So is Scorched Earth, it's preceded (at least) by "Tank Wars" (aka BOMB.EXE) by Kenny Morse from 1990:
replyBOMB.EXE was my first.
replyTank games like this have a long heritage. Scorch is probably the pinnacle, but I played primitive versions of this all the way back on an Apple ][.
replyGORILLA.BAS is arguably part of the lineage too, somewhere in there.
replyDiscussion of the genre’s legacy is not complete without Artillery Duel for the Atari VCS 2600.
replyhttps://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-artillery-due...
Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
replyI like Hedgewars which is an open source game similar to Worms but with hedgehogs. It is available as package in most Linux distros but also on Windows, Mac and FreeBSD. I believe it is available on Steam as well.
replyScorched Tanks on Amiga was the real derivative work, Pocket Tanks was that author's more modern update
replyHaha, same
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