Comment by alterom
16 hours ago
We played Tank Wars by Kenny Morse, it's from 1990 and preceded Scorched Earth:
https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274
More unhinged fun IMO
16 hours ago
We played Tank Wars by Kenny Morse, it's from 1990 and preceded Scorched Earth:
https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274
More unhinged fun IMO
I just want to let this Atari ST classic here: Ballerburg (1987) is massive fun.
Yeah, this is the one that ruled my homeroom during last bit of elementary school.
They had a shared ancestor in Tanx. I also remember Tank Wars fondly.
Nah, Ken Morse's Tank Wars really was the mother of all artillery games.
Tank Wars came out in 1990, Tanks came out in 1991.
There were artillery games before Tank Wars, of course. But none, to my knowledge, had AI players and insane weapon purchases, which is what made the game really fun, and which Scorched Earth inherited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game#Artillery_games...
I was gonna say, this is totally tank wars!