Artillery Games
In an artillery game, two or more players shoot at each other,
nearly always in turn-based mode, with cannons or tanks across a
mountain by entering angle and initial speed of the projectile. (How
do you influence the speed of a artillery ball? Well, by using more
or less powder.) The trajectory is then calculated exactly by the
computer. Wind is included in the calculation.
Artillery games are hard to trace. They are also known as tank
games, neither term is particularly helpful with search engines.
Besides, tank game can also refer to an arcade
game where two or more players move tanks through a maze and
shoot at each other in real time. They are often listed as
shoot-'em-ups, sometimes with the add-on
duel. Again, this can mean a lot of things.
| Artillery Games for Amiga |
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| BattleDuel |
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| Cow Wars |
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| Scorched Tanks |
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| Tanx |
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| Artillery Games for PC |
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| Bang! Bang! |
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| Fractal Fighters |
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| Genocide |
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| Gorillas |
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| Howitzer |
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| Mortar Mayhem |
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| Scorched Earth 1.0 |
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| Scorched Earth 1.5 |
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| Tank Time |
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| Tank Wars |
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| TankWars V2.0 |
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Worms
In 1995, Team17 released Worms.
While still a turn-based artillery game, the HUD alone (dual life bars
at the top of the screen) shows the developer's experience with
fighting games like
Full Contact and
Body Blows. Apart from this, Worms puts much more
emphasis on a variety of weapons, a feature going back to at least
Tank Wars. Finnish developers took the concept one step further and
created real-time artillery games.
| Worms and its Heritage |
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| Worms |
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| MoleZ |
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| Liero |
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