3.23 War(game)s are over?

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As the Cold War takes a turn, computer wargames transform into strategy games, where a president does whatever the last person to see him told him to, dudes multiply in castles, and officers ask Napoleon to speak proper English.

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1. RBM is still around (00:00:00)

2. Get enough dice for Zulu War 1879 (00:00:45)

3. Nicaragua! A revolution (00:05:06)

4. Angola, war in the cards (00:10:42)

5. VG corner 1988 (00:16:49)

6. Bug Hunter Sniper! What if Aliens? (00:17:43)

7. Crash those dragons in Dragonlance (00:18:28)

8. Daisenryaku continues (00:19:56)

9. Desert Commander, CNA on NES (00:20:49)

10. Famicom Wars wins no points for originality (00:22:01)

11. Rebelstar II to Laser Squad (00:22:49)

12. Computer BattleTech, take 1: The Crescent Hawk's Inception (00:24:03)

13. Red Storm Rising, but not a wargame (00:24:42)

14. Modem Wars. Finally, artillery is in football. (00:24:52)

15. Now in 3D: Carrier Command (00:26:11)

16. Choose your own Hidden Agenda (00:31:33)

17. R.I.P. Cold War… and wargames (00:38:49)

18. Soviet wargames? (00:43:08)

19. VG, GDW, 3W (00:44:38)

20. What's not a Stalingrad? (00:45:47)

21. The space bulk of Space Hulk (00:46:33)

22. Harpoon, now playable (00:49:20)

23. Warlords, a computer fantasy epic (00:53:02)

24. A tutorial rant (00:58:58)

25. Spell D.R.A.G.O.N. Force (01:01:12)

26. The Big Three, but the wrong three (01:05:58)

27. Peter Turcan's Waterloo getting it right (01:11:02)

28. Populous as a series of hacks (01:23:27)

29. Daisenryaku, but Military Madness (01:32:33)

30. …also, Fire Emblem (01:34:59)

31. Dunnigan riding the Desert Storm (01:35:24)

32. The UN is useful in Mid-East Peace (01:38:14)

33. VG corner 1989 (01:39:31)

34. The rise of The Republic of Rome (01:40:05)

35. Manage guns and butter pipelines in The Global Dilemma (01:55:08)

36. Command H.Q., the first modern RTS? (02:00:14)

37. Powermonger, less Populous (02:05:31)

38. Rampart: Tetris, walls, cannons (02:09:34)

39. Fief: back in 1981 (02:12:24)

40. Putting wargames aside (02:14:01)

41. Simulated narratives (02:18:09)

42. Wrap-up (02:24:18)

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