234.77 f 234.12 b m 68.08 g

The player may choose to be either the President of the United States or the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and must lead the chosen superpower for eight years, seeking to maximize prestige and avoiding a nuclear war.

Each turn is one year long at the beginning of each year, the player is presented with a set of incidents and crises in various countries around the globe and must choose a response to each one
Responses may range from no action to diplomatic notes to the other superpower, to military maneuvers.
Each response is then met with a counter-response, which may vary from backing down to escalation.
The player then gets a chance to initiate actions.