Oldie but Goodie - For the Ballistics geeks

**MoreSaltThanPepper** · 03-03-2011, 12:55 PM

Just found this again this morning.

Non-Line-Of-Sight Rocket Cannon game.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/sons-of-...challenge.html

Enjoy

- John

**David in Boston** · 03-03-2011, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by MoreSaltThanPepper

Just found this again this morning.

Non-Line-Of-Sight Rocket Cannon game.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/sons-of-...challenge.html

Enjoy

- John

Fire for effect then you got them!

**SeattleSparky** · 03-18-2011, 04:10 PM

QUite addicting!!

**DSB** · 03-18-2011, 06:25 PM

Thanks for the link. Very addicting, indeed!

**rhmills** · 03-18-2011, 07:45 PM

Addicting! I got 49,000 my first time.

**art803** · 03-18-2011, 07:53 PM

have not played this style for a while

**JohnnyDemonic** · 03-19-2011, 08:37 AM

OMG, thanks... So much for tilling the garden today.

High Score so far: 67,400

**DFrancis** · 03-19-2011, 10:33 AM

This reminds me of an old PC game, awesome.
EDIT: after some searching I found an open source version of the original game, Scorched Earth. http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

**Mako72** · 03-20-2011, 04:17 PM

Made it to round 11 92500pts.

I remember these types of games back on the Basic oldies, Atari, Apple, Commodore, TRS80. You would just type them in from a magazine article, couple hundred lines of code and you had a game. Save it to a tape drive and you only had to wait 30 minutes for it to load next time. Course they didn't have the pretty background, just two castles at different elevations. Jeez I feel old!

Jay

**DavyRay** · 03-20-2011, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by Mako72

Made it to round 11 92500pts.

I remember these types of games back on the Basic oldies, Atari, Apple, Commodore, TRS80. You would just type them in from a magazine article, couple hundred lines of code and you had a game. Save it to a tape drive and you only had to wait 30 minutes for it to load next time. Course they didn't have the pretty background, just two castles at different elevations. Jeez I feel old!

Jay

Don't forget to adjust the volume level on the cassette drive, so the program will load properly! Did you ever place a transistor radio next to the computer, tuned to a dead channel, to listen to the sounds of the control loops changing? It would react to the change in the game play, almost like it was intentional. It wasn't, though. Just EMI/RFI.

**hometownhero** · 03-20-2011, 07:17 PM

Reminds me of that old game tank wars that came on a 5 1/2 floppy disk

**blary54** · 03-20-2011, 07:17 PM

89,000 first try. Pretty good game.

**azmark** · 03-23-2011, 02:37 PM

56,800 first try. I can see this as being a problem

**Cains Boy** · 04-01-2011, 11:41 AM

I wondered what I was going to do at work this afternoon. My father-in-law is going to love this.

As I heard once: Southerners understand entertainment like no one else. Basically, if it doesn't fly, explode, or bring down a critter, it ain't worth doin'.