Blast from the Past
Before I mention anything else: Longhorn has a name: Windows Vista. I’m not too impressed. PC Magazine has an article about it, including a round up of humorous name suggestions.
Now, on to the point of the post. Do you remember Scorch? You know, the old DOS game Scorched Earth. I used to play it back in the early ’90s on my friends’ 386. It was so fun. Recently, I found a Flash knock-off called Tanks. I got my school chums playing (you know who you are) and we ended up wasting several days in the lab, sitting on the couch with the screen pulled up so we could all see.
Tanks is initally fun, but the game is not as feature-rich as Scorch, and the game becomes very unbalanced after a few rounds.
This prompted Marc to do some research, and he found the original Scorch. It even runs on Windows XP! I was thrilled. The gameplay is as good as I remember it (although the graphics seemed a lot better back then).
Then, Marc topped himself. He found Scorched Earth 3D. This thing rocks! Try it out, for old time’s sake.