Mech Platoon, known in Japan as Kikaika Gunta – Mech Platoon (Japanese: 機械化軍隊 – メックプラトゥーン, Hepburn: Kikaika Gunta – Mekku Puratūn, lit. “Mechanical Army – Mech Platoon”) is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Kemco. It was the first real-time strategy game released on the Game Boy Advance platform,^[2] and was released in 2001.^[3]

Gameplay – Mech Platoon

Mech Platoon follows real-time strategy gaming standards, and is in the vein of other games such as StarCraft and Command & Conquer. The player assumes the role of an army commander for one of three in-game nations, and must battle on five planets each with multiple missions.^[1] In a battle, the player utilizes resources on a battlefield to build a base and attempt to overrun their opponent with “Mechs”, the units featured in the game. There are three different types of resources found in the game: Energy Sand, Material Rock, and Laser Crystal.^[2] Resources are used to purchase units, and lower-grade resources such as sand can be used to buy more expensive resources such as rock and crystal.^[3]