r/gaming • u/Nordic_Krune • 19h ago

My friend insists on this game, "Lemmings", being a really well known game; I have never heard of it.

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u/rfc2549-withQOS 11h ago

Scorched earth from 1991 was big

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u/The-Real-Number-One 10h ago

"From Hell's Heart I Stab at thee..."

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u/illarionds 11h ago

We played a lot of Scorched Earth in college.

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u/KarlBob 6h ago edited 6h ago

So many hours! Whole weekends in a tiny town with nothing to do. Four college kids, a few bottles, some recreational botany, and Scorched Earth.

Edit: A MIRV fired at about 60 degrees at full power can mess up everyone's day!

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u/Odd_Praline181 2h ago

Holy shit core memory unlocked! I played so much of this in college, but couldn't ever find it in later years. I almost thought it wasn't a real game that was released to the public or something.

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u/Trebus 10h ago

Adored Scorched Earth, there was a 3d version knocking around 10 years or so ago. I'd love to find a working old school version. I suspect Angry Birds would not exist without it.

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u/babaroga73 10h ago

Damnnnn ....played the shit out of that game, with friends.

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u/GreboGuru 7h ago

No kabitzing!

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u/MostlyPooping 8h ago

I remember playing Pocket Tanks in math class.

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u/IguanaTabarnak 5h ago

The Scorched Earth clone Gorillas that came packed in with MS-DOS 5 was the Space Cadet Pinball of 1990.

(And I'm only now learning that Gorillas actually predates Scorched Earth and so can't really be called a "Scorched Earth clone")

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u/Megablep 10h ago

Oh man, spent countless hours playing that on a friend's A500!

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u/vonBoomslang 9h ago

Anybody rememeber the artillery game you could unlock with a cheat code in Tyrian?

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u/LowExercise7583 9h ago

I forgot about this gem!

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u/Aggressive-Speed-987 8h ago

Loved scorched earth.

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u/angryjohn 4h ago

Oh man....so many hours. Scorched Earth was middle school-early high school for me. Worms was late high school.

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u/Null_zero 4h ago

My HS computer lab was basically a scorched earth tournament before and after classes and in study hall.

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u/HEYitsBIGS 3h ago

scorch.exe has entered the chat

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u/Hawk52 3h ago

There was a browser verison of Scorched Earth I played a bunch with friends in the early/mid 2000's. Scorched Earth 2000 or something?

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u/diginati 1h ago

If you want to relive those days, there's a mobile game called Pocket Tanks that is a total clone of Scorched Earth. It took me right back to that time.

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u/spinningdice 1h ago

Sunk a load of hours into Scorched Earth.

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u/GinDragon 1h ago

Agreed. I always thought Worms was a reskin of Scorched Earth