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{{quote|...''And the sun continued to shine its benevolent rays across the top of the opaque cloud layer, hidden from human eyes. The sun continued to shine.'' }}
''[[Transarctica]]'' is a 1993 strategy adventure game developed by the French software company Silmarils. It was released for the [[Amiga]], [[Atari ST]], [[DOS]], and [[Macintosh]]. This game has a poor English translation, but that doesn't stop the game from being enjoyable.
In the year 2022, the world was plagued by [[Hollywood Global Warming]]. In order to cool down the Earth, Professor John Merrick decides that [[Deus Ex Nukina|nuclear weapons]] are the solution. By detonating nukes at each pole, a huge cloud of dust and steam would form thick clouds that will block out the sun and cool the Earth. And that's exactly what happened, except the clouds were bigger than they calculated and the Earth cooled down so much it brought about a new Ice Age. With the world in a deep freeze, civilization came to an end, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|nice job breaking it Merrick]]. By the year 2714, the world is still frozen, humanity is barely hanging in there, and the sun becomes a thing of myth. Oh, and woolly mammoths [[Lamarck Was Right|are no longer]] [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|extinct]]. The only way to travel safely across the frozen wastes is by train, and only the [[Mega Corp|Viking Union]] controls the worldwide railroad. A cult of sun believers, known as the Ambivalents, are convinced that there is a heavenly ball of light beyond the clouds, and will do anything to prove it. The leader of the fanatical sun cult, [[Player Character|you]], has managed to take over a [[Cool Train]], the titular ''Transarctica'', and now nothing can stop the Ambivalents from realizing their dream. Except for the other [[Cool Train|cool trains]] still owned by the evil corporation.
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* [[After the End]] : The whole world is in the grip of a new ice age caused by thick clouds, with the sun (and possibly the moon and stars too) becoming all but legendary.
* [[An Entrepreneur Is You]]: Trading is a significant part of the game, and a good way to make money.
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* [[Cool Train]] : Where the majority of the game takes place. In addition to normal train cars, it can pull barracks, gardens, prisons, workshops, guns mounted on wagons, and a rocket launch pad.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: The box image you see at the top of the page isn't what the ''Transarctica'' looks like in the game, but it does [[Rule of Cool|look appropriately cool]]. What it ''is'' is the image that inspired the whole game in the first place.
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* [[Energy Economy]] : Coal is the [[Global Currency]], because heating is a premium in the new ice age. [[Amiga Power|Tedious people constantly talked about their fortunes going "up in smoke." Until they were thrown out in the cold and froze to death.]]
* [[Explosive Overclocking]] : A train's boiler can only take so much pressure. It isn't worth the risk.
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* [[Genre Busting]]: Even to this day, 18 years after its release, Transarctica remains a unique fusion of several different genres.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]] : They wanted to cool the Earth down, and they did.
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] : [[Nuclear Winter]] to stop [[Hollywood Global Warming]]? Did they think this plan through?
* [[Have a Nice Death]] : There's a different [[Game Over]] message for each different game ending situation, but all messages end with the text at the top of this page.
* [[Lamarck Was Right]] : Woolly Mammoths came back because the elephants adapted to the cold.
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