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Worms was already a remake of Scorched Earth, wasn't it?

• GauntletWizard 3y ago
  Worms is in the same genre as Scorched Earth and owes it a lot for inspiration, but it adds a ton of distinct weapons and movement technique that certainly qualifies it as it's own game.
  • chongli 3y ago
    Yeah! This genre is called "artillery games" [1] and it has an impressive number of titles going all the way back to 1972! Scorched Earth is at least the 16th game in the genre, albeit the most famous pre-Worms. My favourite iteration growing up was called Dome Wars [3] and it's not even on that Wikipedia list! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artillery_video_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artillery_video_games [3] https://macintoshgarden.org/games/dome-wars https://macintoshgarden.org/games/dome-wars
    • viraptor 3y ago
      Til from the list that the game was officially called "Gorillas", not "Gorilla" (as in gorilla.bas)