Computer Game Evolution
A journey through many years (and occasionally centuries) to find out who is responsible for modern computer and video games. May contain balls, Napoleon Bonaparte, robots, organized crime, and the US Air Force.
Computer Game Evolution
3.23 War(game)s are over?
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Tim
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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As the Cold War takes a turn, computer wargames transform into strategy games, where a president does whatever the last person to see him told him to, dudes multiply in castles, and officers ask Napoleon to speak proper English.
RBM is still around
Get enough dice for Zulu War 1879
Nicaragua! A revolution
Angola, war in the cards
VG corner 1988
Bug Hunter Sniper! What if Aliens?
Crash those dragons in Dragonlance
Daisenryaku continues
Desert Commander, CNA on NES
Famicom Wars wins no points for originality
Rebelstar II to Laser Squad
Computer BattleTech, take 1: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
Red Storm Rising, but not a wargame
Modem Wars. Finally, artillery is in football.
Now in 3D: Carrier Command
Choose your own Hidden Agenda
R.I.P. Cold War… and wargames
Soviet wargames?
VG, GDW, 3W
What's not a Stalingrad?
The space bulk of Space Hulk
Harpoon, now playable
Warlords, a computer fantasy epic
A tutorial rant
Spell D.R.A.G.O.N. Force
The Big Three, but the wrong three
Peter Turcan's Waterloo getting it right
Populous as a series of hacks
Daisenryaku, but Military Madness
…also, Fire Emblem
Dunnigan riding the Desert Storm
The UN is useful in Mid-East Peace
VG corner 1989
The rise of The Republic of Rome
Manage guns and butter pipelines in The Global Dilemma
Command H.Q., the first modern RTS?
Powermonger, less Populous
Rampart: Tetris, walls, cannons
Fief: back in 1981
Putting wargames aside
Simulated narratives
Wrap-up