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unusual facts about strategy game



Invasion Orion

Invasion Orion is a 1979 science fiction strategy game written and published by Automated Simulations (who would become Epyx in 1983).

Star Trek: New Worlds

Star Trek: New Worlds is a strategy game published in 2000 by Interplay in which the player can choose to command the forces of the United Federation of Planets, Klingons or Romulans.

War at Sea

War at Sea is a strategic board wargame depicting the naval war in the Atlantic during World War II, published by Jedko Games in 1975, and subsequently republished by Avalon Hill in 1976 and more recently by L2 Design Group in 2007.


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Adji

Oware, abstract strategy game, for which Adji is the Ewe language name

Adriance Memorial Library

As of April 2012, the Adriance Memorial Library has been featured as a special building for the Hudson Valley civilization in a mod-pack in the popular strategy game Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.

Artdink

By far Artdink's biggest international success was the award-winning A-Train (known in Japan as A Ressha de Ikou, or "Take the A-Train") strategy game released for the PC and Amiga, which was published by SimCity creators Maxis.

Battle of Eylau

The Battle of Eylau was reconstructed in the home computer strategy game Napoleon at War released by C.C.S. in 1986 and written by Ken Wright.

Battleship/Connect Four/Sorry!/Trouble

Connect Four - a strategy game traditionally played by two people in which the players take turns in dropping alternating coloured discs into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid in attempt to make a line of consecutive pieces in their colour

Chun Jung-Hee

Chun Jung-hee was a South Korean professional player of the real-time strategy game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

Elbe Day

The meeting at the Elbe is represented in the war strategy game R.U.S.E., released in 2010 and 2011 and based loosely on World War II events.

Fastpoint Games

The casual strategy game is based on the world of EverQuest II (EQII).

Freeciv

At the Computer Science department at Aarhus University, three students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

Gene Wars

Genewars, a Bullfrog Productions strategy game from 1996

Gratuitous Space Battles

After only several weeks of work on the initial concept of a "Virtual Saddam" game, the title went in an entirely different direction and instead became a space strategy game.

Liquid Entertainment

They are InstantJam, a music rhythm game for Facebook, Deadline Hollywood: Game based on the popular Hollywood news blog Deadline.com by Nikki Finke and Paramount Digital Entertainment for Facebook and iOS and Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes of Neverwinter, a turn based strategy game published by Atari on Facebook.

Military tradition

Military Tradition is used in the strategy game Sid Meier's Civilization III, released by Atari, as a technological advance that allows the building of cavalry units.

Muire

Muire are featured as a recruitable heavy infantry unit for the Ireland faction in the Kingdoms expansion to the PC strategy game Medieval II: Total War.

NASL

North American Star League, a professional e-sports league for the real-time strategy game StarCraft II

Portugal 1111: A Conquista de Soure

The game, a historic real-time strategy game similar to Microsoft's Age of Empires, was published by the Portuguese magazine Visão, and was released in 2004.

Sony Online Entertainment

The studio has since released an online version of the WizKids Pirates Constructible Strategy Game.

SOE also released Pirates Online Constructible Strategy Game, the online version of the WizKids Pirates Constructible Strategy Game.

Sword of the Stars

Perhaps the most negative review was written by Tom Chick for 1UP.com, who gave the game a D+ grade and summarized it as "a misguided attempt at a streamlined strategy game".

Three-Sixty Pacific

They developed a World War II naval strategy game called "Victory at Sea" (1993) which was a Mac (only?) computer game.

Xiahou Yuan

He also appears in all 12 instalments of the strategy game series Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the real-time wargame Kessen II, all of which were also produced by Koei.