Battle City
| Battle City | |
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Famicom box art | |
| Developer | Namco |
| Publisher | Namco |
| Producer | Takefumi Hyoudou |
| Programmer | Ryoichi Ohkubo |
| Composer | Junko Ozawa |
| Platforms | Family Computer, Game Boy, Arcade, X1, FM-7, MZ-1500 |
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| Genre | Multidirectional shooter |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Nintendo VS. System |
Battle City is a 1985 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Namco for the Family Computer. Released only in Japan, it is the sequel to the arcade game Tank Battalion.
An arcade version for the Nintendo VS. System, titled VS. Battle City, would follow, along with a Game Boy version in 1991, which was developed and published by Nova Games. The Famicom version was later included as an unlockable in the Japanese release of Star Fox: Assault, and would eventually be digitally re-released via the Virtual Console for Wii and Wii U. The arcade version was released by Hamster Corporation as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on September 12, 2024.
Although the Famicom version was never officially released outside Japan, Battle City was one of the most common inclusions in unofficial famiclone multicarts.