Scorched Earth (video game)

Scorched Earth
Developer(s)Wendell Hicken
Platform(s)MS-DOS
Release1991
Genre(s)Artillery
Mode(s)Single player, hotseat multiplayer

Scorched Earth is a shareware artillery video game. It was released for MS-DOS in 1991, originally written by Wendell Hicken using Borland C++ and Turbo Assembler. Players control tanks to do turn-based battle in two-dimensional terrain, adjusting the angle and power of each tank turret before each shot. Scorched Earth adds destructible terrain and a variety of extreme weapons to the artillery formula.