[Nicolai P. Zwar]

TOTAL ANNIHILATION was a terrific game, and the PC-ROM discs doubled as audio discs, you could just play them in any regular CD player. I still have the game and have ripped the music.

I remember to this day that I had an unusual way to play the game that I found a lot of fun. I often had it run by itself “on the side”, just to check how it’s doing.
What I did was to select an interesting map (I loved the one with two coasts and a lot of water in between), built an airport right away, and a scout plane and a transport plane. Then I immediately started to look for the opposing commander. When I found him, I captured him in the transport plane (usually by sacrificing my scout plane, because at this early stage, he could rarely fire more than one devastating shot) and kept him there. Then I built my entire base, complete with giving instructions to all vehicles, boats or planes what they were to guard or patrol. When I was done, I “freed” the opposing commander, and then just waited for him to build his own army and to attack my base, and just watch if my automated defense lines stood. I sometimes had it play in the background for hours when I was doing something else, like reading a book somewhere, just occasionally checking on the PC what the game was doing. Had a great time with that game in the late 1990s. 😀