Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)

Re:Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time fo... by hollywood_court on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:55AM (#32700957)

Scorched Earth was my favorite among that list. I spent many hours playing it on my Packard Bell 486x.

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Re:Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time fo... by Tomte on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:57AM (#32700967)

You can actually still buy it: http://www.whicken.com/scorch/index.html

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Re:Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time fo... by nicolas_t on Saturday September 03, 2022 @09:50AM (#32701863)

I wish it was on gog or steam. I'm lazy but would love to just have it work on the steam deck without me buying it, backing up the zip, configuring dosbox etc...

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Re:Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time fo... by staindk on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:21AM (#32702104)

Seems you should be able to play at least the Shareware version online: https://archive.org/details/msdos_SCORCH15_shareware

EDIT: this seems to be the full one, but I'm not sure how one would check (never played this game): https://archive.org/details/ScorchedEarth

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Re:Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time fo... by Zardoz84 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:35AM (#32701248)

I would not call "forgotten" Scorched Earth. Even there is a remake in 3d.

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Re:Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time fo... by indymike on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:02PM (#32705537)

Atomic Tanks is an open source clone of Scorched Earth taking it to it's natural conclusion. Then there's the open source 3d version... Scorched3d. Still a good time waster when you are on hold.

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Re:Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time fo... by redballoon6 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @05:15AM (#32711282)

Scorched Earth was great fun. Was going to suggest Nuclear War, but I see that's actually from '89...

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