Battlezone is an arcade developed by Atari, released 1 November 1980 on Atari Lynx, Apple II, Arcade and Atari 8-bit.
What Battlezone is
Battlezone is an arcade game developed by Atari and released in 1980. It is available on Atari Lynx, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20, DOS and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battlezone is a 1980 first-person shooter tank combat video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades; in Japan, it was distributed by Sega and Taito. 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. Its innovative use of 3D graphics made it a huge hit, with approximately 15,000 cabinets sold.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Battlezone holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70.
What it launched against
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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