3D Tanx

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3D Tanx
ZX Spectrum screenshot
Developer(s) Don Priestley
Publisher(s) dk'tronics
Platform(s) ZX Spectrum, C64, BBC Micro
Release date 1982
Genre(s) Shoot 'em up
Mode(s) Single Player
Rating(s) N/A

3D Tanx is a shoot 'em up video game written by Don Priestley and published by dk'tronics in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum[1], C64[2] and BBC Micro.

[edit] Gameplay

The aim of the game is to shoot tanks moving across a bridge, shown in the distance into the screen. The player aims a gun turret by adjusting its rotation and elevation, this being the '3D' aspect of the game. Skill and timing is required to strike the tanks[3].

[edit] Critical reaction

As an early home-computing title, it received good reviews. CRASH magazine highlighting the good (for the time) graphics and sound[4].

[edit] References

  1. ^ 3D Tanx at World of Spectrum
  2. ^ 3D Tanx at Lemon64
  3. ^ 3D Tanx review from Sinclair User issue 14
  4. ^ 3D Tanx review from CRASH issue 3; retrieved from CRASH The Online Edition