Mother of all games. Played so much SE when I was younger, one of my all time favs.
This version is ok but I prefer the original which is easy enough to run via dos-box, emulators of similar ilk or even online in a few places:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Scorched_Earth_1991
https://dos.zone/scorched-earth/
https://www.playdosgames.com/play/scorched-earth
I loved turning the explosion to the max and launching Nukes or Death Head MIRVs and watching the whole screen be annihilated. Despite many clones I've never found one that really captured the feel and fun of the original. I'd love to see a faithful remake that had a larger playing area though.
> Despite many clones I've never found one that really captured the feel and fun of the original.
Not trying to be contrarian, but for factual correctness I'm going to point out that Scorched Earth is a clone of an earlier game, Tank Wars. I've played both and I agree that Scorched Earth had more to it, but it wasn't the original.
Scorched Tanks on Amiga got decently close