Barrage
Group: Multiplayer • Author: DJ Sures
Created 2026-11-13 • Updated 2026-11-13Turn-based tank artillery for 1-4 NABUs. Aim, set the power, buy ammo from the menu (nukes, MIRVs, rollers, dirt bombs...) with money earned from hits and kills, and blow craters in the hills. Join any time.
You can find Barrage in the Multiplayer category. To run this, look in the Internet Adapter or Headless menu on the NABU/MAME and navigate to the Multiplayer channel category and select Barrage.
Barrage is turn-based tank artillery for 1 to 4 NABUs. Tanks sit on a range of hills. Take turns setting your barrel's angle and your shot's power, pick your ammo from the menu along the bottom, and fire. Shells fly in an arc, the wind pushes them, and every explosion blows a crater in the ground. A tank whose ground gets blown away falls, and gets hurt. The last tank standing wins the round. Then the hills change and the next round starts, and your money carries over.
Money and ammo
You earn $1 for every point of damage you do to someone else, $300 for every tank you destroy, and $250 for winning a round. The ammo menu along the bottom shows every type with its price. Picking ammo pays for it straight away, and picking something else refunds it. Ammo you can't afford is greyed out.
| Ammo | Price | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| SHOT | free | A plain shell |
| BIG | $40 | A bigger blast |
| TRI | $120 | Three shells at once, fanned out |
| ROLL | $80 | Lands, rolls downhill, then goes off |
| DIRT | $60 | A mound of dirt: build a wall, or bury someone |
| DRIL | $90 | Digs into the ground before it explodes |
| MIRV | $250 | Splits into five at the top of its flight |
| NUKE | $400 | Enormous |
Controls (on your turn)
- Left / Right: turn the barrel
- Up / Down: shot power (hold for faster)
- 1 to 8: pick your ammo
- SPACE: fire
- Joystick: hold FIRE and push left / right to pick ammo, tap FIRE to shoot
- ESC: leave the battle
You get 30 seconds per turn.
Multiplayer
Up to 4 players. Join any time: you watch the battle in progress and get a tank from the next round on. If you're alone, a computer tank fights you until someone joins. Every NABU simulates every shot itself with the same integer physics, so the craters, damage and money are identical on every machine. If the host leaves, the battle carries on.
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