Battlezone
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Oct 29, 2026
AlexHOST
So, yeah, the games were brilliant.
AlexHOST
You had Battlezone.
AlexHOST
You had World Rally.
AlexHOST
Antietam we played, didn't we?
Daniel SanfordHOST
Spectre is a 3D shooter where a player drives a little red car or tank and blasts away enemies.
Daniel SanfordHOST
The gameplay is similar to Battlezone, and obviously inspired by it.
Daniel SanfordHOST
At least that's what Moby Games has to say about it.
Daniel SanfordHOST
Anyway, back to the show.
Joshua FoustGUEST
So we have to go back almost five decades, I think, to start mapping the earliest ways in which industry and the military began kind of influencing each other.
Joshua FoustGUEST
In 1980, the most famous example of this was the Army asking Atari to modify a Battlezone arcade tablet to create a training simulator for the Bradley fighting vehicle, which they had just launched as a troop carrier, I want to say.
Joshua FoustGUEST
So they've had this overlap with simulation, and that's where most of it kind of existed until about the mid-90s.
Joshua FoustGUEST
And that's when there was a lot of interest in the stuff called the Revolution and Military Affairs of trying to make military strategy and tactics a lot more both technologically sophisticated.
JohnHOST
I don't know what the big hits are.
JohnHOST
But Centipede and Missile Command and Battlezone, those are all Atari titles that are recognizable that are coming with the 800XL.
JohnHOST
But yeah, you get a joystick and a mouse, a two-button mouse and an eight-button joystick or gamepad.
DaveHOST
With the Amiga, yeah.
Ballistik Coffee BoyHOST
It's kind of cool.
Ballistik Coffee BoyHOST
I have Battlezone playing back here for the XTGS.
JameelGUEST
And
Ballistik Coffee BoyHOST
it kind of reminds me of that a little bit, right?
JasonHOST
Um, you know, I mean, Atari made a lot of good-looking things.
JasonHOST
If you go to the things that are larger, you know, like coin-op games- How about Battlezone, for example? I mean, that thing looks like it means business.
JasonHOST
Uh-
DaveHOST
Yeah
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DaveHOST
They were just talking about the few extra things they would want for, for this.
DaveHOST
They were, they were going through quite a detailed look at it.
DaveHOST
As for the games, it comes with Airball, Asteroids, Basketball, Battlezone, Berzerk, Boulderdash, Bristles, Capture the Flag, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Electri- Electra Glide?
JasonHOST
Glide.
Dean SwainGUEST
It might have been...
Dean SwainGUEST
They, they had a game called Tank, I think, which was a Battlezone rip-off.
RGTHOST
Mm.
Dean SwainGUEST
And I used to play that constantly.
CharlieHOST
More of that.
CharlieHOST
And then in 1980, a U.S. Army commissioned Atari to develop a Battlezone-derived targeting trainer for crews of their new Bradley fighter vehicles.
CharlieHOST
Call of
TylerHOST
Duty.
Steve FultonHOST
So, Airball...
Steve FultonHOST
Asteroids, Basketball, Battlezone, Berserk, Boulder Dash, Bristles, Capture the Flag, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Electric Glide, Encounter, Flip and Flop, Henry's House, Hover Bover, Lee, which is Bruce Lee, Mule, Millipede, Miner 2049er, Missile Command, O'Reilly's Mine, The Seven Cities of Gold, Star Raiders 2, Wavy Navy, and Yoom.
Steve FultonHOST
A very good collection of arcade-style games.
Steve FultonHOST
But, but, what about games that need the keyboard?
Jackson KueblerHOST
But the built-in games, I don't know any of these whatsoever.
Jackson KueblerHOST
But it's like Airball, Centipede, Henry's House, O'Reilly's Mind, Boulder Dash, Battlezone, Missile Command, Asteroids.
Jackson KueblerHOST
I mean, like your Missile Command and your Asteroids.
Jackson KueblerHOST
I know those.
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