Pet theory: Scorched is just a mod of GORILLA.BAS.
I'm glad someone mentioned Gorilla.bas.... many fond memories
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
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#32There was a clone game, Scorched Tanks, for the Amiga that was also loads of fun.
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#34I propagated this across half a dozen classroom computers back in middle school, armed with a single floppy disk. It made the span between the end of cross country practice and the time the sports bus took us home a lot more fun.
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#35This game was such a huge part of my life. It was one of the only games I had for a long time, and I put more hours into it than I could count. I ended up making my own “modern” (winxp) version of it with p2p multiplayer to play with friends (never released it, it was an utter mess), and I’ve made half a dozen other versions over the year to practice different game engines or game dev libraries in various languages. It’s just such an iconic game to me personally.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! I wonder what it is. The color palette? The limited audio palette? The spartan UX?
I would say lot of DOS programs and games were just using cold temperature colors, so it has specific 80/90s cold feel, I think later they started to get warmer and warmer.
At a guess? Most of those early games were made with graphics that would look good if it turns out the guy running it only had an EGA and, therefore, was restricted to a very specific set of 16 colors. It took a while for everyone to upgrade.
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#37Pet theory: Scorched is just a mod of GORILLA.BAS.
Uh ... That brought up some buried memories. GORILLAS.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS
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#38This 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://arstec…
Not only are the quotes great but I learned a lot of famous dictators' names as an elementary school age kid. The oddity of the names and their use in Scorched stuck with me for a long time as later in life I learned why these not-so-nice individuals were notable.
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#39While I liked playing it with my cousin I fail to see how is game from 1991 "the mother of all games" when I enjoyed playing plenty other games already in 80s. Also as for the games from 1991 I enjoyed Crystal Caves much more playing it in father's work. Btw. I find Worms much more enjoyable/funnier, though it's pretty much same concept. edit: same year was also released Lemmings, which blows graphics/UI of this out…
It's like in "The Mother of All Bombs"
The game came out around the gulf war: I've always assumed it was a reference to Sadam Hussein's speech about "the mother of all battles" (at the beginning of Desert Storm)
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#40There 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. https://dosgames.com/game/tank-wars/
I always preferred Tank Wars over Scorched Earth