Power Missiøn retrospective: Combat overshadowed | Game Boy Works #080

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Power Mission (1990)
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Join me on an exciting journey beyond the realm of my comfort zone for this look at a vintage war game best enjoyed by two people. Power Mission (or rather, "Power Missiøn") was a reasonably decent strategy game that would be immediately overshadowed by superior and better-promoted takes on the genre, including Nobunaga's Ambition and (in Japan) the precursor to the Advance Wars series. A perfectly acceptable genre piece lost forever to history…

For more on this title, including packaging photos and manual scans, please check out the Game Boy World site: http://www.gameboyworld.com/1990/08/24/power-mission/



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