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Tank Wars Armored Encounter Ikari Warriors
Tank Wars
Ikari Warriors
Armored Encounter

Colecovision O2 2600/7800

A hard to find cart made by Bit Corp Paired with Sub Chase, this is your Similar to Frontline in game play, this
and sold via Telegames and Adam's early, plain vanilla tank game. On a par game has a few more bells and whis-
House. Very fast tanks. The walls con- with Atari's Combat with almost as tles. There are grenades, which can be
sist of bricks and can be knocked down. many variations. This one adds land lobbed at the enemy and helicopters
The home base on the bottom of the mines on some levels. 2-player only. appear on some screens. There is also
screen must be defended at all costs. a tank power-up, as well as rivers and
The quality of game play and graphics Rating: C bridges to be crossed.
are close to early-NES.
Also known as Battle on the Rating B+
Rating: C+ Videopac version.
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Rush’n Attack Sea Battle
Rush’n Attack
Sea Battle
Air Sea Battle
Air Sea Battle

Atari 2600
Arcade
As you can probably tell by the
Possibly the best mano a mano war name, Sea Battle is a port of the Intel-
game is Konami’s 1985 thriller Rush‘n Atari 2600 livision game of the same name. Origi-

Attack, which was marketed in the rest One of the earliest games released nally entitled “High Seas,” it was sched-
of the world as Green Beret to be a little for the Atari VCS and it shows. Dig uled for a 1982 release, but was pulled
more politically correct. (It doesn’t take by the marketing suits at Mattel after
a huge stretch of the imagination to see those blocky graphics! deciding they would no longer sell “Two
that the pronunciation of Rush’n Attack Two players man cannons at the Player Only” games. It ended up being
makes the title a vintage piece of Cold bottom of the screen and proceed to released at the 2000 CGExpo by Intel-
shoot things out of the air. There really
War marketing. Rush’n Attack puts the livision Productions.
player in the role of a highly-trained isn’t much more to it than that. Of The idea is to maneuver four differ-
soldier behind enemy lines. Schwar- course, back then it was all we had so ent types of boats -- PT boat, subma-
zenegger-esque excesses are the name we loved the hell out of it. rine, destroyer, and battleship -- into
It doesn’t really hold up all that well,
of the game: your soldier/spy is a mas- but is certainly worth popping in for a combat against your adversary. Since
ter of unarmed and armed combat, is each ship has its own strengths and
capable of graceful mid-air acrobatics quick trip down memory lane. Then weaknesses, it’s a matter of learning
worthy of a ballet star, and – of course – again, it’s also a good game to crack which is best in a given situation. When
open a few beers and compete against
is expected to take out the entire en- a friend who, hopefully, cracked open a the ships get close to one another, the
campment of enemy troops single- screen zooms in so the players may
handed. If Rush’n Attack had been few more than you. engage in heavy battle. Last ship
released in the late 90s, surely it would There’s also a few one player ver- standing wins.
have had a built-in movie deal with sions, but I pray you’re never that hard Overall, a simplistic, yet fun 2 player
up for entertainment.
Schwarzenegger or Stallone attached game.
as the star.
Rating: C Rating: B-
Rating: A
-Cav -Cav
-Earl
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