Battle City
- Genres
- Fighting Shooter
- Platforms
- Wii · Nintendo Entertainment System · Nintendo 3DS · Wii U · Arcade · Sharp X1 · Family Computer · FM-7
- Release
- Family Computer Sep 09, 1985 Arcade 1985 Month only FM-7 Nov 1986 Exact Sharp X1 1986 Month only Wii Sep 04, 2007 Nintendo 3DS Jul 31, 2013 Wii U Jul 09, 2014
- Credits
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BN
Bandai Namco Entertainment
N
Namco
DS
Dempa Shimbunsha
BN
Bandai Namco Games
NB
Namco Bandai Games
- Board status
- —
About
Battle City, also known as Tank 1990 or Tank in some pirate multicart releases, is a multi-directional shooter video game for the Family Computer produced and published in 1985 by Namco. The game was later released for the Game Boy and was included in the Japanese version of Star Fox: Assault. It is a port of the arcade game Tank Battalion with additional features (including two player simultaneous play and a level edit feature). There was also a rendition for Nintendo's Vs. System arcade cabinets. The player, controlling a tank, must destroy enemy tanks in each level, which enter the playfield from the top of the screen. The enemy tanks attempt to destroy the player's base (represented on the map as a bird, eagle or Phoenix), as well as the human tank itself. A level is completed when the player destroys all 20 enemy tanks, but the game ends if the player's base is destroyed or the player loses all available lives.
