
The player drives a tank using two joysticks, one controlling the right tread and the other the left.

A colored overlay tints the display green for the bottom 4⁄5 where the action takes place, and red for the top 1⁄5 where the score and radar screen are displayed. Battlezone gameplayīattlezone uses wireframe vector graphics displayed on a black and white vector monitor. Battlezone was ported to Atari 2600 only in 1983. It was a huge success, approximately 15,000 units sold.

Battlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat game first released for arcades in November 1980 by Atari.
