History Line 1914-1918 (8)

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System: PC
Company: Blue Byte
Year: 1992
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Board / Historical / Multiplayer / War
Language: German
Licence: Commercial

History Line 1914-1918 (ID: 8)

Disks:
4 x 3.5" HD (1440kB)
Format:
Raw (.IMG)
Status:
Bad
Language:
German
Contributor:
Mr Creosote
Notes:
Disks 1 and 2 are broken.
SHA1 Hashes:

2b4677a274d2d2af9edd981c0d27a8fecfe0f344  disk1.img
d7291a4ec93c8504ae81939ec1a88af70584cac6  disk2.img
73cfa7ff99d78968e9e7cdfcd1987968246224fd  disk3.img
e214b7884b084a51cb730fae084bc49da9666e3b  disk4.img
Added: 2013-06-22
Edited: 2020-04-20

History Line 1914-1918 (ID: 1173)

Disks:
4 x 3.5" HD (1440kB)
Format:
Raw (.IMG)
Status:
Verified
Language:
German
Contributor:
Mr Creosote
SHA1 Hashes:

781a6f765e126904a69610d948af6e4ae63a6b2c  disk1.img
fadbc188944bdc3c374124fb7c6d889bd380d597  disk2.img
73cfa7ff99d78968e9e7cdfcd1987968246224fd  disk3.img
e214b7884b084a51cb730fae084bc49da9666e3b  disk4.img
Added: 2015-02-03
Edited: 2020-04-20

The Great War: 1914-1918 (ID: 2843)

Disks:
4 x 3.5" HD (1440kB)
Format:
Raw (.IMG)
Status:
Unverified
Language:
English
Contributor:
mikic
SHA1 Hashes:

983ab2a05a1af6051d4dbee4ec212bc43c8b6d93  disk1.img
bf6990555202928ee14e49731606816a2603a140  disk2.img
c74e25084bf28aa920c2dc3432b7fc36d0a00fc4  disk3.img
159724e54ffb46391b89d35268ca6dcdd6c5acd8  disk4.img
Added: 2018-11-09
Edited: 2020-04-20

Comments (3) [Post comment]

Mr Creosote (2023-02-24):

It occurs to me that the "AI" in this one is sort of similar to what so-called real-time strategy did for the years to come. I.e. simply putting computer players in superior starting positions, giving them hard-coded behaviour patterns etc.

These days, I tend to skip all the fluff around the missions. I remember that when it was new, I was highly fascinated by the newspaper headlines, the intro, those rare cutscenes... I even loved just flipping through the pages of the weapons book. Indeed, great production values!

Adam (2023-02-24):
fully replaying this game, after almost 30 years on UAE, it occurs to me what a beautiful game this is. As a boy I would play this on my amiga, I had only one disc drive and remember having to swap all 7 discs very frequently. It brought much joy back then. Yesterday I finally completed the game as Germany, to see the beautiful finale animation - and it occurred to me what an investment in time this must have been for the developers. Having played some modern games, I can say in many ways AI programming has not developed in 30 years, it has always been lousy, however for the technology and graphics available at the time, I would rate this as a strong amiga game and for those who take the time to appreciate it, it reveals blue bytes investment into quality, the teaching of history and structuring a fun and playable strategy game of that era.
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