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Blitzkrieg

Set in a World War II tank battle from a 1st-person perspective, the player can turn their tank left or right and fire their cannon. As they turn, enemy tanks appear, and they must be destroyed before the…

40 31 December 1984

Blitzkrieg is a shooter, released 31 December 1984 on BBC Microcomputer System.

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What Blitzkrieg is

Blitzkrieg was released in 1984. It was published by Software Invasion. It is available on BBC Microcomputer System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in a World War II tank battle from a 1st-person perspective, the player can turn their tank left or right and fire their cannon. As they turn, enemy tanks appear, and they must be destroyed before the enemy tanks return fire.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Blitzkrieg holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 33 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Blitzkrieg launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Bomb Jack. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Bomb Jack.

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When did Blitzkrieg come out?
Blitzkrieg was released on 31 December 1984 for BBC Microcomputer System.

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