![]() ![]() At the end of each round players who successfully destroyed competitors can use the points they scored to buy additional weapons, there are eighteen different weapons in the game together with two guidance systems and three defence systems. Across the top of the screen are the controls that select the angle of the shot, the power of the shot, the kind of weapon being hurled as well as information showing who is firing, wind direction and wind speed. The players command tanks that are placed on the randomly generated landscape. The game can be played by keyboard, mouse, and the length of a match can be set between one and ninety-nine games. Any of the players can be computer controlled and there are seven different styles of computer opponent. Unfortunately, the player in the video of the arcade version (above) doesn't appear to be very good at playing the game, but you will, at least, get an idea of how the game looked.Tank Wars is a shareware game for two to ten players based on the same ideas as Artillery and it's more well known cousin Scorched Earth. The game featured a periscope viewfinder to view the game with, which was very novel.īattlezone definitely goes down as an eighties classic game, and I have fond memories of playing it at the arcades at the seaside while on holiday. The guided missile is worthĢ,000 points when destroyed. Worth 1,000 points when destroyed a supertank is worth 3,000 points Īnd the flying saucer is worth 5,000 points. Points available in the arcade version of Battlezone were as follows A standard enemy tank is Starting out in the arcades, the game was eventually ported to home computers such as the Apple II, Atari 8-bits and ST, C64 and ZX Spectrum. Such graphics were novel and futuristic in the early 80's, which made Battlezone very popular. The other memorable game to use vector graphics from this era was, of course, Asteroids, although not in 3D. ![]() Released in 1980 by Atari, Battlezone was a tank battle game that featured 3D wireframe (vector) graphics, rather than raster graphics which were pretty much the norm in 1980. ![]()
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