Which game, Masterpiece or Twilight Struggle, had theme taken from the Cold War?
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Masterpiece (game) Masterpiece is a board game by Parker Brothers, now a brand of Hasbro. Players participate in auctions for famous works of art. It was invented by Joseph M. Burck of Marvin Glass and Associates and originally published in 1970 by Parker Brothers, and then published again in 1976 and 1996. The game is now out-of-print. In this game, players compete with other players to bid on potentially valuable paintings, and negotiate with other players to trade these works of art, build a portfolio, amass money, and win the game. The top value of a painting in the 1970 edition is $1 million, and $10 million in the 1996 edition; however, getting the full value for the painting requires some luck in landing on the right square on the board to sell a painting to the bank.
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Twilight Struggle Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989 is a card-driven strategy game for two players, with its theme taken from the Cold War. One player plays the United States (US), and the other plays the Soviet Union (USSR). The game takes its title from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address:
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Pacific Storm Pacific Storm is a strategic and tactical game of the Pacific War, released by Buka Entertainment.
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Tide of Iron Tide of Iron is a World War II based wargame designed and published in 2007 by Fantasy Flight Games, also notable for publishing other large games containing a large number of counters and/or other components such as "" and "Arkham Horror".
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Wargame (video games) Wargames are a subgenre of strategy video games that emphasize strategic or tactical warfare on a map, as well as historical (or near-historical) accuracy.
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Cold War (1953–62) The Cold War (1953–1962) discusses the period within the Cold War from the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953 to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Following the death of Stalin unrest occurred in the Eastern Bloc, while there was a calming of international tensions, the evidence of which can be seen in the signing of the Austrian State Treaty reuniting Austria, and the Geneva Accords ending fighting in Indochina. However, this "thaw" was only partial with an expensive arms race continuing during the period.
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Wings Over Europe Wings Over Europe is a PC game (Combat / Flight Simulator) set during the Cold War era where the USSR has attacked NATO forces in West Germany and thus turned it into a ‘hot war’.
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Guerrilla War (video game) Guerrilla War, released in Japan as Guevara (ゲバラ ) , is an overhead run and gun game produced by SNK. Originally released for arcades in 1987 as a coin-operated arcade game, "Guerrilla War" followed the adventures of two unnamed rebel commandos (Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in the Japanese version) as they raid an unnamed Caribbean Island in order to free it from the rule of an unnamed tyrannical dictator. Along the way the players vanquish hordes of enemy soldiers while attempting to rescue hostages (with large score reductions for any hostages killed in the crossfire), collecting weapons from troopers and operating tanks.
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Balance of Power (video game) Balance of Power is a computer strategy game of geopolitics during the Cold War, created by Chris Crawford and published in 1985 on the Apple Macintosh by Mindscape, followed by ports to a variety of platforms over the next two years.
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Fate of Hellas Fate of Hellas (Russian: "Судьба Эллады" ) (released as Great War Nations: The Spartans in North America) is a real-time PC strategy video game, published by JoWood and developed by World Forge. It was released April 4, 2008 in the UK, Germany and France. Prior to the release in EU, the game came out in Russia on December 20, 2007, and was published by Russobit-M. Fate of Hellas is a stand-alone expansion pack for "" with two new campaigns, featuring the Spartans and Macedonians.
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Perpetual war Perpetual war, endless war, or a "Forever War", is a lasting state of war with no clear conditions that would lead to its conclusion. These wars are situations of ongoing tension that may escalate at any moment, similar to the Cold War. Today, the concepts are used to critique the United States Armed Forces interventions in foreign nations and the military–industrial complex, or wars with ambiguous enemies such as the War on Terror or the War on Drugs.
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Call of Duty: WWII Call of Duty: WWII is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. It is the fourteenth primary installment and first "Call of Duty" series game to be set primarily during World War II since "" in 2008. The game is set in European theatre of the war. The campaign is centered around a squad in the 1st Infantry Division, and follows their battles in the Western Front, while the multiplayer expands on different fronts not seen in the campaign. Zombies mode also returns.
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Marius Constant Marius Constant (7 February 192515 May 2004) was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Although known in the classical world primarily for his ballet scores, his most widely known music was the iconic theme for the "Twilight Zone" TV series.
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Hitler's War (game) Hitler's War is a strategic level World War II war game.
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Iron Storm (video game) Iron Storm is a first-person shooter computer game first developed by 4X Studios and published by Wanadoo in Europe and DreamCatcher Interactive in North America. A remixed version of the game called World War Zero was later released for the PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. Set in an alternate history in which World War I never ended, the game takes place in 1964, the 50th year of the war, and focuses on an Allied soldier's mission to stop the Russo-Mongolian Empire from developing nuclear weapons and his later efforts to end the war.
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B.J. Blazkowicz William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz (] ) is the protagonist of the "Wolfenstein" series of alternate history video games starting with 1992's "Wolfenstein 3D". An American spy of Polish descent, he specializes in one-man missions behind enemy lines. In addition to fighting the regular German army he also frequently encounters bizarre Nazi experiments concerning biomechanical technology and the occult.
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Dark Hero Dark Hero is a 1946 thriller by Peter Cheyney featuring a Chicago gangster involved in the gang wars of the 1930s, who during the Second World War finds himself in Nazi-occupied Norway and becomes a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance - by applying essentially the same skills which had made him a successful and feared gangster.
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System's Twilight System's Twilight: An Abstract Fairy Tale is a graphical interactive fiction computer game created by Andrew Plotkin and released in 1994.
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Sid Meier's Gettysburg! Sid Meier's Gettysburg! is a real-time wargame videl game designed by Sid Meier, that was released in 1997 by Electronic Arts. In 1998, "Gettysburg" won the Origins Award for Best Strategy Computer Game of 1997. It was followed by "Sid Meier's Antietam!" in 1999.
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Frank Chadwick Frank Chadwick is an American multiple-award-winning game designer and "New York Times" Best Selling author. He has designed hundreds of games, his most notable being the RPGs "Traveller", "" and "Twilight 2000", and the wargame series "Europa" and "The Third World War".
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Beholder (video game) Beholder is a video game about a life in a totalitarian State. The game was developed by Warm Lamp Games and published by Alawar Entertainment.
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World War Blue World War Blue (Japanese: 蒼い世界の中心で , Hepburn: Aoi Sekai no Chūshin de , lit. "In the Center of the Blue World") is a Japanese fantasy manga series written by Anastasia Shestakova and illustrated by Crimson. The series is a re-imagining of the console wars featuring characters inspired by video games. An anime adaptation by 5th Avenue began airing in Japan on October 20, 2012.