I remember playing M1 Tank Platoon when I was a young kid on an old 133 compaq. Seeing the picture of two or three Abram Tanks on the cover caught my young mind in a Babbage game store. Begging my parents to let me be behind what is still now the supreme battle tank was a difficult, but rewarding task. Anticipation ravaged me on the long ride home, reading over and over the small paragraphs on the back of the package telling you to get ready for battle.
I remember playing M1 Tank Platoon when I was a young kid on an old 133 compaq. Seeing the picture of two or three Abram Tanks on the cover caught my young mind in a Babbage game store. Begging my parents to let me be behind what is still now the supreme battle tank was a difficult, but rewarding task. Anticipation ravaged me on the long ride home, reading over and over the small paragraphs on the back of the package telling you to get ready for battle. The graphics and scenarios were endless, and after the first few minutes of confusion about initial gameplay, everything went smoothly. Back then manuals were for wimps and to just jump in and
guess at the controls was the only way to play. And of course the Key sheet that came with the game added a quick reference that is of course you didn't over look it and discard the box once you install the game from the 3.5" disks. The sounds were a little annoying with whistling of arty and crashing of your tank being destroyed, but what made it fun was that you could play four different tanks at one time, allowing longer gameplay. Along with a similar game F-19 Stealth fighter you could almost fight an entire war on the ground and in the air, it would take a while to jump from different games.
As time goes on you tend to forget about the "classic games" that you grew up on, but once you come across and old magazine or website it just triggers how excited and ahead of their times those games were. Even today’s games tend to be just classics with a little more color and smaller pixels. If you don't believe me just check out how much an old classic will go for on today’s market. On sites like Ebay, a classic game can go for as much if not more than a new release top notch game and all that tells you is that old games never die, they never get old, they never become obsolete. They just get forgotten until one day you start wondering about where games are going, how things will change and then soon after that, realize where they have come from. Where every mind looks to the future they must build on the past. And that my friend will never get old.
