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. Talk about a flashback. Tank Wars was another fun one.
Scorched earth!
Loved loved Scorched Earth. The game is still fun even with it's dated graphics.
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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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 remember it very well! Played it far too much!
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games. Die Commie Pigs!!!
Scorch2000 and worms world party were staples of my childhood.
Me, me, me! Waves hands furiously.
I used to love Scorched Earth. Now if I want that fix I play Shell Shock.
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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No, but I'm pretty sure I played a flash port of it.
If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
I miss MSDOS 6.22
Me too. I want to buy a vintage Packaged Bell 100ish MHZ computer one day for the shear nostalgia.
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 playing this with my friend in the early 90s. Was such a fun little game.
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
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.
That experience is a badge of honor
I played so much of this game back in the day.
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
There is always Scorched 3D. Available in a package manager near you.
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!
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.
Scorched Earth was awesome, never got a lot done in computer classes at school because of it :)
Same here. We had this and a bunch of other games on our school computer and got very little done.
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?
It’s an image. I was using Mlem too, now giving Memmy a shot and the experience seems better
Sopwith 2 for days.
I don't remember it on dos but u remember it as a flash game.
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