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You and a buddy take turns grabbing cities to fund your armies, sweating over every tank placement because one wrong move means watching your infantry get flattened. Those late-game battleships feel unstoppable—until someone sneaks a bomber past your anti-air.
Super Famicom Wars came out for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1998, developed by Intelligent Systems. It was a late release for the SNES, arriving well into the 32-bit era, which made it feel like a polished, almost secret send-off for the console. It never saw an official English release, so most of us outside Japan discovered it through emulation or fan translations years later.
You control an entire military force, moving units like infantry, tanks, and planes across grid-based maps to capture cities and factories. The main goal is to either destroy all enemy units or capture their headquarters. Key mechanics involve managing funds from captured properties to produce new units and exploiting a rock-paper-scissors style weakness system between unit types. The pacing is deliberate, almost chess-like, where a single mispositioned unit can collapse your entire front line. It feels like a tense, calculated struggle for every inch of territory.
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