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Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by Forgeties79 »

meshko wrote: post #8
skeeterbug wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just played a round, think I found a bug - It was down to one other computer and myself. For some reason the power capped at 235, so neither of us could come close to hitting one another.

you probably got damage. If stuck like this, go to menu and select "mass kill"

Wow that’s a lot to unpack lol

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Post by walrus01 »

kylemaxwell wrote: post #4

I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)

Early 90s DOS games were certainly quite creative. I mentally draw a dividing line between approximately the start of the era when the first Soundblaster became a common thing to find in affordable home x86 PCs, and early CD-ROM based games were also available (1991-1992), and the December 1993 release of DOOM and everything that came after. Very interesting era in the time frame in between there.

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Post by fullstop »

meshko wrote: post #6
skeeterbug wrote: post #5

Oh man, we played this in computer lab in high school to pass time after we were done with our assignments. I believe it was a java/flash version though (year 2000/2001)

yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.

I brought it back to life at one point as a Java Swing app for my kids, but the server side of things was still wonky. I'm glad to see that it's alive again, I had a lot of fun with this in the early 2000s.
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