Gorillas (game)
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Gorillas was a computer game distributed with MS-DOS 5. Written in QBasic, it was one of several programs included as a demonstration of that programming language. The others were Nibbles (another game), Money (a financial calculator and spreadsheet), and REMLINE (a program to remove line numbers from old BASIC programs).
Gameplay
In Gorillas the player took on the role of one of two gorillas standing on top of buildings in a randomly generated skyline. Players took turns to enter an angle and velocity with which to throw explosive bananas; the first player to hit the other gorilla with a banana won the game. The bananas were also destructive to the skyline; it was sometimes necessary to enter the same angle and velocity repeatedly to drill a hole through a building to create a path. However, the game also included wind which was assigned a random value from 100 left to 100 right for a given scenario; this could be used to a player's advantage to encircle a building which could not be passed by a simple parabolic path.
The game also featured an option to set an arbitrary value for the acceleration due to gravity.
Gorillas, like Nibbles, has experienced something of a revival in the early 21st century, in that some mobile phones include a variant of the game. It is not, however, anywhere near as ubiquitous as Snake.