Shadow President

[Guest ryan_the_canuck]

Doubt many of you have heard of the game Shadow President, but it's an old (1993) game in which you are placed in the role of President of the United States, with an eye towards international relations, starting on June 1, 1990 (so the Soviets are still around, and Iraq is about to invade Kuwait)

Usually, my games of SP will follow a pattern...stop Iraq, insult the Chinese a bit, get bored, start wars with random African countries until my popularity sinks so low I get impeached. Gets kinda boring after a while.

So, I start a new game, and decide to completely ignore the Iraq/Kuwait situation. Iraq wins control of Kuwait within a few days. Instead of doing anything, y'know, FUN, I decide to work on trying to get South Africa, Brazil, and Hungary into my alliance.

In the meantime, Iraq has been steadily building up their army in an attempt to invade Saudi Arabia...which they do on December 2nd. Noticing that the Soviets are helping to defend the Saudis, I again decline to get involved.

Then, January 17, all hell breaks loose. Completely out of the blue, the Soviet Union nukes Saudi Arabia (seems like a bug to me, first one I've ever found). Strange. France, of all countries, retaliates first with their own nuke. The Soviets and France exchange a couple more nukes, the Soviets nuke Saudi Arabia once more, and China nukes the Soviet Union.

So, all of a sudden, the world looks much different. Europe and the Middle East are essentially non-entities...after the US, India has become the #2 superpower. It's really quite bizarre. Oh, and Iraq is using the occasion to invade Jordan and Israel, while Japan and France are trying to form an alliance.

Just thought I'd share with any other ShadPres players out here.

[Enter Blue Guy]

Where can I find this game?

Sounds interesting. Very interesting.

[Guest ryan_the_canuck]

It can be downloaded off of HOTU...

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

Too lazy to find the exact game, but it's not hard.

[FLiam]

Holy shit, I always used to play this game. Years ago, it is awesome.

I didn't really get most of it, I just bombed countries all the time, twas fun. I am going to download it again.

[Matthew]

I love this game its so much fun

[apsham]

Me and Basha have been pimping that game for life, yo.

I hate it when I hit Iraq with 50 nukes and their population goes down to either 0 or 1 and they still manage to fire back a nuke. Assholes.

[Herr Matzat]

i managed to take over russia a cupple of times back in the day

[Pander Opiate]

I used to play it quite a lot. It's a good game but I could never fight the urge to not nuke everyone that annoyed me.

[K]

Looks like fun, but my computer craps out every time I try to bomb france, and to be honest that's all I was trying to do.

[fineintent]

Ok, so in my first game I nuked everyone. Now I want to know - how do I get people to join my alliance? I've done cultural exchanges with UK, Australia, France and Japan - now what can I do?

[Guest ryan_the_canuck]

Update...

The Soviet Union, in a desperate attempt to remain relevant, has tried to pick fights with Sweden and Iceland...and failed twice.

Norweigian terrorists forced a plane to crash in Western Samoa.

Iraq has invaded Jordan, and I am defending.

[The Sultan of Swank]

Retaliate hardcore against Iraq.

[FLiam]

Someone needs to do a diary.

[The Sultan of Swank]

If I could find it on my comp I'd do one.

[Dan]

I'll do one once I figure out how to play it.

[Guest Hollywood™]

It's a good game just played it for the first time.

Gets rather boring. Waging war against Soviet Union isn't a wise decision I hit them with nuclear bombs then im asked if they can set up an army base in America.

o.0

[The Sultan of Swank]

Do it like that episode of Seinfield where Kramer reitres and runs for president of the condo comitee at Del Boca Vista with Jerry's father pulling the strings in the background as the greatest puppet govt. ever.

[Guest ryan_the_canuck]

I'm considering doing a diary.

Finally, I'm now convinced that the original nuking was a bomb, as the US just nuked Jordan...without me ordering it.

If it's not a bug, than it's the Freemasons. Either one.

[Pepsi Punk]

Mine won't start.

The first time I opened it it asked me who said some quote, I said "Bob" and it went to a screen with the title on it. I pressed enter and it didn't do anything, so then I started pressing a few others buttons. Eventually I gave up and closed it. Now when I open it I actually put in who said the quote and now it won't even go to that screen.

[MDK]

I can't even get it to run. How do I open it in dos?