4. Battle City

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Introduction

Battle City (a.k.a Tank 1990 or  Tank) is a multi-directional shooter video game for the Nintendo family computer produced and published by Namco in 1985. The game was later released for the Game Boy and was included in the Japanese version of Star Fox: Assault. It is a prt of the arcade game Tank Battalion with additional features (two player simultaneously play). There was also a rendition for Nintendo's Vs. System arcade cabinets.

Gameplay

• The player controlling a tank, must destroy enemy tanks in each level, which enter the play-field from the top of screen.
• The enemies attempt to destroy the player's base (represented as phoenix or eagle) as well as the player's tank itself. 
• A level is completed when the player destroys all 20 enemy tanks, but the game ends if the player's base is destroyed or the player loses all the available lives.

Play-field

1. Yellow rectangle - represent number of enemies
2. Blue rectangle - represent available lives of the player
3. Green rectangle - represent player's base
4. Blue arrow - represent the player's tank 
5. Silver tanks are the enemies

Interactivity

The actions involved in this game are shooting (use Z or X button on the keyboard) and moving around the play-field (using UP,LEFT,RIGHT,BOTTOM arrow on the keyboard)

Concept and Setting

Setting of the game is like being in a war zone, where the player controlling a tank and defending a base from enemies (tanks).

Goal

Goal of the game is to eliminate 20 tanks at each level and protect the base.

Challenge

The challenge is to avoid being killed by enemy tanks while protecting the base. Bricks could distract the player's movement, however player could destroy only the red bricks.

A.G.E Framework