Nostalgia strikes: Seeking title of ancient 3d-esque tank game

[Jeff7]

I don't remember if it was a DOS game or if it could handle Windows directly.

It was played on a large green field, and I believe it had a sunlit sky. It was all in 3D wireframe. The field was strewn with pyramid obstacles here and there. Various geometric objects would try to run into your tank, damaging or destroying it. Enemy tanks would spawn now and then, and try to shoot at you.
It also supported a multiplayer option; I remember playing the game over the modem with someone else a few times.

Does this come to mind for anyone? I found Vector Tanks, and that's not it...

 

[IronWing]

I thought it was called "Tank".

 

[Wanescotting]

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/index.php?t=10&id=174

 

[silverpig]

Oh I totally remember that game. Don't know what it's called right now though. It might come to me.

It looked like this right?

UPDATE: Battlezone for Atari

 

[Jeff7]

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/index.php?t=10&id=174

Those graphics are too high-grade.

It's more along the lines of Vector Tanks, but I do remember it being more brightly lit than that - not a black background.


Silverpig - the general vector appearance, yes. But I think the tanks were more primitive looking than that (bad pun intended), in that I think the turret consisted of an elongated sideways pyramid, set atop....something. I don't remember what the base looked like.

 

[PottedMeat]

battlezone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_%281980_video_game)

 

[Jadow]

spectre

 

[Wanescotting]

hyper tank?

 

[Jeff7]

battlezone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)

Not a PC game.

spectre

The game I'm thinking of didn't have any kind of base or "capture the flag" mode, at least not that I can remember.

 

[Wanescotting]

this?

http://www.freeclassicdosgames.com/2009/03/abrams-battle-tank-aka-m-1-abrams.html

 

[Wanescotting]

http://www.tanksim.com/reviews/tank_comm1.htm

 

[Wanescotting]

here is a list of pre 1996 multiplayer games, might help:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970521185925/http://www.cs.uwm.edu/public/jimu/netgames.html

 

[SKORPI0]

Arctic Fox - Amiga 1986

 

[Leros]

Oh I totally remember that game. Don't know what it's called right now though. It might come to me.

It looked like this right?

UPDATE: Battlezone for Atari

It came built into one of the versions of Windows. Windows 98?

 

[arcenite]

Review these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)#Clones

 

[silverpig]

It came built into one of the versions of Windows. Windows 98?

Yep that's where I played it. I think it might have been win95 though. I seem to remember playing it on the first computer my brothers and I got, a P200 MMX with 16 MB EDO and a 2GB hard drive.

 

[Excelsior]

We played Spectre on our mac.

 

[JTsyo]

I remember people playing something like that on UNIX machines at the computer lab. It was dark though. Everything was just polygons.

 

[kinev]

Anyone remember doing this on NBA Jam back in the day?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4N0-0xUklM

I have no idea how knowing how to do this spread in the pre-internet days...

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Oh I totally remember that game. Don't know what it's called right now though. It might come to me.

It looked like this right?

UPDATE: Battlezone for Atari

I remember playing something like this too. It had a machine gun that shot out like a bunch of pryamids. I seem to remember playing it on Windows 98 or 95.