With superior arcade hardware powering this game, there's a lot of colors and different settings for each stage, bosses at certain levels, and music playing over stages there's even a stage theme that starts with the Battle City's jingle into an entirely new song! While the addition of bosses and increased density of enemies can make the game much more challenging than its predecessor, all the classic power-ups are back (and now spawn randomly at any point) along with three new power-ups: A wave gun that can go through walls, a missile launcher that makes more damage to bosses (and one-shots light armored tanks), and a power-up that makes you smaller and faster.Įnemies will now always spawn from both the top and the side borders of the screen, and the assistance of a second player might be vital in order to avoid the base being destroyed. However, Namco made an arcade exclusive sequel to Battle City (only recently ported to Switch in 2017 as part of Namco Museum) called Tank Force, and it definitely feels like Battle City but with a lot of new additions and enemies, like fast cars that drop dynamite and huge tanks with armor. As I recently reviewed Battle City for the NES, often known due to its appearance in bootleg NES carts (mainly the Polystation, which is a PS1-shaped bootleg NES with several cartridges in one popular in Latin America), it definitely feels like one of those not that popular yet very fondly remembered by those that knew of this game.