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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.

Tank was produced by Kee Games in 1974.

Kee Games released 16 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1974. Kee Games was based in United States.

Other machines made by Kee Games during the time period Tank was produced include: Elimination, Twin Racer, Tank II, Spike, and Formula K

Specs

Name	Tank
Developer	Kee Games (United States)
Year	1974
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	12989
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Black and White
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Tank Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Tank Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Competitive
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cocktail

Video Clips

1974 Atari Tank Arcade Game

Tank KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.13 (2 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.00

Overall Like	3.00
Fun (Social)	3.50
Fun (Solo)	2.00
Collector Desire	3.50

Technical Rating: 3.25

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	3.00
Originality	3.50
Sound/Music	2.50

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

Cabinet - Video Game Marquee: Alternate

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.

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/Coin-Op Tank Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 64 known instances of this machine owned by Tank collectors who are active members. Of these, 56 of them are original dedicated machines. 8 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 6 active VAPS members with a Tank machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Tank circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 5 active VAPS members currently looking for Tank.

This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 7 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

Legacy

Manuals

Tank VGDL Computer Service Manual - Tank Manual — **Tank VGDL Computer Service Manual**
(31 pages, 7 MB File)

Tank TM-010 Kiosk Operation and Service - Tank Manual — **Tank TM-010 Kiosk Operation and Service**
(24 pages, 2.6 MB File)

Tank TM-010 Monitor Jitter Sertvice Bulletin B-0011 - Tank Manual — **Tank TM-010 Monitor Jitter Sertvice Bulletin B-0011**
(1 page, 113 kB File)

TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-G - Tank Manual — **TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-G**
(2 pages, 249 kB File)

Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-H - Tank Manual — **Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-H**
(2 pages, 259 kB File)

Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-J - Tank Manual — **Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-J**
(2 pages, 571 kB File)

TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-H - Tank Manual — **TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-H**
(2 pages, 581 kB File)

Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-F - Tank Manual — **Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-F**
(4 pages, 593 kB File)

Operation and Service Manual - Tank Manual — **Operation and Service Manual**
(18 pages, 1.6 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

Arcade Treasures Kurtz (ISBN 088740619X) Page: 100; Color photo
The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 25; Color photo Price guide: No
Arcade Fever Sellers (ISBN 0762409371) Page: 20; Color photo
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 25; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): cocktail (427a5ff881d8ad8f15000ab5e56184f5)

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