Who’s old enough to recognize this DOS game?

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Scorched Earth? Or is this the one before that?

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.

Our elementary school computers had one copy of Odells lake on a 5 1/2 in floppy disk and some copies of Oregon trail to share.

We had crab volleyball on our high school computers.

If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support

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.

We got nothing done at school because of this game.

Me, me, me! Waves hands furiously.

I used to love Scorched Earth. Now if I want that fix I play Shell Shock.

Shell Shock

A crude imitation. Shell Shock has the whole progression scheme where your weapons get stronger and more diverse the more you play. Its basically applying the crappy "Call of Duty" formula and level up system to an old arcade game.

The best modern version of Scorched Earth is probably the "Worms" series. Its got too much of a cartoon veneer though: exploding sheep and banannas... but the strategy is overall there. I did prefer the original Scorched Earth.

I want Shell Shock without the level-up system (and probably without the wormholes as well). I mean.. scratch that. I just want scorched earth again with online play.

"GunBound" was an interesting twist from the 00s, a Koran game full of costumes / cute anime-like drawings and the like... you spawned with a single weapon based on the character you chose. It wasn't balanced but it was fun trying to derp around with whatever weapon you got.

I remember it very well! Played it far too much!

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.

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 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.

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.

If you ever feel the urge to play again, there is a phone game called Pocket Tanks. Does a great job recreating the game.

I used to troll the pocket tanks forums back in middle school and learned to make pixelart just to make weapon suggestions. The dev was cool, and I think one of my ideas/suggestions ended up making it in the game.

We would play each other using hamachi, and I made friends with a couple of people in the group.

That's cool as hell. I play all the time. It's the only game I can keep going back to. I never get bored of it.

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

I remember playing this with my friend in the early 90s. Was such a fun little game.

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.

Really?!? It was so long ago, but I do remember trying to see what difference it made lol. I do remember some games like you said that ran faster and some it had no effect on. I was around 10 or so and was messing around with games in basic and playing MUDS on my library’s gopher access via dialup

Yes. When they started to come out with ibm models that had 8 and 12MHz chips they realized that a lot of the games had been tied to the original 4.77MHz clock speed for their timing, so on the faster computers they were unplayable. The turbo button, which slowed the computer down was the solution.

Scorch2000 and worms world party were staples of my childhood.

pretty sure there was a flash version of this game back in the early 00's. Something tickling the brain

Sopwith 2 for days.

Hell yeah!! That speaker intro, flying off into the sunset... Great times.

Did you ever come across triplane turmoil? Much newer but similar spirit

I have not. I'll check it out, thanks!

It's awesome, reasonably good multiplayer bots - is like 4 plane Sopwith, with various alliances

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 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.

I had that on my TI-85 too

Imagine growing up with the latest iPhone on you now. Can’t imagine the difference.

As long as it can run a TI-85 emulator... right? 🫠

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?

Anyone remember the name of a space game from around that time , or maybe even bit earlier, was DOS at least. I think it was 3D view from cockpit, chasing and shooting others. I remember it was possible to multiplayer over LAN

I don't remember it on dos but u remember it as a flash game.

I remembered playing this in our school's computer lab