![]() ![]() Series such as the continuingly popular Worms would not exist without this small shareware game. Scorched Earth however can be considered the game that crafted artillery games into what we know today. The genre is at it’s core, two tanks facing off in combat, in a bid to destroy one another quickly. ![]() Games like Artillery for the Comodore PET, and even homebrew games for computers in the 70’s, were all attempts at basic artillery simulation. To fully understand the game, we must realize that the “artillery” genre existed well before Scorched Earth. So how does this game live up to it’s claim of being the “Mother of all Games?” How does it hold up today? Read on, and learn more about the shareware classic, Scorched Earth! Claiming to be the “Mother of All Games” upon it’s release (in reference to the then topical declaration of a forthcoming “Mother of all Battles” by Saddam Hussein after his invasion of Kuwait), Scorched Earth is a simple artillery game originally released in 1991. ![]()
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