Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
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Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
Moonbase: Lunar Colony Simulator is a strategy/simulation game created by Wesson International in 1990 for MS-DOS. It was later ported to Amiga and Macintosh. As you can imagine fr...
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EGATrek is one of the best remakes of the original Star Trek game developed on mainframes in the '70s. Nels Anderson created EGATrek originally in 1988 for MS-DOS and released it as shareware, but continued working on it until 1994.
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Herzog Zwei is a real-time strategy game developed by Technosoft and released in 1989 for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis. This groundbreaking title stands as one of the most influenti...
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Dragon Lord, released initially as Dragon's Breath in Europe, is a fantasy action-strategy game released in 1990 for Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The concept and gameplay of this t...
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Bandit Kings of Ancient China is a wargame/strategy game created by Koei. It was released in Japan in 1988 for MSX2. In 1990, it was ported to the US/European markets for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Macintosh.
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Shogi Master is the video game version of the Japanese Chess game Shogi, developed and published by Ishi Press International in 1991 for DOS only. Shogi is also known as the Game o...
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Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess is a strategy game that was developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in 1990 for the Amiga and MS-DOS. The beginning of chess can be t...
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Burntime is a strategy-RPG game developed and published by Max Design for MS-DOS and Amiga in 1993 for Europe and 1994 in North America. Max Design was founded in Austria by the brothers Albert and Martin Lasser and Wilfried Reiter.
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Rings of Medusa is a fantastic adventure game developed and published by Starbyte Software in 1989 for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari, and DOS. The German company founded in 1988 h...
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Battle Chess 4000 is part of the Battle Chess series based on the classic board game Chess. It was developed and published by Interplay in 1992 for DOS only. For those unfamiliar w...
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Death or Glory: The Battle of Morgan is a strategic-rpg fantasy game released by Software 2000 for the Amiga and DOS. The game stands out in the early 90s as a refined blend of tac...
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Stratego is an adaptation of the popular board game. It was developed by Imagitec and published by Accolade for the Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh and Amiga in 1991..
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Chris Crawford’s Eastern Front (1941) is a wargame released in 1981 for the Atari 8-bit family. It is widely recognized as one of the earliest examples of a truly sophisticated computer wargame for home systems.
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