Re: Defcon: Most horrifying game ever?

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 19:32:20 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

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Sounds almost like an expanded version of the 1965 card game Nuclear
War.  We used to play that back in the 80's on occasion.  Typically
everyone is wiped out and loses, but I remember one time someone survived.
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(card_game)

Also (and this is how I discovered it)
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Nuclear_War_1989

Which is a 'modernized' (for 1989) computer version of the game. We
had quite fun playing this one too, although four people crowded
around a tiny 12" screen doesn't seem all that much fun nowadays ;-)

Conceptually, the two games ("Nuclear War" and "Defcon" were very
similar, but the tone was very different. It resulted in completely
different play-styles. We tried to WIN when playing "Nuclear War";
with "Defcon", there was a nihilistic understanding that victory
wasn't really possible, so we just rushed to the earth-shattering
ba-booms as fast as we could.

And now I'm stuck wondering which was the more mature outlook of the
two ;-)