In Nuke War, each player plays as a nameless country, embroiled in global propaganda, where population is stolen from other player’s countries to join your own. The only other game I have played that had a spinner is Twister when I was thirteen and reaching to put left hand on green while rubbing body parts with Caroline in the process when I was still figuring out what the body parts were for, so… huzzah for spinners. You read that correctly – the game has a spinner. The box is almost identical to the copy I had in the 80’s and the cards and spinner have not changed much, either. Surprised it is still in print, I purchased a brand new copy of Nuclear War. It was a go-to game to play before or after a more lengthy game with heavier strategy and I recall we played a lot of it with both of the expansion packs. I was regularly playing this game with my gaming group in the early 1980’s, before a game about blowing up millions of people to win might be considered “politically incorrect” (finger quotes mandatory). Let me be absolutely transparent: This is a review that is heavily weighted by nostalgia.

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