![]() Over the past decade, the American armed forces have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advanced gaming technologies that allow military trainers to embed soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in increasingly realistic environments. ![]() While virtual training does not replace actual field training, the military believes serious gaming is a useful educational tool. Although Atari’s effort yielded only a few prototype systems, their work planted the seed for future use of electronic military training aids. Could a video game be used to train American tank crews during the height of the Cold War? Soon the army took an unprecedented step and commissioned Atari to design and build a combat simulator for gunners manning the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. ![]() Its highly realistic play became a smash hit and quickly caught the attention of both gamers and the US Army. Battlezone Screenshot from Cornell Student ProjectĪtari released their 1980 cabinet arcade game Battlezone, a vector-based product viewed through a 3-D first-person perspective. ![]()
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