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You shuffle your king forward, gathering knights and archers into a messy mob that crashes into enemy blobs—simple, janky, and weirdly satisfying. That chiptune battle theme will haunt your dreams.
Bokosuka Wars is one of those weird little gems that somehow predicted half the strategy games we play today. You control a king leading a ragtag army across a side-scrolling battlefield, recruiting knights and archers while fending off waves of enemies. It's chaotic—your troops just sort of clump together and auto-attack—but there's something oddly satisfying about watching your blob of soldiers slowly overpower the enemy blob.
Don't expect deep tactics here. The charm is in its simplicity and how ahead of its time it was. You'll lose a few units to dumb mistakes at first (why did I send my king alone into that crowd?), but once you get the rhythm of recruiting and pushing forward, it's weirdly addictive. Also, the music is an absolute earworm—you'll hum it for days.
It's rough around the edges by modern standards, but you can see the DNA of games like Fire Emblem and even tower defense in this 1983 oddball.
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