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Koei will forever be linked to deep turn-based strategy games for most retro gamers. This company brought some of the longest, and hardest, strategy games ever to the Nintendo Entertainment System (later the Super NES and the Sega Genesis). While they are well known for their turn-based strategy titles such as Nobunaga’s Ambition and Romance […]
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Koei Rocks Turn Based Strategy with Gemfire for NES – Today in History – March 31st, 1992
March 30th, 2018 
Carl Williams 
Gemfire Makes Great Introduction to Turn Based Strategy Gaming – December 5th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
December 4th, 2020 Carl Williams Gemfire is sort of an anomaly on consoles. At its heart we have a turn-based strategy game. Consoles of the time were home to many attempts at this style of gameplay. Few games were designed for the novice though. This turned a lot of fans off from the genre due to the complexity. Gemfire is […]
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Revenge of the License: Nobunaga’s Ambition (NES)
September 18th, 2016 Michael Crisman When other developers were looking at ways to maximize profits by way of comic books or television shows, Koei said, “Holy cow, it’s expensive to buy the rights to something current. Screw that! Japanese history is ripe for plunder and we don’t have to pay anybody a single yen to use their likeness because they’ve […]
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Advance Wars Shows Nintendo Can Gamify War on Game Boy Advance – September 10th, 2001 – Today in Video Game History
September 9th, 2016 Carl Williams Nintendo and kiddifying things go together quite well. Just look at the Super Smash Brothers series for proof of that. Anyhow, on the Game Boy Advance Nintendo finally saw fit to bring over their turn based strategy games. Advance Wars was the first game in the “wars” series to make it stateside. At least officially […]
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Transporter Flight Simulator Takes Aerobiz Idea Farther on Android and iOS
February 28th, 2016 Carl Williams It is interesting that we see modern gamers talk about how much cooler their games are than what we had in the past. I find this interesting because, even on the “limited” 16-bit Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis we, seemingly, had more variety in games than we see on the “more powerful” Xbox 360 and […]
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Traverse the Dank Dark World of Shadowgate on NES – December 16th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
December 15th, 2015 Carl Williams Shadowgate for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is a point and click adventure. Formerly a computer game, fans were treated to quite a unique story here. The NES was not known for its long drawn out thought provoking titles. Rather, the NES was known for its quick reflex action titles that younger gamers enjoyed more. […]
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Rol’An’Go is a New Turn Based Strategy Title for Sega Genesis
September 21st, 2015 Carl Williams New Sega Genesis games are still coming out, not as often as the Atari 2600 receives them but still better than nothing. One new titles that I just found out about is Rol’An’Go by Atari Age forum member, Vetea. What is unique about Rol’An’Go is that it is a turn based strategy game, similar to […]
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TiH
March 11th, 2014 Carl Williams We have been doing these historical articles for years on various sites that we have worked on, here, we collect the articles in one convenient place. Have a favorite? Have a game that we should cover when it comes time? Let us know via that contact form above. As this list grows, we will eventually […]
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Fan Translation: Zoids Apocalypse for the Nintendo Entertainment System Released
February 7th, 2014 Carl Williams Zoids Apocalypse is a strategy title based on the Zoids action figure line, which was also a comic and television series. Unique to this version is the option to play in turn based battles or real time confrontations. This title is also available for the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console in Japan.
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New Game: NEO XYX for Dreamcast Coming in February
January 27th, 2014 Carl Williams To say that the Neo Geo and Sega Dreamcast are systems that just won’t die is probably an understatement that many gamers can easily appreciate. Sure, most of the games are scrolling arcade shooters but we do get the occasional original title, though NEO XYX is not one of them.
