Gorillas (video game)
Gorillas, also known under the source code's file name GORILLA.BAS, is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by IBM corporation.[1] It is a turn-based artillery game.[2] With allusions to King Kong, the game consists of two gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other above a city skyline. The players can adjust the angle and velocity of each throw, as well as the gravitational pull of the planet. Written in QBasic, it is one of the programs included as a demonstration of that programming language. The others are Nibbles (another game), Money (a very simple financial calculator), and REMLINE (a program to remove line numbers from old BASIC programs).
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| Developer(s) | IBM corporation.[1] |
| Publisher(s) | IBM corporation.[1] |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
| Release | 1991 |
| Genre(s) | Artillery game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Hotseat |
QB64 Version
QB64 included a copy of Gorillas adapted to be run at proper speed, until it was removed due to copyright concerns. As the compiler does not support DEF FN for inline functions, the original code was also adapted to use regular functions.
References
- "Gorilla Source Code". archive.org. Internet Archive).
- "MobyGames Summary for Gorillas". MobyGames. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
External links
- Game source code download Original version by IBM Corporation (archived)
- Gorillas.js - An open source, browser-based version of Gorillas written in JavaScript (source)
- gorillas.js v2 - Another open source, browser-based version of Gorillas written in JavaScript and HTML5 (source code)
- Free Android Gorillas on Play Store - Android version of Gorillas
- Gorilla for CP/M - Porting of Gorillas in Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M systems
- VB.NET Version of game