3D Tanx

{{Short description|1982 video game}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{refimprove|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox video game |title = 3D Tanx |image = 3D Tanx Cover.jpg |developer = |publisher = DK'Tronics |designer = Don Priestley |released = 1982 |genre = Shoot 'em up |modes = Single-player |platforms = ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro }}

'''''3D Tanx''''' is a shoot 'em up video game written by Don Priestley and published by DK'Tronics in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005140|title=3D Tanx|work=World of Spectrum}}</ref> Commodore 64,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lemon64.com/?game_id=3660|title=3D Tanx|work=Lemon64}}</ref> and BBC Micro.

==Gameplay== The aim of the game is to shoot tanks moving across a bridge, shown in the distance into the screen. The player aims a gun turret by adjusting its rotation and elevation, this being the '3D' aspect of the game. Skill and timing is required to strike the tanks.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Sinclair User|issue=14|url=http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/014/softwre.htm|title=3D Tanx review|access-date=30 June 2007|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913010446/http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/014/softwre.htm|archive-date=13 September 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Reception== ''Crash'' magazine wrote, "The graphics are very good and so is the sound," and concluded,"...and at the price, excellent value."<ref>{{cite journal|journal=CRASH|url=http://www.crashonline.org.uk/03/lguide13.htm|title=3D Tanx review|issue=3}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:3D Tanx}} Category:1982 video games Category:BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games Category:Commodore 64 games Category:DK'Tronics games Category:Shoot 'em ups Category:Single-player video games Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom Category:ZX Spectrum games