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I found another site, new to me, and chock-full of flash games.  Free flash games, as usual, because that's my taste in internet entertainment.

The site is freearcade.com.  It's pretty darn cool.  A big plus for it, as far as I'm concerned, is the good organization.  The games on this site are neatly arranged in lists, by category.  I went right to the arcade games, and found one of my favorite games of all time.  I suck at, and always have, but it's sill fun.

It's called Battle Tank on this site, and the colors are better than I remember, but than again, I remember playing this game on an old Apple-II series computer in a college dorm room.

Battle Tank is a point-of-view game; it put you in the driver seat of a tank, driving around a virtual obstacle course of geometric shapes and enemy tanks.  You've got a small radar screen in upper left corner, showing where enemy tanks, and any missles, are in relation to you (you are always at the center of the radar screen; your "front" is shown by a triangle within the screen).  The object of the games is simple: drive around and blast the enemy tanks before they blast you.

This game really took me back to the 80s.  With its very retro, line drawing graphics, it almost feels like the movie Tron.  Even with that, it was still a pretty cool game, and definitely entertaining.