North and South
North and South
North and South
North and South
North and South
North and South

North and South

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Few NES games let you rewrite the American Civil War with a cartoon cavalry charge. North & South grew out of Les Tuniques Bleues, the Belgian comic series created by Raoul Cauvin, and Infogrames' 1989 computer game kept the comic's playful tone while handing you an entire war to run. Kemco brought it to the NES in North America in 1990, adding a strategy-and-action hybrid to a console that had very few games like it.

Setup is half the fun. Choose the Union or the Confederacy, pick a starting year from 1861 to 1864, each with its own spread of armies and states, set the strength of each side, and decide whether to switch on outside factors like Native American raids, storm clouds and supply ships that bring reinforcements by sea. A second player can take the other side. Then the strategic map takes over: move armies state by state, merge them into bigger forces, push west into open territory, and guard the railroads that earn the money for new troops.

When armies meet, the game shifts into a real-time battlefield of infantry, cavalry and cannons. You command one class at a time. Infantry fire at short range and can move in any direction, cavalry charge forward and keep going until you rein them in, and each cannon gets only nine shots, enough to blast holes in the bridge that so often becomes the battle's choke point. Capturing an enemy fort or robbing a train drops you into side-scrolling action sequences, and while those segments are the roughest part of the NES version, purists can switch the action off entirely and play it as a straight board game where battles resolve by chance, weighted toward the larger army.

That mix of map strategy and arcade battles made North & South a favorite on European home computers, and the NES cartridge is the way to play it on a console of the era. It is customizable, lighthearted and at its best as a head-to-head rivalry on the couch, and its staying power showed again when Microids remade it in 2020 as The Bluecoats: North & South.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1989
Publisher
Infogrames
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

Your objective is ensure victory for your side by eliminating all the enemy armies. You will be controlling armies across all the combat zones of the Civil War. You may respect history or not, as you like. North and South does not try to reconstitute history and places playability over realism, it only tries to emulate the atmosphere and overall strategic conditions of the Civil War. Thus, as in reality, the player may choose to advance deep into the South or North, to attack in the center or to attempt a turning movement. This game can be played against computer or between two human opponents. You can also choose between a full strategic mode without the arcade parts or use the arcade mode during the fights, which allows you to directly control your own units.

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