Tank Battalion
| Tank Battalion | |
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| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Namco |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, MSX |
| Release date(s) | ArcadeMSX
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| Genre(s) | Multi-directional shooter |
| Mode(s) | Up to 2 players, alternating turns |
| Cabinet | Upright, cabaret, and cocktail |
| Arcade system | Namco Warp & Warp |
| Display | Vertical orientation, Raster, 224 x 256 resolution |
Tank Battalion (タンクバタリアン Tanku Batarian) is a multi-directional shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1980. It was later ported to the Japanese Famicom (with a corresponding Vs. System game) and Game Boy in 1985, but due to the addition of different terrain, powerups and different enemy tank types, was renamed Battle City. It was also ported to the MSX 8-bit computers under its original name.
Gameplay
The player, controlling a tank, must destroy twenty enemy tanks in each round, which enter the playfield from the top of the screen. The enemy tanks attempt to destroy the player's base (represented on the map as an eagle) as well as the player tank itself. A round is cleared when the player destroys all twenty enemy tanks, but the game ends if the player's base is destroyed or he runs out of lives.
A sequel named Tank Force was released in 1991, which allowed up to two (on upright cabinets) or four (on cocktail cabinets) players to play simultaneously; the US version was also the first game from Namco to display the FBI's "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen during its attract sequence, which had already appeared in the attract sequences of countless other games (starting in 1989).
See also
External links
- Tank Battalion at the Killer List of Videogames
- Tank Battalion at the Arcade History database
- Tank Battalion guide at StrategyWiki
- Tank Battalion at MobyGames