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Battlezone. (1980 video game) Battlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat game released for arcades in November 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a tank which is attacked by other tanks and missiles. Using a small radar scanner along with the terrain window, the player can locate enemies and obstacles around them in the barren landscape.
On August 30, 1985, a Guinness World Record was achieved in Auburn, California by David Palmer where he scored a massive 23,000,000 points while playing Battlezone at The Game Room arcade in Citrus Heights, California. I have to take my hat of to him as after taking an incredible 23 hours David then quit with still four tanks left.
Oct 28, 2016 · I just came across a high school paper I wrote about video games in May 1982, which included the following sentence: “The Defense Department also recognizes the value of the games, and employs a modified version of Battlezone, and a game co-created with consultants from Atari called ‘MK-60,’ holding 30 complex programs and costing $15,000” (per machine, I’m assuming).
Description. Using wire models on a vector display with a green and red overlay, a battle with opposing tanks, missiles and the occasional saucer is simulated among pyramids and cubes. The 1812 overture plays during high score. Battlezone was produced by Atari in 1980. Atari released 139 machines in our database under this trade name, starting ...
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The player controls a tank from a first person view and uses the two joysticks to move and the button on the right joystick to fire projectiles. Enemy tanks are detected by the radar at the top of the screen. The tank can move forward, reverse, and left and right. The battlefield is a landscape with a mountainous horizon and crescent moon. One enem...
Battlezone was developed using vector graphics similar to Asteroids. The designers of the game are Ed Rotberg (main designer), Owen Rubin who designed the exploding volcano, and Roger Hector who helped in designing the tanks and enemy graphics. One of the two versions of the cabinet had a viewing goggle periscope and along with the 3D graphics, the...
There was a persistent rumor/myth that one could actually drive to the erupting volcano in the background, up the side, into the crater and discover a castle inside. This was false, but plans to include such a feature in future versions were inspired by this myth. A similar rumor insisted if one kept driving in the same direction for at least an ho...
Battlezone was housed in a standard upright arcade cabinet with a novel "periscope" viewfinder which the player used to view the game. The game action could also be viewed from the sides of the viewfinder for spectators to watch. A later, less common version of the cabinet removed the periscope to improve visibility to non-players and improve the e...
Throughout the 1980s, Battlezone was ported to several personal computers and videogame consoles (usually on the Atarisoft label), including DOS, the Apple II, Atari ST, the Commodore 64, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and the Atari XEGS. An Atari 2600 port was also released, but has colored raster graphics due to limitations and the view is behind the ...
In the Competitive ArenaCommemorative Medallion Honoring the Battlezone Video Game World Record. On August 30, 1985, David Palmer, of Citrus Heights, California, scored a world record 23,000,000 points while playing at The Game Room Arcade during Twin Galaxies' 1985 Video Game Masters Tournament. Palmer also holds the world record on numerous other...
May 10, 2022 · Bradley Trainer (also known as Military Battlezone, or Army Battlezone) is a first-person shooter arcade game that was developed by Atari for the US Army in 1981; as its alternative names imply, it is a remake of Battlezone, which was released in the previous year (in fact, it still displays the name "Battlezone" on its title screen, although it does not have the red and green overlays on its ...
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Battlezone (1980) Neato Graphics! Battlezone, released by Atari in 1980, was the first popular video game to feature 3D graphics, a technological breakthrough at a time when simple 2D games like Space Invaders were the norm. The player controls a tank, in first-person perspective, on a mechanized battlefield against enemy forces equipped with ...
