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!
Pssh, I'm not that old.
...I'm actually this old.
This was my favorite game in 1993. I had the impression that it was already ancient even then, but apparently Microsoft published it in 1991.
I was just thinking of gorrillas.bas!!
Raaaad
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If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games. Die Commie Pigs!!!
Scorched earthhhhh
Scorched Earth. Talk about a flashback. Tank Wars was another fun one.
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!
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Me, me, me! Waves hands furiously.
I used to love Scorched Earth. Now if I want that fix I play Shell Shock.
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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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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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TSAR BOMBA!
If you ever feel the urge to play again, there is a phone game called Pocket Tanks. Does a great job recreating the game.
Thanks!
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Loved loved Scorched Earth. The game is still fun even with it's dated graphics.
Great game. I remember playing a lot of the successor "Scorched 3D" as well
I think by that point I was lost to Doom
I remember it very well! Played it far too much!
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.
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.
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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I saw the thumbnail and thought "Scorched Earth?"
Then I clicked and, sure enough, it's Scorched Earth!
I had it on my computer for a very long time, but it's not programmed to take the increased processing speeds of modern computers into account, so trying to play it on a current system is playing it on super extreme fast-forward.
In that time and place, it was magical
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No, but I'm pretty sure I played a flash port of it.
I think I must have a setting wrong, I’m using Mlem but I can only see the title of the post. Is there a gif or othe media attached to this?
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I played so much of this game back in the day.
Scorch2000 and worms world party were staples of my childhood.
Never really played that. Was more into the text adventures like Zork.
I remember having to turn off turbo mode to be able to play it, otherwise the barrels would rotate too fast.
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pretty sure there was a flash version of this game back in the early 00's. Something tickling the brain
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