Talk:Combat (video game)

Telestar Combat
Should the Telestar Combat! be described in Telestar Combat! instead of here? Doesn't everyone assume that 'video game' + 'combat' equals Atari 2600 Combat?
 * Article is at Telstar Combat!. 2fort5r (talk) 01:36, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Combat Authors
Just to correct Bumm13's claim, according to this interview with Joe (as well as my talks with him), Combat originated with Steve Mayer as a port of Atari's Tank game for a proof of concept. Joe debugged it and rewrote the core of the tank demo in the process. Larry Wagner then came in as project manager/lead programmer for the Combat project (team of 4) that included Kaplan. In fact, Wagner signed the 20th anniversary certificate for Stella (the 2600 code name) as "Larry Wagner - original head of 1st group of programmers who completed Combat and wrote the number-crunching part of Video Chess." --Marty Goldberg 04:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Wii Play
This game was re-made in Wii Play. Can this be put into both this article and Wii Play? -dogman15 05:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * The Wii's is a game called Tank (which is actually the name of the original Atari arcade game). Unless there's a direct claimed correlation, I'm not sure it really belongs here. --Marty Goldberg 06:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Coleco Mention Top of Article
As someone looking for information on the Atari 2600 game Combat, I found the following quote, "Earlier in 1977, Coleco had released the similarly titled Telstar Combat!, an entry in its Telstar series of dedicated consoles," distracting and unrelated to the rest of the narrative. As I know absolutely nothing about this game or the Coleco game, I am suggesting that while this line may or may not be of value to the article, it certainly does not fit as the fourth sentence. --Crusher1 (talk) 21:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Good graphics for 2k game
I must admit from personal experiance, for a 2k Atari 2600 game, the graphics are quite good. mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool (talk) 18:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)


 * No joy on wether or not Combat has good graphics for a 2k game? If anyone has any give us a bell asap. mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool (talk) 19:32, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Tron
The tank sections of this are very similar to the tank subgame from Tron (video game) from 1982. Was the Tron game also based on "Tank" from 1974? 2fort5r (talk) 01:34, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Gameplay Section
Hi all,

I just wanted your thoughts on making some changes to the wording. I don't have a background with this game, so maybe someone else can help. It strikes me that some of the phrasing (and part of that may be on me as the copyeditor who worked on the section) could stand to be cleaned up a bit. In the Tanks subsection, we have this phrasing:

"Ammunition is dependent on the chosen level and includes straight missiles, guided missiles, and "Tank Pong," in which the shots bounce off the walls, with variations upon whether a direct hit can strike opponents or if a strike requires a billiard hit to count."

I think this could be split into two sentences, firstly, but I don't feel comfortable doing that as the way the original portion of the article was written is a touch unclear and I'd hate to change the meaning. It seems from the description that it isn't really accurate to call the ammunition differences different levels but separate game modes, and it sounds like each game mode can use the same set of maps (levels). What are your thoughts?

Cheers, --JoshuaLeach16 (talk) 19:16, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Re-write
I've been on an Atari 2600 kick and have re-written this article out to follow more with Manual of Style/Video games. If there are any major mistakes or other items, please feel free to edit. But I generally think it is an improvement. Andrzejbanas (talk) 05:49, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Infogrames Combat (2001)
In the legacy section, is it worth mentioning Infogrames' reboot of Combat? I also noticed the 2001 reboot doesn't have a page. ThomasTheWest (talk) 16:21, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Possibly! Can we dig up some information about the game? I wasn't familiar with it until now. Andrzejbanas (talk) 19:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)