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Mike Builds a Shelter

This Cold War game puts the player in control of average American everyman Mike, charged by sudden circumstance with building a fallout shelter in his basement by slowly climbing two flights of stairs to the…

31 December 1983

Mike Builds a Shelter is a simulator developed by Mike Smith, released 31 December 1983 on Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Mike Builds a Shelter is

Mike Builds a Shelter is a simulator game developed by Mike Smith and released in 1983. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This Cold War game puts the player in control of average American everyman Mike, charged by sudden circumstance with building a fallout shelter in his basement by slowly climbing two flights of stairs to the attic, where three cinder blocks need to be carried down to build it out of.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Mike Builds a Shelter launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness and Zoo Keeper.

Released around the same time: Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness, Zoo Keeper.

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When did Mike Builds a Shelter come out?
Mike Builds a Shelter was released on 31 December 1983 for Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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