Tank you

So after reading about Tank and probing the early games I thought I'd see what else Kee Games got up to in the 70's. From 1974 to 78 they released over a dozen games, at least 3 of them being Tank sequels. It doesn't get any better than that. Since Kee was actually Atari, the idea was that they would release almost identical games to double the market penetration.

For example Spike came out in 1974 and was their version of Atari's Rebound, a, you guessed it, volleyball game.

Also in 1974 Kee released Elimination, a four player Pong. Good god.

1974 was a watershed year for them with the release of Formula K and Twin Racer, their version of Atari's Gran Trak 10 and 20, a racing car game, another early game to use ROM chips.

Tank 2 came out in 1975 as a Kee Game but with clear connection to the Atari brand. Then Tank 3 and so one. The final version in 1978 was called Tank 8 , in colour!!, where up to 8 players could go at it at once. Sounds like the last thing you need in a bar is eight guys crowded around a machine shooting dots on a screen. Check out the screen above. Just add beer and it makes sense. Unfortunately I haven't been able to locate a picture of what the cabinet actually looked like.