The deluxe cabinets features a pneumatic haptic control that simulates the recoil effect from the tank's main gun.

[4] Arrows on top the screen help determine teammate from opponent because twenty tanks are rushing down the battlefield looking for an easy kill.

Games can be played either as a competition with human players on both sides or cooperatively on the same team against AI-controlled opponents.

[7] In 2010, Ron Alpert of Gamasutra believed that Tokyo Wars was one of Namco's most-impressive arcade games at the time, writing that it "dragged the genre kicking and screaming into the new generation with a much more arresting presentation."

[4] In 2009, Namco Bandai Games produced a spiritual successor to Tokyo Wars, titled Tank!

features many of the same mechanics and concepts established in Tokyo Wars, focusing primarily on the co-operative play and destroying larger boss enemies.