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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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Gemfire Makes Great Introduction to Turn Based Strategy Gaming – December 5th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
December 4th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, Nintendo, Super Nintendo 
Tags: fantasy, Gemfire, koei, strategy, turn based strategy 
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Koei Rocks Turn Based Strategy with Gemfire for NES – Today in History – March 31st, 1992
March 30th, 2018 Carl Williams 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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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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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo Tags: feudal japan, koei, military, nes, nintendo, nobunaga's ambition, simulation, strategy No Comments »
