YAY BEANS!!! I MADED MY BESTEST ENTRY FOR THIS YET!!
may I present:

COLD WAR SIMULATOR X

tee hee, not as good as in my head, but still inanely fast and inane

From the Crap 80s Computer Games challenge. See all 103 entries (closed)

(Fartmonger, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 22:21, archived)

nice spastic action,
but I don't think you've successfully encapsulated the intricacies of Gorbachev's political objectives.
(kaibosh, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 22:27, archived)

perhaps...
but then again, could the cold war have been averted if only America had managed to tap X quickly enough?
(Fartmonger, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 22:31, archived)

possibly
but that doesn't take into account khrushchev's rocket pants.
(kaibosh, Mon 18 Oct 2004, 22:36, archived)