PaybackTime

PaybackTime is a Finnish turn-based strategy game from 1995 whose original FILE_ID.DIZ modestly bills it as "an ultimate Laser Squad style duel game". Two players field their squads on a variety of battlefields and try to wipe each other out with a massive collection of weapons.

For a small shareware title it is surprisingly complete: a map editor, a weapon editor and an item editor are all included, so you can build your own battlefields and arsenals from scratch, and sound works on all Sound Blaster compatible cards. Games like this — ambitious projects written mainly to terminate one's friends, as the blurb puts it — are typical of the Finnish home-computer scene of the 1990s, which international retro sites still largely overlook.

Version 1.2 runs right in your browser on OldGame.cz.