L0pht Heavy Industries inherited a full-size Battlezone arcade game a few years back. At one time, it worked fairly well, randomly losing power once in a while. Eventually, the whole thing just stopped working, and acted as a decoration piece. I have taken it upon myself to fix this fine vector-graphics based machine.







Here is the front view of the game. Our machine has the footstand and viewfinder (for true tank simulation!). The controls are a bit flaky, so replacements may be necessary (possibly just potentiometers). The front marquee and side graphics are in fairly good shape.











Here is the logic board as seen from the back of the Battlezone. It consists of two boards (as you can see here), mostly TTL ICs but also a Z-80 microprocessor and 8 EPROMs.











Here is the power supply board (lower-right) and the coin-mechanism (middle). There isn't much to see here, but I put this up so you can see what makes up this beast. The piece of paper taped to the back are various DIP-switch settings for different types of gameplay.







Recently, I have re-seated all the socketed IC's on the boards, and the game functions well. When time allows, I will be doing a Battlezone permanent high score fix. This upgrade will allow Battlezone high scores to be remembered while the machine is switched off.


LINKS

The Atari Arcade Game Page The ultimate page for information on Atari arcade games. Includes an on-line Battlezone manual, Battlezone ROM images, and PC Board pinouts.


Classic Video Game Emulator. Works with Battlezone ROMS. Useful for testing EPROMS of your Battlezone arcade game.


Atari 2600 Battlezone manual




Last update occurred on 10/3/97 at 12:25am




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