Who loves this game in 2023?

Fantasmita , 10 months ago

Looks like a poor copy of Scorched Earth

TheAnonymouseJoker OP , 10 months ago

The game’s resolution is Full HD. I just grabbed a purposely bad one that would be enough to rekindle memories of anyone who played it.

AceFuzzLord , 10 months ago

It has been a really long time since I played this. If I didn’t just get another game I was planning on playing, I’d totally try and find a copy of the deluxe version. I don’t think we ever had the deluxe version, so that would be really fun to get and mess around with like I used to on the old family computer.

Definitely a game I really liked.

ristoril_zip , 10 months ago

Looks like a remake of Scorched Earth from like 30 years ago :)

i_stole_ur_taco , 10 months ago

I still hear the random sound effects of the funky bomb in my mind when the world grows quiet.

Nonameuser678 , 10 months ago

Never played it. Should I?

TheAnonymouseJoker OP , 10 months ago

Is that a question? GO DO IT! Get the Deluxe version with 295 weapons.

JakenVeina , 10 months ago

Does loving it in 2005 count?

andrew , 10 months ago

Yeah sure since 2005 was only three or four years… ago… Dang I guess I’m getting old.

Diabolo96 , 10 months ago

There was an game like this but more advanced where you could buy weapons before starting the game and during gameplay you’d gain money based on how well you played. Me and my brother would play this for hours and hours.

Maximilious , 10 months ago

I remember Scorched Earth from the DOS, Win95 days that this was based on. The tanks would hurl slurs at each other before shooting and I recall a similar purchasing system that you mention as well.

Diabolo96 , 10 months ago

Yeah, it was a flash game so it can’t be scorched earth, but we had win95 and my dad bought us a bootleg CD full of games (around 15) and i foundly remember playing some of them. One was an official Tarzan game, another was bike driving game were you had to avoid bugs from smashing your face and a mortal combat clone that had me make nightmares for weeks. Good times.

Perfide , 10 months ago

That was the one I played, too. The name of the game was “Tanks”.

Diabolo96 , 10 months ago

Yes, that the one. Thanks for telling me. I probably have it somewhere on my pc as an .swf file. Gonna play with my bro another round or two.

MildlyArdvark , 10 months ago

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TheAnonymouseJoker OP , 10 months ago

I played DOS Gorilla and Hackman!

MildlyArdvark , 10 months ago

Those were the days!

scribs , 10 months ago

let’s gooo I love pocket tanks

567PrimeMover , 10 months ago

OMG I was obsessed with this game! I didn’t realize it was still around

TheAnonymouseJoker OP , 10 months ago

I play it with WINE on Debian Linux :D one of the first games besides emulator ROMs I always played on Linux

Maximilious , 10 months ago

There's a mobile version on Android with online functionality now too

TheAnonymouseJoker OP , 10 months ago

It does not have 295 weapons of Deluxe PC edition though, does it? I did play it on Android eons ago.

uphillbothways , 10 months ago

So many hours playing Scorched Earth on DOS, way back. Great times.

DessertStorms , 10 months ago

available to play here
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Scorched_Earth_1991
(as well as thousands of others!)

Blizzard , 10 months ago

I can still hear that PC speaker imitating explosions.

hamburglar26 , 10 months ago

I think Worms is the ultimate version of this type of game, but I celebrate the entire genre and love them all.

TheAnonymouseJoker OP , 10 months ago

Yet to play Worms, I have Worms 2 and Worms Armageddon downloaded for archival sakes.

I just find Pocket Tanks nice, quick open, play and close. I destroy CPU-10 like a world champion. Scored 3200ish against CPU-10 yesterday lol

gabriele97 , 10 months ago

OMG this game, I used to play it a lot

taylus , 10 months ago

damn that brings back memories