This is particularly alarming for me – I live ten minutes away from there. There you have it – in the near future, circa 1983 (which must logically be coming up any day now), Robot Tanks are going to smash the country, culminating in an attack on Downtown Santa Clara. Only you can stop them.” -Robot Tank manual The rebels are currently headed towards downtown Santa Clara. Avoid being hit by enemy fire, or your Robot Tanks may be destroyed. You must command your own Robot Tanks to stop their charge of chaos. As you well know, sophisticated enemy Robot Tanks are quickly advancing cross-country, firing at will and stopping at nothing. The kind folks at Activision included in the manual a little glimpse into the future. But give the 2600 a chance and, every now and again, the ol’ girl amazes you. There’s a reasonable chance you don’t associate first-person shooters with Atari games.Īll the stranger that Robot Tank, academically at the very least, fulfills this criteria. Unless you’re sharp enough to spot the tank out there on the horizon, that is.įor this one brave soul, a second question: Do you know what a first-person shooter is? You know, Doom, Halo, Half-Life … The rest of this article is for whomever logs on to Nerd Bacon and knows that a game produced in the year 2000 is not, all things considered, all that old. Terrifying ideas for the modern gamer, many of whom I’ve no doubt scared away with two paragraphs that may as well have been about the butter churn or the telegraph. If the answer is yes, what do you think of when someone mentions Atari games? Aiming one blip of light at another using an archaic thing know as a “joystick” - before pressing the solitary orange button this “joystick” has to offer? Or maybe you think of moving a blocky, indistinguishable character around a single-screen playfield in a contest to make a number at the top of the screen increment? Do you know what an Atari is? If the answer is no, you’re lost or drunk – either way, hit “back” on your browser and go to bed.
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