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Nitpick: not Gorilla.bas; it was the actual OG, Artillery. Prototypes, which used sprites ripped from Lemmings, were even named "Lemartillery". And the creativ
by krige 2mo ago
Nitpick: not Gorilla.bas; it was the actual OG, Artillery. Prototypes, which used sprites ripped from Lemmings, were even named "Lemartillery".
And the creative bankrupcy of T17 is a whole another topic. I would rather suggest that they lucked into Worms when Davidson approached them by happenstance, and would not survive otherwise.
- whywhywhywhy 2mo agoYeah Worms was coded on Amiga computers in a part of the world that was extremely Amiga heavy so it’s unlikely Gorillas.bas is the reference point.
- a96 2mo agohttps://www.lemonamiga.com/game/tanx https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/tanx 1991 is what came to mind for me.
- somat 2mo agoScorched Earth always comes to mind as an influential early artillery game, but it too was PC, so hard to say. I actually remember it's stupid tagline better than the name, "The mother of all games" indeed. But that is what I was searching for to get the name.
- krige 2mo agoAt least some reviews for Worms mentioned Scorched Earth (in superlatives too). It was big enough that systems that didn't have it, wish they had it.