Ah, the article mentions Tank Wars. Loved that game. It’s the same as Scorched Earth but not as advanced or graphically nice, and faster paced in general. As with SE, a nuke that goes off can take up half the screen, complete with a screechy BOOM through the PC speaker. Man it is glorious.
TW allows up to 10 players rather than 8. It’s fun to set all of them as “Mr. Stupid” (aka Moron in SE) and watch them fire off in all kinds of random/nonsensical directions, sometimes blowing themselves up.