Man my poor pc got absolutely hammered by the giant dirt bombs and the deaths head / mirv
I never actually played this at home. They had it on our school computers and it was a mainstay of the day.
Our elementary school computers had one copy of Odells lake on a 5 1/2 in floppy disk and some copies of Oregon trail to share.
We had crab volleyball on our high school computers.
Me too. I want to buy a vintage Packaged Bell 100ish MHZ computer one day for the shear nostalgia.
If no one guesses right this will be a massive shot to my ego, which is already on life support
I remember it well. The ultimate shot was called Deaths head and it destroyed half the poligon. Later versions has way more options for shooting including lasers.
All the computers in the Electronics lab had it installed on them; we wasted so much time playing. That was such a complete screw-off class, haha.
I played this a LOT on the IBM PS2 computers at my highschool! We made all sorts of custom death responses. My proudest moment was only having enough money to buy a Mag Deflector before the round and then having it bounce a would-be direct MIRV strike onto a friend's tank beside me.
If you ever feel the urge to play again, there is a phone game called Pocket Tanks. Does a great job recreating the game.
I used to troll the pocket tanks forums back in middle school and learned to make pixelart just to make weapon suggestions. The dev was cool, and I think one of my ideas/suggestions ended up making it in the game.
We would play each other using hamachi, and I made friends with a couple of people in the group.
That's cool as hell. I play all the time. It's the only game I can keep going back to. I never get bored of it.
My little brother and I played the hell out of it. Especially when we figured out you could change the last words that your tank says right before it blows up. We thought that was hillarious.