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Tank Trax 2 player game

RetrobrothersRetrobrothers
edited July 2010 in Games
Does anyone remember a game called Tank Trax? Just reviewed it on my site.

I got it on re-release by Mastertronic - quite a simple game for two players.

Anyone else ever play it? It's pretty crap but weirdly slightly addictive.
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  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited July 2010
    Yeah, I used to play it loads back in the day. I've always seen it as a kind of precursor to Worms. Kind of. :)
  • RetrobrothersRetrobrothers
    edited July 2010
    Nice analogy mate with Worms, I should have thought to put that in the review!
    D'oh!

    I used to play it quite a lot back in the day too. Despite it's shortcomings there is something good about it.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited July 2010
    Retrobrothers wrote: »
    Does anyone remember a game called Tank Trax? Just reviewed it on my site.

    I got it on re-release by Mastertronic - quite a simple game for two players.

    Anyone else ever play it? It's pretty crap but weirdly slightly addictive.

    Yes I bought it on the Mastertronic label when it was released....I think it might have been the FIRST mastertronic game I bought and it forever sullied my opinion of them....but as you say...even though it was crap I played it and still remember it above other much more worthy games....weird indeed.

    (I'd have been upset if I had paid full price for it)
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited July 2010
    The idea is indeed a good one, but Tank Trax is neither the original nor best implementation:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_%28computer_game%29
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2010
    Aye me and one of my mates used to play it quite a bit, it was only fun with 2 people though, a bit pointless if you're a Billy No Mates :D

    Didn't it have a crappy darts game on the other side of the tape as well?
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  • RetrobrothersRetrobrothers
    edited July 2010
    I don't remember a darts game on side B tbh.

    But yeah I used to whup my Dad at Tank Trax - then he would stick on Daley Thompsons Decathlon and trounce me. The only game he could ever beat me at! :p
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited July 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Aye me and one of my mates used to play it quite a bit, it was only fun with 2 people though, a bit pointless if you're a Billy No Mates :D

    Didn't it have a crappy darts game on the other side of the tape as well?

    I'm not sure... I know there was a rather crappy darts game released by Mastertronic though (it's called Darts here, but the one I had was called Bullseye).
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited July 2010
    This is another game that I played loads of back in the day. I loved the randomness of it and it was one of the few games that I could get my Dad to play. I've not played it in years though.

    It's also worth pointing out that the first time I saw worms, I actually said "that's just like Tank Trax" :D
  • fogfog
    edited July 2010
    there were 2 releases of it , 1 on it's own

    later they released it with bullseye as a double pack

    (I have both versions)

    it was far from the best tronix game, but i did used to play the game with a friend... then years later... gorrillas on qbasic on a pc .. same thing.hehe

    i'm trying to remember what machine I played a simular game at the time, wasn't a speccy

    comparing it to worms.. hhmm ... I'd say worms was a cross between that + battle valley , they were obv going for the lemmings market. Probably put red-rat on the map, if you had an atari 8 bit or st you'd know em, but until worms, well I doubt much more knew em
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