Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf

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Description

In February 1991, The United States of America sent troops into Kuwait and fought in armed combat against the forces of Iraq. Operation Desert Storm featured many different types of units including mobile armor. The M1 Abrams tank division is deployed in a variety of missions to destroy marked Iraqi targets.

Super Battletank: War in the Gulf is a 1st person tank simulation. Players sit in the cockpit of a M1 Abrams tank. Controls allow the player to accelerate forward, decelerate, rotate the tank's trajectory left and right, move the tank's cannon left and right, fire the weapon and check the map. The goal of the player is to travel to the location of enemy targets, line them up with the Abrams cannon and fire upon them until destroyed. Each mission covers a large area of land and the player will need to consult the real-time map to travel appropriately to target locations. The M1 Abrams tank also features 2 special weapons: The laser which is more powerful than regular cannon, and the smoke screen which allows the player to escape.

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Alternate Titles

• "Super Battletank" -- Game Boy / Game Gear title
• "スーパーバトルタンク" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Game with creator's name
• Garry Kitchen's Battletank series
• Historical Conflict: Persian Gulf War
• Setting: 1990s
• Tank: M1 Abrams

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Critic Reviews

GamePro (US)	Game Gear	Jun, 1994	4 out of 5	80
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	SNES	Aug, 1992	9 out of 12	75
Game Players	Game Boy	Apr, 1994	73 out of 100	73
FLUX	Game Boy	Apr, 1994	7 out of 10	70
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	SNES	Jun, 1992	27 out of 40	68
N-Force	SNES	Aug, 1992	57 out of 100	57
Video Games	SNES	Jul, 1993	56 out of 100	56
Play Time	Genesis	Feb, 1993	49 out of 100	49
Total! (Germany)	Game Boy	Jan, 1996	4 out of 6	40
The Video Game Critic	Game Gear	Nov 09, 2003	D-	16

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Trivia

References to the game

In the 1992 movie "Toys", the game that General Leland Zevo stops to play at the arcade game that contains many graphical similarities to Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf (which was never released as an arcade game), though customized to apply to the plot of the movie (for instance Super Battletank does not contain any UN Aid Trucks, or even a score counter). It's interesting to note too that Super Battletank's publisher, Absolute Entertainment was also involved in the videogame adaptations of that same movie, Toys.