What's the name of this game?

[AnitaPeterson]

Hi there,

I know you're going to laugh, but I need to know the name (and maybe a download location, if it's a freebie/abandonware) of a very old game.

Basically, it's two fixed guns shooting at each other, and you have to calculate the angle and velocity of the projectile, considering the terrain and wind speed.

It was the first game I ever played, in the late 70's, on a M-118 machine (kudos to those who know what that was)....

so, anyone? 🙂

 

[NicColt]

scorched earth is what you're looking for.

 

[Nohr]

Tank Wars was another Scorched Earth type game. I used to play both of those a lot back in my 286 days. 🙂

 

[igowerf]

I played one written in QBASIC called Gorillas, I think. There's a lot of variations out now.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Hi there,

I know you're going to laugh, but I need to know the name (and maybe a download location, if it's a freebie/abandonware) of a very old game.

Basically, it's two fixed guns shooting at each other, and you have to calculate the angle and velocity of the projectile, considering the terrain and wind speed.

It was the first game I ever played, in the late 70's, on a M-118 machine (kudos to those who know what that was)....

so, anyone? 🙂

LOL, there are a ton of variants of that game out now, but I can't remember the name of the one I played either. 🙁

 

[mryellow2]

Scorched earth is still a ton of fun!

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Thank you, everyone!

Based on your recommendations, I found several games, indeed ( 😉 )

Here's one, for instance:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3330

This is really a great site - y'all should visit it, you never know what lost game of your childhood you might be able to find!

 

[EeyoreX]

<reminisce>Ah... Scoarched Earth...</reminisce>

I loved that game. So many hours in HS, so many fond memories. 😉

\Dan

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Hah! I found an excellent one - and it's freeware as well!

Here it is: it's called "Pocket Tanks", it's made in 2001, and it works really nice!

http://www.blitwise.com/downloads.html

 

[BFG10K]

There are thousands of games based around that scenario. Gorrilla on the PC and Howizter on the Apple IIe come to my mind first.

 

[Looney]

Wow, these games bring back a lot of memories.

 

[Lars]

I remember playing a similar game with two castles on an Atari.

 

[Smilin]

Hehe I didn't think so many people had played it...Scorched earth was the shiz. I remember the trick to penetrating enemy shields was blast the ground out from under them until they were in a crater then fill it with a napalm round.

 

[edmicman]

funky bombs and deaths heads all the way!!!