Kingdom Crusade
Encyclopedia
Kingdom Crusade is a Game Boy
strategy video game released in 1991 in the PAL regions and 1992 in North America.
and queen
of each respective kingdom is expected to contribute to combat duty; which was expected of kings in the Middle Ages but not of most queens.
Even though this game is medieval in nature, it does not depict any culture of Medieval Europe against each other. Players can take either side and both kingdom's units are of equal strength to each other. The units in the game correspond to Western high fantasy (i.e., paladin
s instead of samurai
). All fighting is done in an arcade manner (real-time with button mashing) rathe than a typical manner of a strategy or role-playing game (either turn-based or real-time without button mashing).
Each player must either destroy all of the opponent's units or capture all the castle
s in order to win the game and to defeat his or her opponent. Winning results in a celebration screen while losing is the equivalent to a game over
.
Game Boy
The , is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in , and in Europe on...
strategy video game released in 1991 in the PAL regions and 1992 in North America.
Summary
This video game that takes places during a hypothetical apocalyptic battle between a dark, evil army and a light, good army. Even the kingKing
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and queen
Queen consort
A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king. A queen consort usually shares her husband's rank and holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles. Historically, queens consort do not share the king regnant's political and military powers. Most queens in history were queens consort...
of each respective kingdom is expected to contribute to combat duty; which was expected of kings in the Middle Ages but not of most queens.
Even though this game is medieval in nature, it does not depict any culture of Medieval Europe against each other. Players can take either side and both kingdom's units are of equal strength to each other. The units in the game correspond to Western high fantasy (i.e., paladin
Paladin
The paladins, sometimes known as the Twelve Peers, were the foremost warriors of Charlemagne's court, according to the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. They first appear in the early chansons de geste such as The Song of Roland, where they represent Christian martial valor against the...
s instead of samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
). All fighting is done in an arcade manner (real-time with button mashing) rathe than a typical manner of a strategy or role-playing game (either turn-based or real-time without button mashing).
Each player must either destroy all of the opponent's units or capture all the castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
s in order to win the game and to defeat his or her opponent. Winning results in a celebration screen while losing is the equivalent to a game over
Game over
Game Over is a message in video games which signals that the game has ended, often due to a negative outcome - although the phrase sometimes follows the end credits after successful completion of a game...
.