DEFCON Game for Windows, Linux and OS X

39 Responses (Add) | Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 8:41pm

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The guys who hang out with me on Ventrilo recently got hooked on a PC game called DEFCON. After they explained it all to me, I had to try it for myself. The demo is fully-functioning, and free! It has excellent graphics, and a stellar soundtrack that you can now buy on iTunes. DEFCON is definitely addictive, and a lot of fun.

Wirelesspacket explained the premise of the game. Remember the movie WarGames with Matthew Broderick? In the movie, the character Joshua showed the continents and the missiles being launched. This game is almost the same exact interface. Not only are there nuclear weapons, there are fighter planes, radar, and you have to build your own air bases and defenses. You must defend your Homeland, while trying to destroy the other areas.

According to the game manufacturer:

It’s Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.

This game is becoming so popular, you can buy the soundtrack and poster, or even use the screen saver!

Watch as Wirelesspacket plays the demo of this game for you… live!

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Let me know what other games you know of that are just excellent, and may be under the radar. We hear so often about the expensive games, that really cool ones like this tend to go unnoticed.

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39 Comments

win1forzip

November 9th, 2007
at 2:35am

Shall we play a game? How about a nice game of chess?

gabture Games Stories

November 9th, 2007
at 2:41am

owen0334

November 9th, 2007
at 3:09am

accursed lands!!! It is text based so it takes getting used to.

bassamnz

November 9th, 2007
at 4:54am

You know whats ironic. Bungee.. the maker of Halo games, specialised in Macs until MICROSOFT baught it. lol. so funny.

AlphaWolfChaos

November 9th, 2007
at 6:09am

and then they started making good games.

Murk

November 9th, 2007
at 6:43am

I know your not a ‘gamer’ chris, but im delighted you have discovered this game.

Question: Did you play Uplink?

The production company behind defcon, Introversion, created Uplink back in 2001. This is also a gem of a game despite its age. You play a hacker hacking into computer mainframes worldwide, stealing money from peoples bank accounts or just wrecking peoples lives by changing their social security information.

It is brilliant and easily purchased online. Worth a look.
Especially for computer geeks…

Windows Vista Torrent

November 9th, 2007
at 6:54am

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chrintov

November 9th, 2007
at 7:13am

it’s gears OF war lol…umm checked out defcon it is awesome..and yea addicting and the music fits just right

arranmc182

November 9th, 2007
at 7:20am

DEFCON is verry old i played it like 2yerars ago it was nice but gets boring very fast (well it did for me) if you have a Windows PC then you can use Valves Steam Content delivery service to buy the game or download the Demo

ty99999returns

November 9th, 2007
at 9:01am

world of warcraft is good game

Murk

November 9th, 2007
at 9:50am

Have we played Uplink ? Have you Chris?

I think that is also a game worth Throwin on the thread, great game if your a computer geek.

Hacking hacking hacking…

Murk

November 9th, 2007
at 9:51am

oops. two comments, my bad..

letsgetsomeshoes1239

November 9th, 2007
at 10:19am

take THAT macs! good vid

AJ21492

November 9th, 2007
at 11:07am

World of WArcraft sucks balls

six-nine-suited

November 9th, 2007
at 11:10am

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keyesaw

November 9th, 2007
at 11:51am

Cool, I’ll try it

AspireHigherStudios

November 9th, 2007
at 11:55am

Um, the ones they made for Mac are really popular on the Xbox live store.

PAC0TAC0

November 9th, 2007
at 12:28pm

it realy hasent been under ur radar unless you dont play steam it was introduced on steam last year

joness105639

November 9th, 2007
at 10:43pm

wow ambrosia sw. They got good stuff. the fact that it was a partnership between them and another company is a good sign. I really used to like Harry The Handsome Executive and ARES. The shame is that they are not OSX compatable and CERTAINLY not intel mac compatable. Time for a sequel or an emulator.

Tyler S. Miller

November 10th, 2007
at 2:29am

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_Tux_

November 10th, 2007
at 5:01am

also try Darwinia! (from the same company)

iApple1000

November 10th, 2007
at 6:08am

I bet bush played this game lolz

qwertymac93

November 10th, 2007
at 6:48am

holy **** that server is bad ***! 700kb/s and rising!

masterraptor911

November 10th, 2007
at 7:37am

FINALLY! Look, I was EB games one day. And there it was, looking at me. The second I saw screen shoots of the game I knew I must have it. It takes extreme tactics and thourogh thought in what you’re doing. One day I want to play this on a huge projection screen like in the movie.
***Look threw my videos if you want to see gameplay of the game.