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Similar games others have mentioned aren't necessarily clones of this one--the genre comes from the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game > Artillery games are two or three-player (usually turn-based) video games involving tanks (or simply cannons) trying to destroy each other. The core mechanics of the gameplay is almost always to aim at the opponent(s) following a ballistic trajectory (in its simplest…
Great Game - also - how the fuck were they able to run in this weird VGA/SVGA mode? Something bitplanes, etc. - it wasn't your standard 320x200x256 colors. (Sorry, but back then in Bulgaria the literature on CGI/EGA/VGA was zero, and Ralph Brown's interrupt list only did that much)....
My guess would be Mode X, it was quite popular in games at the DOS/VGA times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
I never could understand the appeal of later Worms games, Scorched Earth was far superior. It has some minor flaw in it's economy: winning player had so much more money to spend on equipment, that it was very hard for a loser of a round to ever catch up, even with a far superior shooting.
I played this with friends in middle school. We found the text file that contained the messages that displayed when a player launched an attack or died, and edited them to include Monty Python quotes. I didn't have a lot of friends, haha.
Loved 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…
Similar games others have mentioned aren't necessarily clones of this one--the genre comes from the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game > Artillery games are two or three-player (usually turn-based) video games involving tanks (or simply cannons) trying to destroy each other. The core mechanics of the gameplay is almost always to aim at the opponent(s) following a ballistic trajectory (in its simplest…
Here's yer needed citation, hoss: http://www.glennsmuseum.com/bombsights/
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I remember that one, but back in those days i played the crap out of Tunneler. https://dosgames.com/game/tunneler
Oh man, memories