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Re:Show HN: Instantly play the game I'm developing directly ... by smolder on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:07AM (#39368286)
There are probably 100s of this style of game... and from many companies. I'm not exaggerating. Many before "advance wars", too.
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Re:Show HN: Instantly play the game I'm developing directly ... by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:36PM (#39377117)
The earliest one I've played was Operation Combat on the Amiga in 1991.

https://youtu.be/uC845vxdyuY

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Re:Show HN: Instantly play the game I'm developing directly ... by smolder on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:45PM (#39379204)
Hadn't heard of it --cool. Along the same lines, Eastern Front[0] was a turn based tactical game about 10 years earlier. I played it in the early 90s on an Atari. The OPs game and advance wars have much more in common, but certainly the derivation goes back a long way. Later on, Japan had a lot of these turn based tacticals that didn't make it to western markets. (Super Robot Wars is a series that had some titles sold in English but not most.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(1941)

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Re:Show HN: Instantly play the game I'm developing directly ... by boxed on Thursday February 15, 2024 @08:32AM (#39382462)
If there are so many, can you show one example at least?
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