Ludography
Super Battletank cover

1992 · Imagineering · Simulation · Tank simulation

Super Battletank

Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf, is a tank simulation game. The Game Gear version is simply known as Super Battletank. Both versions were only released in North America.

Released
1992
Platforms
Game BoyGame GearSNESSega Genesis
Genres
SimulationTank simulation
Developers
Imagineering
Publishers
Absolute Entertainment
Series
Battletank
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First person
Themes
Action
Country
United States
Age ratings
ESRB E
Entry
#2 in Battletank

About

Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf is a 1992 tank simulation single-player video game developed and published by Absolute Entertainment for the SNES. Taking place during Operation Desert Storm, the player controls an M1 Abrams main battle tank for the United Nations. A sequel, Super Battletank 2, was released for the SNES in 1994.

Keywords

  • modern warfare
  • vehicular combat
  • gulf war
  • tank
  • vehicle combat
  • box art - real photos
  • modern military
  • super-ness

Media

Super Battletank screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The player battles helicopter gunships, T-72s, and Scud launchers, in pursuit of a military victory. The player had to use only M1 Abrams tank to play.

Reception

Super Gamer reviewed the SNES version and gave an overall score of 54%. They praised the graphics, but called the gameplay as "repetitive".

Nintendo Power reviewed the SNES version and gave middling score, citing its lack of strategy.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Sega Genesis31 December 1992North America
SNES31 December 1992North America
Game Gear31 December 1992North America
Game Boy31 December 1994North America

In the same series

Games like this

Collections4 collections

Platform libraries

Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.