Bandit Kings of Ancient China is a turn-based strategy video game published by KOEI in the 1980s for the Nintendo Entertainment System, MS-DOS and the Macintosh. It revolves around recruiting and managing heroes and armies, and capturing and developing territories, called 'prefectures.' A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Koei Co. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... Macintosh can refer to: Apple Macintosh (computer) Charles Macintosh (Scottish inventor) Mackintosh (raincoat) The Scottish clan Mackintosh or MacIntosh McIntosh (apple cultivar) The town of McIntosh, Alabama The hi-fi manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same...

The game is set in 13th century China, close to 1000 years after the events chronicled in Koei's better-known Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the weak royal court of the Song Dynasty inspired the rise of legendary bandits who proclaimed themselves the bandit kings. This game is based on the epic Chinese tale, the Water Margin, and can be described as a more difficult RTK, because although the setting and gameplay remain similar, you start out in exile and must fight many stronger opponents. Personnel management and resource allocation, therefore, become much more important here, especially when you can only perform one move a month! Perhaps the easier aspect in comparison to RTK is that in order to win the game, you need only to kill Gao Qiu and do not need to conquer every prefecture in China. Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the Nintendo Entertainment System Sangokushi, the native transliteration of a term, Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms is a Japanese computer and video game, a series of turn-based computerized wargames by Koei. ... The Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝) was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279. ... Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh (Traditional Chinese: 水滸傳; Simplified Chinese: 水浒传; pinyin: Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn) is one of the Four Classical Novels of Chinese literature. ... Gao Qiu (高毬), nicknamed the High Ball, is a character in the epic Chinese tale, the Water Margin. ...

Designer: Kou Shibusawa Developer: KOEI Publisher: KOEI Year: 1989 Software Copyright: KOEI Theme: Historical, Oriental Multiplayer Mode: Hotseat only, number of players vary according to scenario. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Related Links: More Info: MobyGames | The Web System Requirements: DOS, Nintendo Entertainment System, Macintosh If you like this game, try: Genghis Khan, Romance of The Three Kingdoms 3, Nobunaga's Ambition The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia. ... Macintosh can refer to: Apple Macintosh (computer) Charles Macintosh (Scottish inventor) Mackintosh (raincoat) The Scottish clan Mackintosh or MacIntosh McIntosh (apple cultivar) The town of McIntosh, Alabama The hi-fi manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same... Nobunagas Ambition (original title, Nobunaga no Yabou) is a 1988 turn-based strategy game by Koei, focused in the Sengoku period of the history of Japan. ...

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