This wargame simulates the war in Vietnam.
It is designed to capture the unique characteristics of the war, its political character as much as its military one.
The full game lasts for ten years, from 1965 to 1975, the length of overt American involvement in Vietnam. Outright victory is difficult, but possible. The essence of victory is the right application of the right tools at the right time.
The object of the game is to prevent South Vietnam falling to
Communist powers. They strive to take over the country both by military means, using North Vietnamese regular troops, and Viet Cong guerillas, and by socio-political means, by winning over the population while working to topple the South Vietnamese government. These two aims work hand in hand, and part of the Communist philosophy involved the idea of popular revolution, to which end much of the fighting was aimed.
As President and Commander-in-Chief, you oppose this challenge to the government of South Vietnam, and the vested interests of the United States in
Dai-2-ji Super Robot Taisen was the first Super Robot Wars on a console, and the first entry to contain the traditional SRW gameplay that exists to this day.
The game allows players to do combat strategies with tanks, airplanes, military bases, and non-nuclear missiles.
These advanced weapons allow players to stage a fictional World War III and to simulate modern warfare. Players can assume the persona of various clichéd Hollywood action film stars like Rambo, Chuck Norris, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Lee, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stages include a jungle, forest, the swamp, and urban terrain.
The player must choose a tank with his or her directional pad. Once there, the player must decide either to move a unit or destroy the enemy on sight. Destroyed units can be rebuilt for money and the first person to run out of cash loses the war. Both players can enjoying the fun and games with more $250 million of virtual game currency to spend on cool military toys to fire at each other.
A unique mind-boggling game of multiple skill levels. Take command of the wackiest collection of misdirected rodents ever seen on your screen. Featuring fantastically animated graphics and simple yet addictive gameplay.
The Satellaview broadcast is a bit to bit replica of the Super Famicom version
Battle of Kingdom is a 1991 Game Boy video game that was jointly created by the Meldac, Live Planning, and the Lenar companies. It was only released for a Japanese market.
The object is to lead a kingdom through various battles using the format of a traditional board game. In order to advance to the next battle, players must destroy at least 92% of the monsters on the battlefield. Each stage represents a battle in a high fantasy campaign to save the world from an unknown evil force (that resides in a skull castle).
Taiheiki is a turn-based strategy game, based on the television drama of the same name, which in turn is based on a famous 14th-century historical epic which chronicles the fall of the Hōjō clan during the Kamakura period of Japanese history.
The game is a grid-based strategy game in the tradition of Fire Emblem or Langrisser. Each side has multiple units, which can move depending upon the terrain. Conflicts between units are shown as animated sequences, and the player can determine formations, as well as issue and change orders to different troops at any time. Battles between enemy commanders take the form of a side-scrolling 1-on-1 action sword battle.
There are two scenarios available. The first casts the player as Takauji Ashikaga as he attempts to oust Godaigo and establish a new government, while the second follows Masashige Kusunoki and Yoshisada Nitta, who must try to protect Emperor Godaigo and his imperial rule. The two scenarios intertwine at various points, and graphical story sequences between each
Splash Lake is an action-puzzle game for the TurboGrafx-CD and PC Engine CD-ROM. The player is an ostrich named Ozzie and must walk around a grid, pecking at certain lynchpin areas of the ground in order to collapse parts of the level into the ocean. The goal is to remove all enemies by dropping the ground they're walking on. It is structurally similar to Dig Dug 2.
The game has a multiplayer mode, which allows two players to try to outmaneuver and out-think each other.
Sangokushi Retsuden: Ransei no Eiyuu-tachi is a 1991 simulation game by Sega released in Japan — and China, where it was called San Guo Zhi Lie Zhuan: Luan Shi Qun Ying. Whether or not the game has any connections to Koei, who makes the most popular games based around China's Three Kingdoms time periods, is unknown.