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Tank

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Name: Tank
Manufacturer: Kee Games
Year: 1974
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Black and White
Conversion Class: unique
Game Specific: Tank Pinout
Settings: Tank Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
  • Cocktail
Tank


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Tank Description

Tank was produced by Kee Games in 1974.

Kee Games released 16 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1974.

Other machines made by Kee Games during the time period Tank was produced include Formula K, Twin Racer, Spike, Tank II, and Elimination.

Two Tanks white and black face off in a maze of blocks. Small X's denote mines. Player with the highest score achieved by blasting the opponent, or him running into mines, after the allotted time, wins.

Tank - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.13 (2 votes)

 Personal Impressions Score: 3.00

     Overall 'Like': 3.00
     Fun (Social): 3.50
     Fun (Solo): 2.00
     Collector Desire: 3.50 
Technical Impressions Score: 3.25

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 3.00
     Originality: 3.50
     Sound/Music: 2.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Information

The first 50 or so cabinets have a protruding wooden coin box area, between the two speaker grills and above the footpad.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard
Cocktail

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tank Census

There are 11,588 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,159 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 153,467 machines (6,556 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 59 known instances of this machine owned by Tank collectors who are active members. Of these, 52 of them are original dedicated machines, and 7 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 5 active VAPS members with Tank machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Tank circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Tank.

This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 6 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Trivia

This was the first game to have solid, contiguous characters. This was made possible by the first-ever use of ROM chips to store graphic data in a production videogame.

Tank was released by Kee Games and became so popular that distributors no longer demanded exclusivity, and Atari and Kee were free to publicly become the single entity that they always had been. Atari created Kee in order to form its own competition and to get around the exclusivity demanded by distributors at the time a legacy of Pinball.

Legacy

  1. Tank
  2. Tank II
  3. Tank III
  4. Tank 8
  5. Ultra Tank

Manuals

  1. Tank VGDL Computer Service Manual  31 Pages, 7 MB File.
  2. Tank TM-010 Kiosk Operation and Service  24 Pages, 2.6 MB File.
  3. Tank TM-010 Monitor Jitter Sertvice Bulletin B-0011  1 Pages, 113 kB File.
  4. TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-G  2 Pages, 249 kB File.
  5. Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-H  2 Pages, 259 kB File.
  6. Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-J  2 Pages, 571 kB File.
  7. TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-H  2 Pages, 581 kB File.
  8. Tank TM-010 Schematics Board I Rev-F  4 Pages, 593 kB File.
  9. Operation and Service Manual  18 Pages, 1.6 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

  1. Arcade Treasures, Kurtz (ISBN 088740619X): Page: 100; Color photo; Price guide: 1994
  2. The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 25; Color photo;
  3. Arcade Fever, Sellers (ISBN 0762409371): Page: 20; Color photo; Price guide:
  4. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 25; Color photo; Price guide:

Video Clips


    1974 Atari Tank Arcade Game

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Additional References
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  1. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tank Flyer #1167    
  2. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tank Flyer #1168    
  3. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tank Flyer #5290    

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