Scorched Earth (1991)
Genres:Strategy
Themes:Warfare
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Blast your enemies from the face of the Earth together with Earth itself. Buy bigger weapons to crush more enemies. Get more money for crushing more enemies. And finaly buy a much more bigger weapons to crush even more enemies.
Scorched Earth is an early classic shareware artillery game that featured hot-seat multiplayer for up to 10 players, and was the spiritual predecessor to games like the Worms series.Show more
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A friend of mine had it back before our family could afford to buy a home computer. We still played this together, local multiplayer, well into the Windows 98 era when this family computer became "his" computer he could play on in his room.
Man, when you could get that deaths head round you felt like you'd won the game, only to inevitably miss by a hair.
It's just one of those games where you choose a weapon, set an aim angle and power, and watch the shot destroy parts of the level (and hopefully an enemy). But it did it really well, and it did it as one of the first in the genre. Deserves a return to life.
Scorched Earth may not have been Gorillas.BAS or Tank Wars, but it certainly was a game that lit a fire underneath the genre with it's many special graphical tricks to really show off what PCs could do. Photo scanned mountains, plasma fractal explosions, pseudorandom explosions from the funky bomb? Pure, loving chaos.
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