The US Army was very interested in exploring ways in which new recruits could potentially be trained in a safe environment at a fraction of the cost. Training soldiers was an expensive business, especially using live rounds which in some cases would cost several thousand dollars apiece. This added to the illusion of actually being inside a tank: Atari’s Battlezone Upright CabinetĪn unexpected by-product of the game’s release was interest from the military. Here, the final upright version of the cabinet included a periscope style interface that players looked through to play the game. Around 15,000 machines were rolled out of Atari’s factory in both upright and cabaret form.
This first-person wire frame vector shoot-em-up, puts the player at the controls of a tank wandering the wilderness of a futuristic-looking battlefield, shooting down enemy tanks, UFOs and missiles. Atari’s Battlezone arcade game released in 1981 was an immediate classic.
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