Conquered Kingdoms

{{Short description|1992 video game}}

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|developer = Quantum Quality Productions

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|released = 1992

|genre = Strategy

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|platforms = PC DOS/MS-DOS

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}}Conquered Kingdoms is a fantasy strategy computer game developed by Quantum Quality Productions for PC DOS/MS-DOS in 1992.

Plot

The player commands human and fantasy units, using them to seize more territory, and players gain points by occupying other towns, obtaining castles, and triumphing over enemy units.

Development

The game was announced at the 1992 Consumer Electronics Show, alongside Battles of Destiny.{{cite magazine | author=Staff | title=The Consumer Electronics Show: No Longer Behind Closed Doors | magazine=Computer Gaming World | issue=97 | date=August 1992 | pages=22–28 }}

Reception

Conquered Kingdoms was reviewed in 1993 in Dragon #194 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.{{cite journal|title=The Role of Computers|last1=Lesser|last2=Lesser|last3=Lesser|first1=Hartley|first2=Patricia|first3=Kirk|name-list-style=amp|journal=Dragon|issue=194|date=June 1993|pages=57–63}} In a 1993 survey of pre 20th-century strategy games, Computer Gaming World gave the game two-plus stars out of five, stating "While gameplay is high, this reviewer admits to a distaste for obscuring decent wargames with fantasy elements".{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=107 | title=An Annotated Listing of Pre-20th Century Wargames | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=June 1993 | accessdate=7 July 2014 | author=Brooks, M. Evan | pages=136}} A reviewer who called Conquered Kingdoms "a gem of a game" disliked Scenario Disk #1, stating that the expansion's maps were not as good as the original's.{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=111 | title=A Bridge Too Far | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=October 1993 | accessdate=26 March 2016 | author=Black, Randall | pages=142}}

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