Battle City 1985

Released: September 9, 1985
Genres: Fighting · Shooter
Platforms: Arcade · Sharp X1 · Nintendo 3DS · Wii · Family Computer · Wii U · FM-7 · Nintendo Entertainment System
Developer: Namco
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Digital: Nintendo PlayStation
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Is it still worth playing?

You control a tank and fire projectiles to destroy enemy tanks around the playfield in this 1985 multidirectional shooter for the Family Computer, released only in Japan. The enemy tanks enter from the top of the screen and try to destroy the player's tank and the base, shown as a phoenix symbol. A level is completed when the player destroys 20 enemy tanks. The game ends if the base is destroyed or all lives are lost, and since the player can destroy the base too, a player can still lose after the last enemy falls. There are 35 stages, each 13 units wide and high. Terrain includes brick walls, steel walls that can be destroyed with three stars collected, bushes that hide tanks and ice fields that make a tank hard to control. Defending a base while clearing the board still asks for attention today.