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.
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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Steel Empire is an action-strategy game created by Silicon Knights for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS, released in 1992. Denis Dyack and Rick Goertz designed this title. It's the ...
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Lost Patrol is an action strategy game developed by Shadow Development, set during the Vietnam War. It was published by Ocean Software in 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was released for DOS the following year.
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Heroes of Might and Magic is a fantasy role-playing game developed and published by New World Computing in 1995 for DOS. This game is strongly based on King's Bounty, another game by New World Computing.
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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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Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games is a turn-based tactics video game with RPG elements created by Sir-tech and released in 1996 for MS-DOS. It's a sequel/expansion to Jagged Alliance...
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Lords of the Rising Sun is a game designed by the renowned Doug Barnett and published by Cinemaware in 1989 for the Amiga, among other consoles. This adventure puts the player in t...
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Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio is an early managerial simulation created by George Blank for the TSR-80 in 1978. The game's source code (written in BASIC) was published in SoftSide magazine.
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Wing Commander: Armada is a turn-based 3d strategy game set in the universe of Wing Commander. It was created by Origin Systems and released in 1994 for PC MS-DOS. It's the first Wing Commander game to feature a multiplayer mode.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms by KOEI is a foundational title in the world of historical strategy games. First released in Japan in 1985 for the PC-88, it was one of the earliest a...
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1869 (also known as 1869: History Experience Part I) is a business/managerial simulation set during the golden age of clipper ships. It was created by the Austrian company Max Design and released in 1992 for Amiga and MS-DOS.
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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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The Ur-Quan Masters is a free project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control II for 3DO. This has been used to re-create ...
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