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  • I remember bringing worms 1 on a diskette to my schools computer lab and playing with classmates, we all got hook and had good times. Then Worms Armageddon came out many days after school were enjoyed blasting each other with bazookas, sheep and holy hand grenades.
    by archerx
  • More the nerdy side of things but the multiplayer element used IRC as communication and matchmaking infrastructure. Command & Conquer RA2 series too utilised IRC for matchmaking, Dreamforge IRCd to be exact.

    Worms Armageddon was the bomb and the PlayStation One version brought original epic fun.

    by doublerabbit
  • I remember being 10 and getting worms world party. I really was convinced that was going to be the best game I'd play for the rest of my life. Ahhh the nostalgia...
    by igleria
  • Well... has it been the best so far?
    by rbinv
  • It's definitely up there on the ladder, surely... :P
    by Izmaki
  • Anyone got any thoughts on which Worms I should be buying on Steam?

    Worms Armageddon is on there, which is the one I remember from my childhood. Or am I better off with Worms WMD?

    by rkangel
  • I'd say WMD is the best.
    by lawn
  • Played a lot of Worms Armageddon when I was a kid. WMD is the best one by far and carries Armageddon's spirit. The others lost the script trying to make cooler games.
    by chaps
  • If you haven't played since childhood, this might not matter to you, but I never got on with the games from the 3rd generation (https://worms.fandom.com/wiki/Third_Generation) and beyond because the physics are different in a way I find less enjoyable. It's especially noticeable if you loved using the ninja rope in the older games.

    Worms Armageddon is the one to go with from the second generation. It has received a lot of care over the years, and with the latest updates it should run perfectly on a modern computer with a big high res monitor (or without, of course). I haven't played online for quite a while, but it seems to still have an active community: https://www.tus-wa.com/

    edit: but I'm looking it up now, and apparently WMD has Armageddon-like physics, so maybe that really is the obvious choice! (I don't know if they're literally the same, or just pretty similar, but I guess you probably won't care about that.)

    by retsibsi
  • Not exactly sure what this is.

    But I'm so excited to play Worms with my kids when they're old enough. My sister and I _endlessly_ played the same level in a worms 2 demo almost 30 years ago.

    by jackvalentine
  • Scorched Earth for me and my brother, I loved that game and it was one of the few times we ever got on.
    by noir_lord
  • > _endlessly_ played the same level in a worms 2 demo

    I did this too with other games. One of the joys of being an adult has been tracking down full copies of the games I'd only had demos for.

    by elevation
  • Hell yeah, my siblings and I did the same. Insane replay value for a single level like that.
    by kombookcha
  • I would not get my hopes very high, it's my favorite game to play with kids on PS3 (Worms Armageddon), but they don't seem to like it as much as me, they would rather play Sonic All Stars Racing, Rayman Legends, NHL or other games, they don't share my love for Atomic Bomberman either and it's not about old graphics, they really liked TMNT Turtles in Time or Sunset Riders on emulator
    by Markoff
  • > Not exactly sure what this is.

    Yeah, took me a while, but it looks like an expansion pack for the 1997 Amiga-only game "Worms: The Director's Cut". It backports (demakes?) maps and audio from later games like Worms 2, Armageddon and World Party.

    by pavon
  • Fun looking at the past history of that site.

    1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19990125104610/http://www.worm.n...

    by Nition
  • The creator Andy Davidson has been posting some more fun stuff about worms over on X https://x.com/totalwormage/status/2087263286962094258
    by bananaboy
  • Fun fact:

    Worms Armageddon saw patches for ~18 years after official updates stopped.

    https://worms2d.info/Updates_(Worms_Armageddon)

    by nly
  • Latest Worms Armageddon (released in 1999) patch from December 2020 still supports Windows 95 (and Windows 11).

    When I asked CyberShadow why, he replied that CD-ROM case claims Win9x compatibility, that's why any new update should not break it.

    by ValdikSS
  • I had a babysitter that worked through the WWP campaign with me and we enjoyed it. It really became more inventive than you’d expect a campaign like that to be. For example, you get the bow, infinite weapon firing per turn, and infinite ammo. You’re meant to shoot arrows until you create a bridge to the next platform.
    by jimbob45
  • I had Worms United (I think it was called) which was basically an expansion to the original DOS game that allowed for custom levels and SFX.

    I created some worms sound packs loosely based on some of the pop songs on that era.

    Fun times.

    I never quite got into the later Worms games. Visually they looked great and the controls felt similar, but it was all a bit too cartoonish for my liking. However that might just have been because I was used to the original DOS games. But even now, I still crave that pixel art aesthetic in games (not just Worms).

    by hnlmorg
  • Same - I always preferred the pixel art look to the smooth cartoony look!
    by bananaboy
  • You might enjoy Liero (or its modern descendent OpenLieroX) which is similar to Worms but with real-time play (and kept the pixel vibes).
    by Twey
  • > the original DOS games

    "Total Wormage" was on the Amiga, which became the original Worms. It was ported to other machines after:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(series)#Development

    https://worms2d.info/Total_Wormage

    > an expansion to the original

    Not sure about DOS versions, but Worms: The Director's Cut is a heavily-expanded version of the original: more weapons, custom levels (allowing 16 colours instead of 8, IIRC), etc. Highly recommended!

    by chriswarbo
  • My journey was: gorilla.bas -> scorched earth -> worms armageddon -> worms world party. Endless hours playing with my siblings.

    The best matches were the ones that we only allowed grenades, bazookas, mortars and other few basic short range weapons.

    by liendolucas
  • wow gorilla.bas... that brings back memories!
    by dnpls
  • My first real taste of programming came from trying to hack on gorilla.bas to add new features to it. Whoever created that game changed my life immeasurably.
    by fooqux
  • > The best matches were the ones that we only allowed grenades, bazookas, mortars and other few basic short range weapons.

    The connoisseur's choice.

    by specproc
  • Me and my brother when playing Worms / Worms 2 preferred a mode without time constraints per move, and with infinite ninja rope. Apart from standard 'one shot per turn' it also allowed you to relocate to best next position, detonate some time-delayed landmines near enemy worms, and even use physics for additional damage - if you released a worm from ninja rope with some inertia/fall, not too big so you don't get damage yourself, but energetic enough to SLIDE - it could move enemy worm without ending a round! Fun to push one or two enemy soldiers into the water before your first shot!
    by koziserek
  • Andy dedicates this release to his mum and dad.

    https://shows.acast.com/63b458521043e00011114396/episodes/69...

    > Mum used to tell me a story about when I first saw the Amiga. I was about 12 years old and she said my face 'lit up' in a way that she'd never seen before. And then she went straight back to dad and said "We're going to have to work extra shifts, so we can get an Amiga", and that wasn't possible for about a couple of years until the Amiga 500 came out. I'm doing an update to Worms DC at the moment and I'm gonna dedicate that to my mum and dad because, without them, without them getting me that computer, I don't know which direction I would've gone in.

    Hopefully your parents also encouraged you to live your dreams, and sacrificed to get you the computer(s) you always wanted. And if you are parents now, I hope you'll do the same for your children.

    by amiga386