Scorched Earth was great. I had thought for a while that it wasn't that well known. I always disliked Worms because it was an obvious ripoff.

goodknight

HOLY SHIT. So happy!

EMPTYUK

I have Death Tank Zwei on my Sega Saturn (courtesy of Duke Nukem 3D and a Quake save). It indeed was great fun. Shoud be interesting here (with the eye candy you youngins just love ^_^).

relic1980

@PapaBear434:

Better link. Apparently, they're remaking the game or something.

[www.warheads.net]

PapaBear434

Snowblind: here's a mistake you made when copying Pixeljunk.

When you release the game as a Live or PSN game, you're supposed to update it and give it your own flair and twist, not just port the same stupid flash game we can get for free.
That's what separates Pixeljunk from garbage. And you don't seem to have gotten that memo.

Ad-hominem

Also, if you guys want a really, really good version of it, try an old PC game called "Warheads."

[pc.gamezone.com]

The game is basically Worms with spaceships in a 2D space. Planets all have a different gravity, there are about a million weapons, and you can even design your own. Don't even know where to go buy it anymore though..

PapaBear434

So it's real time? That's not nearly as much fun as Scorch's turn based gameplay was.

Mommar

SWEET! a definite buy for me

Lanhoj

Death Tank is real time - so it does not play like Worms / Scorched Earth :)

Rlan

weeeee pocket tanks! I spent months on that game.

ZinkO: USA WE DA BEST

ahh.. good times with games like this, they were probabilly my favourite games when I was younger and I still love them now if I had a 360 I would be sure to give this a download.

Tzero7

My god, I am old as shit if some think this game looks similar to Gunbound/Fortress.

Scorched Earth was two thumbs up. Does anybody remember the old shareware game where you can buy various weapons for your spaceship and bounce around planets?, it was top-down.

Shareware...heh.

PsycheE

Achievement Unlocked: Shoot Hard 5G

Sean

Actually it's a lot more like that Sidekick game, Armored Strike. More tactical than worms, I think.

jonaswan2

Scorched earth indeed. I saw rollers, baby nukes, and even something that looked like a mag deflector... Sadly, it looks like a Death's Head would be too much to ask.

jbliton

As a kid, playing this game over and over again was a passion for me. On my old Tandy 2000, it was called "Sharpshooter." On my 386, it was called "Scorched Earth." Then later still on my Pentium 1, it was called "Worms." And every time, it got more and more fun.

And you know what? I'll buy this too. Even on my X-Box, even though there are a million flash versions, even though there are emulators of the old ones I can download... I'll still buy this.

PapaBear434

Scorched Earth was awesome. Many good times with that game and Doom.

def PD

good old scorched earth. i liked how you could turn on an option so that when the computer tanks died, they said something like "do you smell that?" or "i see a bright light". it made me chuckle.

kwonster

What year is this???

xot

Looks a bit like Gunbound but with all players moving at once.

GyrFal

I think this is already on XBLA. I think it's called Worms.

PC+Mac Coexist

@goodknight:

I don't think you can really say that Worms is a "ripoff" of Scorched Earth. They are both just entries in a long line of similar games.

The first graphical version was probably "Artillery" for the Apple II, but there were plenty of text-based versions as well. I remember typing out a text based C64 version from a magazine in the early 80s.

And then there was, of course, GORILLAS.BAS, which every QBASIC user will remember.

Scorched Earth refined the formula that was created by the early artillery games, and Worms altered it to be quite different again. But the genre really goes back much further than either game.

I'm glad to see the genre make a comeback thanks to XBLA.

Marlor

I played that, scorched earth, or at least a cheap clone of it, on my friends computer way back. I remember trying to remember how it was called "Skorch.exe" as opposed to "Scorch.exe"

ChunkOFunk

Ah! Scorched Earth!! I remember that game. I don't know if I like the real-time as opposed to turn based, but I will wait and see when the demo is released. Still, looks to be a great addition to XBLA.

Ken Hikari

I LOVE SCORCHED EARTH!

DUDE I used to get the deflector shield (cheaper than the shield or the mega shield) and the WHOLE match I was pretty much immune from shots. Only the Funky Bomb, Super Funky Bomb, Napalm or a extremely well made direct shot made it past my deflector shield. Even the Digger couldn't get me.

I miss that game SO much.

Thassodar

Reminds me of Artillery Duel by XONOX for the Atari 2600...

[www.videogamecritic.net]

Eltigro

Napalm, FTW!

Tarthus

I think these are the best graphics I have ever seen on anything!

Look at the water and the clouds moving by. Shit! Everything looks prerendered! Unless it actually is prerendered with an overlay. But yeah it looks interesting. I may try it when it comes out.

Netnavi

For all of you who grew up playing some Scorched Earth, there is an online version of the original classic- kinda fun to play around the office!

[www.scorch2000.com]

Namssorg

Worms, bah. Scorched Earth was the shit. Loved that game when I was a kid. You could play with like 8 people!

yargh

Ahh...now I watched the video, and I'm not so excited. Pocket Tanks is turn based and more a game of strategy. This doesn't look turn based.

Spartan1308™

@ZinkO: USA WE DA BEST: Glad to see at least one other person thought of Pocket Tanks. I thought that game was supposed to be in the works for XBLA. I hope the weapons in this are just as cool and crazy.

Spartan1308™

So the tanks are going to fight on top of mountains of ice-cream.

neoraul20

I totally fell in love with videogames playing Gorillas.

neoraul20

@neoraul20: as soon as I saw this game I thought of that.

neoraul20

Looks great, absolutely loved scorched earth it was an absolute multiplayer classic.

beefsack

We had Scorched Earth on an old IBM PS-2 at my middle school. We played it every day during recess. I remember editing the .cfg files to make the tanks say all sorts of foul and vulgar profanity before they died. Ah, memories...

guitarzan2k5

@Marlor: Yes, I use to play GORILLAS for hours in a computer with a DOS system at school. That brings fond memories.

neoraul20

oh god. many hours of my life were spent on scorched earth with friends. good times!

dafthero

Seriously? Scorched Earth may be old, but if you're going to remake this kind of play, you better top what's already been done. Where's the tunneling? Where's the dirt bombs? Perhaps a money system? Wind? Rubber walls? Lasers?

Let's face it. This game will probably be skin and bones.

Averus

Ah Scorched Earth, had some good times playing that in the library after school.

Gray665

But where's the Death Tank theme song? Please, please get that in there, guys.

Subbers

@PC+Mac Coexist:
Worms isn't realtime.

elevenoverzero

What's all this Scorched Earth this and Worms that. This is DEATH TANK. The game is great. Real time brings an interesting twist to the tank fighting game. My friends and I have spent countless hours playing it on the Saturn (to this day). Fear not, the day Death Tank comes to XBLA will be a good day!

stonefry

I can see myself spending countless hours on something like this.

melting_doll

I loved scorched earth but I spent more time playing Gorillas against my dad, didn't think anyone remembered that game.

JayDiggler

A real-time and dumbed-down version of Scorched Earth? Thanks, but no thanks. If it had of been a sweet Scorched Earth remake, I'd have been sold.

Thorn

@JayDiggler: For a very long time, Gorillas was the only game my dad would play with me. Now he will only play wii sports.

Coxswain

*Whole solar system, not holy lol. Anyone remember? There was warp addons you could buy,worm holes,shields,bombs and invisible cloak.

Chosen1

@PsycheE: Were you could fight for planets and capture the holy solar system? I can't remember the name of that game.. one of the ships was a evil smiley face..! Anyone remember the name?

Chosen1

I used to play a similar game called "Super Artillary" on the Apple][ E back in the mid 80's.

Two castles, randomly formed terrain with a random wind. You enter the angle and power of your shot.

Tyrannical

Will it keep the Death Tank theme from the saturn versions? Curse Lobotomy from removing it from the PAL version of exhumed! Seem to remember it was in their excellent DN3D port though

abigsmurf

I'll take "Gorillas" any day.

Who needs Napalm when I have... Bananas.

Daobaz

@PsycheE: Solar Winds

Elderwulf

Wow, XBLA keeps on going strong!
This is ANOTHER must-buy title for me!

Horusz

Screw Scorched Earth, Tank Wars is the original version ([en.wikipedia.org]). And the most fun one too! Too bad the tanks here can move. Ah well, I guess you can call that progress...

Unclean1

STOP mentioning Scorched Earth in the same Breath as Death Tank, bloody bunch of Noobs, go and play Saturn DeathTank and then have your head examined.

For a final reiteration of my point...

Deathtank is better than nearly every game out there, It's not a "rip off" of scorched earth, saying so means you've never played it.

So nyah nyah..

ScrewYouHippy

I want it, i want it, i want it!

nottsville

Oh my! Old school video gaming, back once more! I soooooooo can't wait to MIRV my opponents into the stoneage.

I hope they have those cool magnetic shields too. I loved those damn things. Be WAYYYYYYYY down in a canyon and let the bullets bounce away from you off your shield. Muhahahahahaha!

Salen

@JayDiggler: I used to play gorrilas with my dad too! Wow, I guess it was a good father-son game back in the day.

gomerkyle9

Yes sir, I am all over this. Harkens back to Scorched Earth.

MSUSteve

SCORCH!!!!

WhiteNoise

woah. tanks with visible E-penises?

:rolleyes:

Onizuka-GTO

@ScrewYouHippy: Yeah, the comments here make me sad that most people never played Death Tank.

bburbank

wow i loved this game back in the day ^-^ I'm so going to pick it up when its out!

Rubykitten

Wait. I also remember Scorched Earth from back in the day. Played way too much of it sitting in our apartment, refusing to learn the language, in eastern Europe (anybody else never get the economy to work right?). But all you piners have me confused. Scorched Earth is still around, and updated, and 3d, death's head and all: [www.scorched3d.co.uk] And with the wind turned off and the ability to autoaim your x axis, has a really similar feel to the original, just all fancified.

Doomlout

It's great seeing so many people in this thread remember Scorched Earth and GORILLAS. I just had my 26th birthday and was starting to feel kinda old!

catapult37

@Unclean1: Yes, thank you. Tank Wars is the original!

stradric

@Unclean1: I could have sworn Tank Wars was older, but Scorched Earth got all the love in here. Tank Wars all the way!

Game looks interesting, and the comments section has some great links. I'm gonna have to try Scorched 3d when I get home.

Tiber

@bburbank: It's nice to know I'm not alone...

ScrewYouHippy

Wasn´t there a flash game by Sony which played like this a long time ago (dunno if it still exist)?? That´s was pretty fun and free.

Daisuash

Wow, this game looks alot like Tanks for IRC..

ness151

@PsycheE: Might be Warheads. I've still got an old version of Warheads SE before the makers sold it to some other company which promptly 'updated' it and tried to force the old user base to 'upgrade' at a so-called special price. Gah.

Pudgey

SCORCHED EARTH! Oh man I loved that game. I had the Simpsons mod so they'd say "eat my shorts" and stuff when the CPU died. Ahhh, I always enjoyed using the Large Dirt Bombs and covering them so they'd blow themselves up on their turn.

CARBOMB

I loved Scorched Earth, but I just can't get into Worms. Scorched Earth got me stuck for 2 days in DOS mode on my Windows 95 computer, since I had only had an Amiga before that. It ended up teaching me a lot of lessons about Windows in those couple of days.

I also had a game for my Osborne that was similar, but only had you shooting at a target; pretty sure it was Artillery.

kingofallcosmos

Scorched was great and this looks like a fantastic tribute. I hope this makes it to PC.

Zodduska

@Pudgey: HELL YES. You got it, I thought it might be Warheads but powers that be only shows the new Crysis game.

+1 Star.

PsycheE

Scorched Earth still rocks on my PC. Some hacking needed by a friend to make it work but work it does and its just a classic. Bring it to PSN!!

candygirl_fangirl

This looks like that game called Zwok...

EnigmaticMan

God I loved this game back in the days of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.

We just called it "Tank Wars" back then. It had everything, a plethora of projectiles, cycling backgrounds, wind physics, and destructible terrain. Those were the days, Captain Keen...

Also, Worms is an entirely different game... Plays quite the same though.

Shiroi Kaze