Did you edit it to cheat?
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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You're really old.
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No, but I stole the general concept and made a version to run on my old Casio graphing calculator.
Sorched Earth was another popular take, back in the shareware days. Actually, I think my calculator game had more cribbed from Scorch than it did from Gorillas.bas. I did, however, broadly copy the projectile math from Gorillas.bas because the source code was obviously freely available.
And then, my friends and I got endless amusement out of the "destruct" cheat code/hidden game in Tyrian, which was an artillery game much like this but played in real time. It was a hoot. In addition to artillery emplacements, you could also get little helicopters you could fly around.
Nice. I miss writing programs on my TI.
I never had a programmable Casio, though.
I had, and still have, a CFX-9950G which not only has the usual type of inbuilt symbol-based BASIC interpereter popular on these things, but an (almost) color screen that can display orange, blueish, and greenish! It was the occasional head turner back in the days when everyone only had a classic TI-83 or, if they were unlucky, a TI-82.
Cost about a quarter as much as one of those TI pieces of shit, too. Even back then.
This is the high fidelity version of the one I played. Didn't have a sun, either lol.