Famicom Wars
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| Famicom Wars | |
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| Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems |
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| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Release date(s) |  August 12, 1988
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| Genre(s) | Tactical role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Platform(s) | Famicom, Virtual Console |
| Followed by | Game Boy Wars |
Famicom Wars is a Japnanese-only video game for the Famicom (the Japanese name for the NES). It was developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It spawned many sequels, five of which were released in America. It is the first game in the Nintendo Wars series. The gameplay can be compared to games in the Fire Emblem series, as both are in the turn based strategy genre, and both have been developed and published by the same companies (the Fire Emblem series was released first, however).
In May of 2009 the video game was released on the Japanese Virtual Console service for Wii.
[edit] Gameplay
The game has 15 maps in the main story mode, and two secret ones that can be unlocked after you complete the first fifteen missions. Like a chess game, you move your characters on a grid based map. Once you encounter an enemy, you can chose to fight him. Some of your units are stronger than others.
