DEFCON! Do you wanna play "Global Thermonuclear War"?

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The guys behind Uplink and Darwinia decide to make a version of GTW, mid-80s glowing ray-traced graphics and all.

The only way to win is to not to play, or at least blow up more of his than he does yours.

No indication if there's any fast food-related acronyms yet

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.msu.edu/~bonddenn/screenshots/defcon.jpg

http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/screenshots/pcgamer1.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

No Barry Corbin in the game, so you'll have to provide his folky declarations yourself.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:08 (twenty years ago)

well that's just a bunch of bullshit!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:12 (twenty years ago)

or, at least, they haven't announced the Corbin expansion pack yet

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

kingfish, i have to know. what are they paying you?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:28 (twenty years ago)

all the used toasters i can carry, why?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

or, at least, they haven't announced the Corbin expansion pack yet

Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

sorry, 2 drunk 2 care tht much

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?

― S- (sgh), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:39 (twenty years ago)

HOW SICK IS DICK?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:27 (twenty years ago)

I love the first nuclear war picture above... it's like someone said "We'd better take out Africa first, they're dangerous".

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

I played a lot of Nukewar on my Apple II back in 1982

http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/nukewar_01.gif

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Also, Balance Of Power!

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/small/938037505-00.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

what are you doing, joshua?

― stet (stet), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm convinced that Matthew Broderick's character is one of the main reasons so many kids in my generation became programmers.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

HOW SICK IS DICK?

HOW GONE IS RON?

(DAN WHERE ARE U)

Balance of Power ruled.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

spooky ambient music with the gameplay vid

also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defcon_(computer_game)

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 16 September 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

and!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cold_War_computer_and_video_games

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 16 September 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

How about a nice game of chess?

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

aaaaand this is now out.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

was posting this on ILE an accident?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

not really. I was curious to see what kinda response it would get from the general audience.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

"put x in the center square!"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

"Hell I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it would do any good"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

lololwtf

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

"Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Dabney Coleman: an enduring icon of our childhoods

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

so my husband was playing this online with friends last night, and random people were joining the game as spectators, including one guy who was all like "ur ur im havin a wank drop the bomb im about to cum"

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

"ur ur im havin a wank drop the bomb im about to cum"

i'm going to recommend we take the men out of the loop

― stet (stet), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

turn your key

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Mac OS X version on the way courtesy of Ambrosia Software.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

i was wondering

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF RADIOHEAD BEING BEATEN AT A GAME THEY WEREN'T EVEN BOL (slu, Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Macintosh version ships in March

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

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