Radios in Games: This War of Mine

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Aaron Kuhn, who writes:

Another “Radio in Popular Culture” tidbit for you since they seem so popular:

2014 war survival game “This War of Mine“, released on multiple platforms, features a simulated shortwave radio you can build and use as part of the game.

After building the radio from components/parts you find, it allows you to use the radio on a daily basis to gather intelligence about what’s going on out in the streets around you.

This video capture I took shows what in-game tuning of this “Rad” brand radio looks like:

Click here to view on YouTube.

Thank you Aaron. How very cool! I wonder if this is where The Man in the High Castle got the idea for the virtual resistance radio.

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4 thoughts on “Radios in Games: This War of Mine

  1. Chris Freitas

    I think in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, there is a Sony ICF 2010 while Venom Snake is in the hospital in Cyprus (which the setting takes place in 1984). Also another game that I first remember see a “radio” is Pokemon Gold & Silver and you can tune into different stations. It is neat how radio gets put into some of my favorite video games.

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  2. Kobaljov

    Some other occurences in computer games

    Firewatch: here a handheld walkie-talkie radio is a basic element of the gameplay
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUYYnfRdl8

    Fallout 4 (and as I remember in the previous Fallout games, e.g. 3) the protagonist have a radio receiver in a forearm computer and the game have numerous stations (broadcast or ham radio) and relay towers. Some missions even requires to locate the source of a broadcast. Pictures (from graphics upgrade mods), tabletop receiver:
    http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4230/?
    ham radio:
    http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/18836/?

    Wasteland 3 mission promo:

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  3. Frank

    Reminds me, in the ca. 10 year old “Call of Duty – World at War” game for Nintendo DS, almost half the missions end with you typing morse code onto a morse key filling the touch screen (“speed” maybe 5-6 WPM), mostly on captured equipment, to alert your troops for pick up. Nothing fancy, just pushing the touchsceen long and short as the dots and dashes walk underneath.

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