BATTLE CITY · CHALLENGE OF 2026-09-17

HOW THE DAY WENT

Thursday, September 17 brought BATTLE CITY, at level 2, and 36 people played.

DELTA KRAKEN won by a street with 500 points, 200 more than POLINOMIOS in second. VOLT HIDRA #2 rounds out the podium with 200.

Among the top 10, the average was 130 points, and 4 finished on zero.

THE SCREEN

It started on screen 2 of the 3 that BATTLE CITY has; clearing it leads on to the rest, in an order that depends on the day. It was played at level 2, with the same seed for everyone: the same enemies and the same pieces in the same order.

THE MUSIC

Marcha Radetzky, Johann Strauss (padre), 1848.

A military march now played every year at the end of the Vienna New Year's Concert, with the audience clapping along.

It is in the public domain, transcribed to chiptune with square and triangle waves, the way it would sound on an Atari 2600.

ABOUT TODAY'S GAME

You defend your base from endless waves of tanks. Brick breaks to gunfire (yours included), steel does not, and water stops tanks while letting bullets through.

Three tank types: basic grey, fast white from wave 2 and heavy green from wave 3, which takes three bullets. Most head straight for the base, shooting their way in.

· You lose the same whether they kill you or the base. And the base does not respawn: when in doubt between chasing a tank and going home, go home.

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