[z9znz]

But tanks can't usually strafe...

The sound is very reminiscent of the old video game arcades. Just about every game cabinet was pumping out some soundtrack and game sounds like this, so the entire place had a certain acoustic character which was very unique. I'd hate it now with my older sensitive ears, but as a kid it was a siren song.

[madrox]

It isn't a tank. It's a triangle. Tanks also don't have infinite ammo. We make concessions to unreality all the time in the name of making things more fun.

And this isn't an arcade. It's a web page. It's a common courtesy to people visiting web pages to not get immediately blasted with sound at the high end of the range.

[z9znz]

And yet, this game was clearly intended to be a throback to old arcade games. And old arcade games like this typically modeled tanks (and didn't have strafing). Old arcade games also DID have loud music like this, and as I noted above the whole arcade was full of these competing sounds.