Aurail

Game Details:

• ✅ Dual-Stick Controls: Left stick moves the tank, right stick controls turret direction (a design ahead of its time)
• ✅ Strategic Combat: Capture strongholds, produce units, manage resources, blending RTS elements
• ✅ Multi-Unit Coordination: Command different units like tanks, helicopters, jeeps, and more
• ✅ Realistic Ballistic Physics: Shells are affected by gravity, requiring predictive aiming

Players control a high-tech tank on a battlefield with an overhead view:

1. Capture Strongholds → Produce Additional Combat Units
2. Collect Energy → Strengthen Main Base Defenses
3. Annihilate Enemy Forces → Including tanks, turrets, aerial units, etc.
4. Challenge BOSSES → Ultimate mechanical fortresses in each level

Editor's Recommendation:

"Aurail" is an arcade masterpiece released in 1990, perfectly combining real-time strategy and tank shooting. Its innovative dual-stick operation makes combat full of tactical depth, and the gameplay of capturing strongholds even predates "Command & Conquer." The game's graphics were extremely refined at the time, and the explosion effects and physical feedback were amazing. Although it is quite difficult, reasonable resource management and multi-unit cooperation can bring a great sense of achievement.