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Posted by meshko 11 hours ago

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web(www.scorch2000.com)
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amarant 7 hours ago|
Ooh, and it's fully playable!

Last time I tried this game, I think I had managed to get a hold of the original executable or something: the rate of turn for the turret was tied to CPU cycles. Paying it on a computer about a decade younger than the game made it quite impossible to aim, as the turret would spin several laps if you so much as looked at the arrow key

HerbManic 6 hours ago|
There are some Chess games from that era that tied their difficulty to the CPU speed. Essentially calculate options for 5 seconds or something like that. So as hardware got faster, the games got way more difficult.
navigate8310 8 hours ago||
Pocket Tanks was my ultimate childhood game that I played with my classmates during our computer lab lessons. I believe Scorched Earth was it's inspiration
bandrami 8 hours ago||
I wasted most of my high school years on the OG (1991) version. I love how such a simple concept can make for such a great game
sbinnee 9 hours ago||
OMG. One of my favorite games. It was fun to explore all the weapons and utilities with my brother.
AbraKdabra 8 hours ago||
Holy... the nostalgia, I played the hell out of this game in computer class back in school 25 years ago, time flies.
rickcarlino 9 hours ago||
I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.
compiler-guy 9 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 8 hours ago||
GORILLA.BAS is arguably part of the lineage too, somewhere in there.
Sharlin 6 hours ago|||
Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
prmoustache 3 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 9 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 7 hours ago||
BOMB.EXE was my first.
nodrog3000 9 hours ago|||
Haha, same
deepakhj 8 hours ago||
We used to play the DOS version in AP Computers in HS back in 1994.
nickandbro 9 hours ago||
Wow! Curious how you did multiplayer over the web? What stack did you use?
meshko 14 minutes ago|
WebSockets.
ChrisArchitect 9 hours ago||
A related page:

Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games

http://www.whicken.com/scorch/

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092060)

meshko 9 hours ago|
yeah, that's the original. It is better than this remake but no multiplayer.
jnettome 8 hours ago|
This bring me back so many good memories! Thank you!
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