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Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 17:16:40 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

Artillery games were a popular multiplayer genre in #DOSGaming starting in the early 80s. What are your favorites?
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Scorched Earth (Wendell Hicken, 1991)
QBasic Gorillas (Microsoft Corporation, 1991)
Worms (Team17 Software/Ocean Software, 1995)
The Castle (Sami Tammilehto)
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- Haunted Owlbear (mightyowlbear@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 17:23:12 UTC Haunted Owlbear
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  @dosnostalgic I defected to the Amiga to play Scorched Tanks.
  
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- Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 17:43:48 UTC Fish Id Wardrobe
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  @dosnostalgic I played a *lot* of Scorched Earth.
  
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- Not a Wizard (notawizard@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 18:36:17 UTC Not a Wizard
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  @dosnostalgic I played Worms a lot on the Amiga, but I think that QBasic Gorrillas is a vastly underrated gem.
  
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- Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 20:26:21 UTC Deadly Headshot
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  @dosnostalgic Bang-bang and Pocket-tanks are the two I remember the most that aren't listed...
  
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- eobet (eobet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 22:28:59 UTC eobet
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  @dosnostalgic Ahh… nobody here remembers poor old Howitzer here either! 😅 The most diverse weapon selection of all of them, the highest resolution graphics of all of them, and the most unique gameplay with simultaneous turns. http://randallbuilds.blogspot.com/2009/11/howitzer.html
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    Many years ago, I wrote a tank game called Howitzer. It had all sorts of features - animated mushroom clouds, dozens of types of ammo, comp...
- seandoughtie@mastodon.social's status on Monday, 02-May-2022 02:56:30 UTC Seandoughtie
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  @dosnostalgic I loved text adventures. Zork. Sim City was great.
  
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- Pixelworship (pixelworship@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 13:32:26 UTC Pixelworship
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  @dosnostalgic The Amiga version of Worms, I guess. Scorched Earth was cool, too.
  
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