Scorched earth!
Pssh, I'm not that old.
...I'm actually this old.
I was just thinking of gorrillas.bas!!
Raaaad
100 time this! And now I feel old(er)
I miss MSDOS 6.22
Me too. I want to buy a vintage Packaged Bell 100ish MHZ computer one day for the shear nostalgia.
I still play Scorched Earth with my friends while having a few beers
It holds up as a party game really well
It does! You can go all out or just play normally haha
If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
Scorched Earth. Talk about a flashback. Tank Wars was another fun one.
I remember it well. The ultimate shot was called Deaths head and it destroyed half the poligon. Later versions has way more options for shooting including lasers.
Scorched earthhhhh
Ah yes.. back when the turbo button made games run faster 🫠
The turbo button actually slowed things down, it was just labeled in reverse. The whole purpose was to allow older games that were tied to clock speed to be playable on faster CPUs.
Me, me, me! Waves hands furiously.
I used to love Scorched Earth. Now if I want that fix I play Shell Shock.
Shell Shock
A crude imitation. Shell Shock has the whole progression scheme where your weapons get stronger and more diverse the more you play. Its basically applying the crappy "Call of Duty" formula and level up system to an old arcade game.
The best modern version of Scorched Earth is probably the "Worms" series. Its got too much of a cartoon veneer though: exploding sheep and banannas... but the strategy is overall there. I did prefer the original Scorched Earth.
I want Shell Shock without the level-up system (and probably without the wormholes as well). I mean.. scratch that. I just want scorched earth again with online play.
"GunBound" was an interesting twist from the 00s, a Koran game full of costumes / cute anime-like drawings and the like... you spawned with a single weapon based on the character you chose. It wasn't balanced but it was fun trying to derp around with whatever weapon you got.
I get what you're saying but for me, at least, it scratches the itch and the leveling up gives a sense of progression that otherwise wouldn't be there.
I want Shell Shock without the level-up system (and probably without the wormholes as well)
You can turn off the obstacles (walls, wormholes).
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games. Die Commie Pigs!!!
TSAR BOMBA!
I remember it very well! Played it far too much!
All the computers in the Electronics lab had it installed on them; we wasted so much time playing. That was such a complete screw-off class, haha.
Same, I have no idea how it even worked but we spent to much time playing this.
Where's the skiing game at?
Oh no! This is what I get for scrolling all the way to the bottom of the thread…
Skifree!
I played this a LOT on the IBM PS2 computers at my highschool! We made all sorts of custom death responses. My proudest moment was only having enough money to buy a Mag Deflector before the round and then having it bounce a would-be direct MIRV strike onto a friend's tank beside me.
No, but I'm pretty sure I played a flash port of it.
Great game. I remember playing a lot of the successor "Scorched 3D" as well
I think by that point I was lost to Doom
If you ever feel the urge to play again, there is a phone game called Pocket Tanks. Does a great job recreating the game.
Thanks!
I used to troll the pocket tanks forums back in middle school and learned to make pixelart just to make weapon suggestions. The dev was cool, and I think one of my ideas/suggestions ended up making it in the game.
We would play each other using hamachi, and I made friends with a couple of people in the group.
That's cool as hell. I play all the time. It's the only game I can keep going back to. I never get bored of it.
My little brother and I played the hell out of it. Especially when we figured out you could change the last words that your tank says right before it blows up. We thought that was hillarious.
Loved loved Scorched Earth. The game is still fun even with it's dated graphics.
Scorch2000 and worms world party were staples of my childhood.
Oh no, I’m old.
We’re old
I remember playing this with my friend in the early 90s. Was such a fun little game.
I played so much of this game back in the day.
Loved that game. There was a flash version, too, but I can't recall the name. I used to play both at the same time as Motherload. What a great soundtrack lol
Never really played that. Was more into the text adventures like Zork.
I enjoyed The Wizard of Frobozz.
Hello sailor.
You can get it here! http://www.whicken.com/scorch/
I saw the thumbnail and thought "Scorched Earth?"
Then I clicked and, sure enough, it's Scorched Earth!
I had it on my computer for a very long time, but it's not programmed to take the increased processing speeds of modern computers into account, so trying to play it on a current system is playing it on super extreme fast-forward.
In that time and place, it was magical
There is always Scorched 3D. Available in a package manager near you.
Scorched Earth was awesome, never got a lot done in computer classes at school because of it :)
Same here. We had this and a bunch of other games on our school computer and got very little done.
I remember having to turn off turbo mode to be able to play it, otherwise the barrels would rotate too fast.
That experience is a badge of honor
The mother of all games! I bet the game manual I printed is still lying at the bottom of some forgotten drawer at my parents house.
I think I must have a setting wrong, I’m using Mlem but I can only see the title of the post. Is there a gif or othe media attached to this?
It’s an image. I was using Mlem too, now giving Memmy a shot and the experience seems better
There's a photo of a tank game.
I had that on my TI-85 too
Imagine growing up with the latest iPhone on you now. Can’t imagine the difference.
As long as it can run a TI-85 emulator... right? 🫠
I think I'm the only youngling in this thread lol
I don't remember it on dos but u remember it as a flash game.
That game was the fucking best.
pretty sure there was a flash version of this game back in the early 00's. Something tickling the brain
I'm old enough to have hand coded a precursor to this on the Commodore Pet.
I remember the one with gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other
@nugget359 @Anissem Gorillas in QBasic! https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic
Anyone remember the name of a space game from around that time , or maybe even bit earlier, was DOS at least. I think it was 3D view from cockpit, chasing and shooting others. I remember it was possible to multiplayer over LAN
Was after this game but Descent?
Oh man that game. So good.
Om thinking even older , might have been Elite https://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=elite.ssd&autoboot
Sopwith 2 for days.
Awesome, never knew about that one. Looks like it was a blast.
I remembered playing this in our school's computer lab
Who remembers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_Duel ?
