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Warlords
Think of it as Pong to the death. Two to four players hurl a fireball
(multiple fireballs as the game progresses)
around the playing field, smashing the walls to each other's castles and -
hopefully - hitting the other players' kings and putting them out of commission.
Your launcher doubles as a mobile barrier around your castle which bounces the
fireball right back at your curiously Vader-esque opponents.
(Atari, 1980)
Far more famous at home on the Atari VCS than it was in the arcades, Warlords
was a really fun game with the right group of friends (or friendly enemies).
I've only ever seen one machine, and it was a cocktail table (or, to use less
industry-specific jargon, a "sit-down") version - and now that I
think about it, it seems like Warlords would have been a bit difficult
to pull off as an upright cabinet.
On the VCS, Warlords was interpreted as a kind of four-player
Breakout death match, ditching the vaguely more medieval graphics of
the coin-op.
Rating: 
A whole dollar - trade it in for more quarters, you'll be playing this
game a lot.
Reviewed by Earl Green
theLogBook.com editor/webmaster
 
 
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