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.
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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Castles II: Siege and Conquest is a strategy game designed and developed by Quicksilver Software for the Macintosh, Amiga, and DOS. The game was released for MS-DOS and later porte...
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Special Forces is a tactical action game with stealth elements created by MicroProse and released in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It's the sequel of Airborne Ranger, an 8-bit game released five years earlier.
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Shadowfire, released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and other 8-bit platforms, is a unique blend of tactical strategy and sci-fi adventure. It stood out sharply from the crowd in its era.
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Lords of Conquest is a turn-based strategy game developed by Eon Software and published by Electronic Arts in 1986 for the Commodore 64. The same year, the Atari 8-bit and Apple II...
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Battle Isle '93 - The Moon of Chromos is an expansion of the sci-fi wargame created by Blue Byte for Amiga and MS-DOS. The first Battle Isle was released in 1991, and it was a hu...
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Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics game designed by Julian Gollop and his company Target Games. We are presenting here the 1989 Amiga version. Originally the game was created for the ZX Spectrum and released in 1988.
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Betrayal is a medieval strategy game created by Rainbird for Amiga and released in 1990. It was also ported to Commodore 64, Atari ST and MS-DOS..
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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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Conquest, developed by Sean O'Connor and released for Windows in 2004, is a streamlined turn-based strategy game ispired to Risk. Even if it draws direct inspiration from the cla...
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Transarctica, also known as Arctic Baron in the US, is a post-apocalyptic strategy game developed by French studio Silmarils and released in 1993. Loosely inspired by Georges-Jean ...
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Steel Panthers is a turn-based historical wargame developed by Strategic Simulations Inc and published by Mindscape in 1995 for MS-DOS. The game was designed by Gary Grigsby, consi...
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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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