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Scorched earthhhhh
That game was the fucking best.
I played so much of this game back in the day.
Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games. Die Commie Pigs!!!
Great game. I remember playing a lot of the successor “Scorched 3D” as well
I think by that point I was lost to Doom
TSAR BOMBA!
Loved loved Scorched Earth. The game is still fun even with it’s dated graphics.
Scorch2000 and worms world party were staples of my childhood.
I miss MSDOS 6.22
Me too. I want to buy a vintage Packaged Bell 100ish MHZ computer one day for the shear nostalgia.
If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
Ah yes… back when the turbo button made games run faster 🫠
The turbo button actually slowed things down, it was just labeled in reverse. The whole purpose was to allow older games that were tied to clock speed to be playable on faster CPUs.
Really?!? It was so long ago, but I do remember trying to see what difference it made lol. I do remember some games like you said that ran faster and some it had no effect on. I was around 10 or so and was messing around with games in basic and playing MUDS on my library’s gopher access via dialup
Yes. When they started to come out with ibm models that had 8 and 12MHz chips they realized that a lot of the games had been tied to the original 4.77MHz clock speed for their timing, so on the faster computers they were unplayable. The turbo button, which slowed the computer down was the solution.
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.
In that time and place, it was magical
Scorched Earth
I was gonna guess lunar lander, is it basically the same thing?
Bingo!
Bingo is a totally different game
Yahtzee!
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.
Scorched Earth? Or is this the one before that?
It’s Scorched Earth! Looks comically simple now but boy was that a blast.
Man my poor pc got absolutely hammered by the giant dirt bombs and the deaths head / mirv
I never actually played this at home. They had it on our school computers and it was a mainstay of the day.
Our elementary school computers had one copy of Odells lake on a 5 1/2 in floppy disk and some copies of Oregon trail to share.
We had crab volleyball on our high school computers.
It’s scorched earth!
