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Loved loved Scorched Earth. The game is still fun even with it's dated graphics.
I saw the thumbnail and thought "Scorched Earth?"
Then I clicked and, sure enough, it's Scorched Earth!
I had it on my computer for a very long time, but it's not programmed to take the increased processing speeds of modern computers into account, so trying to play it on a current system is playing it on super extreme fast-forward.
There is always Scorched 3D. Available in a package manager near you.
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I remember having to turn off turbo mode to be able to play it, otherwise the barrels would rotate too fast.
That experience is a badge of honor
Scorched Earth was awesome, never got a lot done in computer classes at school because of it :)
Same here. We had this and a bunch of other games on our school computer and got very little done.
I think I must have a setting wrong, I’m using Mlem but I can only see the title of the post. Is there a gif or othe media attached to this?
There's a photo of a tank game.
I think I'm the only youngling in this thread lol
Oh no, I’m old.
We’re old
I'm old enough to have hand coded a precursor to this on the Commodore Pet.
I remember the one with gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other
TSAR BOMBA!
I don't remember it on dos but u remember it as a flash game.
Anyone remember the name of a space game from around that time , or maybe even bit earlier, was DOS at least. I think it was 3D view from cockpit, chasing and shooting others. I remember it was possible to multiplayer over LAN
Was after this game but Descent?
Oh man that game. So good.
I remembered playing this in our school's computer lab