Comments on: Confessions of an iShoot Addict http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/ News and reviews from the world of gadgets, gear, apps and the web Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Church http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:59:51 +0000 http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=1307#comment-725 @Dave et al. I’m pretty sure that game originated on the old skool text-only UNIX/VAX machines. (ala Lunar Lander.)

]]> By: Dave http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/comment-page-1/#comment-723 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:51:27 +0000 http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=1307#comment-723 Scorched Earth was the first incarnation that I played this type of game, but I wasn’t sure if there was a predecessor (Gorillas was similar in that it involved angle, power, and wind, but Scorched Earth scorched Gorillas).

]]> By: slo86gt http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/comment-page-1/#comment-718 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:31:19 +0000 http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=1307#comment-718 Yes, I am this much of a geek. The original GW-Basic game was called Bananas and the game Scorched Earch was(is!) amazing. Going in and editing the banana “explosions” in the basic game was a crude way to make myself chuckle. Something about the entire screen being cleared from one well placed MOAB (Mother of all Banana-bombs) is quite amusing.

HELP! I’m being repressed!
Your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries!
etc etc etc

]]> By: johnleeh http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:59:22 +0000 http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=1307#comment-714 Not even a mention that this is a clone of a 14 year old DOS game called “Scorched Earth.”

I’ve never had more fun in a hotseat in my life. Those were the days…..

]]> By: Church http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:51:13 +0000 http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=1307#comment-713 You know what would make this game better? Is if it was based on Battlestar Galactica…

]]> By: Carlos the Dwarf http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/comment-page-1/#comment-712 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:13:30 +0000 http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=1307#comment-712 When i was in Jr High we took a class call DOS, which was basically typing and how to run programs from a dos prompt, anyway we had a super low budget version of this that was called Gorillas. Each player was a gorilla who stood atop a random city scape and using the same angle and force mechanic you would toss, i kid you not, Atomic Bananas at one another. Great fun.
Is there a worms game out that runs on Vista? i loved the one i had but it ran on windows 95.

]]> By: byron12 http://techland.time.com/2009/03/31/confessions-of-an-ishoot-addict/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:06:26 +0000 http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=1307#comment-711 Battlestar Galactica is way, way more Beckettian than i Shoot. When the Cyclons and Humans, working together, find earth, but its a nuked out ruin — now that was bleak. But how would Lev know?

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