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In learning to play the game, keep in mind that Balance of Power is a complex and subtle game that requires considerable expertise to master at its most difficult levels. Don't expect to be able to just shove the disk into the machine and start playing — you'll have to read the manual. Hopefully, the learning process has been made. Description of Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition Mac 1988, the year Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition was released on Mac, as well as Windows 3.x, Amiga, Atari ST and Apple IIgs. Published by Mindscape, Inc., this strategy and simulation game is available for free on this page. Balance of Power. Game » consists of 5 releases. Released 1985 Atari ST. Amiga Apple II Atari ST MSX Mac Apple IIgs PC. Platform of this game. Developer: Developer. Developer of this game. Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours. Balance of Power (Absorb the combined power of the Nightshards and the Eye of Gul'dan using the Heart of Zin-Azshari at the Lunar Crucible.) Congratulations on completing this questline and acquiring new Artifact Appearance.

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  2. If you are too aggressive, you could unleash the war that annihilates humankind - and both sides lose. Balance of Power uses a huge statistical database, a meticulously detailed display of the world, and advanced artificial intelligence techniques to put you in command of one of the world's superpowers.

DOS - 1985

Also available on: Amiga - Atari ST - Apple II - PC-88 - PC-98

4.56 / 5 - 34 votes

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Balance of Power is among the first political simulation that emphasizes diplomacy and politics over outright aggression. When he first released this seminal game in 1984, Crawford single-handedly established the political simulation genre and left a lasting legacy on how to design good diplomatic models in a game that gives a nod to reality.

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You must use diplomacy, make treaties, issue risky, covert CIA or KGB actions, or riskier, direct military intervention to prop up 3rd world countries or help their insurgents and win them to your governmental philosophy: Capitalism or Communism.

The game, not surprisingly, attracted many non-gamers to the field and inspired countless books on the subject. International cold war politics at its best!

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A retrogamer provided a fixed version of the DOS game:

I've put together an improved package for Balance of Power (1985 DOS version) that adds graphic options and fixes some gameplay-affecting bugs. As far as I know, there aren't any abandonware sites with any versions of BOP for DOS that work correctly.
The version that you have has some bugs in it. An easy one to reproduce is to start a game, click on the South America menu, and choose Argentina. Instead of highlighting Argentina, the engine will highlight the entire ocean. The various geopolitical maps generally don't work; some countries will never be shaded when they should, which harms gameplay.
The bug seems to be tied to the graphics mode. So I made a setup tool that lets the user select one of five graphics modes. They are high-res EGA monochrome, Hercules, low-res EGA color, CGA, and high-res EGA color. The first four work perfectly, the fifth one looks nicer but exhibits odd behavior.

To play the game properly, don’t launch the bat file directly. Run DOSBox, mount the BOP1985 folder, and run the bat file from within DOSBox.

You can see the different video mode in the screenshots, in the following order:

  • EGA high res monochrome
  • Hercules (green one)
  • EGA low res color
  • CGA
  • EGA high res color (has bugs)

Captures and Snapshots

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Comments and reviews

wisdom of the sages2020-03-041 point

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Too add, I worked on this game's development and am impressed with the comments here.
Today's youth are not the problem. The youth have never been the problem. The problem as you will see as you age as well becomes clear as day.
Also to highlight why working in programming is a cruel mistress, I never really made anything from this game and was more a technical achievement of mastery of skill. To any young up-n-coming coder wizards, you know where the money is.

Peso2019-02-0680 points

This game is good practice now that the arms manufacturers have their Cold War 2 up and running.
Who knows, we may live to see those mushroom clouds since today's youth thinks nuking people will be just like a video game

Badwolf742015-09-18-1 point DOS version

Not quite sure how I'm supposed to get anything done. No matter what side I play, I enact any policies and the other side nukes me because I refuse to back down. I tried to switch to diplomatic relations with Lebanon to help slow down their revolution. Apparently that's capitalist behavior worthy of ending the world, thanks USSR.

unclemoneybags2014-06-092 points DOS version

I couldn't get this to run on DOSbox.. :-(

CJR2013-06-100 point DOS version

Works on the BBC Master 512

Another Linux User2013-04-180 point DOS version

@Linux user
sudo apt-get install dosbox

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@LinuxUser2013-04-18-3 points DOS version

If you can't get this working on linux then stop using linux.

Linux user.2013-04-181 point DOS version

Make support for my computer please? :)

Atari Old School2011-10-161 point DOS version

This was one of the best games I played when I was 15 on my Atari 520ST. It not only taught me about politics and world affairs it was also a game that till this day I can remember almost all about how to play it. I am eager to relive my youth with the game.
And Yes Atari did make some of the best computers at the time, the graphics were better then Apple and Commodore.

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DOS Version

Amiga ROM

  • Year:1987
  • Publisher:Mindscape, Inc.

Atari ST ROM

  • Year:1987
  • Publisher:Mindscape, Inc.

Apple II Version

  • Year:1986
  • Publisher:Mindscape, Inc.

Game Extras

Various files to help you run Balance of Power, apply patchs, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.

PC-88 Version

  • Year:1989
  • Publisher:ASCII Corporation

PC-98 Version

  • Year:1988
  • Publisher:ASCII Corporation

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Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition is an old Windows 3.x simulation game, developed by Mindscape, designed by Chris Crawford and published by Mindscape in 1989. It's available for download.
Screenshots taken by Abandonware DOS. Open Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition screenshots in a new tab.
Genres:
turn based, modern world, cold war, fixed screen, historical
single-player

What they thought about it

'It's complex, it's involving, it's certainly thought-provoking and it's difficult to play in ten minute sessions. Set aside a lot of time and you'll get a lot of enjoyment from the game. Absorbing stuff that gives an insight into the devious world of Geopolitics.' - ACEMagazine Issue 03 (1987)

Downloads for Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition

Games that run on Windows 3.x only can't run on recent Windows systems.

Additional info

Input: keyboard, mouse

Distributed on: 5,25 floppy disk

Graphics: EGA

Sound cards supported: PC speaker

Abandonware DOS views: 7592

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Collector's corner:

In 1986, Crawford published a book, also called Balance of Power, which details the internals of the game great depth. It explains the background of the politics, the formulas used to calculate prestige and related parameters, and an account of its (lengthy) gestation.

The above text is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. This text is based on this Wikipedia article.

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