Middle East Conflict Simulator

I found the Middle East Conflict Simulator on the excellent Home of the Underdogs site. It’s worth a look, though it’s incredibly shallow and lacks a lot of the features it could have. Pity no one creates political simulators any more.

Basically, you play as Israel and the only victory (as far as I can tell) is to emerge as the only Middle Eastern nation that hasn’t been taken over or overthrown. It claims to follow real-world trends, which apparently back in the ’80s meant that in 1997 a new premier (the player) would succeed another who was assassinated. The Cold War is still on, but disappointingly it has little to do with the gameplay. The other nations you can interact with are Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria. The instructions say that the Saudis were too rich to be played off by any superpower. In the game, you have diplomatic and intelligence relations with the nations- you can either be nice or demanding diplomatically, and you can either choose to help the insurgencies in each or actually help them crush internal opposition. You can also allocate spending on specific weapons.

Anyhow, go download it and tell me what you think of it. Then go to this thread and answer the challenge.
 
played it last year. I lost more times than i won. But i could win one time because Iraq attacked Syria and then Jordan and ceased them. I often used nukes
 
Strategos' Risk said:
I found the Middle East Conflict Simulator on the excellent Home of the Underdogs site. It’s worth a look, though it’s incredibly shallow and lacks a lot of the features it could have. Pity no one creates political simulators any more.

Basically, you play as Israel and the only victory (as far as I can tell) is to emerge as the only Middle Eastern nation that hasn’t been taken over or overthrown. It claims to follow real-world trends, which apparently back in the ’80s meant that in 1997 a new premier (the player) would succeed another who was assassinated. The Cold War is still on, but disappointingly it has little to do with the gameplay. The other nations you can interact with are Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria. The instructions say that the Saudis were too rich to be played off by any superpower. In the game, you have diplomatic and intelligence relations with the nations- you can either be nice or demanding diplomatically, and you can either choose to help the insurgencies in each or actually help them crush internal opposition. You can also allocate spending on specific weapons.

Anyhow, go download it and tell me what you think of it. Then go to this thread and answer the challenge.

I like it. I actually had this game...which was originally published on two 5 and 1/4 inch floppies and ran on an old IBM 8036 computer using CGA graphics...when it first came out. My leadership style, as determined by the game in the final results screen...is usually "fascist." :D I spend a lot of time trying to assassinate opposing leaders, launching "stab in the back" attacks on neighboring countries which are at war with another country, and building up all my weapons...including nukes. I use nukes if possible (you don't want to use them if the Middle East Tension rating is "turbulent" or above, or you end up causing a worldwide holocaust).
 
Strategos' Risk said:
I found the Middle East Conflict Simulator on the excellent Home of the Underdogs site. It’s worth a look, though it’s incredibly shallow and lacks a lot of the features it could have. Pity no one creates political simulators any more.

Basically, you play as Israel and the only victory (as far as I can tell) is to emerge as the only Middle Eastern nation that hasn’t been taken over or overthrown. It claims to follow real-world trends, which apparently back in the ’80s meant that in 1997 a new premier (the player) would succeed another who was assassinated. The Cold War is still on, but disappointingly it has little to do with the gameplay. The other nations you can interact with are Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria. The instructions say that the Saudis were too rich to be played off by any superpower. In the game, you have diplomatic and intelligence relations with the nations- you can either be nice or demanding diplomatically, and you can either choose to help the insurgencies in each or actually help them crush internal opposition. You can also allocate spending on specific weapons.

Anyhow, go download it and tell me what you think of it. Then go to this thread and answer the challenge.

I downloaded it. When I tried to play it it asked me insert disk two. Do I need to do something?
 
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