I suppose it was inevitable. By the year 2000, the conflicts in the Middle East finally got too big for the bucket, resulting in a limited nuclear exchange that, naturally, destroyed most of the world’s oil supply.
Command to Nose Gunner, Command to Nose Gunner. Radar's readin' an army of armored androids that are harshin' our Martian colonies. We're lookin' at boo-coo ground emplacements. Sulfur skies swarming with enemy gunships. F-f-f-four explosive gamepl..