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I strongly recommend Bandit Kings of Ancient China. It is a great game.
by georgeecollins 6y ago
I strongly recommend Bandit Kings of Ancient China. It is a great game.
- User23 6y agoI saw the title and came here to post this. Here's the direct link[1]. I spent an absurd amount of time playing this game at my brother's house because he had a PC and my family had a Mac. Empire[2] was another one that got plenty of play. [1] https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bandit_Kings_of_Ancient_China_1989 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bandit_Kings_of_Ancient_Ch... [2] https://archive.org/details/msdos_Empire_1985 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Empire_1985
- reitzensteinm 6y agoEmpire is written by our own Walter Bright, more famous these days for the D language. Small world.
- georgeecollins 6y agoIt is amazing how those strategy games hold up.
- cletus 6y agoEveryone has their set of formative games. Mine would probably include: - Civilization (the original). I can literally remember waking up at noon and just starting to play the game and then looking up and it was dark outside; - Zork - Prince of Persia (the original); and - ... Bandit Kings of Ancient China I literally had 20+ hour playing sessions of BKoAC. Like I even played this multiplayer (hot chair). I can remember getting to the point where me and my friend had split the map pretty much and he decided to attack me. I basically held a defensive line along a river and used magic to break the offensive line. It was one of my earlier experience with tactics. I have such fond memories of that game.
- fireattack 6y agoI'm just curious since many people mentioned BKoAC, are any of Koei's new(er) strategy games popular in Western countries? Like games from the Nobunaga's Ambition series or Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. (Admittedly I don't know if they're translated into Western languages or not.)