I really enjoyed this game when I played it in the mid to early 90s, except that the copy I got had a virus. I suppose it's a lesson against piracy.
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
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#72I 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.
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#73What’s with the tagline “mother of all games”?
I believe it's a reference to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB .
Your side poster red369's more likely correct, as "the mother of all battles" was quite a well-known meme during Gulf War I - especially given the MOAB was designed in the early 00s, which is a while after this game's release.
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#74ShellShock Live on Steam is an excellent modern game in the style of Scorched Earth. It is very well done.
It really is. Of all the Scorched-likes in the last thirty years (sigh), ShellShock's my ideal modern version.
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#75omg, that is my favourite multiplayer game. So many memories! :D
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#76As a kid I played a "paper version" of this on summer camp with my friends using a pencil, eraser, piece of paper and a compass(as in: the drawing tool) because I had no notion of ballistics.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say lot of DOS programs and games were just using cold temperature colors, so it has specific 80/90s cold feel, I think later they started to get warmer and warmer.
At a guess? Most of those early games were made with graphics that would look good if it turns out the guy running it only had an EGA and, therefore, was restricted to a very specific set of 16 colors. It took a while for everyone to upgrade.
SE was released same year as very colorful Lemmings, which were not cold at all, so I don't take this excuse.
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#79Any similar iOS games with multiplayer?
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#80I 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.
Worms had superior graphics, superior UI, funnier weapons, funnier gameplay with cute worms and no economy from what I remember, so players were equal.