Saturday, September 3, 2011

Can you name an early 1990s tank based shooting game on Macintosh System 7.5?

Question

There was a very simple tank shooting game that came out in the early 1990s for Macintosh System 7.5 (I was able to run it on System 7).

I only have some very random memories about it; anyone have an idea on what it was called?

Game features:

  • Tank shooter, in a fixed arena (squared box).
  • Internal and aerial view of tank.
  • Wire frame mode for slower Macs.

Game objective:

  • Score points for destroyed enemy tanks, within a counting down round time.

Answer

Thanks to @tzenes suggestion of 'Battlezone' that looked similar in the wire frame mode, but not quite what I remember.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)#Clones

In the 'list of clones' I was able to go through and discover, the game I was thinking of:

It was...

Spectre VR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(computer_game)

It looks to be available for purchase on the iPhone too:

http://spectre3d.com

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