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[Gabriel]

So, my friend wants me to hook the Wii up to the internet so he can play Castlevania IV. I can't entirely blame him. Castlevania IV is a cool game. Of course, I don't understand why he insists on wanting to play it on the Wii rather than me just hauling out the SNES and letting him play the cart, or just giving him the SNES on an indefinite loan.

Hell, come to think of it, the SNES might be his anyway, and I'm just holding on to it for him.

Anyway, needless to say, most of the VC games aren't giving me wood. But, I am a little interested in the TG-16 offerings, because I never had a TG-16. In particular, I'm looking at Military Madness. It's something I've heard about, and wanted to try, but never got the chance to. Even the PS1 version (Nectaris: Military Madness) slipped through my fingers.

So, someone tell me all about Military Madness, so I can decide if it's worth hunting for a LAN adaptor and giving Nintendo $6 for an ancient game.

[NE146]

What else is there to say really. One of my all time favorites and definitely a classic.

Basically if you like turn-based strategy games like Advance Wars, Shining Force, Vandal Hearts, etc., then the game is right up your alley. It's pretty similar to Advance Wars except there's really no story.. it's just 32 battles to complete. It's also uses hexagons instead of squares.

One of the primary strategic differences between it and Advance Wars is your units gain experience with each battle they survive (within a stage), so if you manage to keep them alive you will have an expert infantry or expert tank units that can dish out the damage to less experienced foes for example. Another big strategy difference is the 'surround effect' where the enemy unit's defense goes signifcantly down if you have him surrounded by your forces, or vice versa.

The game also has a great in-game manual (more intuitive than Advance Wars I think) where it tells you the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of each unit). That's really about it. The graphics and sound of course will be dated. But the strategy should be worth the 6 bucks I think.

[chadtower]

The TG has a ton of great turn based strategy games. If they have Vasteel available, consider that one too (or even instead). It's a much bigger, sci-fi CD based game along the same lines.

[Gregory DG]

I played MM on an emulator once and it was awesome. That's when I started looking around for other turn based battle games like this and found Advance Wars.

I like NE1's comparison of the two. I didn't know MM had some of those features. They would have been nice in AW:DS.

[joeybastard]

Military Madness is the best TG16 game, IMHO. Well worth whatever they are charging for it. NE146's comparison is very accurate. It's less cartoonish than AW and more in line with traditional 16 bit game looks.

[Gabriel]

Thanks for the info about Military Madness. I bought me 3000 Wii points and bought some junk.

Military Madness
Dungeon Explorer
Castlevania IV
Mario Bros.