About Tank Wars
I remember stumbling upon Tank Wars back in the mid-’90s and feeling instantly hooked. You’d boot it up on your clunky DOS box, pick a hilly landscape, choose your tank colors, and then it was just you, a friend (or the AI), and a whole arsenal of wacky weapons. The goal was simple—blow each other up before your opponent does—but the charm came from how the terrain crumbled under each blast.
What really sold it was how every shot felt personal. You’d adjust your angle and power, factor in wind speed, and then watch your shell arc gracefully (or hilariously) toward its target. One miscalculation could send your projectile soaring into the sky and dropping harmlessly off the screen. Get it right, though, and you’d carve a crater, obliterate a bunker, or score an epic one-shot kill. And oh, the joy when that banana bomb turned a tidy hill into Swiss cheese.
The weapons themselves ranged from the classic bazooka and mortar to more exotic choices like homing missiles, ground-shaking earthquake bombs, and those mischievous cluster bombs that spilled sub-munition all over the place. Mixing and matching arsenals became half the fun—do you go for brute force and hope to overwhelm your opponent, or play it sneaky with remote-detonated mines? Every match felt fresh.
Even now, you can find fan-made remakes and ports that capture the same feel, proof of how Tank Wars carved out a niche in the hearts of old-school PC gamers. Plenty of communities still swap custom maps and challenge each other in nostalgic tournaments. It’s a simple recipe: two tanks, a deformable landscape, and enough explosive chaos to keep you coming back for years.