Nectaris: Лунная Война 2089

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Military Madness is a 1989 turn based strategy video game originally developed and published by Hudson Soft in Japan and NEC in North America for the TurboGrafx 16. It is the first entry in the Nectaris series. Set in the year 2089, players take command of the Allied Union forces in a desperate offense against the Axis Xenon Empire army on the Moon before they launch the S. A. M. (Supreme Atomic Missile) weapon to obliterate Earth. Its gameplay consists of moving units into positions to confront enemies in turn based encounters determined by multiple factors, capturing factories to produce resources and repair units in order to occupy the enemy prison camp or destroy all enemy forces. Military Madness was later ported to other platforms, each one featuring several changes and additions compared to the original TurboGrafx 16 version, in addition of re releases through download services for other systems, among other ways to play it. The game garnered positive reception from critics, some of which praised the audiovisual presentation and favourably compared its gameplay with other titles in the same genre such as Desert Commander and Advance Wars but others criticized several aspects, while other versions were also met with similarly positive reception from reviewers as well. It was also cited as a key influence on Dune II. A sequel, Neo Nectaris, was released in 1994 for the PC Engine Super CD ROM² add on.

Military Madness is a science fiction themed turn based strategy game where players assume command of the Allied Union across sixteen increasingly difficult maps that take place at the Moon in 2089, each one giving a pre determined set number of units to use, on a desperate offense against the Axis Xenon Empire before they launch their doomsday weapon S. A. M. (Supreme Atomic Missile) to obliterate Earth. Available modes of play include the main single player campaign that carries the main storyline, a tutorial mode dubbed "Manual" to learn about the game's overall rules and a two player versus mode.

Military Madness was first released for the TurboGrafx 16 in Japan by Hudson Soft on 9 February 1989 under the name Nectaris and later in North America by NEC on 15 February 1990. A Windows 98 version was released in 1999 as well. A mobile version for BREW was developed by Flying Tiger Development and published by Hudson on April 19, 2005.

Military Madness received positive reception from critics since its release on the TurboGrafx 16, Aktueller Software Markts Ottfried Schmidt praised the visuals and sound but criticized the music for being short in length. Electronic Gaming Monthly editors ranked it as the 48th best console video game of all time in 1997, describing it as "both easy to learn and incredibly rich in gameplay complexity", noting how the opening tutorial effectively teaches players the basics and the later levels introduce new mechanics and challenges at a manageable pace. The MS DOS conversion, also titled Nectaris, was met with positive reception from critics as well. Manfred Duy of PC Joker criticized both visuals and sound for being a straightfoward conversion to DOS but commended the gameplay for being timeless. A game with similar gameplay mechanics titled Earth Light was released for the Super Famicom in 1992, coded by the same programmer who worked on Military Madness. A sequel titled Neo Nectaris was released in 1994 for the PC Engine Super CD ROM² and later re released for the Wii's Virtual Console, taking place ten years after the events of the first game. In 1998, a portable entry titled Nectaris GB was also released for the Game Boy and published by Hudson Soft in Japan. A remake, Military Madness: Nectaris, was released for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in 2010. An iOS version, Military Madness: Neo Nectaris, was also released in February 2010. The game was cited as one of the key influences on the seminal 1992 real time strategy game Dune II.

In 1994 Hudson Soft released a sequel/remake of Nectaris for the PC Engine Super System CD² called Neo Nectaris. Neo Nectaris covers the events of the first game but then escalates to Mars, featuring new enemies known as Bioheiki as well as several other changes. It was never released in North America due to the discontinuation of the TurboGrafx 16 line in the region. There is an English port of the game for iOS from 2010, but the game's AI does not work properly.