Comment by rickcarlino 11 hours ago I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work. 8 comments rickcarlino Reply compiler-guy 11 hours ago Tank games like this have a long heritage. Scorch is probably the pinnacle, but I played primitive versions of this all the way back on an Apple ][. iamnothere 10 hours ago GORILLA.BAS is arguably part of the lineage too, somewhere in there. Sharlin 7 hours ago Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game prmoustache 5 hours ago I like Hedgewars which is an open source game similar to Worms but with hedgehogs. It is available as package in most Linux distros but also on Windows, Mac and FreeBSD. I believe it is available on Steam as well. alterom 11 hours ago So is Scorched Earth, it's preceded (at least) by "Tank Wars" (aka BOMB.EXE) by Kenny Morse from 1990:https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274 mock-possum 9 hours ago BOMB.EXE was my first. nodrog3000 11 hours ago Haha, same
compiler-guy 11 hours ago Tank games like this have a long heritage. Scorch is probably the pinnacle, but I played primitive versions of this all the way back on an Apple ][. iamnothere 10 hours ago GORILLA.BAS is arguably part of the lineage too, somewhere in there.
Sharlin 7 hours ago Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game prmoustache 5 hours ago I like Hedgewars which is an open source game similar to Worms but with hedgehogs. It is available as package in most Linux distros but also on Windows, Mac and FreeBSD. I believe it is available on Steam as well.
prmoustache 5 hours ago I like Hedgewars which is an open source game similar to Worms but with hedgehogs. It is available as package in most Linux distros but also on Windows, Mac and FreeBSD. I believe it is available on Steam as well.
alterom 11 hours ago So is Scorched Earth, it's preceded (at least) by "Tank Wars" (aka BOMB.EXE) by Kenny Morse from 1990:https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274 mock-possum 9 hours ago BOMB.EXE was my first.
Tank games like this have a long heritage. Scorch is probably the pinnacle, but I played primitive versions of this all the way back on an Apple ][.
GORILLA.BAS is arguably part of the lineage too, somewhere in there.
Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
I like Hedgewars which is an open source game similar to Worms but with hedgehogs. It is available as package in most Linux distros but also on Windows, Mac and FreeBSD. I believe it is available on Steam as well.
So is Scorched Earth, it's preceded (at least) by "Tank Wars" (aka BOMB.EXE) by Kenny Morse from 1990:
https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274
BOMB.EXE was my first.
Haha, same