We've had Galactic Tank Force (aka Space Tanks) in our rumor roundup and Hype Index for some time, and for those who follow the pinball industry closely, it wasn't exactly a well-kept secret that Galactic Tank Force was going to be American Pinball's next pin, their 5th overall and first major release since Hot Wheels in 2020 and Legends of Valhalla in 2021 (though we're not sure we'd call Legends of Valhalla a major release).
And while technically, they haven't confirmed confirmed the game, the teaser video states in a disclaimer that the game is both manufactured by American Pinball and called Galactic Tank Force. So we'll count it as officially confirmed.
We don't know a ton about the game itself, other than it's an original theme as American is known for; Dennis Nordman is on design and art by Christopher Franchi.
From what we can gather in the teaser materials, Galactic Tank Force looks to be a spoofy 50's sci-fi style romp. We're certainly looking forward to playing it when it gets released to the public in March.
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Colin is the chief pixel pusher at Kineticist. He's a lifetime gamer who became enamored with pinball after taking in a family copy of the 1979 classic Joker Poker (the EM version). Since then he's bought, sold and repaired many machines, competed in all kinds of tournaments, and contributes to This Week in Pinball, the New England Pinball League, and Pin-Masters of New England. Previously, Colin spent over a decade working in marketing for agencies and tech startups. He also started and ran a music blog, happy hour website, and wrote a regular craft beer review column for Central Track in Dallas. Once aspired to be an artsy film director.
