"Team17's Worms is another addictive and must-play game that originated on the Commodore Amiga platform, but was widely ported and has many sequels and spin-offs. In this video, I give a brief history of the artillery game genre, which includes Scorched Earth as well as plenty of lesser-known classics like Artillery Duel. Artillery games were inspired by life-and-death military applications, but became an important if often underestimated genre of videogames..."