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Three simple games, but fun. An analogue of Atari's Combat?

Graphics: 2 Sound: 2 Replay Value: 4 Notes: 1- or 2-player game (really 2-player) Screen Shots

Without a doubt, if you're familiar with Intellivision history, you already have been indoctrinated that the Biplanes game in Triple Action is the reason to get this game. I agree. We played that almost exclusively. It's a blast! The other two games, a car racer and a tank battle, are OK.

In Biplanes, you duke it out with your opponent in a battle for supremacy in the skies. The graphics are simple, and control is a bit tough, but the physics are fun, and it's that that makes this game so fun. The various ways you can lose control of your plane, and the aerobatic maneuvers that you can accomplish make this cart worth owning.

The Racing Cars game is clearly the weakest game of this triad. You and your (optional) opponent simply race down a straightaway and dodge traffic. The graphics are probably the best of the three, but it is a dull game.

Of course no system is complete without it's own version of Combat. In this case, it's called Battle Tanks, and it's a passable game. Perhaps I should be ashamed to admit it, but I've always rather liked Combat - type games, so I find this game enjoyable. Because it's faster paced than Armor Battle, it's perhaps better than that game from an action standpoint - but not in terms of strategy.

A total of seven Triple Action box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	3760-0910	1981	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3760-0910	1981	Hong Kong	Plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3760-0510	1981	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada on back
	Mattel Electronics	3760-0410	1981	Hong Kong	International Edition; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
	Intellivision Inc.	3760	1981	U.S.A.	Standard Intellivision, Inc. box
	Sears	5403-0910	1981	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; blue game title on top and back; game title on top of box rotated 180 deg. compared to the standard case
	Digiplay	N/A	1982	Brazil	Mattel Electronics logo on box; no part number apparent; © Mattel Inc. 1982 on front; trayless pocket; manual and overlays in separate slots; note the erroneous © 1981, 1982 Data East Inc. copyright on the front!

A total of ten Triple Action manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	3760-0920	1981	U.S.A.	Brown, blue and white artwork
	Mattel Electronics	3760-0920	1981	Hong Kong	Brown, blue and white artwork
	Mattel Electronics	3760-0920	1981	Hong Kong	Blue and grey artwork
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3760-0720	1981	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; blue and grey artwork
	Mattel Electronics	3760-6003	1981	Hong Kong	International Edition; blue and grey artwork; English, German, Italian, Spanish and French
	Mattel Electronics	3760-0121	1981	Hong Kong	German; brown and blue artwork
	Mattel Electronics	3760-0151	None		Swedish translation by LEAB; black and white manual only; shrinkwrapped to what I suspect is a still shrinkwrapped box - no copyright date or origin visible
	Intellivision Inc.	3760-0920	None	U.S.A.	Accordian-style folding; origin on front cover, as well as All Rights Reserved.—which is usually removed from I.I. manuals
	Sears	5403-0920	1981	U.S.A.
	Digiplay	N/A	1979	Brazil	No part number apparent; © M.I. 1979 on back

A total of two Triple Action overlay variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	mattel	3760-4289	1981	U.S.A.
	digiplay	N/A	1981		Localized in Brazilian Portuguese

A total of five Triple Action label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	U.S.A.	Origin upper right; ™ upper right; small label, rounded corners; submitted by Hankster
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	U.S.A.	Origin upper right; ™ upper right; large label, slightly rounded corners
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	Hong Kong	Origin upper right; ™ upper right
	Intellivision Inc.	N/A	1981	U.S.A.	Origin lower right; © I.I. 1981 to left of origin; ™ small, centered vertically on right edge; smaller label, rounded corners
	Digiplay	N/A	None		Digiplay version; ™ upper right; large red label, rounded corners

	Title screen for Triple Action.
	Actually, Battle Tanks is quite a bit of fun. Nice number of variations to give you your dose of Combat on the Intellivision.
	This 'game' seems like filler material, really.
	Triple Action is worth getting just for this game. Some may argue that an Intellivision is worth getting just for this game! We had a blast just flying around. Truly, one of the defining games for the Intellivision, simply because it is so frickin' fun!

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