I now realize where Pocket Tanks got its inspiration.
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
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#43A couple of open source clones of it:
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#44There 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/
Yep, played the crap out of Tank Wars - the AI tank personalities, levels with strong wind, the weapon shop, etc. So good!
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#45I spent so many hours on it. Then I got my first job, and one co-worker I worked closely with was: Wendell Hicken. One day he casually mentioned, I wrote Scorch, was a lot of fun to program. Only then I connected dots.
Connected dots - with a MIRV, right?
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#46There 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 personally loved the isometric 3D version, Genocide: https://archive.org/details/Genocide_1020
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#48This 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…
You could add your own quotes to the tanks. My brother and I spent far too long adding one-liners from comic books and action movies to the file.
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#49There was a clone game, Scorched Tanks, for the Amiga that was also loads of fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Tanks
Pile Driver!
Years of my life sunk into Scorched Tanks. As an Amiga child, I have no MS DOS nostalgia. But I am pretty sure Scorched Tanks was a decent alternative.
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#50Pet theory: Scorched is just a mod of GORILLA.BAS.
Worms is just a mod of Scorched Earth.