Cannon Challenge- Today's Time Waster

by Todd Ritter (RSS feed) Feb 29th 2008 at 3:30PM

Cannon Challenge is a cannon game similar to Gorillas (an old-school game that came with QBasic) in that you launch a projectile at a target by setting velocity and angle. The game is made by the Discovery Channel for promoting their show Future Weapons. You control a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cannon that "represents the future of U.S. Field Artillery."

You're given a limited number of shots, and each target has an associated point value (mouse over the target to get info). Finishing a level with unused shots yields bonus points. As the game progresses, targets will need to be destroyed within certain time limits.

[Thanks hnkelley!]

Tags: cannon, shooter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kyle said 4:31PM on 2-29-2008

Holy cats I had completely forgotten about Gorillas! I remember the awful 8-bit noises that would come out of the PC-speaker whenever a gorilla would win and beat his chest. I used to modify Nibbles (the other Qbasic game) so that the snake would get ridiculously long very quickly.

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