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.
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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Warlords, designed by Steve Fawkner and first released in 1990 for MS-DOS, is one of the foundational titles in the turn-based strategy genre. It predates many of the classics that would come later.
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Risk is a turn-based strategy game based on the board game of the same name, developed by Panther Programs and released for MS-DOS..
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Space Crusade: The Voyage Beyond was both a data disk and an extended standalone version of Space Crusade, released in 1993 by Gremlin Graphics. The Voyage Beyond is an excellent addition to the classic 1993 game Space Crusade.
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Lords of Chaos is a fantasy turn-based tactical RPG developed by Mythos Games, published for 8-bit platforms, including Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1990. It was then ported to the Amiga and Atari ST in 1991.
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War Planets: Age of Chaos is a sci-fi real-time strategy game set in the War Planets universe created by the toy company Trendmasters. The game, created by Trendmasters itself, was...
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Sid Meier's Gettysburg! is a wargame released in 1997 for Windows by Firaxis Games. Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs founded the studio after they departed from MicroProse. It marked a si...
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Rock Star Ate My Hamster is a fun managerial game written and programmed by Colin Bradshaw‑Jones for Codemasters. It was published in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and Atari ST, and later ported to Amiga, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
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King's Bounty is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by New World Computing. The title was released in 1990 for MS-DOS, C64, and Apple II, while the Amiga, Genesis, and Macintosh versions arrived in 1991.
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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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Fantasy Empires is a fantasy role-playing strategy game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Strategic Simulations in 1993 for DOS. The game is set in the Dungeons & Drago...
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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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