Cartoon worms in trenches lobbing bazookas, exploding sheep and a holy hand grenade at each other, turn by turn, with a shared keyboard. A teenager's Amiga project, published by Team17 in 1995, became Britain's favourite same-sofa multiplayer game, and Worms Armageddon (1999) still receives patches from the studio.
Correction: Andy Davidson wrote the original for a magazine competition and did not win. Team17 picked it up at a trade show. The record files the competition judges under 'people who were wrong'.
Worms Armageddon received an official update in 2020, twenty-one years after release, credited to volunteers who had been maintaining it with the studio's blessing. The record files this under 'unusual longevity'.
Someone remembers 'Incoming!' shouted during an air strike and being the person under it, and a sibling who would only ever use the banana bomb. The record has no advice.
The record notes that the worms' voices came in accents and personalities, including one that sounded like a drill sergeant, and that most players had a favourite and were wrong.
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