I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.
Haha, same
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#22OMG. One of my favorite games. It was fun to explore all the weapons and utilities with my brother.
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#23I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.
Tank games like this have a long heritage. Scorch is probably the pinnacle, but I played primitive versions of this all the way back on an Apple ][.
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#24I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.
So is Scorched Earth, it's preceded (at least) by "Tank Wars" (aka BOMB.EXE) by Kenny Morse from 1990:
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#25I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)
We played Tank Wars by Kenny Morse, it's from 1990 and preceded Scorched Earth:
https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274
More unhinged fun IMO
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#26I 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.
Yeah, I remember our high school IT teacher buying a 486sx25 with 8MB and a CDROM ostensibly to explore multimedia in education but mostly to play Myst.
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#279 year old me got my first "hacking" experience out of this game. With the shareware version, you could not select the ultra tank that could shoot 3 bullets for a human, but you COULD if it were the computer player.
The "hack": -start a game with a normal tank VS ultra computer player as p2. -save the game (as a file). -open the game file. -read the ASCII text and just flip which player has which text.
Now, I had my ultra tank.
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#289 year old me got my first "hacking" experience out of this game. With the shareware version, you could not select the ultra tank that could shoot 3 bullets for a human, but you COULD if it were the computer player. The "hack": -start a game with a normal tank VS ultra computer player as p2. -save the game (as a file). -open the game file. -read the ASCII text and just flip which player has which text. Now, I had my…
L33T!
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#29Wow! Curious how you did multiplayer over the web? What stack did you use?
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#30I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)
We played Tank Wars by Kenny Morse, it's from 1990 and preceded Scorched Earth: https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274 More unhinged fun IMO
I was gonna say, this is totally tank wars!