I loved scorched earth as a kid. It was great fun. I must find a copy and play it again.
> find a copy
That's literally exactly what the link is!
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
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#122Loved Scorched Earth. Had this fun bug/feature related to the weapons market. Between rounds you used your earnings to buy more weapons for the next round. There was an option to make it a "free market" which meant that the prices would get jacked on the weapons that you bought most often. But - and I didn't know this at the time - the price of an item was represented as a signed int so if you jacked the price high e…
At my school, I just did the more pedestrian hack of editing the config files to change the prices of the expensive items XD
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#123There was a clone game, Scorched Tanks, for the Amiga that was also loads of fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Tanks
Came here to say this. I found 'Earth at my school (which was filled with DOS machines, mostly IBM PS/2s), and then learned about 'Tanks through the various resources I had available in the early 90s. I never got to play it in its full glory back then - I only had an A2000 with 1MB chip RAM, so I could only play in 16 colors and (I think) with the half-size maps. It wasn't until UAE that I was actually able to play 64-color full-map 'Tanks like it was meant to be played.
Even still sometimes I fire up Pocket Tanks on my PC, although the overall presentation is a bit watered down compared to Scorched Tanks, the core experience is still there. Would be nice to see a true remake of Scorched Tanks someday.
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#124And its direct successor, Scorched3D.
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#125There 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
There's a full-3d version that is slightly abandoned, but still fun as heck. http://scorched3d.co.uk/
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#126I've spent endless hours playing Super Artillery on Apple ][!
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#127Any similar iOS games with multiplayer?
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#128Any similar iOS games with multiplayer?
Pocket Tanks is a later version of this I played with my grandfather on his PC growing up, its available in the app store for both iOS and Android, I play it with my brother all the time.
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#129Scorch is the ultimate gaming experience. In primary school we would always finish computer science classes with a game (or a few) of Scorch. Recently I've shown this game to my kids (10 and 8 years old) and they were really excited to play it. They don't make games like they used to anymore.