Scorch

Mr. CooL ICE · 04-11-2004 12:56pm #1

Anyone heard of an ancient game called Scorched Earth?

Back when I was in secondary school, in our computer classes when all the teacher could teach us was how to turn on the computer and we had to correct her about how floppy disks were inserted, myself and a friend stumbled upon a game we found on one of the 486s, called Scorched Earth.

It was a simple game, with no more than 16 colours, and gameplay was similiar to the Worms concept. There were 2 tanks (one per player) scattered over an either plain pink or blue 2D landscape (not even side scrolling, just a static landscape), and the idea was to take out the opponent using a small variety of weapons you mounted on your tank.

Myself and said friend spent hours playing this game against each other after we had completed our "enter these figures into an MS Works database" each class, but the computers were taken away and replaced with PIIs at some stage, and we lost it. But I just did a search at google and found it. I recommend anyone to do a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search of Scorched Earth on google and you will find it.

It bloody rocks.

KdjaCL · 04-11-2004 1:00pm

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=1984

Scorched Earth is a simple, yet very exciting artillery combat game, based on a long line artillery games that began with Atari's classic arcade game Lunar Lander. At its most basic level, Scorched Earth is a 2-player tank action game which requires you to learn only a few basic keys to play. You adjust the power and angle of your gun, then launch your weapon to blow up other tanks. That's basically it-- nothing Lunar Lander veterans haven't seen before.

Click above link was a good game indeed.

kdjac