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Article #82473Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD
From: Walter Mitty
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:08
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:08
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"pigdos" <N...@nowhere.com> writes: > Um, how can it be Real Time Strategy if you only control ONE unit at a > time? Because you implement a strategy with that one unit? Do you think that tennis players, boxers or snooker players dont have a strategy when that play? Sure, they are more likely to be labelled as sports sims, but there is still strategy when controlling a single unit. Many times there are multiple units which you control one after the other : this is, again, controlling only one unit at a time. > I think we can still say Westwood developed the first RTS just because they > were the first to allow you to control multiple units (thus contributing to > the STRATEGY aspect of RTS). By your reasoning, Gauntlet was an
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Subject: Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 18:08:08 +0200
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