{{short description|1982 video game}} {{Refimprove|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox video game |title = Tac/Scan |image = TacScan_G80_NA_flyer.jpg |caption = North American arcade flyer |developer = Sega Electronics |publisher = Sega |designer = Michael Hendricks<br>Brian Millar |engine = |platforms = Arcade, Atari 2600 |released = '''Arcade'''{{vgrelease|NA|September 1982<ref name="Akagi">{{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005) |date=13 October 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |language=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |pages=35, 131 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n131/mode/2up}}</ref>|JP|November 1982<ref name="Akagi"/>}} '''2600'''{{vgrelease|NA|March 1983<ref>{{cite news |title=Availability Update |url=https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/0dccd3dd-1a17-4e55-8920-b64b17f1876c |work=The Video Game Update |volume=2 |issue=1 |date=April 1983 |page=16}}</ref>}} |genre = Space combat simulator |modes = Single-player }} '''''Tac/Scan''''' (夕ック/スキャン) is a 1982 space combat simulator video game developed by Sega Electronics and published by Sega for arcades.<ref name="Arcade">{{cite web|url=https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=445|title=Tac/Scan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101010101/https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=445|archive-date=2014-01-01|url-status=dead|website=AllGame}}</ref> An Atari 2600 version was released in 1983.<ref name="Atari">{{cite web|url=https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=8260|title=Tac/Scan (Atari 2600)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101010101/https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=8260|archive-date=2014-01-01|url-status=dead|website=AllGame}}</ref>
The game uses 3D vector graphics<ref name="Arcade"/> that switch between overhead and third-person perspectives.<ref name="KLOV">{{KLOV game|id=10007|name=Tac/Scan}}</ref> The player commands seven units in squadron formation through waves of attacking enemies; the player can gain reserve units, while being able to command the units to perform various actions, including firing at enemies, getting into formation, or a "tac" maneuver.
''Tac/Scan'' is an unlockable game in the PlayStation 2 version of ''Sega Genesis Collection''.
==Gameplay== thumb|left|Title screen
The game starts with seven individual ships in play. The ships can be lost in any of the three stages by hitting a tunnel, getting shot, or colliding with an enemy, the laser-firing Ahmins composing the superfleet from the planet of Ahm. The player is able to "collect" and earn the ships back as the game progresses. The squadron can drop down to one ship in the game, but still have four "back-up" ships. If the final ship in play is lost, however, the game is over (even if the player has unused "back-up" ships). This is different from other games that give the player ships sequentially.
In the first stage, the player pilots their ships through waves of attacking enemies. The player can either fire upon them, or "tac" their ships around them. The second stage is much like the first, except that it is from a 3-D third-person perspective from behind the player's ships. In the third stage, the player pilots their ships down a space warp tunnel, and will lose any ships that touch the side of the tunnel.
== Reception == In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Tac/Scan'' as the 22nd most successful table arcade unit of June 1983.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)|magazine=Game Machine|issue=215|publisher=Amusement Press, Inc.|date=1 July 1983|page=29|lang=ja}}</ref>
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== External links == *[https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=tac/scan&page=detail&id=2810 ''Tac/Scan''] at Arcade History *{{KLOV game|10007|Tac/Scan}}
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