Scorch

The morning of that day was cold and rainy.

After a sluggish start, the first soldiers ambled about hoping to have something more substantial than yesterday's scraps for breakfast. Perhaps it wasn't evident at first glance, but within the command barracks, everyone had been on high alert for hours.

Captain Malcolm Fox was a military man of the old school. His less-than-handsome face, marked with scars, showed no emotions, and a well-chewed cigar always rested in his mouth. However, he wasn't actually smoking it - during the last skirmish, napalm had destroyed his taste and smell receptors, leaving him just with the pleasure of biting. Since then, he hadn't been able to experience the "lovely" scent of napalm in the morning, as he used to say.

Scorch is a turn-based strategic artillery game based on the now classic Scorchered Earth.

The player takes control of a tank situated on a two-dimensional, undulating board. The aim of the game is to destroy all other tanks using a diverse set of projectiles, with a large role played by determining the strength and angle of firing. It is also possible to protect your own tank with various defensive systems.

Up to 6 players can participate in the game simultaneously. You can play using the keyboard (all functionality) or the joystick in any port (all functionality

necessary for gameplay). 

Authors

Code & graphics: Tomasz 'Pecus' Pecko and Pawel 'pirx' Kalinowski

Music: Michal "Miker" Szpilowski

Cover art: Wojciech Bociański "bocianu"

Hardware design and production: Mq-workshop

IN THE BOX

• game cartridge with gold-plated contacts, in the best housing available on the market, manufactured by Sikor-Soft
• user manual
• two themed fridge magnets (two random tanks from the game, each box has different set!)
• in blanco Military University of Doomsday graduation diploma signed by the game authors

System requirements

• Atari 8-bit computer with 48 kB RAM (also works on Atari 800)
• joystick
• game works on PAL and NTSC systems