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Atari Year: 1980 Class: Wide Release Genre: Shooter Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 1 Gameplay: Single Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) |
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Battlezone DescriptionUsing wire models on a vector display with a green and red overlay, a battle with opposing tanks, missiles and the occasional saucer is simulated among pyramids and cubes. The 1812 overture plays during high score.Know anything more about this game? Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 220 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 214 of them are original dedicated machines, and 6 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 52,013 video games (3,347 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 81 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. - There are 17 VAPS members currently looking for this game. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. 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.TriviaThe Battlezone legend says that a military version of the game exists 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. During one of my visits to Atari, I did actually see one of the military cabinet in storage at their facility and it had lots of extra buttons but the same basic cabinet. Battlezone had two known prototype names before it was mass produced: Future Tank and Moon Tank. 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.FixesThe rubber ring that centers the joystick is most likely broken and will be expensive to replace.As an alternative to replacing the rubber ring, a person could buy two Ultimate Joysticks, and one Ultimate Pushbutton from Happ Controls (http://www.happcontrols.com/). eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Battlezone Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Atari. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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