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.
173
games
42platforms
Alternate name: Cold warfrare
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The first video game about Cold war was released in 1978.
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 warcompare with these groups
Platforms
| MS-DOS |  | 20 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | | 17 | |
| C64 | | 14 | |
| Amiga | | 12 | |
| Mac OS Classic | | 12 | |
| Apple II E | | 11 | |
| Linux | | 10 | |
| Atari ST | | 10 | |
| ZX Spectrum | | 6 | |
| Mac OS X | | 6 | |
| Amstrad CPC | | 5 | |
| Atari 400/800 | | 5 | |
| X360 | | 4 | |
| Apple IIGS | | 4 | |
| PS3 | | 3 | |
| Win3.1 | | 3 | |
| NEC PC9801 | | 3 | |
| Xbox | | 2 | |
| NEC PC8801 | | 2 | |
| MSX2 | | 2 | |
| Mega Drive | | 1 | |
| MSX | | 1 | |
| PS2 | | 1 | |
| TRS-80 | | 1 | |
| VIC-20 | | 1 | |
| C128 | | 1 | |
| Atari 2600 | | 1 | |
| North Star Computers | | 1 | |
| Commodore PET | | 1 | |
| MICRO 7 - FM7 | | 1 |
By year
| A | 1991 - USSR dissolved |