[MomsAVoxell]

I absolutely loved Battlezone when it hit the arcades/chip shops, and probably spent about $500 on it in my youth .. it was one of those games (alongside Defender and Crazy Climber) that I’d spent money on almost robotically, instead of just saving so I could have bought my own computer. I’d probably have gotten one sooner (1980 instead of 1983) if I’d thought about that, grr..

Anyway, the computer I did end up getting (kicking off a career) was the Oric-1, a relatively obscure and underrated machine that is still getting software written for it. In fact, it got a Battlezone port, which is detailed right here:

https://forum.defence-force.com/viewtopic.php?p=30836

The author of that port abandoned the project because of feeling ‘disgusted’ at the design limit they’d imposed, regarding a short distance of objects - I wonder if, in light of the details revealed in this article about how the vector engine renders object at least a half-screen extra on each side of the physical screen, they’d reconsider the flaw, and return to the project… I’ll suggest it to them, anyway, because I love the Oric and I love Battlezone: its just one of those wonderful bits of immersive software that has so much nostalgia wrapped up in it.