Nuclear war game?

Hello everyone I did some searching and I actually found out that there was an old video game based on the nuclear war.  Ironically called Nuclear War, it was released and developed by New World Computing (gaming company) in 1989 for the Amiga (personal computer) and later released for MS-DOS. It is a one player strategic game where you are going against three other CPU players to win the war using nuclear firearms.

There are ten different characters to choose from when you start the game. The animated characters are all national leaders during the cold war with nicknames. The video demonstrates that you can either build nuclear weapons and or strike certain areas of the map to counter the other player’s attacks. It seems the only way you win is to completely bomb the other players to see who can rack up the most points and if you have a more populated area than the other players. It also adds weird humor to it. For instance, one of the few cinematic shows a cowboy riding on top of a nuke yelling “YeeeeHahh”. To me I found it a bit surprising that someone would actually make a game about nuclear war. I’m not sure if it was made to lighten the seriousness of the nuclear war era or just something made for a buck.

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