NATO Commander is a strategy video game designed by Sid Meier for Atari 8-bit computers and published in 1983 by MicroProse.
The player takes the role of the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe as they respond to a massive Warsaw Pact attack.
The goal is to slow their advance and inflict casualties, hoping to force a diplomatic end to the war before West Germany is overrun.
[citation needed] The scenario involves a Cold War Soviet invasion of West Germany.
NATO may lose or win back cities and territory; according to the scenario chosen the player had the option to decide to stave off the Warsaw Pact onslaught by countercharging head-on, buying time for space awaiting a diplomatic solution, or mounting a counteroffensive.