What games let you set off a nuclear weapon?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:26 pm

This is a serious question! If more games did it, I wouldn't be so consumed with setting them off like Roman candles aimed on the fourth of July at the neighbor housing the barking hellhound/rooster/Ouroboros chimera.

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Ah shit, I don't even remember what this thread was about. Oh yeah, nuclear weapons. Here are the games I know of where you can detonate nukes:

Fallout 3.
Civ 2
Civ 3
Civ 4
CivRev
Global Thermal Nuclear War.exe
DEFCON

I have no idea about the first Civilization game. I guess, to qualify for this list, it should:

1) Definitely be a NUCLEAR weapon. None of this "small arms that could do the same trick but not produce soil-destroying radiation

2) Has to be something the player can set or not set off. Now, yes, I know you're not going to be around very long in gtw.com for DOS if you're not telling the thing to launch nukes, but I would submit that this keeps out games like Missile Command, where you are trying to prevent nukes from going off.

I guess there were only two items. Anyway, I am sure I am forgetting stuff, and I really really really hope no aspie nerds make a similar list for the Wiki, 'cos otherwise I'd feel like a jerk right now.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:27 pm

Argh! Rise of Nations is the obvious omission. Aren't nukes available, like, really quickly in that game?

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:16 am

Starcraft has them but they are only tactical nukes (relatively small payload) and you need to keep the target painted with your ghost until they land. The big city engulfing, turn- the- soil- into- glass nukes are the ones you want.

THE
FUCKING BOOM!
AARDVARK

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:50 am

Does the TILTOWAIT spell in Wizardry count?

Spell Name: TILTOWAIT
Translation: (untranslatable)
Spell Level: 7
Spell Type: COMBAT
Area of Effect: ALL MONSTERS

Description: The effect of this spell can be described as similar to that of a nuclear fusion explosion. Luckily the party is shielded from its effects. Unluckily (for them) the monsters are not. This spell will do from 10-100 hit points of damage.

Bard's Tale had a similar spell ("Gotterdamurung") which was invoked by casting "NUKE". That should count for something. ("The finest in offensive obliteration, this spell annihilates the opponent for 2000 damage points.")

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There is also a "Thermonuclear Blast" spell in Quest for Glory 5.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_we ... ideo_games

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:18 am

Roody_Yogurt · Post by **Roody_Yogurt** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:47 pm

You could set off a nuclear reaction in Maniac Mansion, but no, it wasn't a nuclear weapon.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:56 pm

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:30 pm

Missile command. YEAH!

I was thinking F-22 Raptor III . That also has the small nuke payload. It's fun to turn on god mode and infinite weapons and just rain them down on an airbase continually.

Real glad people like us don't run the military.

THE
10 BILLION DEGREES
OF SEPARATION
AARDVARK

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:39 pm

AArdvark wrote:It's fun to turn on god mode and infinite weapons and just rain them down on an airbase continually.

If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:14 pm

There are three cone buttons and a trackball on a Missile Command cabinet. I would like you people to tell me which one launches NUCLEAR WEAPONS AT CITIES.

Do I press the trackball down? It's a push/pull trackball, now? What? What's that? Oh, right. You can't use nuclear weapons in Missile Command.

You know when, the game ends, it writes "THE END" on the screen? Those words are not backed with nuclear weapons.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:43 pm

You are battling ICBMs with anti-ballistic nuclear missiles.

AOL KEYWORD: NUKULAR

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:13 pm

I am going to look up the manual for Missile Command. And if it doesn't specifically say that I am launching nukes at nukes I will be furious. FURIOUS.

Flack, I agree that the spell you mentioned for Wizardry was their way of handling the detonation of a nuclear weapon. I would give the following people points in this thread as follows:

Flack: (untranslatable) Megatons!
Aardvark: 8088 Megatons!
Roody: 2 Maniac Megatons!
Pinback: Leaflet Campaign Resulting In Seven-Continent Peace Treaty

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:36 pm

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:20 pm

Fallout 1

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:09 pm

Avarice

Which was a graphical adventure for OS/2. I and like four other people bought it.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm

pinback wrote:

Are you saying that this BBS is going down the drain?

I have that game literally less than six steps from me, on the latest cab. I have never played it, and never planned on playing it. There'd BETTER BE FUCKING NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN IT or I will assume that you are making a circling the drain joke out of me, this site, and me and this site!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:08 pm

Worm wrote:Fallout 1

You can detonate a nuke in Fallout? Really Worm? Really?

Really?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:10 pm

Did anyone understand any part of the opening premise of this thread? Besides Flack and bruce, I mean. HEY GUYS, I THINK I FOUND ANOTHER ONE.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:42 am

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:06 am

I made a video where I went to my Multi-Williams machine, loaded Bubbles for the first time, and verified the lack of nukes.

But I think I called them nukulur weapons. I'm too afraid to check, or post it. Frustrating!

Is that last screenshot of The Smurfs? Cos yeah there was one in there, an H-bomb, IIRC.