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Battle City

1991 · Game Boy · Shooter

About this game

Game Boy port of Battle City.

Battle City, also known as Tank 1990 or Tank in some pirate multicart releases, is a multi-directional shooter video game for the Family Computer produced and published in 1985 by Namco. The game was later released for the Game Boy and was included in the Japanese version of Star Fox: Assault. It is a port of the arcade game Tank Battalion with additional features (including two player simultaneous play and a level edit feature). There was also a rendition for Nintendo's Vs. System arcade cabinets. The player, controlling a tank, must destroy enemy tanks in each level, which enter the playfield from the top of the screen. The enemy tanks attempt to destroy the player's base (represented on the map as a bird, eagle or Phoenix), as well as the human tank itself. A level is completed when the player destroys all 20 enemy tanks, but the game ends if the player's base is destroyed or the player loses all available lives.

Screenshots

Battle City screenshot
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Game facts

Release date

Aug 9, 1991

Developer

Nova

Publisher

Namco

Platforms

Game Boy

Genres

Shooter

Themes

Action, Warfare

Game modes

Single player

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

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Game data and artwork via IGDB.

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