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NES gamepad:

Gamepad control:
	Player 1:	Player 2:
↑	↑	-
↓	↓	-
←	←	-
→	→	-
A	X	-
B	Z	-
SELECT	Shift	-
START	Enter	-

Emulation speed:

If the game emulation is slow, try to speed it up by reloading this page without ads or choose another emulator from this table.

Other platforms:

This game can be played also in a version for Game Boy. We are working on the others.

Game info:

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box cover

Game title:

Battle City

Console:

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

Author (released):

Namco (1985)

Genre:

Action, Shooter

Mode:

Multiplayer

Design:

Ryoichi Ohkubo, Takefumi Hyoudou, Dempa Shimbunsha

Music:

Junko Ozawa, Norihiko Togashi

Game manual:

not available

Download:

not available (stream only)

Game size:

24 kB

Recommended emulator:

FCEUX

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Battle City is a multi-directional shooter video game for the Family Computer produced and published in 1985 by Namco. It is a successor to Namco's 1980 Tank Battalion, and would be succeeded itself by the 1991 Tank Force. An arcade version for the Nintendo VS. System would follow, and the game would eventually end up in the Japanese version of Star Fox Assault (a Namco-produced game). There was also a related Game Boy game of the same name.
The player, controlling a tank, must destroy enemy tanks in each level, which enter the playfield from the top of the screen. The enemy tanks attempt to destroy the player's base (represented on the map as a bird, eagle or Phoenix), as well as the human tank itself. A level is completed when the player destroys all

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Battle City (NES version)

20 enemy Tanks, but the game ends if the player's base is destroyed or the player loses all available lives.
Battle City contains 35 different stages that are 13 units wide by 13 units high. Each map contains different types of terrain and obstacles. Examples include brick walls that can be destroyed by having either the player's Tank or an enemy Tank shoot at them, steel walls that can be destroyed by the player if he has collected three or more power-up stars, bushes that hide Tanks under them, ice fields that make it difficult to control Tank and pools of water which cannot be crossed by Tanks. There are four progressively harder types of enemy Tanks. The game becomes more challenging in later levels, as enemy Tanks may act as decoys to lure players away from their base so that another Tank can destroy it. In addition, flashing Tanks could be destroyed for power-ups. There are several types of power-ups: Tank symbol gives an extra life, star improves player's Tank (having one star make shots faster, having two stars allow two simultaneous shots, having three stars allow the player to destroy steel), bomb destroys all visible enemy Tanks, clock freezes all enemy Tanks for a period of time, shovel adds steel walls around the base for a period of time and shield makes player's Tank invulnerable to attack for a period of time. Battle City was one of the earlier games to allow two players to play simultaneously. Both players have to defend the base together, and if one player shoots the other, the friendly fire victim would be unable to move for a while (but can still shoot). It was also one of the first NES games to allow players access to an edit mode where they could create custom levels, though these custom levels cannot be saved unlike in similar modes such as the one in Excitebike. The Game Boy version is more challenging, as the screen is too small to display the whole map and only enough to display one part of it; for this reason, a radar was added.

More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.org.

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Game controls:

The NES version of Battle City was originally controlled via the NES controller with a cross-shaped joypad and two action buttons. The basic description of game controls is summarized in the table below. Detailed description of how to play this game can be found a in the attached game manual. Please note that individual gamepad buttons are emulated by different keys on your PC keyboard depending on the settings of your online emulator (see the table next to the game).

	Use the D-pad to direct your tank in any one of four directions. Diagonals are not possible.
	Press A or B button to fire in the direction your tank is currently facing.
	Same function as button A.
	Press Select on the title screen menu to select between a one or two player game.
	Use to start the game. Press during play to pause. Press again to resume play.

Videogame Console:

This version of Battle City was designed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), which was an eight-bit video game console manufactured by Nintendo in the years 1983 - 2003. In that time, it was the best-selling video game console for which more than 700 licensed games and a number of non-licensed games were created. Worldwide, approximately 62 million units of this console were sold at approximately price $ 100 per unit. More information about the NES console can be found here.

Recommended Game Controllers:

You can control this game easily by using the keyboard of your PC (see the table next to the game). However, for maximum gaming enjoyment, we strongly recommend using a USB gamepad that you simply plug into the USB port of your computer. If you do not have a gamepad, buy a suitable USB controller on Amazon or AliExpress or in some of your favorite online stores.

Available online emulators:

6 different online emulators are available for Battle City. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game Battle City are summarized in the following table:

Emulator	Technology	Multiplayer	USB gamepad	Touchscreen	Without ads
EmulatorJS	JavaScript	YES	YES	YES	YES
NeptunJS	JavaScript	YES	YES	NO	NO
NesBox	Flash	NO	YES	NO	YES
RetroGames.cc	JavaScript	YES	YES	YES	NO
vNES	Java applet	YES	NO	NO	YES
Emulatrix	JavaScript	NO	NO	NO	YES

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