A brief inroduction to Nukewar, an Applesoft BASIC game from 1980, along with a 100% accurate explanation of what growing up in the 1970s, under the shadow of the cold war, was like.
Your video brings back a lot of memories of the Apple II games. You offer a very interesting portrayal of the cold war. Now looking back at the game, which I played a lot, it dehumanized the threat of nuclear war.
Yes - and many of these games were like this. "B-1 Bomber", where you were a bomber crew on a mission to nuke a Soviet city, is particularly relevant here.
I remember having this for C64… better graphics, they had little icons instead of letters for type of base. Strangely I didn’t have a manual either. I remember submarines kicked butt. What a morbid game though.
