In addition to conventional warheads, there is also such ordnance as napalm, wildly bouncing bombs, and earth weapons, allowing the player to dump dirt on other tanks or to remove ground from beneath them. All weapons can be upgraded with tracers which allow the player to more accurately adjust the trajectory on their next turn. The weapons range from small missile rounds to MIRV warheads to high-yield nuclear weapons.
'Join the army, see the world they said') are read in two plain text files, TALK1.CFG and TALK2.CFG, respectively, free for creative users to change or translate. 'I shall smash your ugly tank!') and before dying (e.g. In addition to the possible in-game changes, the text messages the AI players can display before firing (e.g. The game has a wide variety of customization options from gravity and wind to money and meteorite showers, and a similarly large pool of different payloads, allowing for a large amount of entirely different situations. that if they stepped on Iraqi soil, it would be 'The Mother of all Battles'. Its slogan, 'The Mother of all Games', was coined in 1991, during the Gulf War, after Saddam Hussein threatened the U.S. Scorched Earth, with a plethora of weapon types and power-ups, is considered the modern archetype of its format. Such games are among the earliest computer games, with versions existing for mainframes with only teletype output. Scorched Earth is one of many games in the genre of 'turn-based artillery games'. The game was developed in the DOS era, originally written by Wendell Hicken (using Borland C++ and Turbo Assembler), in which tanks do turn-based battle in two-dimensional terrain, with each player adjusting the angle and power of their tank turret before each shot.
Scorched Earth is a popular shareware artillery video game, which is a subgenre of strategy game.
Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. If you prefer to use a java applet emulator, follow this link. This game is emulated by javascript emulator em-dosbox. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'.
Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS.