Ballerburg SDL – Play classical castle combat game from 1987 in the browser

The creator of the original Ballerburg, Prof. Dr. Eckhard Kruse, teaches computer science at the Cooperative State University Baden-Württemberg (DHBW). I attended four of his courses (C, Interactive Systems, Software Engineering 1 & 2) during my Bachelor studies. He's a bit odd sometimes but also funny, with a strong interest in ghosts and spiritual stuff.

Nice, I'm getting really old. The name rang a bell, but I just couldn't picture anything. Opening the page was like "oh of course!" Killed quite some time with this as a kid.

I see this pre-dated Scorched Earth [0] but I have so many hours playing it growing up. Worms is 2nd but probably not even close in sheer hours.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scorched_Earth_(video_game)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scorched_Earth_(video_game)</a>

Autotranslation of the instructions:<p>&gt; Notes about the game:<p>&gt; Click on a cannon to change its settings and fire.<p>&gt; Click on the bullets, powder kegs or money bags to get to the market.<p>&gt; Press the ESC key for general settings.<p>&gt; For more details see the instructions.<p>&gt; Ballerburg SDL is free software and can be distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3. Further information is available on the Ballerburg SDL main page.

Nice.. played that on Atari ST as a kid. Then later in school there was a very old IBM PC in some corner and we were sometimes huddled around it to play Ballerburg.. good times.

This has worse graphics than Artillery Duel on the C64 from 1983.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YbT7OrvOvhs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YbT7OrvOvhs</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c64online.com&#x2F;c64-games&#x2F;artillery-duel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c64online.com&#x2F;c64-games&#x2F;artillery-duel&#x2F;</a>

This game had a 3D spinoff (by Ascaron) that as far as I can tell only has been somewhat popular in Germany that was a substantial part of my childhood (through being included on a magazine CD). Time to delve into the internet to try and find it I guess.

There is a lot of variability in the target. If I don&#x27;t change any settings at all, the cannon ball lands in a wide range of different locations. IS this trying to be &#x27;real&#x27; in some way, does wind play that large a role?

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This is great. Was a bit small on my screen, so I zoomed to 200% and set image-rendering: pixelated;

The sound - more than the game itself - tickles my nostalgia bone in a big way.

Strong GORILLA.BAS vibes.