Cold war

Historical theme

Involves any kind of cold war, where tension between two nations does not escalate to actual war, but is rife with posturing, espionage and sabotage, propaganda, political backstabbing, proxy wars, and likely an arms race.

170

games

platforms

Alternate name: Cold warfrare

9801 1992

SPC 1984

C64 1983

PET 1980

C64 1985

Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together

SAT 1996-12-13

SDI

DOS 1987

Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers

OCS 1986

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

WIN 2012-11-13

East vs. West: Berlin 1948

ST 1990-07

Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers

CPC 1986

The first video game about Cold war was released in 1980.

Activision, SSI and Mindscape has published most of these games

The term cold war predates Cold War itself by few years (1945) and comes from George Orwell's essay, and was used to describe the period as early as 1947.

Child groups

Korean War, Post-WWII Cold War, Fictional cold war

Platforms

MS-DOS		20
Windows		16
C64		14
Amiga		12
Mac OS Classic		12
Apple II E		11
Linux		10
Atari ST		10
Mac OS X		6
ZX Spectrum		6
Atari 400/800		5
Amstrad CPC		5
X360		4
Apple IIGS		4
NEC PC9801		3
PS3		3
Win3.1		3
Xbox		2
NEC PC8801		2
MSX2		2
TI99		1
SNES		1
PS		1
Wii U		1
NES		1
Saturn		1
Mega Drive		1
MSX		1
PS2		1
TRS-80		1

By year

A	1991 - USSR dissolved

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Cold war

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