Battlezone computer game

Battlezone was the first very successful 3D computer game developed as a tank combat arcade game by Atari in 1980. 

In 1999 a PC based tank piloting strategy game, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, was released. Over the next two decades, the game name had been used in, for example, the virtual reality game for tthe PlayStation 4.

A good overview can be found on the Battlezone home page "BZ home", or even on the page called "BZ history"