Taktinen Sota

Taktinen Sota, "tactical war" in Finnish, is a simple artillery game from the Finnish home-computer scene of the 1990s, preserved here in version 3.1. The player commands artillery in an imagined war situation, upgrading the weaponry as the game goes on and shelling several different kinds of targets. In the period description the author honestly billed it as a simple, easy game with practically no hardware requirements.

The program once had its home page on the Finnish server nic.fi, which places it firmly in the world of local BBSes and the early home internet — a layer of small freeware that international retro sites have barely mapped, yet one that shows well what Finns were programming in their spare evenings.

The game runs right in your browser here on OldGame.cz.