Turbo Tanks is completely addicting shooting game fun inspired by an old game called Armor attack and also available for Vectrex, a vector graphics console! .

Turbo Tanks is great tank fighting fun featuring excellent computer AI. Can you get all the way to level 15 and defeat two enemy tanks at a time?

Top-view shoot-out. Succinctly summarised up by “It’s fun!”, this is a 1- or 2-player tank battle for anyone who still hasn’t quite got the hang of all those complicated “Rope” controls in Tank Mania.

So, there are only ever two tanks on the screen, but there’s a range of different battlefields made all the more intriguing by the fact that you can bounce your bullets off the walls. The retro graphics are spot-on, the computer’s a surprisingly tough opponent, and the sound effects minimal enough that you can play your favourite military music CDs (or anti-war protest songs) in the background.

Controls: Arrow keys to steer, Ctrl (or Enter) to fire (player one), A, D, W, S to steer, Shift to fire (player two).
Tips & hints: You can take about 10 hits (indicated by the health which counts down from 100), so it’s always worth firing off the maximum 5 bullets (the blobs above the numbers) if you’ve lined up a decent shot.

Build up your bonus lives by taking as few hits from enemy tanks as possible.

Find a good position to take enemy tanks out from. Do not stand still, keep your tank mobile within that good position. Abandon a position if overwhelmed. Move forward when firing and then reverse away after firing when appropriate.

Keep constant fire to keep the enemy off balance. When you fire, turn your tank slightly while letting a volley 5 shots to get a wide range and maximum chance of a hit. The computer tanks can’t as easily avoid a wide volley of shots.

Use angle shots to your advantage. Try to trap enemy tanks in bad positions where shots will richochet all about them and take many hits.

Play now online: http://www.turbotanks.com/

Play also offline: Download Turbo Tanks (windows only)

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