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Tank

Tank - Japanese Title

Tank - marquee

Manufacturer: Kee Games
Year: 1974
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Labyrinth/Maze
Type: Videogame
Sub:

Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Black and White
Conversion Class: unique
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
Tank


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Tank Description

Two Tanks (white and black) face off in a maze of blocks. Small X's denote mines. Player with the highest score (achieved by blasting the opponent, or him running into mines), after the allotted time, wins.

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Cabinet Information

The first 50 or so cabinets have a protruding wooden coin box area, between the two speaker grills and above the footpad.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Common - There are 25 known instances of Tank owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 24 of them are original dedicated machines, and it is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,098 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 14 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 4 VAPS members currently looking for Tank.

For Sale - There are 4 VAPS members with Tank machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

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.

Trivia

This was the first game to have solid, contiguous characters. This was made possible by the first-ever use of ROM chips to store graphic data in a production videogame.

Tank was released by Kee Games and became so popular that distributors no longer demanded exclusivity, and Atari and Kee were free to publicly become the single entity that they always had been. Atari created Kee in order to form its own competition and to get around the exclusivity demanded by distributors at the time (a legacy of Pinball).

eBay Listings

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Legacy

  1. Tank
  2. Tank II
  3. Tank III
  4. Tank 8
  5. Ultra Tank

Manuals

  1. Operation and Service Manual  18 Pages, 1615 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

  1. Arcade Treasures, Kurtz (ISBN 0-88740-619-X): Page: 100; Color photo; Price guide: 1994
  2. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 25; Color photo;
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