Not even Konami could have salvaged a Euro home computer game, let alone the much lesser Kemco.
>>12541020this is a much hated kusoge in Japan, they regularly put it on lists of top 10 worst Famicom games and that's saying a lot considering just how bad some of them can get
I've been a Civil War buff since I was a kid but this game is bullshit.
>>12541020Based on the popular Belgian comic strip about the Civil War.
>>12541089>Belgian comic strip about the Civil War.wat?why/when was that a thing?
>>12541092Les Tuniques Bleus ran from 1974 to 2020. You can look that up. Infrogrames made a strategy (or, really bad collection of minigames) game based on the strip for home computers and Kemco made a NES port of it.
>>12541114was the US civil war a point of general yuropean interest prior to the comic? or just a comical setting? i cant rly see why it would interest any of them. it was mostly just us going medieval on one another. i guess it was the last big hurrah for line warfare, and yuros loved that shit, so maybe thats it?
>>12541020>top 10 worst Famicom gameswow thats surprising. i used to rent it a lot to play with my brother. its fun with 2 players. its not a great game and has some terrible controls in some segments but it has some fun ideas. i never knew it was a computer game first. that might explain why the controls can feel sluggish and sped up at the same time (like on the fort action stages). it reminds me of how it felt trying to run an older game on a new pc.
>>12541240Bro, some people are just interested in niche stuff. One of the most famous Wild West comics, Lucky Luke, is european. Some dude was just a westaboo, liked cowboys and decided to make a comedy comic book about it. Why can't another westaboo just like the US Civil War?
>>12541289>>12541240Shit, you can fill a library with European-made, american based comics. Tex was pretty big for a good long while too, and that's Italian.
>>12541092>burgers aren't familiar with The BluecoatsJesus Christ.It's a massively popular classic in Europe.
>>12541289i mean its fine, obviouslyit just seems like an odd thing to be into for some belgian guy in the 70s. even in the states, the only ppl who rly care nowadays are the based autists who do civil war reenactments and/or dixiefags and dixiefags only rly care insofar as finding new copes to explain how they got btfo by like new englanders and inbreds from pennsylvaniai was just confused because the way you said it made it sound like everyone in belgium knew about and was interested in the US civil war lol. but nah, they just liked the comic
>>12541240I don't think so, the world has no shortage of civil wars and people tend to gravitate to locally important ones to known anything about. In this case it was likely just set dressing for the type of comic book that focuses more on the "comic" part. As an example people weren't clamoring for Romano-Gallic war content, yet Astérix exists. I'm sure some small subset autists got really into the history because of it, but that's 0.01% of the readers.Initially the idea was for a generic western comic as Lucky Luke got poached by a rival magazine, they likely decided to specify the setting a bit as to not be a clear copy. It's not like the series is constantly about that civil war, you've got some generic western stories thrown in (mexico stuff, irrelevant indians). Cauvin also did work on Sammy, but that's more because they threw him at Berckmans who really wanted to make something like that. The rest of his bibliography doesn't scream M'cattle to me.
The mix of strategy/mini games remind me of Defender of the Crownanyway this needs to go on my "NES - I don't need a PC" list
>>12541346Belgians have ready audiences in either the Netherlands or France and their respective ex-colonies where people understand Dutch/French, so it's not so strange for Belgians to have long-running comics about topics that seem outside of small Belgium's scope.
>>12541390Several of these were ports from 6502 machines like C64 so easy to put on NES. A few like Shadowgate were ported from 16-bit hardware.
>>12541390A lot of these are pretty diminished or downgraded from the computer originals at the price of being far more accessible and easy to play. Since most normies didn't have a computer back then these were often the only way to play these games.
Also I'm going to shill No Greater Glory again, a 1991 strategy game where you can be either side in the ACW.
>>12541398it got less common in the 4th gen because computer gaming was shifting to PCs and the gap in memory, screen resolution, and CPU power vis a vis consoles had gotten too great by then. porting an Apple II game to NES is not porting a PC game designed for a 486 box to a SNES.
>>12541020Weirdly, Compile was better off salvaging Western games. (Bit(ch)s Laboratory was behind the infamous NES port.)
>>12541020i grew up in South Carolina where everyone was still butthurt about the Civil War so i played this game as a kid and did 2 player mode with relatives, it was p. fun i guess
>>12541114>Les Tuniques Bleus ran from 1974 to 2020*1972 to '20, off by a small amount
>53 USD newNot as expensive as I'd expect for an MMC3 game with cart RAM. It doesn't have a battery save though, so I don't know what the RAM was needed for.
>>12541020>yfw Famidaily's video of North & South>" And you have to move all your units on the turn. You can't just be like General McClellan and park your army in one place."LOL.
>>12541312We don't give a shit about Europe.
>>12541346Maybe he was into wargames. Since most of the companies were American in the genre's heyday you had a disproportionate amount of Civil War games, if you were a European you probably had to just learn to like it
>>12541346>>12542061No, he chose the setting because Lucky Luke had just left the magazine, so he pitched The Bluecoats as a replacement western series. The civil war theme didn't appear until a year later, but would stick around permanently from then on.
