Scorched Earth is a tactical artillery game that was originally created by Wendell Hicken for DOS computers. It would later see ports to many other computer systems and gameplay clones with different names. The game has each player with an artillery cannon to obliterate each other with. Unlike previous artillery games, the terrain is destructible and there are multiple weapons to choose rom.

alexheights1 in this run plays a simple port for the ZX Spectrum that was created by Ady and has the game generate the most optimal map for the quickest run possible.