Amazing quality for 1980. And many versions had a periscope interface where you pressed your face against a scope. This had the effect of eliminating the real world from your vision and was very immersive.
You are right , I use to play the periscope one - I believe the color was red ,which I thought looked cool , instead of green, I spent a lot of cash on this game at the Arcade . then I got the Atari 2600 and bought the Battlezone for that , it was even better.
@@FL-BEACH-MAN i remember the periscope one too where it had 1 step attached to it!!! as a kid i loved getting up on that big step and looking into the eyes thing. it was at our bowling alley down the hill from my house in my Wisconsin hometown. Sadly the bowling alley did not have it there long as compared to other arcade games in that period of the mid 80s. I think they had it for 2 years at most. Whereas other arcade games were there for over 5 years. I always wondered the name of this game and today i was at an 80s arcade place in Madison for the first time. I asked the owner and he knew the name of it, then i googled it, and came here to YT.
And the vector graphics have stood so well against the test of time. They all still look incredible (Asteroids Deluxe, Gravitar, Star Wars, Space Duel, Tempest) especially on a original vector monitor. That look can't be duplicated by anything else.
Thanks so much for this. No one knows what I'm on about when I try to describe it. One of my fave arcade games. You had to put your face in a sort of periscope thing.
I know how you feel looking for a game black background neon lines and stick figure man... slow motion linear walk through and drop downs... find the thg complete mission return to spaceship .... early 80s... anyone?
Funny : Germany in the early 80's, a small town with 6000 people ... Our only bar there was getting new pinball machines and Battlezone. The Battlezone had 2 bass speakers and was way to loud. The guy living in the same building one night came down and destroyed any machine with his SHOTGUN ! lolololol
Yea the story was If you reached the volcano, you would enter a non combat mode with intresting sites and roads to be seen. Once I maxed out the game....I knew it wasn't true.
Hours, and hours in front of this. Plus spending so many quarters. To have bragging rights. That is my score up there. Thank you from a 54 year kid. Good time back then.
I witnessed a friend in the 80s play to million. At that point the game started from the beginning. After all those hectic super tank and missile moments suddenly there stood a slow basic tank with its back turned.
Thank you for posting this... absolutely brings back the best memories.... LOVED the arcade games that had custom controls, like Battlezone, Tron, StarWars, etc... hell even Crazy Climber with the two joysticks.
Ahh the fond memories of playing this in my local leisure centre here in Milton Keynes, back in the early eighties. My top score was 3,467,000 - I am unsure how long I stood at that machine, but I hogged it all day, just for one 20p piece, pissing all the other people off, as I would not finish. One glitch in the game allows you to take shots at the saucers for as long as you like, by allowing a missile to go past you, you then quickly, reverse and turn at the same time, keeping the missile behind you, stops the tanks from ever appearing. I did that for an hour. Finally I gave up with still, 3 tanks left, to a little kid who got my score to that figure above, but I entered my initials though PEP. BUT a week later some sod had beaten my score on the machine, HOW??? Later found out that if you hit the machine in a certain place, it could corrupt the circuit boards scoring system, as the high score showed over 20 million which is impossible. As you can imagine I was pretty pissed off, seeing that. Also I was 2nd on the Xbox Live arcade version on classic mode (KingPepper). No idea where I am now on there, as I don't have Xbox Live any more.
That was an incredible game, first I think with 3D graphics and incredibly immersive. I used to spend hours on it and eventually to a point where I'd occasionally cycle it through so many levels it went back to Level One. That used to take well over an hour with a score in 7 figures and required a shower afterward. Incredibly advanced for the time as evidenced by the US Army adopting it as a tank training simulator.
This past weekend in San Francisco my son told me about the game. Describing it and calling it Battlezone When he described it to me I realized I knew what he was talking about because I used to play this in 1980 or 81. I forgot what its name was. But believe me after losing $5 in quarters I was over the long day Marathon arcade days.
Dude You Rock At This Game. Loved playing this in some pontins arcade backi in the day. I was lucky if got to the super Tanks Stage. Wish I new your insight back then. Well Played
I use to play this on a dentist's personal arcade in the nineties. It had foot peddles. It lead me to be efficient at skid steer operation, basically front loaders. I played it later and would drag the enemy bots out using a long reverse crescent moon pattern adjacent to there position.
I played this for hours and a shit load of quarters! Along with missile command. Once you figured it out you could play and play! I’m building a retro arcade machine so I can go back to my young USAF teenage Airmen days in the recreation center putting my initials above the guy before me. Then he would top me then....well you get it if you were in the zone in 1980-83. 🇺🇸😄
I know what you mean mate. I remember those days. The guy who was on top of the list was always the king of arcade. :) Most Atari games of this era had the memory for top three scores (they were saved even if you turned the power off). Gravitar, Star Wars had that... but I'm not sure if Battle Zone had that feature. Cheers.
This was my favourite arcade game to play back in the the 80's at the time, the graphics seemed to be absolutely amazing! This brought back some very happy memories!!!
Friday night in the chip shop after Scouts, spending precious pocket money on a few games. I still think the graphics are astoundingly smooth resolution for the time.
Back in the '80s, I used to play this game all the time in the arcade. I've scored in the millions. I'd usually just get tired of playing after a while and quit. I loved this game!
Definitely played this game a few times, but not the way you did, I first played this on a MAC computer in Sears sometime back in the 90's, didn't know it was an arcade game, damn fun game.
I used to play this at a nearby bowling alley, back in 1980. Absolutely loved it, my favorite video game ! Every time I would hear that missile buzzing, I would think "oh crap, where is it, where is it ??". The arcade console I played on had the periscope interface, which made it more intense. I eventually was one of the top five players on that particular console. Lots and lots of quarters spent on this game.
I loved this game! I once got a nine digit score and had to walk away with the game still in play because the arcade was closing. I'd love to own an old arcade version today.
Back in 1984 a local pizza/arcade was going out of business, and selling all of their games. Most were selling for $275 each. I only had enough cash at the time to buy just one machine. I was torn between Battlezone (1980), or Gottlieb's Haunted House pinball machine (1982). I ended up getting Battlezone because a friend that worked on pinball machines told me that Haunted House was notorious for having trouble, and they were a pain to work on. Both machines were in perfect condition because they were both still only a few year old. In 1986 I thought of moving out of state and decided to sell my Battlezone and Midway's Space Invaders so I ran an add in my local newspaper, this was way before Ebay, Craig's List, etc. The first person that responded to the add bought both right on the spot for $300 each. I have kicked myself several times since for selling Battlezone. I have since found another Space Invaders, but still hoping to find another Battlezone. I'd be lucky to find one now for 10 times that price in poor condition.
I actually find this game very soothing.....The tank rumbling....The radar beeping.....The warm glow of the green console......Turn all the lights out and I drift right off to dreamland.....zzzzzzzzzzzz :)
Fun fact this game was the first successful fps game there was one before it called maze run or something that was technically the first fps game but wasn't successful like battlezone was
I learned the guided missiles were easier to hit if you started moving backwards and kept moving backwards as they approached. Most of them would zero in on you while still in front, and head straight for you, giving you a chance to hit them before they impacted.
*Same Here Cat Hat :)o I Used To Play It @ An Old Safeway Store,..Circa 1981'' My Mother Would Be Like...Here Is Some Quarters To Keep You Busy While I Go Shop For Groceries...And I Was Like Oh Yeah Battlezone Time...It Was The Only Game There Yet,.. I Did Not Mind As I Loved It ! And Still Do 38 Years Later !!!!!*
PS Your good at this game. Not seen anyone get by 270,000 with factory default yet.My high score on this game back in the day without any cheats Just factory default was 268,000 Can still remember the periscope was too high and I had to look in the sides. PHD I won’t let you down song was in the charts and never off the radio, The smell of electronics still brings back memories to this day
This was the FIRST video game I EVER saw! (I was born in 1991.) I remember how epic it was at the time (still is!), IT'S LIKE YOUR OWN LITTLE UNIVERSE TO PLAY IN! Awesome video detonator2112! *Now THIS, WAS THE ORIGINAL "FIRST PERSON SHOOTER". :D*
Sprawling on the fringes of the city (The Landscape) In geometric order ( The Shapes) An insulated border (Inside Your Tank) In-between the bright lights (The Control Panel) And the far, unlit unknown (Beyond the Horizon) Nowhere is the dreamer Or the misfit so alone (Gameplay)
This is definitely one of my top favorite Atari games, but it’s the one game, plus the 2600 version, that Atari keeps excluding from their latest compilations, even on their 50th anniversary celebration! Why, Atari? Why??
Sir your good at that game. Your high score is around the same as mine. Does anyone know of anybody who could flick a 2pence up these machines, I did back in the day and got 5 credits for 2p. How was it done. You placed the 2p in your fingers and put it in the eject slot at the bottom with the metal flap and flicked it back up and it went into the money box and gave you credits. Down side to me doing this was I was barred from every amusement arcade in my home town of Paisley. Fun times. Battle zone and the song I won’t let you down by PHD bring back so many memories.
That's a great score. I recently played 354.000. There's that one missile that goes sideways just before "arriving home". That always kills me. I guess I could learn the trick hiding behind the obstacles but I never played with that method.
Wikipedia says the periscope version of this game is more common, but in my experience it was the smaller, no-periscope version I encountered most. How about y'all?
One of the all time classics. Played this along with Asteroids back in 1980 at a local cafe. Seemed like a new age was upon us. Vectors are still cool! Especially nice to see the tactics on this. I always bombed out as soon as those super tanks came along… the solution seems simple now… keep them on the edge of the screen crash into them and then rapidly turn and pick them off… nice!
Yeah. Never liked that one, either. It COULD have been a good game but somehow the controls feel sloppy. Battlezone, Gravitar, Space Duel and Star Wars are my top favorites. Cheers.
This was by far my favorite game when the local pizza shop got one in 1980. After it kicked my butt a few times, little by little I started figuring out the tactics shown in the video (no Internet to Google for hints in 1980). After that I could pretty much play it as long as I wanted to on one quarter, to the point where I'd get tired of standing there looking through that periscope. If you didn't know the secrets, however, the game was over in a hurry.
Amazing quality for 1980. And many versions had a periscope interface where you pressed your face against a scope. This had the effect of eliminating the real world from your vision and was very immersive.
You are right , I use to play the periscope one - I believe the color was red ,which I thought looked cool , instead of green, I spent a lot of cash on this game at the Arcade . then I got the Atari 2600 and bought the Battlezone for that , it was even better.
@@FL-BEACH-MAN i remember the periscope one too where it had 1 step attached to it!!! as a kid i loved getting up on that big step and looking into the eyes thing. it was at our bowling alley down the hill from my house in my Wisconsin hometown. Sadly the bowling alley did not have it there long as compared to other arcade games in that period of the mid 80s. I think they had it for 2 years at most. Whereas other arcade games were there for over 5 years. I always wondered the name of this game and today i was at an 80s arcade place in Madison for the first time. I asked the owner and he knew the name of it, then i googled it, and came here to YT.
wait all the machines didn't have a periscope?
And the vector graphics have stood so well against the test of time. They all still look incredible (Asteroids Deluxe, Gravitar, Star Wars, Space Duel, Tempest) especially on a original vector monitor. That look can't be duplicated by anything else.
@@detonator2112 what kind of monitor in those cabinets?
How i miss the 70's & 80's ....
No better times to be alive.
So true. It was much better world back then.
Roller skating every weekend and playing this! The missles were terrifying. The sound quality was actually pretty impressive at the time. So much fun!
Skating! Holy crap I was 14 in 80’ damn what great times
This is one of the first video games written in a weird self-defining language called forth
So this is where Elon got the design idea for his Cybertruck.
damn it. lol
I came here to say this.
Thanks so much for this. No one knows what I'm on about when I try to describe it. One of my fave arcade games. You had to put your face in a sort of periscope thing.
if this game were in modern arcades it would eat my money now like it did 30 years ago.
Yep I played it all the time
I know how you feel
looking for a game black background neon lines and stick figure man... slow motion linear walk through and drop downs... find the thg complete mission return to spaceship ....
early 80s... anyone?
@@causeeffect7624 Major Havoc / ATARI? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Havoc
Everyone should know about battlezone. It was The first 3d game.
Its gaming history
Funny :
Germany in the early 80's, a small town with 6000 people ...
Our only bar there was getting new pinball machines and Battlezone.
The Battlezone had 2 bass speakers and was way to loud.
The guy living in the same building one night came down and destroyed any machine with his SHOTGUN !
lolololol
Core memory unlocked. I played this at a friends house in the year 2000, one of my first video games.
Always wanted to reach those distant mountains... :(
Agreed! I even tried a few times, hoping it was an Easter egg which opened up a new enemy type or reward.
@@WilliamDye-willdye There was a rumor circulating that you could actually reach them. Too bad it was just a rumor. ;)
Yea the story was If you reached the volcano, you would enter a non combat mode with intresting sites and roads to be seen. Once I maxed out the game....I knew it wasn't true.
When I was young I always tried to reach the mountains was too young to know any better
@@marvelousmaker I am NOT alone!!!!!
I loved playing this game!!
favorite elements of the game, the volcano and the moon
You sure got your quarters' worth...those missiles scared the SHIT outta me as a kid.
Hours, and hours in front of this. Plus spending so many quarters. To have bragging rights. That is my score up there. Thank you from a 54 year kid. Good time back then.
If you didn’t know battlezone was remade for the psvr, try it out when you can
Said this on defender.
You're my generation with experience of same game. 👍
Dang this was the first 3D game
54 as well and never got that high of a score. Good old days at the arcade.
My grandpa used to have the whole arcade cabinet in his home. So much fun when I used to visit him. Wish we kept it.
I witnessed a friend in the 80s play to million. At that point the game started from the beginning. After all those hectic super tank and missile moments suddenly there stood a slow basic tank with its back turned.
Geez that's ape shit, way to go for your friend.
Must have been in auburn California
Ich hatte damals auf Flughafen London Freeplay auf Battlezone Atari 1977 beste Zeit meines Lebens.
Used to play this at the old Just Fun arcade in our local mall back in '81. Just a teen but by golly this game was fun.
Even after decades, that ending music rings in my ears. That, plus the buzz bombs.
I rmr this came on my Packard Bell computer and was prolly the first video game I laid eyes on!
Oh the memories! How I loved playing this in the arcades! Thanks for uploading!
You're welcome.
Thank you for posting this... absolutely brings back the best memories.... LOVED the arcade games that had custom controls, like Battlezone, Tron, StarWars, etc... hell even Crazy Climber with the two joysticks.
You're welcome. Gravitar was my all-time favorite of these vector games. Cheers.
Ahh the fond memories of playing this in my local leisure centre here in Milton Keynes, back in the early eighties.
My top score was 3,467,000 - I am unsure how long I stood at that machine, but I hogged it all day, just for one 20p piece, pissing all the other people off, as I would not finish.
One glitch in the game allows you to take shots at the saucers for as long as you like, by allowing a missile to go past you, you then quickly, reverse and turn at the same time, keeping the missile behind you, stops the tanks from ever appearing.
I did that for an hour.
Finally I gave up with still, 3 tanks left, to a little kid who got my score to that figure above, but I entered my initials though PEP.
BUT a week later some sod had beaten my score on the machine, HOW???
Later found out that if you hit the machine in a certain place, it could corrupt the circuit boards scoring system, as the high score showed over 20 million which is impossible.
As you can imagine I was pretty pissed off, seeing that.
Also I was 2nd on the Xbox Live arcade version on classic mode (KingPepper).
No idea where I am now on there, as I don't have Xbox Live any more.
Yeah there's that weird score glitch. Never happened to me though. Read more here: www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php?topic=3302.0
That was an incredible game, first I think with 3D graphics and incredibly immersive. I used to spend hours on it and eventually to a point where I'd occasionally cycle it through so many levels it went back to Level One. That used to take well over an hour with a score in 7 figures and required a shower afterward. Incredibly advanced for the time as evidenced by the US Army adopting it as a tank training simulator.
I have an XBox Series X. Is it still available on Xbox Live arcade?
Yep. This and Scrambler were my fave arcade games
You mean スクランブル, Scramble ?
MY UNCLE HAD THIS GAME ROOM WHEN I WAS A KID,HE WORKED FOR ATT SO MADE GOOD MONEY. I NEVER SEEN ANYONE AS GOOD AS YOU,GRATS PRO!
One of my fav games from back in the day
This past weekend in San Francisco my son told me about the game. Describing it and calling it Battlezone When he described it to me I realized I knew what he was talking about because I used to play this in 1980 or 81. I forgot what its name was. But believe me after losing $5 in quarters I was over the long day Marathon arcade days.
So lovely memories.
Ahh the nostalgia. I remember this game from the arcade days.
A lesser degree of war than contemporary gameplay. Slow
@@davidwilsonjunior I'm 16 I was messing around with a friend mb LOL
I played this at the commercial slot-car track centre (remember those?) at Blacktown in western Sydney back in the early 1980's!
the buzz bomb noise still creeps me out
Yeah, The missile sound effect is death on the ears 😄
Trip
Dude You Rock At This Game. Loved playing this in some pontins arcade backi in the day. I was lucky if got to the super Tanks Stage. Wish I new your insight back then. Well Played
Thanks for the post! So FUN!!!
You're welcome!!!
Thank you. This sure brings lots of memories.
I had this machine in my front room when I was about 5. It was great!
For the people watching this and thinking it’s easy you haven’t played it
Even in the year 2021 this is still so cool
It's fascinating how this preceded Battlezone 1998 and Battlezone 2: Combat Commander.
This game is from the 80s so it predates the 1998 version.
@@garyh4458 I mean, yes, but that this is where those two games came from.
@@56bturn Kind of like how Ms Pacman came from Pacman?
I played this at the video game museum in Frisco, TX. It's pretty fun
I played this game in Coral Springs FL in a Thinkpad computer
I use to play this on a dentist's personal arcade in the nineties. It had foot peddles. It lead me to be efficient at skid steer operation, basically front loaders. I played it later and would drag the enemy bots out using a long reverse crescent moon pattern adjacent to there position.
I played this for hours and a shit load of quarters! Along with missile command. Once you figured it out you could play and play! I’m building a retro arcade machine so I can go back to my young USAF teenage Airmen days in the recreation center putting my initials above the guy before me. Then he would top me then....well you get it if you were in the zone in 1980-83. 🇺🇸😄
I know what you mean mate. I remember those days. The guy who was on top of the list was always the king of arcade. :) Most Atari games of this era had the memory for top three scores (they were saved even if you turned the power off). Gravitar, Star Wars had that... but I'm not sure if Battle Zone had that feature. Cheers.
4:17 was an "OH HELL NO" moment for me. That sound...
I remember playing this on the PC when I was a kid.
This was my favourite arcade game to play back in the the 80's at the time, the graphics seemed to be absolutely amazing!
This brought back some very happy memories!!!
Yeah the vector graphics still look timeless and amazing. They'd look even better on a real vector monitor.
Friday night in the chip shop after Scouts, spending precious pocket money on a few games. I still think the graphics are astoundingly smooth resolution for the time.
my fave when i served we had one on the barracks back in Germany.spent many hours playing
Back in the '80s, I used to play this game all the time in the arcade. I've scored in the millions. I'd usually just get tired of playing after a while and quit. I loved this game!
Definitely played this game a few times, but not the way you did, I first played this on a MAC computer in Sears sometime back in the 90's, didn't know it was an arcade game, damn fun game.
I used to play this at a nearby bowling alley, back in 1980. Absolutely loved it, my favorite video game !
Every time I would hear that missile buzzing, I would think "oh crap, where is it, where is it ??".
The arcade console I played on had the periscope interface, which made it more intense.
I eventually was one of the top five players on that particular console. Lots and lots of quarters spent on this game.
This game was ahead of it's time
The sound is so good. They used good speakers!
Yeah, expecially the subwoofer, it made the whole ceiling in the arcade vibrate!
I loved this game! I once got a nine digit score and had to walk away with the game still in play because the arcade was closing. I'd love to own an old arcade version today.
I actually found a Battle Zone arcade console for sale on eBay, but they are asking almost $5000 for it !
Brilliant, thank you so much for uploading! Best arcade game ever, loved it 😎
Back in 1984 a local pizza/arcade was going out of business, and selling all of their games. Most were selling for $275 each. I only had enough cash at the time to buy just one machine. I was torn between Battlezone (1980), or Gottlieb's Haunted House pinball machine (1982). I ended up getting Battlezone because a friend that worked on pinball machines told me that
Haunted House was notorious for having trouble, and they were a pain to work on. Both machines were in perfect condition because they were both still only a few year old. In 1986 I thought of moving out of state and decided to sell my Battlezone and Midway's Space Invaders so I ran an add in my local newspaper, this was way before Ebay, Craig's List, etc.
The first person that responded to the add bought both right on the spot for $300 each. I have kicked myself several times since for selling Battlezone. I have since found another Space Invaders, but still hoping to find another Battlezone. I'd be lucky to find one now for 10 times that price in poor condition.
Yeah and I've heard those replacement vector monitors are hard to find these days.
Brings back some memories lol great little game, used to play this all the time in the corner café during the school lunch hour.
Thanks to this video I can now reach the high 50,000s. Haven't yet reached 60,000. I just learned that the circular clock shows the enemy approaching.
The red lines that don't spin show your field of view.
I actually find this game very soothing.....The tank rumbling....The radar beeping.....The warm glow of the green console......Turn all the lights out and I drift right off to dreamland.....zzzzzzzzzzzz :)
And then the tranquility is shattered by the ominous, deafening drone of a cruise missile comin' in to waste your ass.
I can remember playing this down the local pub....to a background jukebox playing ` Were the kids in America ` by Kim Wilde :)
*Love Battlezone & Kim Wilde!!! ...So Kick Ass Comment!... There Stephen !*
Fun fact this game was the first successful fps game there was one before it called maze run or something that was technically the first fps game but wasn't successful like battlezone was
I used to love this game.
I learned the guided missiles were easier to hit if you started moving backwards and kept moving backwards as they approached. Most of them would zero in on you while still in front, and head straight for you, giving you a chance to hit them before they impacted.
Yeah I have to try that sometimes. I haven't found a solid way to kill those missiles. The people who have, can score millions. Cheers!
I remember playing this one a lot as a kid!
I loved this game . Wireframe is so clean
I always sucked at this in the arcade, but now I kinda see the proper strategy.
brings back fond memories!
i remember when this game came out. im so old.
*Same Here Cat Hat :)o I Used To Play It @ An Old Safeway Store,..Circa 1981'' My Mother Would Be Like...Here Is Some Quarters To Keep You Busy While I Go Shop For Groceries...And I Was Like Oh Yeah Battlezone Time...It Was The Only Game There Yet,.. I Did Not Mind As I Loved It ! And Still Do 38 Years Later !!!!!*
I introduced my kid to this game at Funspot in NH a month ago.
PS Your good at this game. Not seen anyone get by 270,000 with factory default yet.My high score on this game back in the day without any cheats Just factory default was 268,000
Can still remember the periscope was too high and I had to look in the sides. PHD I won’t let you down song was in the charts and never off the radio, The smell of electronics still brings back memories to this day
I read somewhere that people would get so captivated just driving the tank, that the maker had to put a time limit on the game
Hi Chuck. There's no time limit.
I loved this game so much. About four decades ago now
This was the FIRST video game I EVER saw! (I was born in 1991.) I remember how epic it was at the time (still is!), IT'S LIKE YOUR OWN LITTLE UNIVERSE TO PLAY IN! Awesome video detonator2112!
*Now THIS, WAS THE ORIGINAL "FIRST PERSON SHOOTER". :D*
Shit is wack I was born in 93
I remember watching a kid in the 80s play this for hours and he was doing the same exact tactic. 👍🏼
I could play Defender or Asteroids for hours but I lasted about 5 minutes playing this game. I was just shit at it 😉
Thanks for bringing back the memories
I used to play this on the big arcade machine. 25 cents.
Everytime I see the Tesla Pick Up Truck I think of this game
I had a teacher in Kindergarten who had this game on an old computer. Interesting that I find it many years later.
Sprawling on the fringes of the city (The Landscape)
In geometric order ( The Shapes)
An insulated border (Inside Your Tank)
In-between the bright lights (The Control Panel)
And the far, unlit unknown (Beyond the Horizon)
Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone (Gameplay)
Haha amazing. Rush forever!!!!
i have this game on atari ' game anthology' for the playstation 2
this was the very first arcade tank game i played in 1980
1980, seems like yesterday playing this game. Time goes by.
Oh shit I remember this and I was born in the 2000's, not sure how I was able to play this and another similarly styled game
Nice double kill of the saucer and the missile
I played this two years ago in its original cabin in an arcade museum
Man I just wanted to see anyone make it past the 4th tank. Thank you
This is definitely one of my top favorite Atari games, but it’s the one game, plus the 2600 version, that Atari keeps excluding from their latest compilations, even on their 50th anniversary celebration! Why, Atari? Why??
It's very different game on 2600. That's a good game though. Played it lot when I was a kid.
Sir your good at that game. Your high score is around the same as mine. Does anyone know of anybody who could flick a 2pence up these machines, I did back in the day and got 5 credits for 2p. How was it done. You placed the 2p in your fingers and put it in the eject slot at the bottom with the metal flap and flicked it back up and it went into the money box and gave you credits. Down side to me doing this was I was barred from every amusement arcade in my home town of Paisley. Fun times. Battle zone and the song I won’t let you down by PHD bring back so many memories.
OMG!!!! NOOOOOO!! I never thought id see my game again!! I LOVE U THANK U!! XOXOX
one of my all time favorite games
Merci! Best vid game from the 80s.
I remember playing this game at school in The Ealry 90s..
Purple Gorillaz Was Here. Peace.
I remember this was always one of the loudest games in the arcade. This and Pleiades.
My highest score in this game (at the arcade) was 872,000. It took me 2 1/2 hrs.
That's a great score. I recently played 354.000. There's that one missile that goes sideways just before "arriving home". That always kills me. I guess I could learn the trick hiding behind the obstacles but I never played with that method.
There is supposed to be a version of this Atari developed for the military - very early example of using a simulator for training.
Yes. That's called Bradley Trainer and it's playable on MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). Check it out with that one. Cheers!
@@detonator2112 cheers!
Wikipedia says the periscope version of this game is more common, but in my experience it was the smaller, no-periscope version I encountered most. How about y'all?
I think the smaller version was way more common. Never saw the periscope version myself.
i loved this as a kid
I used to be so intrigued by this game but always _sucked_ at it. Some days I might as well just tossed my quarter behind the machine.
Loved the Moon and volcano..I told a friend that you could escape to the hills if you kept driving....this of course was not true.
This used to be my favorite game. Invested enough quarters to finally break 1,000,000. Took over an hour on 1 quarter.
I don't know what it is about vector games, but I've always loved them.
They are timeless.
Just awesome!
One of the all time classics. Played this along with Asteroids back in 1980 at a local cafe. Seemed like a new age was upon us. Vectors are still cool! Especially nice to see the tactics on this. I always bombed out as soon as those super tanks came along… the solution seems simple now… keep them on the edge of the screen crash into them and then rapidly turn and pick them off… nice!
Yeah I agree. Vector graphics will never get old. They still look extremely cool. I love almost all Atari vector titles. Cheers.
detonator2112 Me too… MAME brought along many I never knew about. I guess the only duff one might be Red Baron.
Yeah. Never liked that one, either. It COULD have been a good game but somehow the controls feel sloppy. Battlezone, Gravitar, Space Duel and Star Wars are my top favorites. Cheers.
This was by far my favorite game when the local pizza shop got one in 1980. After it kicked my butt a few times, little by little I started figuring out the tactics shown in the video (no Internet to Google for hints in 1980). After that I could pretty much play it as long as I wanted to on one quarter, to the point where I'd get tired of standing there looking through that periscope. If you didn't know the secrets, however, the game was over in a hurry.
The missiles and the super tanks got me in the end
If I remember right this had a periscope like bit on the game
If I were playing this in the arcade back then those missiles would have scared the bejesus out of me
For 1980, this game is insanely impressive.