Battle of Atlantis Arcade Nostalgia – Relive 1981 Shooter Action
1🕹 Game Name: Battle of Atlantis
📛 Alternate Names: Battlantis (Konami port name)
📅 Release Date: 1981
🔫 Genre: Horizontal Shooter
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Comsoft (Game World Manufacturing)
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Comsoft/Game World
🔢 Max Players: 2 (alternating)
⁉ Cooperative: No
🕹 Game Introduction:
Battle of Atlantis plunges you beneath the waves as you pilot a submarine to defend the legendary city of Atlantis from relentless enemy onslaughts.
🕹 Game Description:
This side-scrolling shooter challenges reflexes as you avoid terrain obstacles and hostile ships, rescuing Atlanteans and collecting power-ups to bolster your firepower.
🎴 Game Play:
👉 🏻 Joystick controls submarine’s horizontal and vertical movement across a scrolling seascape.
👉 🏻 Fire your primary cannon at approaching enemy vessels and avoid depth charges.
👉 🏻 Collect power-ups dropped by special arks for enhanced shot spread and temporary shields.
👉 🏻 Monitor oxygen gauge—resurface to replenish before it runs out.
📕 Background & History:
Launched in 1981 by Comsoft/Game World, Battle of Atlantis was built on Scramble hardware, offering an underwater twist on popular space shooters. Its unique subaquatic setting distinguished it among early 80s shooters.
🐣 Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs:
👉 🏻 Level‐skipping glitch: On stage transition, rapidly move off-screen at bottom edge to spawn ahead one level in MAME.
👉 🏻 Aim at ark carriers to drop power-ups; repeated hits on floating arks grant multiple shield boosts.
👉 🏻 Invisible collision bug: Ducking slightly under certain enemy sprites can let you pass unharmed momentarily.
🐱 💻 Hacks:
👉 🏻 Arcade DIP switches let operators adjust starting lives, difficulty and oxygen depletion rate.
👉 🏻 Custom PCB reworks exist to replace sprites with higher-contrast Atlantean iconography for modernization.
🎉 Trivia:
👉 🏻 Atlantis’s “Legendary City” theme plays only on attract mode; no in-game music aside from sound effects.
👉 🏻 Originally envisioned as a space shooter, developers pivoted to an undersea setting at final development, reworking art assets in one month.
👉 🏻 “Battlantis” was Konami’s unofficial port title used in Japanese arcades; code differences cause slight level-layout shifts.
👓 Lonster's Review:
Battle of Atlantis’s combination of time-pressure oxygen mechanics and emerging power-ups keeps every dive tense. Though controls feel floaty by modern standards, its unique underwater aesthetic still hooks me.
🌟 Legacy:
As one of the earliest horizontal shooters to adopt a nautical theme, it influenced later submersion shooters like “Aqua Jet” and provided a template for enviro-themed level design.
✨ Cultural Impact:
Its blend of mythology and shoot-’em-up action inspired peripheral merchandising—posters and mini-comics highlighting a heroic submarine commander became collector’s prizes in Japan.
💭 Lonster's Final Thoughts:
Battle of Atlantis delivers classic arcade shooter thrills with a distinctive undersea twist. A must-play for shooter purists seeking retro challenge and atmosphere.
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