'Nam 1965-1975

The object of the game is to prevent south vietnam falling to communist powers. They strive to take over the country both by military means, using north vietnamese regular troops, and viet gong guerillas, and by socio-political means, by winning over the population wjile working to topple the south vietnamese goverment.
These 2 aims work hand in hand, and part of the communist philosophy involved the idea of popular revolution, to which end much fighting was aimed.
As president and commander-in-chief, you oppose this challenge to the goverment of south vietnam, and the vested interests of the u.s in it, through the use of military power and economic support.
In this game you can control the level of commitment to south vietnam, and how the commitment is used on the ground. You are not a free agent, because you are responsible to the u.s.a for your decisions, and the war can become enormously unpopular.
Overcommit or fare badly and you will lose the next elction. Behave irresponsibly and you may face worse things than election defeat.
When the game starts you will be presented with a screen full of scenarios which you can play. See the section entitled scenarios for more details. For now click on the`nixon button with mouse to begin playing the scenario in which you play president nixon. By the way, don't be put off if the pictures do not exactly corresond to the image on your screen, as graphics vary between machines, but the contents of each screen do not.
When the presidents office appears on the screen you have 2 choices, you can click with the mouse on either his newspaper, or the pile of reports on his desk.
For now click on the newspaper. A news report screen will appear.
On it there are several buttons in which you can click:-next item- previous item-delete item- etc. The bullet symbol and rounded boxes indicate that they are buttons.
This screen lets you read the various news reports that your press office sends up to you. It is useful to find out how your popularity stands and how the public percieve the war. Remember, that the papers often portray a view that is somewhat at odds with reality, so it is important to remember that the papers record what the public think of the war. For an official` view you have goverment reports which you will look at a little later.
To look at different news items, press the next item`and previous item` buttons. If you reach the last item and press`next item`the first item on the list will be shown, the same is true if you go from the 1st item back to the last. The folder of news clippings only holds 25 items, but if you feel that you do not want to read anything a 2nd time you can delete it, making space for something newer, by pressing the delete item` button.
When you feel happy with the news screen,press the return to desk button, this will take you back to the presidents office, pressing the bottom in the bottom right of any screen such as this will always take you back to the previous screen. Once you are in the presidents, press on the reports on his desk, this will take you to the index of reports, show maps, troop commitments, withdraw troops, commit reserves, support south vietnam, commit air support, show summary screen, and, of course-return to main screen. Don't press any for a moment.

What is abandonware ?