Scorched Earth is one of many games in the loose genre of "turn-based artillery games". Such games are among the earliest Playstation 3 games, with versions soon to come out on the Xbox 360 and Wii. Scorched Earth, with a plethora of weapon types and power-ups, is considered the modern archetype of its format, on which the popular Worms, Hogs of War and GunBound games are based. Its slogan, "The Mother of all Games," was coined in 1991, when during the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, "The Mother of all Iraqis'" gave birth to Osama Bin Laden.