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Scorched Earth? Or is this the one before that?
It’s Scorched Earth! Looks comically simple now but boy was that a blast.
Man my poor pc got absolutely hammered by the giant dirt bombs and the deaths head / mirv
I never actually played this at home. They had it on our school computers and it was a mainstay of the day.
Our elementary school computers had one copy of Odells lake on a 5 1/2 in floppy disk and some copies of Oregon trail to share.
We had crab volleyball on our high school computers.
It’s scorched earth!
Scorched earth!
I still play Scorched Earth with my friends while having a few beers
It holds up as a party game really well
It does! You can go all out or just play normally haha
I miss MSDOS 6.22
Me too. I want to buy a vintage Packaged Bell 100ish MHZ computer one day for the shear nostalgia.
If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
Pssh, I’m not that old.
…I’m actually this old.
100 time this! And now I feel old(er)
I was just thinking of gorrillas.bas!!
Raaaad
Scorched earthhhhh
I remember it well. The ultimate shot was called Deaths head and it destroyed half the poligon. Later versions has way more options for shooting including lasers.
We got nothing done at school because of this game.
Me, me, me! Waves hands furiously.
I used to love Scorched Earth. Now if I want that fix I play Shell Shock.
Shell Shock
A crude imitation. Shell Shock has the whole progression scheme where your weapons get stronger and more diverse the more you play. Its basically applying the crappy “Call of Duty” formula and level up system to an old arcade game.
The best modern version of Scorched Earth is probably the “Worms” series. Its got too much of a cartoon veneer though: exploding sheep and banannas… but the strategy is overall there. I did prefer the original Scorched Earth.
I want Shell Shock without the level-up system (and probably without the wormholes as well). I mean… scratch that. I just want scorched earth again with online play.
“GunBound” was an interesting twist from the 00s, a Koran game full of costumes / cute anime-like drawings and the like… you spawned with a single weapon based on the character you chose. It wasn’t balanced but it was fun trying to derp around with whatever weapon you got.
I get what you’re saying but for me, at least, it scratches the itch and the leveling up gives a sense of progression that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
I want Shell Shock without the level-up system (and probably without the wormholes as well)
You can turn off the obstacles (walls, wormholes).
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games. Die Commie Pigs!!!
I remember it very well! Played it far too much!
TSAR BOMBA!
All the computers in the Electronics lab had it installed on them; we wasted so much time playing. That was such a complete screw-off class, haha.
Same, I have no idea how it even worked but we spent to much time playing this.
Scorched Earth. Talk about a flashback. Tank Wars was another fun one.
Scorched Earth
Bingo!
Bingo is a totally different game
Yahtzee!
I was gonna guess lunar lander, is it basically the same thing?
