SiC - David Sidwell

El Mariachi” was a very early film from Robert Rodriguez. He apparently made this for $7,000 in 1992. The title role being played by Carlos Gallardo. As IMDB says “A travelling mariachi (guitarist/singer) is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.” Mayhem and stylized action and violence follow.’,'It was quite a (cult) hit. Armed with a larger budget he went on to make the semi sequel “Desperado” in 1995. This time Antonio Banderas playing the role of El Mariachi. Salma Hayek lit up the screen as the female lead. Quentin Tarantino and his pal Steve Buscemi were in the cast too.

Semi-sequel?

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Scorched 3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth “The Mother Of All Games”. Scorched 3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play. Scorched 3D is totally free and is available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems.

The above comes from the Sourceforge home page of this VERY addictive game.