History TabletopGame / DarkFuture

In May, 2019, a digital version of the game was released on Steam, under the name Dark Future: Blood Red States.

''Dark Future'' was a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Creator/GamesWorkshop and originally published in 1988. Initially developed by writer [[Literature/FightingFantasy Marc Gascoigne]] as a CyberPunk RolePlayingGame, he combined his concept of the titular dark future with fellow GW employee Richard Halliwell's idea for a car-racing game, using mechanics which Gascoigne had originally developed for the ComicBook/JudgeDredd RPG in the supplement ''Slaughter Margin.'' The game came in a box set containing several cardboard sections of road, plastic vehicles and a rulebook. The car miniatures were roughly 25mm scale. Players took on the role of a Sanctioned Operative, a licensed bounty hunter whose job was to clear out highway sections of the vehicle gangs causing trouble or that of a Renegade; one of the gang members.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Yep, you can mount lasers on your car. Done relatively well; lasers have a higher accuracy score than machine guns (reflective of their lack of recoil), are easier to knock out of action (by damaging the power cables needed to connect the laser to the vehicle power plant) and have a slow rate of fire (each shot with a laser uses up its power pack and it needs a full-turn to recharge). They also do more damage but weigh less than other weapon systems (arguably due to not having magazines full of heavy ammunition).

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: It's TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, there's no real Police anymore, desert highways are plagued by gangs of leather-clad, spike-sporting thugs on motorbikes and battered automobiles and there's a growing shortage of gasoline. Oh, and the police that there are drive [[MadMax V8 Interceptors.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties 1995]] is a MadMax style dystopia.