Before there was GB...

[Arthropod]

WORMS SERIES (1995-2004)- sort of an intermediate game between scorched earth and GB. worms also gave a huge boost to the genre, adding multiple-screen arenas, increased characterisation in a cartoony style, and lively fun feel. the current flagship game WORMS WORLD PARTY is arguably a strong competitor to gunbound, offering online play, many scenerio options, and a more stable game engine. the manufacturer site is here and abandonware sites can get you the first few versions:
http://www.team17.com/whatsnew.html

Worms 3D is the new flagship. Worms : Forts Under Siege did like crap. And change the date to 2005 because Mayhem is coming soon.

[creedo]

Latimer... YEAH!$@!@#!# I was gonna post about tankwars but you already did.

http://www.students.dsu.edu/shearerp/tank_wars.htm (this is not the version I remember but it's very close)

Lots of bankshots.
The earth destruction bomb was cool too, after making weird holes (shown in the screenshots) the land would fill in and sink. Falling a bit made you lose life, but it takes a big drop to kill.

I wish I could find the original game that I played in the early 90's, or at least screenshots of it. The game I remember had nice looking horizontal and circular gradiant color backgrounds (like fades from red to purple etc). Some backgrounds were kind of psychedelic, and others had nice twinkling stars. The weapons including various nukes and the MIRV (sort of an early version of kalsiddon shot 2). The version shown above doesn't have these things

If anyone has the original, tell me.

[Zelieth]

god i love these games :^_^:
glade to see you guys are enjoying deathstar battles too

[AtheistFury]

I wish I could find the original game that I played in the early 90's, or at least screenshots of it. The game I remember had nice looking horizontal and circular gradiant color backgrounds (like fades from red to purple etc). Some backgrounds were kind of psychedelic, and others had nice twinkling stars. The weapons including various nukes and the MIRV (sort of an early version of kalsiddon shot 2). The version shown above doesn't have these things

If anyone has the original, tell me.

What you describe is exactly Scorched Earth, mother of all games :
I played A LOT of it in the '90s.
So, once again, chcek the first Pap's post -- it's there. I also keep it on my PC, for over 10 years now :wub: :wub: :wub:

[cyberpimpbot]

I didn't see Hogs of War mentioned anywhere. A 3D ballistics game featuring Hogs at war with each other for control of the worlds supply of swill. This is a hilarious game for both PC and Playstation, made by Atari. It even has a 'Risk-like' story mode where you have to take over the world with your army by conquering the other counties one at a time. Each country has it's own army and accent. There's Sushi Swine (China), Piggystroika (Russia), Uncle Ham's Hogs (USA) for army names (to name a few), and the coutry names are equally funny. You can change your teams names and your pigs have a set number of lives and their ranks can be upgraded as you play giving them more weapons and lives. if one of your pigs dies permenantly they are replaced with a new recruit. I tried to find a site for it, but it came out in 1990, and even Atari's site doesn't make mention of it anymore. There was an Official Site, but it seems I've lost track of it, or it's gone. It really is a great game, but I would reccommend getting it for PC because there are bugs in the Playstation version that can't be fixed, for obvious reasons, and the PC version has online capability. It's a shame they never made a Hogs of War 2, it would do well I think. I will post a link if I can track down a website for it, but you can find reviews at most gaming sites, and I bet you could get a hold of the game on ebay, if nothing else!

[creedo]

Fury: It's weird... scorched earth has all the stuff I remember - mirvs, nukes, dirt bombs, ground disruptors... and the graphics are very similar from the screenshots I'm seeing... but I distinctly remember a "tank wars" title screen. Also the scorched earth graphics are a little better, I see some shots where the green land is different colors and in some cases mapped with a photo of rock. I don't remember any backgrounds with a sun, and the tanks didn't have wheels, they were all one solid color. In the game I remember the land was always green. Did some early version of scorched earth look like this?

Maybe the game I'm thinking of is a clone of SE or vice-versa. The game I'm thinking of was popular with my friend and I around the time commander keen was released (ID released it in 1990 I'm reading). I also remember us playing king's quest V when it was new, so that was also 1990. Apparently scorched earth first came out in 91. So it's possible it's what I'm remembering.

[mezzaninex]

>_> this game rulez


EDIT:

God i hate this game.

[AtheistFury]

Fury: It's weird... scorched earth has all the stuff I remember - mirvs, nukes, dirt bombs, ground disruptors... and the graphics are very similar from the screenshots I'm seeing... but I distinctly remember a "tank wars" title screen. Also the scorched earth graphics are a little better, I see some shots where the green land is different colors and in some cases mapped with a photo of rock. I don't remember any backgrounds with a sun, and the tanks didn't have wheels, they were all one solid color. In the game I remember the land was always green. Did some early version of scorched earth look like this?

I think the backgrounds were first introduced in version 1.5, I might be wrong though.
The first version I played (1.1 or 1.2, not sure here either) also had green (or at least solild-colored) land only and no cave mode (terrain above + below). I believe the tanks had wheels back then (only everyone used the tank without them for it was the only one that could fly ).
As for title screen, the title itself ("Scorched Earth" + "The Mother of All Games") was stored as plain text and even I at the time was able to change it to something different.
So, it might be the same game, only in early version and changed title.
Maybe you could remeber if the Options menu was the same/similar and also invoked with F1? That would be a strong hint :^_^:

[ProfessorPap]

rofl, nice

...and softnyx sez: "that   mean it average game"

[creedo]

fury - can't remember. I'm trying to remember more about the details but I just remember the shooting and the backgrounds and the little dashed trailers from your shots. I think I remember a shot that bounced off walls floor and ceiling for a while before blowing up, but I could be crazy. I remember being able to wipe away the dirt by rotating your turret after a dirtbomb nailed you.

[Satoshi]

How I have been looking for GunBound alternatives.  Thankyuu~<3

Off-Topic: Am I the only one that gets a headache from Creedo's sig?

[ProfessorPap]

fury - can't remember. I'm trying to remember more about the details but I just remember the shooting and the backgrounds and the little dashed trailers from your shots. I think I remember a shot that bounced off walls floor and ceiling for a while before blowing up, but I could be crazy. I remember being able to wipe away the dirt by rotating your turret after a dirtbomb nailed you.

still sounds exactly like SE to me, creedo.  you should try it out and put the issue to rest- the game is mainly the same as the classic version AFAIK.  

[thesoulofthefallen]

wow i didnt know a game could make my hed hurt like that