Comment by mgdlbp
4 years ago
Similar games others have mentioned aren't necessarily clones of this one--the genre comes from the 1970s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
> Artillery games are two or three-player (usually turn-based) video games involving tanks (or simply cannons) trying to destroy each other. The core mechanics of the gameplay is almost always to aim at the opponent(s) following a ballistic trajectory (in its simplest form, a parabolic curve).
> Artillery games are among the earliest computer games developed; the theme of such games is an extension of the original uses of computer themselves, which were once used to calculate the trajectories of rockets and other related military-based calculations.[citation needed]
> Early precursors to the modern artillery-type games were text-only games that simulated artillery entirely with input data values. One of the earliest known games in the genre is War 3 for two or three players, written in FOCAL Mod V by Mike Forman (date unknown). The game was then ported to TSS/8 BASIC IV by M. E. Lyon Jr. in 1972. Ported again to [...]
Here's yer needed citation, hoss: http://www.glennsmuseum.com/bombsights/
I think the needed citation is actually for the statement that the earliest such games were inspired by the practical application, which is indeed well documented.