The title screen has some animation, showing how the Earth is incinerated, leaving behind mutated life in the Wasteland.
You create a party and move across the land, armed with crowbars, knives, and World War II era weapons.
You are free to look at and adjust your party as you need.
You can radio back to base to see if you are ready for promotion.
You spend much time cleaning up the planet of dangerous mutants.
Sometimes you help farmers, killing the dangerous "possums" in their fields.
Title screen (CGA Composite)
Our fearless rangers find themselves in another fine mess
Combat: Exploding like a blood sausage
Combat: Reducing him into a thin red paste
Standing next to a satellite dish
Referencing a 'paragraph' enhances the story
Hostage standoff with Ugly John
The post-atomic wastes is no place for a magic shop
Even wacko people hate you
The ever-annoying chessboard puzzle
Testing the Howitzer... oops!
When people start worshiping the Bomb, you know it can only lead to tragedy
Charmaine the radioactive high priestess
Las Vegas. The dice continue to roll despite War, Nuclear Armageddon, and an invasion of killer robots
Dispensing family values, crypto-military style
The infamous Scorpitron war machine
Inside the abandoned Sleeper Base, in the aftermath of Finster's massacre
Finster's mad dream reveals the depth of your struggle
Battle against Irwin John Finster
Inside Finster's electronic brain
The warped manifestations of Finster's insane mind
Finster Challenges you to one final command decision
Finster's final form stands between you and Base Cochise
Battling the Guardians of the Old Order, worshippers of Visa and Volkswagon
Pretty funky get-up for a nun
VAX, the best NPC in the entire game
Confronting the Cochise A.I. for the fate of all mankind
Ranger Center (CGA composite)
Promotion screen (CGA composite)