Kampfgruppe (video game)

Kampfgruppe is video game by Gary Grigsby published in 1985 by Strategic Simulations in for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Comodore 64. Kampfgruppe is a game of Eastern Front combat with tactical combat scale.[1] An MS-DOS port was released in 1987 followed by an Amiga version in 1988.

Kampfgruppe
Developer(s)Strategic Simulations
Publisher(s)Strategic Simulations
Designer(s)Gary Grigsby
Platform(s)Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC
Release
  • Apple, Atari 8-bit, C64
  • NA: 1985
  • IBM PC
  • NA: 1987
Amiga
1988
Genre(s)Turn-based strategy
Mode(s)Single-player 

Gameplay

Reception

By late 1985, Kampfgruppe had sold 8,000 units and was forecast to reach 25,000 sales over its lifetime. It was widely acclaimed by fans of the wargame genre.[2]

Computer Gaming World's Mark Bausman called Kampfgruppe a "truly superior game" that allowed the player to "exercise his imagination without having to follow a complicated game structure."[3]

In 1985, Computer Gaming World's readers voted Kampfgruppe the best game of the year across all categories. The magazine's editors concurred that it was "the finest wargame currently available", and argued that it would "be looked back upon as a true landmark effort in computer wargaming."[2] It was later among the first inductees into the magazine's "Hall of Fame" section in 1988, and remained readers' highest-rated strategy title by that time.[4] In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Kampfgruppe the 101st-best computer game ever released.[1]

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References
  1. Staff (November 1996). "150 Best (and 50 Worst) Games of All Time". Computer Gaming World (148): 63–65, 68, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 84, 88, 90, 94, 98.
  2. Staff (November–December 1985). "Game of the Year". Computer Gaming World. 5 (5): 32, 33.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  3. Bausman, Mark (April–May 1985). "Kamphgruppe: A Review". Computer Gaming World. 5 (2): 21, 38.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  4. Staff (March 1988). "The CGW Hall of Fame". Computer Gaming World (45): 44.


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