Sound BGM

- You can disconnect internet after running game.


Operation

- Operation
Key Action Explanation
UP

I
LEFT

J
DOWN

K
RIGHT

L
Move Try IJKL keys if arrow-keys do not work well.
Z Shoot Hold to charge.
SHIFT
or C
Hold barrel Hold barrel and can shoot to the direction.
0 Toggle
holding barrel
Toggle mode on/off.
Z Decide  
R Reset  
P Pause  
ESC Quit  


- Settings
Key/th> Action
7 Sound on/off
8 BGM on/off

About this game

"The Tank" is shooting game which has 7 stages.

The black block is the entrance into boss's room. It opens after you beat some enemies. If you can beat the boss, you beat that stage.

Tanks

You can choose a tank before a stage starts. The tanks have different weapon, and these are effective/not effective to each stage's boss.
If you feel difficult, try different tank.

And the tanks becomes more powerful after you beat particular stage each.

Here is the list of tanks.

NamePowerSpeedMax EnergyEtc
Tanknormalslowhigh
Buggyweakthe fastestlow
Bigthe strongestthe slowestthe highestfor hard-core gamer
Manthe weakestnormalnormalfor hard-core gamer
Starstrongfastnormalfor beginner

Items

A part of enemies drop items like that.

The letter shows the item's effect. Here is the list of items.

LetterEffect
eget energy (little)
Eget energy
Afull energy
Sspeed up
Dpower down
Cquick charge
Mmax energy up

Others

The limit of easy mode
In the easy mode, your power becomes twice, but you can only play 5 stages and you cannot see an ending.

Penalty of continue
If your tank got destroyed, you can select "continue" and can continue from the stage you were defeated, but the destroyed tank's energy is 1.


History

2014/12/27 Ver2.0.0
  - Port to JavaScript.
2012/08/05 Ver1.1.7
  - Modify for Java7.
2006/04/25 Ver1.1.6
  - Adjust game speed.
2003/12/29 Ver1.1.5
  - Modify font.
2003/05/14 Ver1.1.4
  - Adjust enemy's initial position to avoid hitting my tank.
2001/12/09 Ver1.1.3
  - Bug fix: a bullet comes from strange direction after switching map.
2001/11/30 Ver1.1.2
  - Make the BGM plays still you use Java2 unsupported browser.
2001/10/24 Ver1.1.1
  - Fix bug of stage 6 boss.
2001/10/20 Ver1.1.0
  - Add BGM and sound.
2001/05/26 Ver1.0.7
  - Including data files to source code to speed up initialize.
2000/09/27 Ver1.0.6
  - Improve operation.
2000/09/11 Ver1.0.5
  - Merge normal and easy mode.
- Adjust max bullets.
2000/05/05 Ver1.0.4
  - Add easy mode.
- Expand "Max Energy Up" effect to all tanks at one time.
2000/04/20 Ver1.0.3
  - Make easier.
2000/02/14 Ver1.0.2
  - Improve whole processing.
- Fix bug: initialize tank's speed after beating stage.
- Fix a part of action of bosses.
- Fix ending bug.
2000/02/08 Ver1.0
  - Release.

Materials

This program uses materials from the below sites. Thank them for their work.

- BGM
From this site.
Distributor Material
Masaharu Asahi "LAST DANCE" (EndingXG.mid)
Takayuki Amanuma TRACK_5.mid
Koichi Sakita "Aerobatics" (int01.mid)
"Ground beat" (int03.mid)
"Prarel Dream" (int02.mid)
Daisuke Shiiba "March Step By Step" (step.mid)
Naohiro Takahara "Cocktail Party" (C_PARTY.mid)
Mao Hamamoto "Good to GO" (GM001.mid)
"It's a dream" (GM004.mid)