# Sci-Fi Windows Game: Shootable planets with gravity **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 11, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-windows-game-shootable-planets-with-gravity/539114 "2010-05-11T23:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-windows-game-shootable-planets-with-gravity/539114/1 "2010-05-11T23:12:12Z")
Does anyone know of a top windows game where you are a spaceship where you can shoot different types of weapons and damage planets and that affects the gravity which affects the weapons. I think it is about 5-10 years old. It is a free game that isn’t a flash game. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-windows-game-shootable-planets-with-gravity/539114/2 "2010-05-11T23:27:21Z")
“top windows game” I mean “top down” windows game… ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-windows-game-shootable-planets-with-gravity/539114/3 "2010-05-11T23:38:43Z")
Essentially, it’s a game that was available on the Amiga, I believe, and possibly PCs, around the early 90’s. The gist of the game was essentially scorched earth (tank v tank v tank etc) or for the newer platers, worms. The game itself I recall: o Each player was a space ship o Turn based o Large and small planets separating the players Each planet separating the ships had a gravity field, larger and stronger for the bigger planets, smaller and weaker for the smaller ones. When it was your turn, you had to adjust your power and angle of shot to use the gravitational pull of the planet to bend your projectile around it and ultimately hit the other player(s) knocking them out of the scenario. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-windows-game-shootable-planets-with-gravity/539114/4 "2010-05-11T23:39:56Z")
[WarHeads?](http://i39.tinypic.com/de47qo.png) ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-windows-game-shootable-planets-with-gravity/539114/5 "2010-05-11T23:44:08Z")
Yep thanks!