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{{short description|Space combat color vector shooter arcade game from 1982}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Tac/Scan
|image = TacScan_G80_NA_flyer.jpg
|developer = [[Gremlin Industries|Sega Electronics]]
|publisher = [[Sega]]
|designer = Michael Hendricks<br>Brian Millar
|engine =
|released = '''Arcade''' {{vgrelease|NA|April 7, 1982}} '''Atari 2600''' {{vgrelease|NA|July 10, 1983}} '''PS2''' {{vgrelease|NA|November 16, 2006}}
|genre = [[Shooter game|Shooter]], [[Space flight simulator game|space combat]]
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
|platforms = [[Arcade video game|Arcade]], [[Atari 2600]], [[PlayStation 2]]
}}
'''''Tac/Scan''''' (夕ック/スキャン) is a [[Space flight simulator game|space combat]] [[Shooter game|shooter]] released as an [[arcade video game]] in 1982.<ref name="Arcade">{{cite web|url=https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=445|title=Tac/Scan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101010101/https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=445|archive-date=2014-01-01|url-status=dead|website=[[All Media Network#AllGame|AllGame]]}}</ref> It was developed by [[Gremlin Industries|Sega Electronics]]<ref name="SegaRetro"/> (formerly Gremlin Industries) and published by [[Sega]].<ref name="Atari">{{cite web|url=https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=8260|title=Tac/Scan (Atari 2600)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101010101/https://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=8260|archive-date=2014-01-01|url-status=dead|website=[[All Media Network#AllGame|AllGame]]}}</ref> An [[Atari 2600]] version was released in 1983.

The game uses 3D [[vector graphics]]<ref name="Arcade"/> that switch between [[Overhead perspective|overhead]] and [[Third-person shooter|third-person perspective]]s.<ref name="KLOV">{{KLOV game|id=10007|name=Tac/Scan}}</ref> The player commands seven units in [[Squadron (aviation)|squadron]] formation through waves of attacking enemies; the player can gain reserve units, while being able to command the units to perform various actions, including firing at enemies, getting into [[Formation (military)|formation]], or a "tac" maneuver.<ref name="Atari"/><ref name="KLOV"/>

''Tac/Scan'' is an unlockable game in the [[PlayStation 2]] version of ''[[Sega Genesis Collection]]''.<ref name="SegaRetro">[http://segaretro.org/Tac/Scan Tac/Scan at SegaRetro]</ref>

==Gameplay==
[[File:TacScan intro screen.png|thumb|left|Title screen]]

The game starts with seven individual ships in play. The ships can be lost in any of the three stages by hitting a tunnel, getting shot, or colliding with an enemy, the [[laser]]-firing Ahmins composing the superfleet from the planet of Ahm. The player is able to "collect" and earn the ships back as the game progresses. The squadron can drop down to one ship in the game, but still have four "back-up" ships. If the final ship in play is lost, however, the game is over (even if the player has unused "back-up" ships). This is different from other games that give the player ships sequentially.

In the first [[level (computer and video games)|stage]], the player pilots their ships through [[wave]]s of attacking enemies. The player can either fire upon them, or "tac" their ships around them. The second stage is much like the first, except that it is from a 3-D third-person perspective from behind the player's ships. In the third stage, the player pilots their ships down a space warp tunnel, and will lose any ships that touch the side of the tunnel.

== Reception ==
In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Tac/Scan'' on their July 1, 1983 issue as being the twenty-second most-successful table arcade unit of the month.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)|magazine=[[:ja:ゲームマシン|Game Machine]]|issue=215|publisher=[[:ja:アミューズメント通信社|Amusement Press, Inc.]]|date=1 July 1983|page=29|lang=ja}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=tac/scan&page=detail&id=2810 ''Tac/Scan''] at Arcade History
*{{KLOV game|10007|Tac/Scan}}

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[[Category:1982 video games]]
[[Category:Arcade video games]]
[[Category:Vector arcade video games]]
[[Category:Atari 2600 games]]
[[Category:Gremlin Industries games]]
[[Category:Sega arcade games]]
[[Category:Shooter games]]
[[Category:Video games developed in the United States]]
[[Category:Single-player video games]]

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