K this is prob gonna get me some looks but one of my fav NES games I own is "North & South" (Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1xuEEvRu4)
Which is almost exactly what it sounds like... A simple sort of strategy game with minigame pvp platforming sections and a primitive RTS style overhead battle system.
Really bizarre for a NES game to have several different gameplay modes that all are kind of good tbh.
Awful premise for a game casually "both sidesing" slavery. Even when I was a kid and saw it at the video store in the early 90's I was like "That's kinda messed up isn't it?".
Eventually my older brother rented it and yeah. Fun game. Please don't judge me too harshly.
Personally I don't take issue with people that have hobbies around things like the civil war or WWII. Things start to get bad when someone's hobby turns into an obsession and they start apologizing for the confederates or the nazis.
Yeah I didn't really expect anyone here to be too harsh but also I kinda also wouldn't blame them much if they were. I'm just a NES nerd and it reminds me of good times with my bro.
Like I said you know what warning signs to look out for. Wargaming nerds are just nerds usually who like games like that. But when someone start saying "umm, actually, the nazis weren't all bad..." then it's time to eject.
The problem with War Games is that you get very fixated on the strategies and tactics of various armies. You very quickly lose sight of what anyone is fighting over. Getting a unit of tanks up a particular hill means far more to you than what that tank commander plans to do once the war is over.
You end up sympathizing with the Confederates or the Nazis or the Imperial Stormtroopers or the Zerg, because they're all just units on a map to you, and your team is always going to be the Good Guys because you're on it. Gamification eliminates all the political stakes and just makes this an exercise in managerial style.
It seems a little strange that this would be on the NES when Nintendo had strict rules on many things such as blood, religion, nudity, explicit language, Nazi imagery, etc. I guess the US Civil War wasn't considered a very sensitive topic back then.
Yeah! This exactly. It was incredibly rare for NES games to touch on stuff like this. I definitely remember thinking it was weird at the time so stuff like this must not have been SUPER common.
Really bizarre for a NES game to have several different gameplay modes that all are kind of good tbh.
I used to love playing Contra as a kid. Still can't wrap my brain around how fucked that all was.
i used to love using the little cannon guy to blow up the house or bridges. but i was an absolute beast with the infantry square.
Oh shit SSI games. I used to play Imperialism. I did a lot of imperialism:sadness:
They also released this game too :both-sides: ? Their AD&D games are great though, or so I've read.
yeah but the Panzer General series is way bigger and is basically Clean Wehrmacht: The Game
is basically Clean Wehrmacht: The Game
Ewww, wehraboo shit.
Pretty close to one. People used to call them, "Trash-80" because they could do so little.
Robert E. Lee: Civil War General is a computer wargame with turn-based gameplay, which unfolds on a hex map playing field. Set during the American Civil War, the game casts players in the role of General Robert E. Lee, and tasks them with leading the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to victory over the Union Army of the Potomac. It portrays eight Civil War conflicts, including the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness and a speculative scenario in which Lee lays siege to Washington, D.C.
I'm not sure if it was that game I played as a kid, or the sequel.
