Dark Future is a game by Games Workshop. Created in 1988, it is set in an alternate reality where the United States - and indeed the rest of the world - is falling apart. Society is going to ruins, and the natural laws of physics are breaking down. The multicorps rule, technology runs rampant, and Sanctioned Ops patrol the roads and highways tracking down and destroying the renegade scum who live there, outside of the law and doing what they please. This game has obviously been influenced by Steve Jackson's Car Wars and also the world of the Mad Max movies The style of the Games Workshop logo is copied in the titles of many of their games Games Workshop is a British game production and retailing company. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A physical law or a law of nature is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations. ... Steve Jackson founded Steve Jackson Games in the early 80s. ... Car Wars is a combat board game developed by Steve Jackson Games. ... Mad Max is an Australian science fiction film starring Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky. ...

You play the part of a Sanctioned Op - a bounty hunter of the future - or a Renegade, duelling for survival in high-tech vehicles of the present. A bounty hunter is an individual who seeks out fugitives for a monetary reward. ...

Original Game

Published in 1988 it was a standard Games Workshop boxed game containing rules, plastic track sections and plastic cars a similar size to standard matchbox or hotwheels toy cars. (But of course the ones in the game are covered with guns) Matchbox Superfast box art. ... Hot Wheels is a popular brand of toy automobile, introduced by U.S. toymaker Mattel in 1968. ...

White Line Fever Expansion

This is a volume of advanced rules for Dark Future. Inside this book players will find new rules for manoeuvers, shooting, hazards, and new equipment. Also, new vehicles are presented (trikes), new scenarios, and new characters as well. A customised Harley-Davidson trike A tricycle is a three-wheeled vehicle. ...

Magazines

• White Dwarf 100: Highway Warriors! - A preview of the forthcoming Dark Future game.
• White Dwarf 102: Dark Future Release Preview
• White Dwarf 103: Illuminations - Review of Carl Critchlow, Thrud the Barbarian and Dark Future Artist.
• White Dwarf 103: 'Eavy Metal - Pictures of painted DarkFuture models
• White Dwarf 104: Redd Harvest - Dealing with the famed Sanction Op, Redd Harvest herself.
• White Dwarf 104: Thrudd the Barbarian - "I have the Future, and it is Dark".
• White Dwarf 105: Street Fighter - An article dealing with the ins and outs of fighting outside the car.
• White Dwarf 106: A Day at the Races - New car types and equipment for racers.
• White Dwarf 107: White Line Fever: Advanced Manoeuvres - excerpt from White Line Fever dealing with speed and handling.
• White Dwarf 107: Three Wheelers - Rules for Trikes and motorcycle combinations, also from White Line Fever.
• White Dwarf 107: 'Eavy Metal Citadel and diecast conversions.
• White Dwarf 108: White Line Fever: Advanced Shooting - excerpt from White Line Fever dealing with shooting, fire arcs and more.
• White Dwarf 108: Citadel Minatures - Dark Future Street Warriors
• White Dwarf 110: Tournament Rules - Simplified rules for quick play, just a little more advanced than the Starter Rules...
• White Dwarf 112: St. Louis Blues - A look at the famed Sanctioned Op group.
• White Dwarf 124: Dead Man's Curve, part 1 - Advanced rules for campaigns, weather, darkness, psychosis, salvage, experience.
• White Dwarf 125: Dead Man's Curve, part 2 - More advanced rules for success, fame, recruitment, cybernetics, hacking and gamesmasters.
• Challenge 52: Sand Cats - A Renegade gang that needs to be hunted down.

Cover of White Dwarf issue 90, June 1987. ... Thrud the Barbarian is a comic strip that was created by Carl Critchlow in 1981 and soon went from appearing in fanzines to becoming a highly popular feature in White Dwarf magazine in the latter half of the 1980s. ...

Novels

• Route 666 Short story anthology Edited by David Pringle, published by Games Workshop (1990)
• Demon Download by Jack Yeovil, published by Boxtree Books (1990)
• Krokodil Tears by Jack Yeovil, published by Boxtree Books (1991)
• Comeback Tour by Jack Yeovil, published by Boxtree Books (1991)
• Route 666 by Jack Yeovil, published by Boxtree Books (1993)
• Ghost Dancer by Brian Craig, published by Boxtree Books (1991)
• Golgotha Run by Dave Stone, published by Black Flame (2005)
• Demon Download by Jack Yeovil, republished by Black Flame (2005)