Advance Wars

Made accessible grid warfare a handheld staple and revived Western interest in tactics games.

Released 2001 Developer Intelligent Systems Publisher Nintendo Platform Game Boy Advance Genre Turn-based tactics Era Broadband & the console shooter Website nintendo.co.jp ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Advance Wars inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Same-Screen Two-Player ~~1972~~Battery-Backed Save File ~~1986~~Turn-Based Grid Tactics ~~1990~~Fog of War ~~1992~~

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