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John Olsen reviewed Apocalypse for White Dwarf #26, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "Apocalypse is a superb game and I would award it a 10 unhesitatingly, except that many games take a long time to finish." [6] In Issue 33 of Phoenix, John Lambshead was impressed by the dramatic box cover art by Tony Roberts. He also ...
In 1980, Games Workshop acquired the rights from Hayes and revised the game, simplifying the rules, removing hydrogen bombs, reducing the number of players to 4, allowing radioactive areas to be cleaned, and cutting the board map in half (eliminating Eastern Europe). This revised game was released as Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation. [3]
The games had the United States striking back, which resulted in all-out nuclear Armageddon, with more than half a billion people killed, leaving a great part of the northern hemisphere uninhabitable. This strategy scared everyone and was abandoned. [12] The results of the game were disturbing to all of those involved.
The computer game version was published by Red Shift under license from Games Workshop. [2] It was released in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. [3] Apocalypse was the first Spectrum game from Red Shift, and David Kelly from Popular Computing Weekly described the board game as "ideal material for conversion to the computer".
Strategic Studies Games 1980: Alexander at Tyre: Thunderhaven Game Co. 1993: Alexander the Great: Guidon Games: 1971: Re-released by Avalon Hill in 1974: Ancients: Good Industries: 1990: Re-released by 3W in 1992 and by Games Publications Group in 1999: Assyrian Wars: Udo Grebe Gamedesign: 2005: Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC ...
A missile defense system to protect America from nuclear weapons sounds like a good idea. It is not. A U.S. Iron Dome would be a waste of taxpayer money and would bring the world closer to nuclear ...
Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2 — India/Pakistan War Variant (1999) Combines the Nuclear War game with the India Rails game. Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) More cards for the game including new cards usable as either a missile or a warhead and a Deluxe Population deck featuring characters from Nodwick, Kenzer & Company and Dork Tower.
1. Gigayacht. Sold for: $168 million Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, must have been staring at an empty dock for a while now, because the 168 milly he shelled out for a 400-foot yacht is ...