Man i've never played Nuclear, but i love Desert, Jungle, and Urban. There's also Soviet Strike, AND, a planned game called Future Strike that was evolved into Future Cop: LAPD. It's about mechs and such, but apparently retains similar gameplay.
As far as digging things out of the basement, have you no emulation device?
All you need is a pc and a controller, or an old Wii, or, hell, a cheap controller to snap onto your smartphone and a couple apps