Ah, came back to this thread to ask if anyone could point me to the game I played as a kid this reminded me of. Was gorillas.bas, thanks!

QBasic was nice. As a kid I could modify the files and see what happened. Didn't know what I was doing, but often there were some constants one could play with.

As a kid I used to love playing this game ("Bang Bang") in Windows 3.1, I'm glad that someone else remembers it.

I spent too many hours playing gorillas.bas on my PS/2