Pet theory: Scorched is just a mod of GORILLA.BAS.
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
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#12I love the aesthetic of VGA DOS games like this.
Yes! I wonder what it is. The color palette? The limited audio palette? The spartan UX?
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#13What fond memories I have of this game. Just for fun reach over and hit "k" while it's your friends turn :)
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#14This was one of the first games I downloaded from a BBS when I was a teen. Funky bombs forever!
I thought of Wendell Hicken as a programming god. The idea that one person could make a thing like that was amazing to me. I also remember version 1.5, the last version, having a phone shaped button for modem play and being stoked that modem play might come. Super nostalgia, here's an interview with Wendell: https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/03/scorched/
The quotes from the tanks were very entertaining to me.
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#15Scorched was amazing. I also had a lot of fun playing this 3d remake a few years ago. Might give it another shot now: http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
I used to play scorch a LOT back in the day -scorch3d is a fun game but somehow it almost feels like a different game to me. If for no other reason than because you don't really have to think about the horizontal plane in regular scorch.
Both are a lot of fun, though!
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#16Right in the nostalgia. This ran smoothly on the family 386!
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#17This was my first PC game, I haven't had a PC yet, only 1 guy in the whole village had a PC and we were visiting him with like 5 other kids to play this game. So many memories :) Thanks for this game it's great.
BTW leap frog bomb was the best.
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#18Pet theory: Scorched is just a mod of GORILLA.BAS.
They're both just turn-based pong / tennis for two.
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#19This game is what got me addicted to programming, which basically set the course of my life since I've been doing it professionally for 20 years. I reimplemented a barebones version of it after studying qbasic for a while in an intro to programming course when I was 13, and the feeling of power and amazement it gave me has never really left.
My teacher's response to seeing my game was 'your explosions don't look as good as they do in scorched earth'. He was a charlatan who I already didn't respect so the feedback didn't really affect me, but I can only imagine how crushed I would have been if I was one of those who were naturally respectful of authority...I honestly have no idea what I would be doing, since I don't really have any other useful skills.
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#20There was a similar game for DOS at around the same time called "Tank Wars", except that one was written for VGA 320x200x256 graphics. I wonder how many people remember it.