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Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Q3 1988
The seventh game in the Fire Emblem series and a prequel to Fire Emblem: Fuin no Tsurugi, released for the Game Boy Advance. It is the first Fire Emblem game to be released outside of Japan.
Bioware's first RPG, you must assemble a party of adventurers and investigate the mystery of the iron crisis and a darker threat that looms in the city of Baldur's Gate.
The seventh numbered entry in the Final Fantasy franchise brings the series into 3D with a landmark title that set new industry standards for cinematic storytelling. Mercenary Cloud Strife joins the rebel group AVALANCHE in their fight against the power-hungry Shinra Company, but their struggle soon becomes a race to save the entire Planet from an impending cataclysm.
The Kingdom of Azeroth is being invaded by Orcs, and it's up to you to either defend or conquer it in Blizzard Entertainment's first entry into the real-time strategy genre.
The final game in a fantasy computer role-playing game series called Xak developed and published by Micro Cabin.
In Ogre Battle the conquered peoples of the old kingdoms live under constant persecution by the Zetegenian Empire. Take control of the rebel army and face the Black Queen and her legions.
Whoever controls Dune controls the spice - lead your House to planetary conquest in this pioneering RTS game from Westwood Studios.
A tactical RPG from Sega, the player has to save the land of Rune and stop the evil Darksol from reviving an evil that destroyed the world in ages past.
Darklands is a party-based RPG set in medieval Germany. The game breaks convention by not allowing the player characters to use magic, instead using alchemy and prayers to Christian saints for supernatural aid. Combat takes place in real-time, allowing pausing to give orders to party members.
The Knight of Xentar was the sequel to Dragon Knight II and was the only game in the Dragon Knight series to be released outside of Japan. There is also a XXX rated version available.
A top-down dungeon crawling action RPG originally released for the NEC PC-9801 in 1991 and was later ported to the SNES and released in North America.
A fantasy RTS game developed by Nihon Falcom that was originally released for the NEC PC-9801 in 1991 and later ported to the FM Towns and Super Famicom, followed by many other enhanced versions.
The first game in the Fire Emblem series, released only in Japan for the Famicom. It was a landmark in console strategy RPGs, establishing many of the genre's common gameplay elements.
Herzog Zwei is a 1989 real-time strategy game that puts two commanders against each other on a wide variety of maps and environments. Each player controls a Mech that can transform from a fighter jet to a walking bi-pedal robot. Released by Technosoft for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console, it is credited for pioneering the RTS and MOBA genres. It was also a precursor to the hero shooter genre.
Herzog is an early strategy game made by TechnoSoft and released exclusively in Japan. It ran on the MSX and NEC PC-88 home computers.
A unique hybrid RTS/Action/RPG game first released in 1988. It was the first game by Kure Software Koubou and introduced their eventually popular Multiple Character gameplay system that they went on to use in many later games.
The second game in Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series of historical simulation-strategy games set in the warring states era of Japan, and the first to be released outside of Japan.
An early action-strategy-RPG game created by Koji Sumii and published by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer in 1983. The game is considered a precursor to several genres: the action RPG, tactical RPG, real-time strategy, and tower defense.
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