======Wars Series====== * //and sometimes referred to as: Nintendo Wars series, Advance Wars series, Famicom Wars series---// [[company:Intelligent Systems]]'s **//Wars// series** of [[genre:turn-based strategy games]] began life on the [[hardware:nes|Famicom]], and received a few sequels on various [[company:Nintendo]] systems before its first Western appearance as an early release for [[hardware:gba|Game Boy Advance]] (though those versionas did not appear in Japan until a few years later, in compilation form!). =====Identifying Elements===== ====Key Staff==== ====Patterns==== * [[software:advance_wars|Level editor]] =====Games===== * 1988 - **//Famicom Wars//** (FC) - 1998 - **//Super Famicom Wars//** (SFC: [[hardware:snes#Nintendo Power]] only) - 1998 - **//Super Famicom Wars BS Ban//** (SFC: [[hardware:snes#Satellaview]]) * 1990 - **//Game Boy Wars//** (GB) - 1997 - **//Game Boy Wars Turbo//** (GB) - 1997 - **//Game Boy Wars Turbo Famitsu Version//** (GB) (By [[company:Hudson]]) - 1998 - **//Game Boy Wars 2//** (GB, GBC) (By [[company:Hudson]]) - 2001 - **//Game Boy Wars 3//** (GBC) (By [[company:Hudson]]) * 2001 - **//Advance Wars//** (GBA) - 2003 - **//Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising//** (GBA) - 2004 - **//Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2//** (GBA) - 2005 - **//Advance Wars: Dual Strike//** (DS) - 2008 - **//Advance Wars: Days of Ruin / Dark Conflict//** (DS) * 2005 - **//Battalion Wars//** (GC) - 2008 - **//Battalion Wars 2//** (Wii) ====Famicom Wars==== ====Super Famicom Wars BS Ban==== **//Super Famicom Wars BS Ban//**, or //Super Famicom Wars BS Ban Tsukinowa-jima!// if you go by the [[pattern:title_screen|title screen]] is, unfortunately, just a [[hardware:snes#Satellaview]] demo for the [[hardware:snes#Nintendo Power]] distributed of the Super Famicom game. * [[http://satellaview.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Famicom_Wars_BS_Ban|Super Famicom Wars BS Ban]] - The English Satellaview Wiki entry. ====Advance Wars: Days of Ruin==== * [[sb:hookup:advance_wars_days_of_ruin]] - Friend Codes / hookup page. =====Related Games / Series===== * //[[Faselei!]]// * [[fire_emblam_series|Fire Emblem series]] * [[nectaris_series|Nectaris series]] =====See also===== * [[wp>Wars (series)]] - Wikipedia page. * [[http://warswiki.warscentral.com/Advance_Wars_Wiki|Wars Wiki]] - Wars series fan wiki. * [[http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/famicom-wars-series|Famicom Wars series]] - MobyGames list.