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CopInTheUSA
This game. This fucking game!
OrkenMork
I wrote a program for my HP67 that was this game. You gave the angle and the force and it would return where the missile landed. I enhanced it later with mountains and eventually the calculator would fire back at you (the calculator would cheat though). Yes, I am *THAT* old!
DdCno1
There is a very similar game that released a few years later called Cannon Hill, which was only ever available in German. Excellent destruction and selection of weapons. The AI is a pushover (still fun), but it's a fantastic local multiplayer title. Cannon Hill is so obscure that there's only a single video of it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7durP2FZKNA It's working just fine on modern systems and you don't need to know any German to be able to play it. https://www.dplate.de/games/cannonhill
SherMattLockSmith
I remember playing qbasic gorillas....
SteveTheEgg
Why do you have to hurt old man like that @op? I didnt need this. I wish ai could play it right now. Not as much as I we wish I was twelve at my friends house playing against him.
MRdotDUCK
If you miss it shellshock live on steam is great
mikeatike
NO KIBITZING
Timeslice
I'm sure I would *recognize* several lines from Scorched Earth, but that's the only one that I *remember*.
isabirb
God damn, I loved playing Scorched Earth when I was younger. This game was just so much fun.
dogmatix
mates and I had sleepover parties playing this until 3-4am, high as fuck on sugar and caffeine. Good times, good times.
LucidPariah
Cutting through the mountains to drop friends was always fun!
TheFeralDog
Jokes on you, I got earth ball rounds for days!
Boredashell
I used to draw little battles like this on notebook paper. When a missle would hitsomething, id erased a little area and continue.
AdrianDunne
I used to draw stickman battles. Actually got in trouble for it.
Boredashell
Weaksauce. I started with stickmen but then I just drew the machines/artillery.
hogninja
Dear Imgur, please allow us 1 million upvotes for 1 post 1 day per year. That is much more efficient than making 1 million accounts to upvote the post. Thank you.
Eclipse00
I can hear this picture
Vtoh
The gift of the ordinary man?
MelfsAcidArrow
I had something like this on my Amiga
Rinsl0r
There's a game called Shellshock on steam that is quite similar, currently there are 440 in-game so it is still somewhat active.
Diftel
Shellshock Live is a great game, wasted away maaaaany hours on it.
LowlevelRebel
Holy shit Scorch!!! Thanks, OP!
RandallKavanaugh
Tank Wars was made in 1990 by Kenny Morse, a year before Scorched Earth, and was quite popular at that time; yet, surprisingly, not so many people today know that this game appeared before Scorched Earth, and hence Scorched Earth was inspired by Tank Wars (not the other way).
Gaverus
(I think) I remember editing the weapons in qbasic
RandallKavanaugh
https://classicreload.com/tank-wars-1990.html
Clippyjustwantedtohelp
Scorched Earth was one of my favorite games to play when we had people over.
BigMoFace
I still think about making a modern version of this gem. I really loved this game back in the day.
HappyTimeHollis
Do it!
HappyTimeHollis
Also, if you're considering re-making an old classic, may I gesture vaguely at Castle Of The Winds?
bmbillings
This is how I learned what napalm is
CheeseborgarSoop
Scorched Earth was my shit, man. Our old PC had it and I played it for hours and hours as a kid. Finally got into Worms, and Gunbound. Man I miss Gunbound.
devastitis
I grew up on Cannon Fodder.
acme64
yoooo gunbound was my shit! grub 4 life
CheeseborgarSoop
Nak Machhhiiiiinnneee!!!
supervillin
so pro lah
Varenvel
BuckRavers
Duuude that's an amazing set of history! You don't see these being promoted online. So cool!
Omnomnomicon
Scorched Earth is a timeless classic!
crann
Gorillas on DOS was my jam in school. My friend and I would have to flip a coin to see who went first, because we put so much time into that game that who ever got to first, won.
drizztx
I had to learn how to code Gorillas from SCRATCH in one of my programming classes. PTSD, lol.
ThisOldCPU
QBasic GORILLAS.BAS https://playclassic.games/games/action-dos-games-online/qbasic-gorillas/play/
Promethianfire
Had that on a 286. Weapon scale was huge, of course. One of my friends would always use a plasma blast with 10 batteries. Took 5 goddamn minutes.
Korkenknopfus
286 was first PC in my home. It had 20 MB harddisk.
DimwitF
Mine had 40! And the box was labelled that it had NO hard drive, so we saved hundreds of bucks!
majortool
peedrinkingcrapface
The Full Wormage was the greatest unlockable of all time
Frederf
Take cover, Reverend Toast!
MouVou
HAAAA-le-lu-yah (pause) BOOM!
KsuviKhor
Dude, my brother used to seethe in anger over the amount of nonsensical bullshit I could pull off with the ninja rope in Worms Armageddon… he’d have me dead to rights and I’d defy gravity with the ninja rope and end up in some unreachable nook lol.
peeeopeepeee
I have Worms Armageddon on steam and it still works on modern computers, albeit at 400fps
Eternalstress
Loved worms 2d. Favourite memory was finding out about the weapons editor, cue an entire afternoon giggling at the level evaporating doomsday weapons I created.
arbitrarium
Homing cluster bomb set to max power. Wiped out the whole map 🤣
LoopStricken
Those worms have more than six pixels, it's too modern!
HelloToe
Better?
HelloToe
We have to go back farther, to the days when you had fireballs, dragon punches, and batropes (before they got renamed)!
VodkaReindeer
I loved Worms 1 but never could get into the later ones. I just got the impression that they weren't as serious for some reason.
StewedTomaters
There were definitely "good ones" and "bad ones"
SpartanOfSol
The cpu enemy threw some bullshit grenade throws lol
Calgus
if you can hear this picture, your knees also hurt
cherrycherrybomb
born in '97, last played like a month ago. the official servers are still up and active, really fun
SpoonOfDoom
I feel personally attacked by this comment
fulcrims
Pocket tanks.
neofoxboi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUmM4Lq4Ig
Brokecattlefarmer
I still play that on occasion.
bjo23
I've tried it, but it's just not the same. You're limited to just 2 players.
Jeneyefer
I needed this find today. Thank you! Brings back memories..
Feanordidnothingwrong3000
The first app I ever downloaded, made sure to have it on every mobile device since
StarmineRendezvous
Literally have Pocket Tanks in a folder right now to play if I ever feel like it. It has all the patches. Bought it for nostalgia years ago.
Aforaseem
I have only paid upgrades, partial, maybe 10%. It's the any patch logic here I'm missing?
StarmineRendezvous
Idk, found a link to the makers website back then and bought the full game there with all packs. That's it.
KramitTheFrog
Bro I was playing something similar in the 90s in black and white what was gorillas throwing bananas at eachother. Good times man.
Oooogabooga69
Duuuuude. Scorched Earth is one of my favorite games! I had to stop playing it after I built a PC with a Cyrix 686 CPU, couldn't slow down the game and the shots were like lazer fast lol I now play it on the internet archive and it works really well. Also, I'm not old. You're old.
MajorPoopyPants
I love this game and still play it online. I'm surprised there isn't more action on it. NUKE.
ucmlost
Thank you for reminding me about the Cyrix CPU's. I've been trying to remember what the CPU my first custom build PC had in it. I knew it wasn't AMD or Intel. I didn't care enough to Google it, but this triggered my memory.
vegivamp
Yup. Always have much preferred it over worms, too. Sure works is cute and funny, but the satisfaction of a direct hit in scorched earth...
throwaway12345432
Every time I played, everyone races to be the first to the Lazy boy. Effective end of the game as there was no recovering.
ThePyedPyper
you could try out "Shellshock Live" on steam, i believe its really cheap
pxlphile
Same. Anyhow I liked the scorched 3D variant, which is open source IIRC, uh I mean MIRV
buggme
M... My 286 works just fine...
poilters
Pocket Tanks was also another great one but Scorched Earth still holds a very special place in my heart...
pahapaavo
I swear to Hades I experienced the same. It was light speed playing with Cyrix 6x86 200MHz.
PimpinKen
This reminds me of global thermonuclear war
Waaaaghhumbug
I played this game when I was in primary school! (8ish..?) But then there was another one that had big apes throwing bananas and we liked it more..? These are some fuzzy memories though.
Kdvdp
My dad had a 486, made a game-menu for the kids. Remember this game. You had this option to make the weapon's explosions larger. Whenever you'd use "nuke" with that option on, the looney tunes intro would always play in my head.🤣
DarkBusterBaron
Never heard of it but it looks like they ripped off shellshock.
Cenodoxus
The only shellshock I could find in that period was a first person tank game released in 96, a couple of years after Schorched Earth. Did you misremember the name with another game?
DarkBusterBaron
https://kongregate.fandom.com/wiki/ShellShock_Live nah it was an online multiplayer game that came out in 2010 it looks alot like scorched earth.
frostybox
Artillery on Commodore 64
oocelScifiVillain
I had forgotten the name of this for so long. Thank you. Man I wasted time on scorched earth
soulsource
Nobody posted http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/ yet? Shame!
Oooogabooga69
Duuuuuude. Ima check this out!
VictusVonGuyver
Ah, one of those games where the game's speed was tied to the processor clock speed.
LAMovieDesign
I’ve been trying to find and remember this game for years!! I used to LOVE this game. So glad I stumbled upon this post!
TheOneAndOnlyButtStabber
If yall want this back, download pocket tanks to your phone. Fun as hell
SirRichardOfHead
Awwwwhell yea! One of the best games ever. And how do you do, fellow young people?
JustAnotherBoredUserAtWork
Same here!
mikeatike
I went from a 386sx to a Cyrix 6x86 (gotta remember the x because they could trademark it). Had to point a box fan to keep the computer from overheating.
thatwoodguy
I didn't know that one was on the IA
Heisanevilgenius
My unstoppable tactic: Fire a heavy roller over their head (you barely have to aim), let it roll down and blow them up and make a crater. If they have shields and survive, launch hot napalm, which fills up the crater you just made and burns hot enough to not only eat through their shields, but kill them as well.
Yusill
Gimme rollers. I love rollers. And dirt bombs.
akambe
Death's Heads were just too easy.
drizztx
It's also here: https://classicreload.com/res/scorched-earth.html
Slayer0026
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Pizza1sLyfe
OMG I'd forgotten the name of this game. It was my favorite!!
cutedemon2301
Thank you!!
iwishidpickedabetterusername
Need to come back to this when I'm not on mobile!
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TheFleshItBurns
Whelp. There goes all my free time for the next 3 months.
TheFleshItBurns
But thank you, anyway.
Ryebread91
Have you ever tried pocket tanks? That's what I assumed this was until I read your comment.
hotrodny
I have a pocket tank :D. Ok, i'll show myself out.
jaggcomputing5
Good game.
Dodel1976
That's what the Turbo button was for.
trulsern
The using-forever-to-set-Tetris-world-record button?
ThatsProbablyInMyBag
I remember helping my stepdad flip the dip switches for our 8086, to recognize the $500 HDD that was 5mb for storage. We still used 5.25" floppies to boot up DOS. And the Amber monochrome monitor for the win. And gotta hit that turbo button when playing digger.
YesMyNameIsCalvin
By the time of the 686, also the time of the pentium 2, the turbo button didn't exist on most computers
EasierToPrayWhenIMasturbate
It wasn't the developer's fault that they weren't calculating ticks in clock-time vs cycles, we just liked playing games that were created before that was a consideration.
Isgrimnur
How was your colonoscopy?
garrycross40350
Fuck. Getting mine tomorrow morning. 🤪
wurstkaesescenario
I loved it! The part that comes with Propofol. The other part bevore? Skip it :D
lostlittletimeonthis
Pretty mild, prep is awful though
Clippyjustwantedtohelp
I don't get mine. Hopefully I'll get to leave this cursed world sooner.
DonDerper
Needs more prune juice in his diet
jg03278888
This was a great game. Next week. I'm nervous
Birddmann
Mansooratyale
Which one? I get one every 6 months so
BurningVeryImportantThings
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Tungstenspheresagainstsnails
For what? Pleasure?
Mansooratyale
Family history of colon cancer
Kyrorayne
My grandfather had it. I got my first colonoscopy at 28. I'll prolly schedule another when I'm 38.
ActuallyImSpartacus
There are other reasons?
fancygiraph
Good they took out a polyp. How about you ?
Isgrimnur
Need to schedule it.
TeamSpicyTacos
Same, I had mine in Jan and they took one (1) polyp which means I have to go back sooner ;(
16bitStarbuck
Pretty sure I have polyps increasing in size over the last few years. Doesn't hurt and I'm depressed and uninsured so I put off getting it properly examined, diagnosed, and treated. Oh well.