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| Name: Battlezone Manufacturer: Atari Year: 1980 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Battlezone Pinout Settings: Battlezone Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) Cabinet Styles:
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Battlezone DescriptionBattlezone was produced by Atari in 1980. Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Other machines made by Atari during the time period Battlezone was produced include Asteroids Deluxe, Monte Carlo, Red Baron, Alien Space, Centipede, Lunar Lander, Solar War, Atari Basketball, Asteroids, and Atari Football. Battlezone - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.00 (19 votes)
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MiscellaneousPlay a free version of Battlezone at the official Atari site: http://www.atari.com/arcade/battlezone .Battlezone is available on the iPad and iPhone via Atari's Greatest Hits application. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Battlezone CensusThere are 10,977 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 8,802 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 147,141 machines (6,416 unique titles).Very Common - There are 547 known instances of this machine owned by Battlezone collectors who are active members. Of these, 525 of them are original dedicated machines, and 21 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 26 active VAPS members with Battlezone machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Battlezone circuit boards for sale. Wanted - Very Popular - There are 35 active VAPS members currently looking for Battlezone. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Battlezone circuit board set. This game ranks a 91 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 58 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalBattlezone was designed by Ed Rotberg at the same time as Red Baron, hence the similarities in architecture. The designer did not use a structured approach, however, and while shapes were displayed on the screen first in Red Baron, Battlezone ended up going to market first. Collector Doug Jeffreys attempted to resolve the differences between these architectures, but he found that Red Baron ended up being a superset of Battlezone, even though either cabinet can power up the other board set.TriviaBattlezone had two known prototype names before it was mass produced: Future Tank and Moon Tank.The Battlezone legend says that a military version of the game existed as a training simulator for the Bradley fighting vehicle. The designer, Ed Rotberg did post to RGVA before it became RGVAC that only two cabinets were made. The controller was similar to a Star Wars yoke. The simulator has an option for a TOW Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided missile. This was in keeping with the real Bradley's capabilities. As long as you kept the enemy tank in the cross-hairs of the TOW sight, you could not miss. Also a prototype of a cocktail version was developed, including full glasstop artwork and control panel. Only one is known to exist as it was not released for production. There is no color overlay for the cocktail version since the images needs to flip for the second player. The imagery from the arcade game was used in the intro scene for the PC game version update of the game. The image opens where you see the original graphics on the screen. The image zooms out and you see it is the radar screen on the tank from the PC version of the game. FixesThe rubber ring that centers the joystick is most likely broken. An inexpensive replacement can be bought at:http://www.wizzesworkshop.com/cart/product.asp?intProdID19 Manuals
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