QBasic Gorillas (DOS)

QBasic Gorillas

Platform: DOS Year: 1991 Developer: Microsoft Corporation Online: Download

QBasic Gorillas is a simple artillery game where you and an opponent play as gorillas who are throwing exploding bananas at each other atop a city skyline. The objective of the game is to hit your opponent before they hit you.

The game was included with MS-DOS 5.0 to showcase the operating systems new Quick BASIC programming language. The full source of the game was included so programmers could study the programming methods and alter the game as desired. Despite being included in a Microsoft operating system and being written in a Microsoft programming language, the game was developed by Microsoft and Published by IBM.

Screenshots

The title screen. Setting up a new game. A nice fresh city skyline, about to be demolished! Told you! Finally scored a direct hit! The sun doesn't appreciate your bananas!

Music

VGMPF Album Art

The game only has a couple brief PC speaker jingles. The title theme is a excerpt from the 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which was also used in the other game that was released with DOS 5.0, Nibbles. Nibbles, however, doesn't contain any other songs.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Title	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Unknown	0:02		Download
02	Introduction	Unknown	Unknown	0:14		Download
03	Explosion and Victory Dance	Unknown	Unknown	0:05		Download

Credits

• Ripper: TheAlmightyGuru
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Composer: Unknown
  • Not-Credited Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Source verification is needed.

Game Rip

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QBasic Gorillas was programmed in QuickBASIC and uses Microsoft BASIC MML for music and sound effects, a type of Music Macro Language. It was ripped directly from the source code and recorded during emulated playback in DOSBox.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(No source - Game doesn't have audio setup.)

Releases

USA Title: QBasic Gorillas Platform: DOS Released: 1991-??-?? Publisher: IBM Corporation

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/ms-dos-5-included-games - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/pc/935511-gorillas - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_%28video_game%29 - Wikipedia.