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The game continued to receive updates from its developer, Wendell T. I was most familiar with version 1.1, which added a bunch of different weapons including “liquid dirt,” which let you bury another tank under a pile of soil. Like many computer games in the early 90s, there were a number of different versions of Scorched Earth. Have a half-hour free because the teacher is hungover? Slam that floppy disk into the classroom machine and boot up Scorched Earth. This, plus the small size of the software and its status as shareware meant that the game was perfect for playing on breaks in school. This range of abilities opened up different tactical options and anticipated later artillery games like Worms.Īdditionally, Scorched Earth allowed for up to nine players at once, rather than the more common two. In contrast to simpler games, Scorched Earth let you deploy shields, fire shots that would burrow through terrain, launch napalm, and more.

First, it had a variety of different weapons and items to use. But Scorched Earth had a number of things going for it. The game looks downright ancient today, and well, it kind of is. One such variant was called Scorched Earth. Something like Gorillas is the simplest version of this concept, but even in the early 90s more complex variants were emerging. One of the oldest genres of computer game is “artillery,” in which players take turns inputting power and angle for a shot and watching the results of their calculations play out.