Oh man, we played this in computer lab in high school to pass time after we were done with our assignments. I believe it was a java/flash version though (year 2000/2001)

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Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yup. Hours and hours of this. Along with a Java skiing sim called Motion Playground.

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meshko 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.

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vunderba 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Neat. The website looks the same (in a good way) from when I remember it over a decade ago - are you the creator of the original java port from back then?

https://web.archive.org/web/20140210122645/http://www.scorch...

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fullstop 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I brought it back to life at one point as a Java Swing app for my kids, but the server side of things was still wonky. I'm glad to see that it's alive again, I had a lot of fun with this in the early 2000s.

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skeeterbug 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just played a round, think I found a bug - It was down to one other computer and myself. For some reason the power capped at 235, so neither of us could come close to hitting one another.

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meshko 4 hours ago | parent [-]

you probably got damage. If stuck like this, go to menu and select "mass kill"

	▲	Forgeties79 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wow that’s a lot to unpack lol