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Currently hosting 1 game published by Wendell Hicken!
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Home of Retro PC Gaming Currently hosting 1 game published by Wendell Hicken! |
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| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Simulation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Mother of All Games! That's how the author describes this game, and when I was in high school, it was true. In this turn-based simulation, up to 10 humans or computers can use tanks to blow each other up with anything from small missiles to thermonuclear weapons. Shields and parachutes allow players to withstand the destruction from weapons, environmental damage and the occasional tank falling on top of you. Use guidance to seek and destroy your friends and enemies, or unleash multiple projectile weapons on everyone on the screen. Weapons and armor must be purchased, and money is awarded based on kills. Despite extremely simple concept and gameplay, you can customize settings for everything from the effect of the walls around the screen to gravity, wind and economics. One of the most addictive multiplayer games of all time. Originally a small freeware game, Wendell Hicken started distributing the game as shareware when he received an unsolicited payment for the game! The registered version enables the triple-turreted tanks for users, and adds 25 new scanned mountains. Complete version history:
Wendell Hicken still sells the registered version of this game for $20 on CD-ROM only.
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