Gorillas

Gorillas is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by IBM corporation. It is a turn-based artillery game consisting 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.

Released: 1990
Platforms: MS-DOS macOS
Genres: Artillery Shooter Turn-based strategy
Developers: Microsoft
Publishers: Microsoft
Modes: Multiplayer
Themes: Comedy
Country: United States

About

Gorillas, also known under the source code's 8.3 filename GORILLA.BAS, is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1990 by Microsoft. It is a turn-based artillery game. 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.

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 simple financial calculator), and REMLINE (a program to remove line numbers from old BASIC programs).

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Gameplay

Before the game begins, two players enter their names, choose a target score, and set a gravity value that governs the physics of the match. The default gravity is 9.8 m/s², though any value may be selected.

At the start of each round, two gorillas spawn on opposite sides of a randomly generated cityscape composed of buildings with varying heights and widths. Players take turns entering a launch angle and velocity to chuck a banana at the opposing player.