You have three types to choose from, HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank), suitable for most tanks, light armoured vehicles and personnel, Sabot, suitable for tanks and light armour, and AX, a mythical do it all round that can also handle helicopters. After a briefing from a grumpy looking senior officer, you get to choose your ammunition load out. Here, you are asked if you want to fight the whole campaign of eight missions or select one on its own. One point to note here is that if you enter a cheat code on the introductory screen, you can get an invincibility mode alongside infinite ammunition. Whilst you can switch crew positions in the game, (gunner, driver, commander and cupola), you pretty much stay in the gunner’s seat as, outside of that, there is not much you can do, with only a few additional menu options and a map available in the commander’s position.įrom the introductory animation and slightly iffy rendition of Holst’s Mars, you are dropped into the main menu screen. You in charge of a single M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, fighting a Soviet invasion of West Germany single-handed. I thought this was the best thing I’d seen on any machine (how naive, I know) but looking back, and giving the cart a dust off and plugging it in, it made me realise what a game it still is.
True, it had been out on PC for a couple of years but back then, my gaming was restricted to an Amstrad CPC464 and I was still a few months away from my savings goal for an Amiga 500. Ported from the PC by Realtime Games Software (who were already renowned for their classic title, Carrier Command from which M1 Abrams Battle Tank used the graphical engine), M1 Abrams Battle tank was a title that I knew nothing about until tearing off the wrapping. Fortunately, my parents had thought of this and they had purchased another game for me to play that Christmas morning, one that kept me occupied well into the new year: M1 Abrams Battle Tank. But that didn’t last long, maybe all of ten minutes and mostly because it just didn’t interest me. When I was lucky enough to receive a Sega Mega Drive for Christmas, the standard pack-in game was Altered Beast, and yes, that was the title that demonstrated the exciting new times of 16-bit console gaming to me.
Everyone remembers the first game they played on a new console or computer, and that was typically the pack-in game.
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