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The Nintedo 64 version called Rise of the Black Dogs and gives you a lot more variation. Featuring a comprehensive set of missions, different planets to fight on such as Mars, Titas and Uranus, Deathmatch mode In four player. Pilot and Commander modes were the player is responsible for constructing a base and can issue orders to fellow units.<\/p>\n
There was a myth amongst players in the early days that you could drive you tank to the erupting volcano in the background and within the crater was a hidden castle. These rumours were obvously false, but plans to have one inserted into future version were inspired by this.<\/p>\n
A similar rumour was that if you managed to drive your tank in forwad in a straight line without gertting killed you would eventually reach the mountain range where you would discover a tank factory producing enemy tanks. Another was that if enough UFO’s were destoyed a mothership would appear and start attacking, you don’t get this often in moredn games.<\/p>\n
What really intruges me is that in in December 1980 a version of battlezone called The Bradley Trainer was designed for use by the U.S. and is considered the first VR training device used by the U.S. Army. This was a difficult subject to deal with and was very close to never being produced as some of Atari’ developers refused to work on the project because of its association with the Army.<\/p>\n
Only two are known to have been produced; one was delivered to the Army and is now presumed lost and the other is believed to be in the private collection of a guy called Scott Evans (lucky man).<\/p>\n
I find this quite unbelievable or was kama very much looking down on him that day as this guy Scott Evans actually found this hardware dumped in a skip at the rear parking lot at Midway Games. I just can’t get my head round that one!<\/p>\n
This gunner yoke was based on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle control and was then later re-used in the popular arcade Star Wars game.<\/p>\n
On August 30, 1985, a Guinness World Record was achieved in Auburn, California by David Palmer where he scored a massive 23,000,000 points while playing Battlezone at The Game Room arcade in Citrus Heights, California. I have to take my hat of to him as after taking an incredible 23 hours David then quit with still four tanks left.<\/p>\n
He also holds world records in a number of other first-person simulator-type games, namely Red Baron, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Rider, Firefox, SubRoc-3D and TX-1.<\/p>\n
Its for reasons like these that I have an unquenchable thirst for gaming. Not only do these games hold many historical facts but could it be possible that the pure fabric of gaming actually has an influence on our history.<\/p>\n
It only takes a small change to have a large impact on not just who we are but on what is to become. This era of gaming unfortunately just doesn’t really exist anymore.<\/p>\n
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