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Artillery Master 8k
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About the game
Artillery Master 8k is a turn-based artillery duel for two players. Each player has a small tank perched on a range of rocky hills, and the hills are different every round. On your turn you set two numbers at the top of the screen, the angle of the cannon (Ang) and the strength of the shot (Pwr), and fire. The shell flies in an arc, and you watch where it lands: short, long, or right on the other tank.
A direct hit is worth one point and starts a new round with new hills. Hitting your own tank, which is easier than it sounds when you fire almost straight up, takes a point away. The score of both players is shown at the top, next to the label of whose turn it is (1P or 2P).
Haroldo O. Pinheiro wrote the game for the SMS Power! Minigame Compo of 2006, where entries had to fit in 8 KB, as a take on the classic artillery games of home computers.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game for the Sega Master System, running in the Gearsystem emulator. Click Play and press Z at the title screen. Both players share the same keys, as they shared one controller on the console: play it with a friend at the same keyboard, passing the turn after each shot. There is no computer opponent. F2 saves the emulator state and F4 loads it.
Controls
| Key | Master System | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Left / Right arrows | D-pad | raise or lower the cannon's angle |
| Up / Down arrows | D-pad | more or less power |
| Z | button 1 | fire |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the emulator state |
Tips
Change one thing at a time. If the shell falls short, keep the angle and add power; if it flies too far, take some away. Changing both at once makes it hard to learn from the last shot.
Remember your numbers. The other player's shot does not move your tank, so the angle and power of your last turn are a good starting point for the next one.
Mind the hills. A low, flat shot hits the slopes in between. When there is a peak in the way, raise the angle and lob the shell over it.
Credits and licence
Artillery Master 8k is by Haroldo O. Pinheiro, who released it into the public domain under the Unlicense, as stated on the game's page on SMS Power!. We serve the ROM from his package, unchanged; the original package, with his source code, is linked from this page.
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