Armor Attack

Armor Attack is a multidirectional shooter designed by Tim Skelly and released as an arcade video game by Cinematronics in 1980.

The vector graphics of Armor Attack present combat between the player's jeep and enemy vehicles in an overhead, maze-like view of a town.

The tanks always travel along horizontal or vertical lines, unlike the freely moving jeep.

The helicopter spawns from any point, and approaches the player in looping paths flying over the jeep and periodically firing.

David H. Ahl of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games praised the "amazing realism" of the enemy helicopter in the Vectrex version.

The visuals are stark without the monitor overlay.