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Artillery

An artillery game for two human players, who get placed on both sides of a randomly-selected landscape and proceed to take turns lobbing high explosives at each other. Each side commands a gun company with 100…

1 July 1982

Artillery is a shooter, released 1 July 1982 on DOS.

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What Artillery is

Artillery was released in 1982. It was published by IBM. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

An artillery game for two human players, who get placed on both sides of a randomly-selected landscape and proceed to take turns lobbing high explosives at each other. Each side commands a gun company with 100 men: these unfortunate meat-shields tend to die even on a near-miss, and a direct hit will kill them all. Perhaps realizing that, one man deserts his post after each turn, on both sides. The first side to wipe out the opposing force is the victor - until the next battle. Shots are fired by entering an angle and a velocity; the terrain is destructible, so craters can chip away at the landscape, or cause a player's gun to drop into the resulting pit. Ballistic trajectories are also…
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How it plays

Its themes are warfare.

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When did Artillery come out?
Artillery was released on 1 July 1982 for DOS.

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