Gorillas (computer game)

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Gorillas

Developer(s)	Microsoft^[1]
Publisher(s)	Microsoft^[1]
Platform(s)	MS-DOS
Release date	1991
Genre(s)	Strategy game^[1], Artillery game
Mode(s)	Single player, Hotseat (multiplayer mode)

Gorillas is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5. It is a turn-based artillery game, which is a subgenre of strategy game^[1]. 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. 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).

1 Revival
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Revival

Gorillas, like Nibbles, has experienced something of a revival in the early 21st century, in that some mobile phones include a variant of the game. It is not, however, anywhere near as ubiquitous as Snake.

Some more recent games have made more advanced use of elements of gameplay used in Gorillas. These include the Worms series, Gunbound, Base Conflict and Tanks. Gorillas has recently been remade for the GP2X.^[2]

Gorillas has a playable flash remake on rickyroad.com. This remake is an attempt to match pixel for pixel the original game release on the QBasic platform. Like the original game the source code is also free to anyone wishing to view it.

In the DJ Qbert film Wave Twisters, the source code to Gorillas is used as a background in a scene during the Red Worm chapter.