Show HN: Banana Battle – DOS Gorillas rebuilt as a web game(michael480th.github.io)

2 pointsby arrozconcosasl’altro ieri3 comments

michael480th.github.io

Show HN: Banana Battle – DOS Gorillas rebuilt as a web game

https://michael480th.github.io/Banana-Battle/

As a kid, I loved to play the DOS Gorillas game where you would throw bananas at your opponent, smashing cities as you go.

I wanted to play it, so I rebuilt the classic QBasic/DOS "Gorillas" game from scratch as a mobile web app. It is playable in the browser and installable to your iPhone home screen.

It's all vanilla HTML/Canvas/JavaScript. No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies, no tracking. A single static page served from GitHub Pages.

A few bits that were fun to build: - Destructible terrain: buildings are painted to an offscreen canvas and explosions erase pixels - Ballistic physics with wind, sub-stepped so a fast banana can't tunnel through a thin building between frames. - Native share sheet (Web Share API) so you can text a friend your result with a "beat my score" challenge link

It's hot-seat two-player (pass the phone, or share a keyboard: arrows to aim, space to throw).

No original Microsoft code or assets — the code and pixel art are all my own (with some help from Claude :) ).

Feedback welcome!

3 comments

kownsel’altro ieri

The graphics are quite minimal, but the core mechanics feel surprisingly solid. It's a great, lightweight tribute to the original Gorillas.

operaoperal’altro ieri

Small improvement suggestion, disable contextual menus on long taps, while adjusting the slider.

Thank you for bringing back childhood memories!

crowd51l’altro ieri

Good job!