Nuclear Escalation (card game)

Nuclear Escalation is a 1983 card game published by Flying Buffalo.

Gameplay

Nuclear Escalation is a sequel to Nuclear War with new special rules and options.[1]

Reception

Scott Haring reviewed Nuclear Escalation in Space Gamer No. 68.[1] Haring commented that "So if you can laugh in the face of potential nuclear conflagration, Nuclear Escalation is not only a cute little game in its own right, but it combined with Nuclear War to produce a killer (pardon the expression) game that is a definite improvement on the original."[1]

Nuclear Escalation was awarded the Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best Science Fiction Boardgame of 1983".[2]

Nuclear Escalation had been the subject of a potential ban on all war related toys when two MPs of the UK Labour Party called the game "a nasty twist on the toy industry". Rick Loomis was interviewed as part of this discussion saying "the game is intended to be humorous... the subject is so serious that you have to laugh about it because otherwise you'd cry."[3]

gollark: (this is now up on the forums).
gollark: ```Unfortunately, it is unavailable, possibly forever, because (according to an email):Thank you for your request to access the Dragon Cave API from host dc.osmarks.tk. At this time, your request could not be granted, for the following reason: You have, through your own admission on the forums, done the exact thing that got EATW banned from the API.This may be a non-permanent issue; feel free to re-submit your request after correcting any issue(s) listed above.Thanks, T.J. Land presumably due to this my server and computer (yes, I should use a VPS, whatever) can no longer access DC. Whether this is sickness checking, scraping, or using EATW's approximation for optimal view count I know not, but oh well. Due to going against the unwritten rules of DC (yes, this is why I was complaining about ridiculous T&C issues) this hatchery is now nonfunctional. Service may be restored if I actually get some notification about what exactly the problem is and undoing it will not make the whole thing pointless. The text at the bottom is quite funny, though.```
gollark: I could add a T&C stating that it is the hatchery's automatic systems' prerogative to take stuff which is sick out of rotation, but none would care.
gollark: They effectively give helping permission by submitting it to a hatchery, but that's irrelevant.
gollark: Ah, well, it *could* be interpreted that way, I guess.

References
  1. Haring, Scott (March–April 1984). "Featured Review: Nuclear Escalation". Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games (68): 11–12.
  2. "The 1983 Origins Awards". The Game Manufacturers Association. Archived from the original on 2012-12-16. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  3. "MPs seek ban on nuclear board game described as 'disgusting and offensive'". Ottawa Citizen. March 3, 1984. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
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