This is a list of artillery games, sorted chronologically. Information regarding date of release, developer, platform, setting and notability is provided when available.
Legend
List Year Game Developer Platform Notes 1970? Artillery (a.k.a. Super Artillery) TX4050 Graphical artillery game for Tektronix 4050 series computers. 1972 War 3 (a.k.a. Artillery 3) Mike Forman MAIN Original written in FOCAL Mod V (date unknown). TSS-8 BASIC IV port by M. E. Lyon Jr., 1972. HP Time-Shared BASIC port by Brian West, 1975. Microsoft BASIC port published by Creative Computing, 1979. 1976 Secret base SEGA Arcade A secret bunker within a mountain. You control planes (hi/lo) which can bomb the place in diagonals. The side of bombing changes when the planes passes the middle of the screen.The goal is to dig the mountain with bombs, so the underground facility of missiles detonate. loads of similarity with the future Worms game, but much more real time bombing. 1978 Pillbox Gene Perkins TRS80 1979 Artillery Jeff Jessee PET 1979 Human Cannonball Atari, Inc. ATR26 1980? Artillery APPII No date or name. 2-player game. Hi-res. Triangular mountain. 1980? Artillery Rick Longbrake APPII No date. 1-player game. Lo-res. Broken version on Computers Etc., Games Vol 1. Working version found in RI Apple Group archive. 1980 Artillery Simulator B. Goodson APPII Goodson version dated 10/1/80. No date or credit on earlier version that asks for bags of gunpowder instead of force. 1980? Ballistics APPII No date or name. Adaption of early Artillery Simulator for joystick control. 1980 Super Artillery Greg Stein, Rainy City Software APPII MICRO, August 1980, $20 mail order. 1981 Stone Sling Philips ODY2 1982 Artillery Practice Jack Kenne APPII 1-player game. Inspired by Bally Artillery game in August 1982 Creative Computing by John W. Rhodes. Draws rough terrain instead of a single hill. 1983 Artillery Duel Xonox ATR26, C64, CLV, VIC20 1983 Tank Trax Amoeba Software ZX 1986 Tank Wars Cody Snider 1987 Ballerburg Eckhard Kruse ATRST 1988 Gravity Wars Ed Bartz AMI, DOS, MAC 1991 Tanx Gary Roberts AMI 1991 Gorillas Microsoft DOS Example program for QBasic. 1991 Scorched Earth Wendell Hicken DOS 1993 Tylli Janne Uusilehto DOS 1993 Scorched Tanks Michael Welch AMI 1994 Charr Michael Boeh AMI An innovative Artillery clone (Public Domain) for up to eight players, with adjustable difficulty, various protective shields, nice sound effects and especially many varied special projectiles. Downloadable via Aminet ('CHARR100.lha') or oldgamesfinder.com 1995 Worms Team17 AMI, AMI32, DOS, GB, GEN, JAG, MAC, PS1, SAT, SNES 1995 Worms Reinforcements Team17 AMI Expansion to Worms. 1996 Death Tank Ezra Dreisbach SAT Mini-game in PowerSlave. 1996 Death Tank Zwei Ezra Dreisbach SAT Mini-game in Duke Nukem 3D. 1996 Worms & Reinforcements United Team17 AMI Rerelease of Worms and Worms Reinforcements. 1997 MoleZ FRACTiLE DOS 1997 Worms: The Director's Cut Team17 AMI Enhanced remake of Worms. 1997 Worms 2 Team17 WIN Sequel to Worms. 1997 Warheads totalPlay Software WIN Turn based artillery game set in space with orbital interplanetary battle mechanics. 1998 Liero Joosa Riekkinen DOS 1999 Worms Armageddon Team17 DC, GBC, N64, PS1, WIN 2000 Hogs of War Infogrames PS1, WIN 2001 Pocket Tanks Blitwise OSX, WIN 2001 Scorched 3D Gavin Camp LIN, OSX, UNIX, WIN 2001 Ballerburg: Castle Siege Ascaron WIN, PS1 2001 Worms World Party Team17 DC, GBA, NGE, PPC, PS1, WIN Sequel to Worms Armageddon. 2003 Atomic Cannon Isotope 244 MAC, WIN 2003 Worms 3D Team17 GCN, MAC, PS2, WIN, XBOX Sequel to Worms 2. 2003 Space Tanks YawThrust Software Labs WIN 2004 Snails PDAmill PPC 2004 Worms Forts: Under Siege Team17 MOBI, PS2, WIN, XBOX 2005 GunBound softnyx WIN 2005 Worms 4: Mayhem Team17 PS2, WIN, XBOX Sequel to Worms 3D. 2006 Gusanos Mario Carbajal Liero clone. 2006 Worms: Open Warfare Team17 DS, PSP 2007 Chick Chick Boom Extra Toxic WEB 2007 Crazy Penguin Catapult Sumea WIN, iOS 2007 Worms Team17 XBLA 2007 Worms: Open Warfare 2 Team17 DS, PSP Sequel to Worms: Open Warfare. 2008 Gravity Wars Boris Yakubchik WEB, LIN, WIN 2008 Worms: A Space Oddity Team17 Wii 2009 Death Tank Snowblind Studios XBLA 2009 Incoming! JV Games Wii 2009 Worms 2: Armageddon Team17 X360, PS3 2010 Worms Reloaded Team17 WIN, MAC PC port of Worms 2: Armageddon 2010 Worms: Battle Islands Team17 Wii, PSP 2011 Worms Ultimate Mayhem Team17 WIN, X360, PS3 re-release of Worms 4: Mayhem. 2012 Worms Revolution Team17 WIN, X360, PS3 2013 Worms 3 Team17 iOS, DROID, OSX 2013 Worms Clan Wars Team17 WIN, OSX, LIN 2014 Worms Battlegrounds Team17 PS4, XOne 2015 Worms 4 Team17 iOS, DROID 2015 ShellShock Live kChamp Games WIN, MAC, LIN, XOne, PS4 2D online multiplayer artillery game inspired by Scorched Earth. 2016 Worms W.M.D Team17 2026 Iron Nest Nick Nieuwoudt, Dominik Latos WIN Artlillery simulator set in fictional 1920s Castile
See also Artillery game
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