I have been thinking about GORILLA.BAS this entire thread. I don't remember playing Scorched Earth as a kid, but somehow must have been exposed to it to make that connection 30 years later.
My middle school offered a BASIC class in the early 90s, which was my first experience with programming (besides LOGO in elementary school). In hindsight, the teacher was a complete blessing to us, as he 'let' us modify and play GORILLA.BAS and similar BASIC games during our time in class. We thought we were getting away with playing video games in school, but those experiences were setting the seeds for some of our future careers.
I remember seeing the source code way too young to really understand any of it, but working out enough to flip a single boolean that controlled the sun. Usually the sun had a happy face, and if you hit the sun with a banana it turned surprised. I was very pleased that I was able to change it so that the surprised and happy faces were flipped.
I have been thinking about GORILLA.BAS this entire thread. I don't remember playing Scorched Earth as a kid, but somehow must have been exposed to it to make that connection 30 years later.
My middle school offered a BASIC class in the early 90s, which was my first experience with programming (besides LOGO in elementary school). In hindsight, the teacher was a complete blessing to us, as he 'let' us modify and play GORILLA.BAS and similar BASIC games during our time in class. We thought we were getting away with playing video games in school, but those experiences were setting the seeds for some of our future careers.
Great memories.
I remember seeing the source code way too young to really understand any of it, but working out enough to flip a single boolean that controlled the sun. Usually the sun had a happy face, and if you hit the sun with a banana it turned surprised. I was very pleased that I was able to change it so that the surprised and happy faces were flipped.
I'm glad someone mentioned Gorilla.bas.... many fond memories
Worms is just a mod of Scorched Earth.
Seems to me there was a trend with this on a 3.5 inch floppy in about 2003 or so.
I found the floppy and tried it on a number of different 90's PC's which originally had floppy drives and were still around.
Plus the newer PC's still had the often-neglected floppy connector in use to maintain compatibility.
I could swear that the more powerful the PC, the slower the program ran.
Uh ... That brought up some buried memories. GORILLAS.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS
Wait, you had them, too? I thought I'd stumbled upon something super secret!
I think they came as examples with the BASIC interpreter? I recall having to run them from some sort of editor.
almost as secret as canyon.mid
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They're both just turn-based pong / tennis for two.
You must have majored in topology ;-)