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GAME SYSTEM CHD BIOS DEVICE PARENT CLONE MECHANICAL SCREENLESS
Main data
Romset and name:
tank8 Tank 8 (set 1)
Short name:
Tank 8
Manufacturer:
Atari (Kee Games)
Year:
1976
Genre:
Maze
Category:
Maze / Shooter Small
Serie:
Driver source:
Language:
English
Similar games:
Input / Controls
Players:
Up to 8 players (solo, 2-8 concurrents)
Input:
Double joystick 2 ways (vertical)
Buttons / keys:
Coins:
Cabinet:
-
Free-play:
Not supported
Rankings
Average user rating:
AntoPISA BestGame:
50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
MASH All-Time:
-
Video
Display:
480x464@60 Hz, CRT 31kHz
Orientation:
Horizontal
Scrolling:
Unknown
Colors:
-
CPU:
Motorola MC6800
Audio
Sound:
Mono
Audio chips:
Discrete Sound, Speaker
Romset
First release:
Last release:
Clone of:
-
Clones:
Bios:
Not required
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-
Previous romset:
None
New romset:
None
Files
Dump:
GOOD
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Romset:
Status
OVERALL:
GOOD
Emulation:
Good
Graphic:
Good
Color:
Good
Sound:
Good
Cocktail:
Good
Protection:
Good
Save state:
Supported
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- Arcade Video game published 48 years ago:
Tank 8 © 1976 Kee Games.
TECHNICAL
Main CPU: M6800 (@ 1.1055 Mhz)
Sound: Discrete circuitry.
Players: 8
Control: Double 2-way joysticks (vertical)
Buttons: 1
TRIVIA
Tank 8 was released in September 1976, selling at an MSRP of $6495.
It is one of the first games at Atari to use a microprocessor to control the tanks. Previous tank games were all hardware only.
During attract, all the tanks would move and shoot at each other. Some smarts were put in the program to do this. However, when someone inserted a coin, all the tanks snapped back to their start location. ONLY paid tanks would play, others would sit in their start positions and do nothing during the actual game. This meant that one person playing alone could not do much, and you really need more players for this to be fun. It seems that marketing discovered that when computer player tanks moved, players THOUGHT they were playing without ever inserting any money, so they decided to stop that from happening.
The executives at Atari use to come into our lab at lunch time and watch this game play its attract mode. The tanks would move about for several minutes using random attack programs, and the winning tank was always different. What they were actually doing was placing bets on the different tanks and wagering over the winner.
SERIES- Tank [Upright model] (1974)
- Tank [Cocktail Table model] (1974)
- Tank II (1975)
- Tank III (1975)
- Tank 8 (1976)
- Ultra Tank (1978)
STAFF
Programmed by: Tom Hogg
CONTRIBUTE
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