Scorched Earth
Game · MS-DOS · DOSBox (js-dos)
"The Mother of All Games" — turn-based artillery warfare.
Tip: click inside the screen to capture mouse & keyboard; press Esc to release. For v86 systems (FreeDOS, KolibriOS, Tiny Core), the first boot downloads the disk image, so give it a moment.
Details
- Category
- Game
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Year
- 1991
- Emulator
- js-dos (DOSBox), client-side WASM
- License
- Freely-distributable shareware
- Source
- https://archive.org/details/msdos_Scorched_Earth_1991
About
Scorched Earth is the classic turn-based artillery game: tanks lob shells across a destructible mountain landscape, spending the winnings between rounds on an ever-sillier arsenal of weapons and defenses. A shareware staple of the early-90s PC and endlessly replayable in hot-seat multiplayer.