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.
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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.
Same, I have no idea how it even worked but we spent to much time playing this.
Me, me, me! Waves hands furiously.
I used to love Scorched Earth. Now if I want that fix I play 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.
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I was just thinking “this looks like that gorilla game I played as a kid!” but I’ve never heard anyone mention it before!
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I still play Scorched Earth with my friends while having a few beers
It holds up as a party game really well
It does! You can go all out or just play normally haha
I remembered playing this in our school’s computer lab
Scorched Earth. Talk about a flashback. Tank Wars was another fun one.
Scorched earthhhhh
TSAR BOMBA!
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
Awesome, never knew about that one. Looks like it was a blast.
https://youtu.be/B8SLHKPxw4Q
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? 🫠
I remember the one with gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other
@nugget359 @Anissem Gorillas in QBasic! https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic
I’m old enough to have hand coded a precursor to this on the Commodore Pet.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/50271/artillery/
I played so much of this game back in the day.
If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
Where’s the skiing game at?
Skifree!
Oh no! This is what I get for scrolling all the way to the bottom of the thread…