Most Awesome Tank Sim: M1 Tank Platoon | Retro Reviews

[@GeorgesChannel]

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

[@RetroDream]

Those Were The Days, my friend

[@gamingtonight1526]

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

[@RetroDream]

Thanks a lot!

[@grindcoreninja6527]

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

[@RetroDream]

Oh yea

[@VikingGuard]

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

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

I love that :D I still have a few too, got Vette, Normality, Interstate 76, Virtual Reality Studio.......etc I miss the big awesome boxes and manuals

[@compmanio36]

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

[@STGN01]

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.

[@RetroDream]

Really? That's interesting ;) Glad this reminded you of nice things!

[@thomasschlitzer7541]

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

[@anrymarchen]

Subscribed. High quality presentation and quite original

[@RetroDream]

Welcome aboard

[@robertsartino7664]

This was my go to Tank sim back on my IBM PS1 & PS2. Then came M1TP 2

[@Mr.Zariguello]

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.

[@RetroDream]

I can understand that! Thanks for sharing

[@buntij]

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!

[@RetroDream]

Thanks for sharing! Indeed those were THE days!

[@Junkyard_Dawg]

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

[@RetroDream]

Thanks for the heads-up! Nice info

[@yopachi]

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

[@RetroDream]

Thanks for your interest and glad you enjoyed!

[@evansyoutubehandle]

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

[@RetroDream]

Thanks man, I really appreciate.

[@respergu13]

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

[@RemnantCult]

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

[@RetroDream]

They absolutely rule

[@iddqds]

LHX Attack Chopper was also a good game.

[@RetroDream]

Yes indeed

[@boilerhousegarage]

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!

[@RetroDream]

Absolutely, the ST version was surprisingly good as compared to the PC.

[@darkenedroom]

I know a little bit about the PC versions of M1TP. There was v449.01 and v449.02. Both versions had VGA/MCGA options (MCGA being IBM's fully compatible version of VGA). It predates Soundblaster, so it was an Adlib sound option. v449.02 had Roland MT32 sound, v449.01 needed it patched in along with a number of other patches. Microprose eventually patched out the key disk copy protection, so it can be played in DOSBox but it needs the M1TP Pentium patch to help with compatibility. And there's an optional patch to choose a desert palette.

[@RetroDream]

That's very interesting, thanks for sharing! Indeed we tend to forget that publishers sometimes updated the retail versions when then were still in stores.

[@evansyoutubehandle]

Thanks!

[@MarquisDeSang]

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

[@mastahc0w]

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!

[@RetroDream]

And thank you as well!

[@geoffcunningham6896]

this give me the same vibes as ATF :)

[@m60a3tts1]

Still have it:)

[@TopRetroGames]

Wonderfull

[@NoobSIayer69]

My tech teacher has this exact game lying on his desk in the box. Too bad he won't let me play it

[@RetroDream]

That's unfortunate indeed

[@NoobSIayer69]

@@RetroDream HE JUST GAVE ME THE GAME? How do I play it now? I have a floppy USB drive for my windows 11 and its the IBM version

[@zintosion]

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

[@RetroDream]

better than AI voice 😅