I played Gunbound in '93!

Gunbound is this network game that the teens have been playing at the Internet shops. I have never played Gunbound since it came out last year. But I played it when I was in college back in '93!

When I observed Gunbound being played at a few Internet shops I've been to lately, I realized that Gunbound is a remake of a DOS game named Scorch! (thanks to bespren jor for helping me recall the name of the game).

Scorch was a DOS program (an exe file!) that we used to run using Windows 3.1. Scorch had tanks symbolized by a horizontal line and a diagonal line like

/_ or _\

Then players would have to gun down each other's tank. We had a variety of weapons to choose from, each with its unique explosive powers.

Players would take turns on the keyboard keying in selected weapon and the trajectory of the weapon.

What was fun was that the tanks would kantiyaw one another on screen with words like "Walang hiya ka!" or "You missed!" or "Patay kang bata ka!"

Naisip ko tuloy, "pinoy ba ang gumawa ng Scorch?" But bespren jorey told me last night that there was a text file which can be edited to change the words of kantiyaw.

Boy, we sure had afternoons of sheeeeeer fun playing Scorch.

Cheers to my Scorch-mates Karl, Jorey and ... ano na pangalan ng room mate niyo sa Molave ... yung taga-davao na may-ari ng computer na ginagamit natin nun na nasira na ang monitor at keyboard at di na niya magawa ang mga papers niya ng dahil sa Scorch?

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