Help ID an old computer game

[jgenotte]

One of my earliest memories is playing an overhead-view war game on an old computer (5.5" floppys). I think it was called something like:

Tsung Tsu's: The Art of War

There were archers and sword dudes and you either defended or attacked castles....or something.

Any help is much appreciated.

-james

[IntvGene]

It's most likely, Ancient Art of War.

Here's the Home of the Underdogs link:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=58

Good ol' Broderbund. Also see Ancient Art of War at Sea, and the last in the series, Ancient Art of War in the Skies.

[Xantan the Foul]

I used to love Ancient Art of War.

Also, jgenotte, what is your avatar from?

[jgenotte]

@IntvGene: Thanks for the info!!!! That is it. I cant wait to play it!!! :-P


Also, jgenotte, what is your avatar from?

from home star runner. check the link in my signature for the funniest stuff you have ever seen. once there check out the strong bad e-mails -- hi-larious!!

-james

[Xantan the Foul]

Yeah... I never actually liked any Homestar stuff, I just thought it looked familiar. ;)

[FantasiaWHT]

Ancient Art of War At Sea is one of my all-time favorite PC games!

[hydr0x]

ah good old home of the underdogs, you gotta love them :D

[squidblatt]

This may be kind of morbid, but Ancient Art of War produced one of my favorite gaming moments. Athena was probably the most blindly aggressive of the opponents you could take on, so wars with her could have wave after wave of fighters tearing each other apart. I loved how the bodies littered the battlefields rather than just disappearing after falling and the way the game kept track of the casualty statistics. One campaign I played against Athena had us both up in the thousands for casualties with forts being traded back and forth across the map. I felt like I was commanding at Troy or something. I'm just a fan of carnage, I guess. Great game.

[FantasiaWHT]

Any way to play these nowadays without having an ancient system?

[Gapporin]

Any way to play these nowadays without having an ancient system?

Hee hee, ancient. You're so punny. :P

I use DOSBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net). It's great.

[jgenotte]

I went out into the WWW and found "SLOWDOWN" It is a dos program that slows your computer to what ever MHz you want. I run the game at 5MHz.

-james