Matt Chat 20: Worms and Artillery Games

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Matt Barton

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Published on July 10, 2009 10:09:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClDqy68vEI

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Artillery Duel (1982)

Duration: 10:00

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Team17's Worms is another addictive and must-play game that originated on the Commodore Amiga platform, but was widely ported and has many sequels and spin-offs. In this video, I give a brief history of the artillery game genre, which includes Scorched Earth as well as plenty of lesser-known classics like Artillery Duel. Artillery games were inspired by life-and-death military applications, but became an important if often underestimated genre of videogames. Thanks for watching, and please comment on the video, rate it, and tell all of your fellow retrogaming radicals about the show!