For those who may be interested, I have started up a Ninjas & Superspies game.
link to another game
Ninjas & Superspies pays homage to the martial arts movies of the 1970's and military action movies of the 1980's.
The game is set in 1980.
I do intend on the space race to be at this point the USA and USSR competing to establish the first Moon base. Both counties have put people on the moon and established armed (with kinetic weapons, not lasers) space stations in orbit. So the space stations pretty much have the ability to destroy each other in the event WWIII breaks out.
So the cold war will be a little be 'hotter' then in our own universe.