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Battlezone

バトルゾーン

Description

Using 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.

Battlezone was produced by Atari in 1980.

Atari released 139 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Battlezone was produced include: Atari Soccer, Hercules, Superman, Atari Baseball, Asteroids, Red Baron, Missile Command, Turtleroids, Asteroids Deluxe, and Monte Carlo

Specs

Name	Battlezone
Developer	Atari (United States)
Year	1980
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7059
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Vector Color: Black and White with a Color Overlay 19-inch Electrohome G05
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Battlezone Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Battlezone Dipswitch Settings (user contributed) Battle Zone (cocktail) Dipswitch Settings (MAME)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 2-way (up, down) Joystick: 2-way (up, down) with button - Fire
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - With Shroud Upright/Standard - Open Face Cabaret/Mini Cocktail
Bezel	Battlezone Bezel Image
Control Panel	Battlezone Control Panel Image
Side Art	Battlezone Side Art Image

Video Clips

(Arcade) Battlezone

Battlezone shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Battlezone KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.93 (21 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.76

Overall Like	3.86
Fun (Social)	2.81
Fun (Solo)	3.85
Collector Desire	4.14

Technical Rating: 4.13

Gameplay	4.25
Graphics	4.14
Originality	4.52
Sound/Music	3.45

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Trivia

Battlezone had two known prototype names before it was mass produced: Future Tank and Moon Tank.

The Battlezone legend says that a military version of the game existed 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. The controller was similar to a Star Wars yoke. The simulator has an option for a TOW Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided missile. This was in keeping with the real Bradley's capabilities. As long as you kept the enemy tank in the cross-hairs of the TOW sight, you could not miss.

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.

The imagery from the arcade game was used in the intro scene for the PC game version update of the game. The image opens where you see the original graphics on the screen. The image zooms out and you see it is the radar screen on the tank from the PC version of the game.

Miscellaneous

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Battlezone Census

There are 15,364 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,708 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,365 machines (7,023 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 619 known instances of this machine owned by Battlezone collectors who are active members. Of these, 599 of them are original dedicated machines. 19 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 23 active VAPS members with a Battlezone machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Battlezone circuit board for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 42 active VAPS members currently looking for Battlezone.

This game ranks a 91 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 63 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

Battlezone 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.

Fixes

The rubber ring that centers the joystick is most likely broken. An inexpensive replacement can be bought at:

http://www.wizzesworkshop.com/cart/product.asp?intProdID19

Manuals

Battlezone - Atari Service Bulletin - Part Replacement - Battlezone Manual — **Battlezone - Atari Service Bulletin - Part Replacement**
(1 page, 11 kB File)

Page 1 Wiring diagram and RegulatorAudio schematic - Battlezone Manual — **Page 1 Wiring diagram and RegulatorAudio schematic**
(1 page, 176 kB File)

German Manual - Battlezone Manual — **German Manual**
(29 pages, 10.1 MB File)

Operation, Maintenance and Service Manual with illustrated parts lists - Battlezone Manual — **Operation, Maintenance and Service Manual with illustrated parts lists**
(58 pages, 4.9 MB File)

Conversion Instructions - Battlezone Manual — **Conversion Instructions**
(4 pages, 190 kB File)

Self-test procedure - Battlezone Manual — **Self-test procedure**
(1 page, 340 kB File)

Schematics - Battlezone Manual — **Schematics**
(12 pages, 2.9 MB File)

Schematics (2) - Battlezone Manual — **Schematics (2)**
(6 pages, 3 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 92; Color photo Price guide: No
Arcade Fever Sellers (ISBN 0762409371) Page: 42; Color photo
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 92; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (5019733ed3bc9d5f73b4ec5aa28d567a)
3D Model (External): Upright B (d6f9852297154ab2c3864156e4194aad)

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