![]() ![]() (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. 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. You may only use one shell at a time.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. Your heat seeking missiles are all spent, and only shell blasters remain as your ammunition source. You are the commander of a tank, and must outmanoeuvre enemy tanks, flying saucers, and super tanks while avoiding the structured obstacles for your solitary existence. As sole survivor of the once magnificent home battle fleet force, you must wander the radioactive wasteland and defend yourself against the remains of the ravished enemy. Now, relive those days in this remastered emulated version.Īfter the century long bloody battle fought across the plains of Lacentra, you alone must fight to live. Originally released in 1983, 3D Combat Zone brought the excitement of wireframe vector graphic arcade games to the ZX Spectrum home computer. ![]()
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