals were amazing- nothing like that today. You got a ten pound box with a hefty manual and 30 floppy disks that took and hour or two to install. I had a Tandy 1000 so got slightly better graphics. By today's standards, laughable. But you really got absorbed in the simulation and story. Some of the games at the time used the manual as copy protection (looking at you Sierra Online as well). They would have a code on a certain page printed in a color that wouldn't reproduce on a copy machine and ask you to enter it. Fun days!

That is why I am buying Thunder Helix on Steam (old sim throwback).

Novalogic did the keyboard overlays. The Delta Force series came with them after the second game, I believe.

I live for games like this: early simulation games like this.

Wonderfull

Hey. Was that an Epyx brand joystick? I had the same one growing up. Loved that thing! Played this on the Amiga. Thanks for the memories!

It's nice to see an ST version that beats the IBM PC for a change in terms of sound and general attributes. Did M1 have no VGA and sound blaster options? I'm a huge ST fan (I own 3 to this day, each with its own matching Atari monitor) and yet a lot of these early 3D strategy games always seemed inferior to my 286 IBM PS/1 at the time. I mainly played Armour-Geddon and Midwinter on the PC. I bought the ST ports and they were terrible in comparison.. I'm sure Armour-Geddon isn't possible to even finish thanks to a bug!

this give me the same vibes as ATF :)

LHX Attack Chopper was also a good game.

Im not trying to be mean, but your gasp for air is really noticeable. 😅