Platoon for NES

http://vgmaps.com/Atlas/NES/Platoon-Stage1.png

Wow. This is really reassuring. I thought that sucking at Platoon when I was 7 had something to do with me being stupid or a terrible soldier or something. Turns out that, just as I remember it, everything DOES look exactly alike, and there's no reason that I should have known what to do. I guess the best that I can hope for is that the designers were trying to make some commentary about the Vietnam war being unwinnable.

I really enjoy that I'm old enough to be crotchety about video games now. Why, in my day, we had games that made no sense, where you died constantly. And we LOVED it! Our controllers had cords! Personalized avatars? Ha! Two choices: red guy or blue guy. Both 7 orders of magnitude more bad ass than you'll ever be. Memory cardsjavascript:void(0)? A memory card is writing down your password on your mom's recipe book, and hoping to god you remember which ones are 1's and which ones are l's when you put it in next time. Or you start the game over. And god help you if that game is Willow.