Tanks A Lot Reviews - Tanks A Lot Player Reviews - Tanks A Lot Web Site Reviews

Email
Password
Sign Up | Forgot Password?
Search:
go

Home What's New Contribute Features Boards Help

Arcadia 2001 » Action

# Tanks A Lot

# Review by D23NZ

## "A Reagan era tank game"

Tanks A Lot is an action game with a top-down view, for the Tunix. Tunix was one of the many alternative names for the Arcadia 2001. Tunix might have been a name specifically for the New Zealand version, or maybe for all of Australasia. It has been around 15 years since I last played the game but I will try to recall it as accurately as possible.

You control a guy with bazooka. The objectives of the game are to keep your guy alive while protecting a parked truck, scoring points and going up levels. You have several lives and so does the truck. If either you or the truck runs out of lives, it is game over.

There are two types of enemies: blue tanks and orange tanks. The blue tanks have an objective of destroying the truck. The orange tanks have an objective of killing the guy.

All of the action takes place on a single screen, with no scrolling. On the screen there are plenty of walls that can be destroyed by your shots or tank shots.

If a blue tank is destroyed, a new one would eventually appear. You would go to the next level if all orange tanks are destroyed.

There was no regular music and sound effect would have been nothing more than beeps and squeaks.

I discovered something close to a cheat that I am unsure whether or not was intended by the programmers. There was a button on the control pad (Tunix control pads looked a bit like telephone pads i.e. the numbers 1 to 9, directional pad/joystick plus two red fire buttons on the side) that let you teleport the truck to one of the four locations it can appear. If your character happens to be in the spot where the truck is going to teleport to, the truck will disappear. There would be no fear of the truck getting destroyed by the blue tanks as long as you stay in that level. You would then be able to slowly build up points by leaving one orange tank available and shooting the blue tanks that appear.

I think there might have been another button for teleporting the character. I am unsure what kinds of limitations were put on teleporting.

Judging the quality of the game is difficult because of how old it is.

This could possibly have been the first ever video game to have something other than yourself that you need to protect.

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 11/16/06

Copyright ©2007 CNET Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use