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roflmao

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Tower Defense Games
« on: July 14, 2011, 12:26:00 PM »
During Steam's recent Summer Camp promotion, I was able to score the expansion packs for Defense Grid for free, so now I'm back playing that game way too much.  Last year I played all the way through Gemcraft: Chapter 1 (http://armorgames.com/play/1716/gemcraft) and played through a good chunk of Chapter 0.  (I've never spent so much time playing a free Flash game) I love this style of gameplay. 

I know that Rampart is considered the grandfather of this genre, but were there any other tower defense games released for 8/16-bit systems?

SignOfZeta

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Re: Tower Defense Games
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2011, 01:09:49 PM »
King Arthur's World for SNES. I love that game

roflmao

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Re: Tower Defense Games
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2011, 01:42:18 PM »
Looks pretty cool!  I'll be keeping my eye out for it.

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Re: Tower Defense Games
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2011, 01:45:01 PM »
King Arthur's World for SNES. I love that game
Seconded! Although I never cleared it, I had a lot of fun with it.

roflmao

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Re: Tower Defense Games
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2011, 03:13:59 PM »
So were there any other good Tower Defense games back in the day?