List of Vietnam War games
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The Vietnam War has been depicted in many games.
Video games[]
While not as popular a topic as World War II and fictional wars set in modern times the Vietnam War has been the setting for numerous video games.
Action-adventure game[]
- Magicka: Vietnam (2011)
- When I was young (2020)[9]
Top-down shooter[]
- (2007)
Rail shooters[]
- (2004)
- Soldier Boyz (FMV rail shooter) (1997)
Arcade shooter games[]
- NAM (video game) (1998)
- (2000)
- (2001)
- Battlefield Vietnam (2004)
- (2004)
- Shellshock: Nam '67 (2004)
- Made Man (video game) (2006)
- The Hell in Vietnam (2008)
- Shellshock 2: Blood Trails (2009)
- Tunnel Rats: 1968 (2009)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam (2010)
- 7554 (2011)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (2012)
- (2017)
- (2018)
- Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness (2018)
- Eve of Destruction Redux (2018)
- (2018)
- (2020)
- (2020)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
- (2021)
Tactical shooter games[]
- The Vietcong series
- Vietcong (video game) (2003)
- Vietcong: Fist Alpha (2004)
- (2005)
- Vietcong 2 (2005)
- (2006)
- Other tactical shooters
- Line of Sight: Vietnam (2003)
- Conflict: Vietnam (2004)
- Men of Valor (2004)
- Elite Warriors: Vietnam (2005)
- (2021)
Military simulations[]
- Project Reality (2005)
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam (2017)
- (2021)
Jet simulators[]
- Wings Over Vietnam (2004)
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013)
- (2012)
Helicopter simulators[]
- (1998)[2][3]
- (2002)
- (2006)
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam (2013)
Real-time tactics games[]
- Green Berets (2001)
- Men of War: Vietnam (2011)
Real-time strategy games[]
- Platoon (2002 video game) (2002)
- (2004)
- (2015)
- (2019)
- The Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations (2020)
Wargame (video games)[]
- The Squad Battles Series
- Squad Battles: Vietnam (2001)
- (2002)
- (2009)
- Other Wargame (video games)
- Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles (1996)
- The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956-2000 (1999)
- Air Assault Task Force (2006)
Board games[]
Name | Year | Publisher | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Grunt | 1971 | Simulation Publications | Squad and platoon level combat. |
Year of the Rat - Vietnam, 1972 | 1972 | Simulation Publications | Simulation of the 13 weeks of the Communist Offensive in the Spring of 1972. |
Hue | 1973 | Simulations Design Corporation | Battle of Huế |
Patrol | 1974 | Simulation Publications | Man to man skirmish combat in Vietnam and other periods |
Search & Destroy: Tactical Combat Vietnam 1965-1966 | 1975 | Simulation Publications | Tactical combat |
Operation Pegasus | 1980 | Task Force Games | A game simulating the campaign to break the siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War in 1968. |
Defiance: The Battle of Xuan Loc | 1980 | A simulation of The Battle of Xuan Loc (11 April 1975). | |
No Trumpets No Drums | 1982 | World Wide Wargames | Operational level game simulating the whole of the United States' ground combat role (1965–1975). |
Vietnam: 1965-1975 | 1984 | Victory Games (1984) GMT Games (2021) |
Battalion level game simulating the whole of Americas ground combat and politics (1965–1975). |
Tet '68 | 1992 | A simulation of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. | |
Winged Horse: Campaigns in Vietnam, 1965-66 | 2006 | Decision Games | A simulation of the critical fighting that marked the first months after massive conventional US intervention into conflict. An expansion was also produced to cover the war up to 1975. |
2014 | GMT Games | One to four players represent the VC, ARVN, NVA and US forces in a card driven game system that handles insurgency and counter insurgency activities. | |
Snoopy's Nose & Iron Triangle | 2013 | Decision Games | Two operational scenarios in Modern War #7 that simulated the campaign along a portion of the Mekong River in 1967 and the first large U.S. operation that attempted to eliminate the VC stronghold consisting of the infamous Cu Chi Tunnels. |
In Country | 2013 | Decision Games | A strategic simulation of the entire war in Strategy & Tactics #281 that covers the land and air campaign within South Vietnam. |
LZ Albany | 2016 | Decision Games | A tactical simulation of the firefight known as LZ Albany in Modern War #24 that covers the VC's ambush of U.S. air cav infantry in 1965. |
Combat Veteran | 2017 | Decision Games | A man on man tactical scenario of the firefight at the rice paddy angle in May 1967 in Modern War #31 that simulates Charlie Company of 4/47 (9th Infantry) going up against Viet Cong bunkers hidden in a jungle treeline. |
Front Towards Enemy | 2019 | Multi-Man Publishing | Tactical combat at the scale of 50 meters per hex and five minutes per turn. Units represent fire teams of 1-4 men, heavy weapon sections, leaders, vehicles, and helicopters. |
References[]
- ^ "When I Was Young on Steam".
- ^ Jump up to: a b "M.I.A.: Missing In Action for Windows (1998)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Not to be confused with the 1989 arcade game with the same title
- ^ http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/DBPhu/DBPhu.html
- ^ http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/TOD/TOD.html
- ^ http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/SB/SBVietnam/SBVietnam.html
- ^ http://vietafghan.frvp.com Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Apocalypse Now". 2017-10-28. Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- ^ "When I was young official website".
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