Scorched Earth (video game)

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.

It was inspired in the ZX Spectrum game "Tanx" created by Paul Stanley and published in 1983 as a type-in in the book "Sixty Programs for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum".