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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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Super Famicom Wars Review, First Time in English
December 28th, 2017 Carl Williams Any fans of Advance Wars by Nintendo reading this? We are about to take a trip down memory lane with this one then. Super Famicom Wars is the direct successor to Famicom Wars and maintains some unique changes that franchise fans will either love or hate. Nearly 20 years after Super Famicom Wars hit the […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Reviews, Super Nintendo Tags: English translation, nintendo, review, snes, Super Famicom Wars, super nintendo, turn based strategy No Comments »
Civilization Coming to Commodore 64 in 8-Bit Civilizations
February 16th, 2017 Carl Williams When Sid Meier finished the first Civilization I have to wonder, did he ever entertain the thought of porting it to the Commodore 64? No matter, as developer Fabian Hertel is doing just that, well close anyhow, with 8-Bit Civilizations. This is one of those head scratching releases that you think simply won’t work. The […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 8-Bit Civilizations, c64, Civilization II, Commdore 64, Fabian Hertel, turn based strategy No Comments »
Fire Emblem Heroes Review
February 11th, 2017 Carl Williams I will spare you, our great readers, from having to read through another introduction spouting the amazing/detrimental to the fact that Nintendo is now making mobile games. Instead, let’s discuss Fire Emblem Heroes. Fans of turn-based strategy games, like myself, are often finding ourselves scrounging the various digital stores for our chosen mobile device. They […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: android, Fire Emblem, Fire Emblem Heroes, In App Purchases, ipad, iphone, nintendo, turn based strategy No Comments »
Fan Translation – Fire Emblem for Playstation, er, Tear Ring Saga Released
December 22nd, 2016 Carl Williams Tear Ring Saga was the first non-Nintendo game created by the creator of the Fire Emblem series. It was so close to his original work that Nintendo was, gasp, spurred into legal action. Tear Ring Saga is now available in English thanks to fans.
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Posted in News, Sony Tags: Fire Emblem, playstation, psone, role playing game, rpg, Shouzou Kaga, strategy, Tear Ring Saga, Tirnanog, turn based, turn based strategy No Comments »
Fallout Brings Windows Gamers Alternative Historical Post-Nuclear War – Today in Retro Gaming – September 30th, 1997
September 28th, 2016 Carl Williams War is something that is eternal in gaming. Pretty much every electronic thing that has been released that plays games has had a war game of some sort. Sure, that war game may have been with colorful graphics and bouncy sound effects but there was a war going on. Fallout by Interplay, for Windows computers, certainly […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 1997, Fallout, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout Tactics, interplay, New Vegas, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, September 30th, TBS, turn based strategy, windows No Comments »
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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Sega Unleashes Shining Force onto Sega Genesis – July 30th, 1993 – Today in Gaming History
July 29th, 2016 Carl Williams Sega was working hard during the 16-Bit era. For the first time they were either on top, or near the top, of the video game market. Nintendo was no longer the juggernaut they once were. While they still held a lot of power with gamers and retailers, their hold was loosening. Sega was able to […]
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