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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8306414" data-attributes="member: 4534">If I ever run or play Twilight 2000 I am going to find some excuse to play Nena's "99 Luftballoons" as either the opening theme or perhaps playing from the radio of a broken down T-80 just outside of Krakow. At the time of release it was a near future game but I guess now the latest version is alternative history. (On a personal note, I don't know if I could actually play this game. It brings up a lot of memories about my childhood. Not bad or anything, the setting just hits a little close to home.)I tend to think of alternative history as being something plausible though that's probably too restrictive.  Harry Turtledove wrote a series of books where aliens invade the Earth during WWII and if that's alternative history than why not magic?  So the main alternative history game I play is Deadlands.  The original setting started in an alternative 1876 where the Confederacy had effectively won the Civil War and continued to have a tense relationship with the United States.  In the latest version of Deadlands, the Civil War ended with a Confederate defeat in 1871.</blockquote>