Flying saucers also appear from time to time, but they are only a diversion, you do not have to shoot them at all. While missiles are best handled by backing up continually while firing at it until you hit. Avoid this by moving and turning at the same time until you can get a straight shot at them. Do not let enemy tanks get their turrets pointed at you.
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He was not even on the Battlezone team, he just really thought the volcano should erupt, so he wrote the code for it himself. The volcano was coded into the game by Owen Rubin (the same guy who designed Major Havoc). The volcano was the source of many rumors back in the early 80s, but the programmers have continually insisted that it is just a window dressing, that there is no secret castle, alternate world, or anything else inside (not that you can reach it anyway). The background of the game is a simple mountain range that includes an active volcano. Scattered around the playing area are various geometric shapes, which serve as both obstacles and protection. You have a radar scope at the top of your screen that gives you a basic view of the area (although you are really only attacked by one tank at a time). The only point of the game is to stay alive. Your enemies are tanks, flying saucers, and missiles. You control the action from a first person viewpoint.
This is a basic wireframe 3D tank hunting game. (I need to play this soon again and write more of it I just hope it works with the modern 3D accelerators.)īattlezone was an old arcade game released by Atari Games way back in 1980. If you can find this game from among budget releases, get it! It rocks! It's definitely worth it, even if you only get it for the funny Cold War-era jabbering. =) I heard the game sold pretty poorly, but that's pretty silly because the game is still pretty good. Crack dot Com was working on Golgotha, which I thought was pretty innovative (combination of RTS and FPS games), but unlike Golgotha, Battlezone was actually released commercially.
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The "modern PC adaptation" is pretty good, actually. (Source of trivia: Microsoft Arcade helpfiles)
The game screen was all green, but they were able to make the radar display red by placing piece of red cellophane inside the screen. One BattleZone-related legend was that somene was able to drive up to the volcano, then fall into the crater, and find a castle there that they had explored. And lo and behold, next day the programmer had brought him the code! and after some time, he got tired of listening to that and told the programmer to write it, and he'd then add it to the game. Why does the volcano erupt in the game? Well, one of the programmers kept telling Ed Rotberg that he really should make the volcano active.
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