Scorched Earth? Or is this the one before that?
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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.
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It’s scorched earth!
Scorched earth!
Scorched earthhhhh
If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
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 miss MSDOS 6.22
Me too. I want to buy a vintage Packaged Bell 100ish MHZ computer one day for the shear nostalgia.
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.
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Scorched Earth. Talk about a flashback. Tank Wars was another fun one.
Loved loved Scorched Earth. The game is still fun even with it's dated graphics.
I remember it very well! Played it far too much!
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games. Die Commie Pigs!!!
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.
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Great game. I remember playing a lot of the successor "Scorched 3D" as well
I think by that point I was lost to Doom
No, but I'm pretty sure I played a flash port of it.
If you ever feel the urge to play again, there is a phone game called Pocket Tanks. Does a great job recreating the game.
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I played this a LOT on the IBM PS2 computers at my highschool! We made all sorts of custom death responses. My proudest moment was only having enough money to buy a Mag Deflector before the round and then having it bounce a would-be direct MIRV strike onto a friend's tank beside me.
Ah yes.. back when the turbo button made games run faster 🫠
The turbo button actually slowed things down, it was just labeled in reverse. The whole purpose was to allow older games that were tied to clock speed to be playable on faster CPUs.
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My little brother and I played the hell out of it. Especially when we figured out you could change the last words that your tank says right before it blows up. We thought that was hillarious.
Scorch2000 and worms world party were staples of my childhood.
I played so much of this game back in the day.
Where's the skiing game at?
Oh no! This is what I get for scrolling all the way to the bottom of the thread…
Skifree!
Never really played that. Was more into the text adventures like Zork.
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Loved that game. There was a flash version, too, but I can't recall the name. I used to play both at the same time as Motherload. What a great soundtrack lol
The mother of all games! I bet the game manual I printed is still lying at the bottom of some forgotten drawer at my parents house.
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