Scorched Earth 2000 is back

rickcarlino•about 1 hour ago

I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.

compiler-guy•40 minutes 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 ][.

alterom•38 minutes 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

nodrog3000•about 1 hour ago

Haha, same

kylemaxwell•about 2 hours ago

I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)

walrus01•about 1 hour ago

Early 90s DOS games were certainly quite creative. I mentally draw a dividing line between approximately the start of the era when the first Soundblaster became a common thing to find in affordable home x86 PCs, and early CD-ROM based games were also available (1991-1992), and the December 1993 release of DOOM and everything that came after. Very interesting era in the time frame in between there.

FireBeyond•35 minutes ago

Yeah, I remember our high school IT teacher buying a 486sx25 with 8MB and a CDROM ostensibly to explore multimedia in education but mostly to play Myst.

The_Blade•about 1 hour ago

same, it was a step up from dopewars, but not quite leisure suit larry which one of our friends had

years later i defeated the high score of Stephen Meek and realized with horror Oregon Trail was intended to teach patience not just dysentery damn you MECC!!

el_duderino•about 1 hour ago

Same! I remember playing this during my Borland C++ for DOS class in school. Good times.

alterom•36 minutes 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

Cpoll•8 minutes ago

They had a shared ancestor in Tanx. I also remember Tank Wars fondly.

mpyne•19 minutes ago

Yeah, this is the one that ruled my homeroom during last bit of elementary school.

sonar_un•22 minutes ago

I was gonna say, this is totally tank wars!

api•about 1 hour ago

It was fun. Was a bit younger but played it like crazy too on my 286.

Rollers! Lava! It’s like the author started with a simple tank war game and then just threw in every weird little effect they could code as a creative weapon.

There were all kinds of neat hacks.

skeeterbug•about 2 hours ago

Oh man, we played this in computer lab in high school to pass time after we were done with our assignments. I believe it was a java/flash version though (year 2000/2001)

meshko•about 1 hour ago

yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.

fullstop•about 1 hour ago

I brought it back to life at one point as a Java Swing app for my kids, but the server side of things was still wonky. I'm glad to see that it's alive again, I had a lot of fun with this in the early 2000s.

skeeterbug•about 1 hour ago

Just played a round, think I found a bug - It was down to one other computer and myself. For some reason the power capped at 235, so neither of us could come close to hitting one another.

meshko•about 1 hour ago

you probably got damage. If stuck like this, go to menu and select "mass kill"

meshko•about 2 hours ago

for the 25th anniversary (approximately) I vibecoded what i wanted to do for years -- port of the original remake (yes) to JavaScript. Alive again.

alex_anglin•about 2 hours ago

Doing the lords work, as they say. Thank you for sharing.

motgnay•about 1 hour ago

LOL nostalgic

ChrisArchitect•about 1 hour ago

A related page:

Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games

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

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

meshko•about 1 hour ago

yeah, that's the original. It is better than this remake but no multiplayer.

Forgeties79•about 1 hour ago

Hoooooly hell I totally forgot about this. Talk about dredging up some memories. I don’t think I have thought about this game in literally 20 years.

Scorched Earth 2000 is back

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