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Cannonball Blitz is a game programmed by Olaf Lubeck for the Apple II and published by On-Line Systems in 1982. It was ported to the VIC-20 and TI-99/4A computers. An historic military spin on Donkey Kong, rolling cannonballs replace barrels, a soldier stands in for the large ape, and the objective of the first level is a flag rather than a kidnapped woman.
Following in 1990, Kenny Morse released a different game also titled Tank Wars, which introduced the concept of buying weapons and multiple AI computer-player tanks to the artillery game. Gravity Wars was a conversion of the Amiga game of the same name that took the artillery game into space, introducing a 2D gravity field around planets, a ...
A cannon on top of a very high mountain shoots a cannonball horizontally. If the speed is low, the cannonball quickly falls back to Earth (A, B). At intermediate speeds, it will revolve around Earth along an elliptical orbit (C, D). Beyond the escape velocity, it will leave the Earth without returning (E).
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. [2] Players control tanks to do turn-based battle in two-dimensional terrain, adjusting the angle and power of each tank turret before each shot.
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CNET Download (originally Download.com) is an Internet download directory website launched in 1996 as a part of CNET. Initially it resided on the domain download.com, and then download.com.com for a while, and is now download.cnet.com. The domain download.com attracted at least 113 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com ...
Use over 85 different weapons. Create scorched earth in this strategic tank simulation where you battle against a computer or your friends on 25 deformable landscapes. The game features numerous user options, a full music track, and superior effects." [2] Brighthand stated that "Atomic Cannons is, effectively, infinitely replayable. It's also ...
There is a claim that the current world record for the longest human cannonball flight is 193 ft 8.8 in (59.05 m), [4] established by David "The Bullet" Smith Jr. on the set of Lo Show dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on March 10, 2011. The distance was measured from the mouth of the cannon to the farthest point reached on the net.