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Title: What game is this?
Post by: Lord Thag on May 04, 2008, 06:00:11 PM

I got this loose Hucard in a lot. I've no idea what it is, as the name is in Japanese. The game itself seems to be some kind of strategy title, with an overhead map of a bunch of cities. Each city has a 2x3 grid of little gray boxes in which you place a bunch of little guys, who apparently duke it out if you can read Japanese and actually play the game.

The cover art is a picture of a guy's head in a silver/blue helmet with yellow eyes.

Any idea what game this is, and if so, how you actually play it? Thanks!

Title: Re: What game is this?
Post by: Turbo D on May 04, 2008, 06:09:33 PM

Sounds like the game Gai Flame published by Masaya and distributed by NCS in 1990. Its a wargame like you said and I have no idea how to play it either, lol.

Title: Re: What game is this?
Post by: nodtveidt on May 04, 2008, 07:18:46 PM

(http://www.nodtveidt.net/pcecovers/covers/Gai_Flame.jpg)
If this is the cover, then it's indeed Gaia Flame.

Title: Re: What game is this?
Post by: Sparky on May 05, 2008, 12:05:59 AM

wow, thats one wi-kid cover, the possible good games we are missing out on because of the language  :cry:

Title: Re: What game is this?
Post by: nat on May 05, 2008, 03:53:33 AM

Gai Flame was NCS's predecessor to the Langrisser (Warsong) series. It was much more primitive in many ways from what I understand. I also heard that you should skip Gai Flame altogether and go straight to the series itself. But, I've never actually played Gai Flame so I can't really say much about it's gameplay.

Title: Re: What game is this?
Post by: Lord Thag on May 05, 2008, 10:29:30 AM

Yep, that's the cover picture. Gai Flame, huh? Maybe I'll sit down and figure it out. Would anyone be interested in a 'how to play' post in this if I can get it puzzled out?

Title: Re: What game is this?
Post by: rag-time4 on May 11, 2008, 02:53:52 PM

Quote from: Lord Thag on May 05, 2008, 10:29:30 AM

Yep, that's the cover picture. Gai Flame, huh? Maybe I'll sit down and figure it out. Would anyone be interested in a 'how to play' post in this if I can get it puzzled out?

Lord Thag, I would be interested. I've collected most of the turn based strategy games for PCE but playing them is difficult because many of them use a lot of Kanji.

if you're really into the genre, you might want to start a "compendium of PC Engine strategy game FAQs" like Runinruder's RPG thread in the PC-Engine section and cover lots of games. Also, Gamefaqs has no FAQ for Gaiflame or most other PCE strategy games.

Info on PCE strategy games is hard to come by in English.