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Vapourware ICBM - Cold War ICBM Silo Operator Simulator

Astral Rag

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In the grand tradition of MicroProse and Jane’s Combat Simulations, ICBM puts you in the hotseat: you are USAF First Lieutenant Derek Evans, Ellsworth Air Force Base’s newest Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander.

ICBM was inspired by the extraordinary pixel art of Denis Loubet and the incredible series of Trinity articles at The Digital Antiquarian.

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I just started playing this game so I can't say much about it yet but so far it pushes all the right buttons.

*It's a Cold War ICBM Silo Operator Simulator.
*Has very Fallouty intro.
*Takes place in the 80s.
*Is very atmospheric.
*Has good sound design and a good OST.
*Unlike a lot of the pixely hipster garbage we see these days ICBM actually looks like an early 90s DOS game.
*Reminds me of Introversion's DEFCON.

Give it a try, it's free.
 
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The sequel for this game practically writes itself, just slap contemporary icbm silo operator on the title screen and set the year 2015 but still use the same exact control suite 8 inch floppies and all.
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Downloading as we speak.. looks pretty much as those older sims indeed. Looks like LP material as well. Sghame you can't change the name of your character. I guess not everything can be a RPG.
 
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You know, I find myself getting older and moving past the video game hobby of my misspent youth, but occasionely I'll sit at the old rig and try to spark up the old flame between us (This isn't helped by the complete lack of anything interesting coming out recently). I finally settled on the 'game' mentioned in the OP. Aesthetics, sound, all were top notch. The setting was well researched and had me raring to go nuke the commie bears back into the stone age, for Goddamn America.

Only it seems the author has forgotten to put the fucking gameplay into the game. I sat and watched a clock move, silently mocking me. I did literally nothing. Why would you put so much effort into a complete lack of substance? A post-modern masterpiece, indeed.

I hope karma rebounds on the developer in the form of a terminal disease.

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