Ground Zero
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Ground Zero
(1983 on
Atari 2600)
- Ground Zero (1984 on Macintosh)
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Ground Zero
(1986 on
Amstrad CPC)
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This is the seventh game in Artic's Adventure Series. You play the role of a regular Joe living in the present, who wakes to find that the world is on the brink of all out nuclear war by a TV announcement.
The gameplay involves trying to find a way to survive this oncoming apocalypse by using ordinary items found around the house and garden, and to turn your house into a makeshift fallout shelter.
The game is authored with the Quill Adventure System and is more like the first games in the series in that it is purely text based unlike its predecessor Eye of Bain which had graphical illustrations of the rooms you are in. The game accepts the simple verb/noun commands.
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Colin Smith was a former journalist who wrote this game to demonstrate the horrors of a potential nuclear war, and his belief that the UK Government's plans of the time were inadequate, feeling that the interactive nature of videogames was the best way to communicate this. At one point Smith considered selling his house in order to raise the funding to get the game published.
A C64 version was also advertised, but it remains unfound as of 2022.
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Game added by festershinetop.
Additional contributors: Martin Smith.
Game added April 12, 2008. Last modified May 17, 2023.