Mech Brigade
{{Short description|1985 video game}}
{{Expand French|topic=cult|Mech Brigade|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Mech Brigade
| image = Mech Brigade 1985 video game box.png
| developer = Strategic Simulations
| publisher = Strategic Simulations
| designer = Gary Grigsby
| released = 1985
| genre = Computer wargame
| platforms = Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
| modes = Single-player, multiplayer
}}
Mech Brigade is a computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in 1985. It was designed by Gary Grigsby, and is a follow-up to his earlier Kampfgruppe.
Gameplay
Mech Brigade is a computer wargame that simulates a hypothetical conflict between NATO and the nations of the Warsaw Pact.
Development
Mech Brigade was designed by Gary Grigsby. It serves as a follow-up to his title Kampfgruppe, a World War II simulation. Mech Brigade was designed to bring the system into a modern warfare context.{{cite book|title=High Score! Expanded: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games | chapter=Opportunity Knocks: The Story of SSI | edition=3rd|author=DeMaria, Rusel | date=December 2018 |publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-429-77139-2|pages=166–171 }} He launched both games in 1985, the same year he debuted U.S.A.A.F. - United States Army Air Force.{{cite magazine | author=Emrich, Alan | title=The Pioneering Spirit of a Wargame Guru | date=September 1995 | issue=134 | magazine=Computer Gaming World | pages=201, 202, 204 }}
Reception
{{Video game reviews
| rev1 = Computer Play
| rev1Score = 7.2/10{{cite journal | author=Miller, J. L. | title=The Wargamer's Desk Reference | date=January 1989 | journal=Computer Play | pages=34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42 }}
}}
Author Rusel DeMaria later reported that Mech Brigade was "superior in design but inferior in sales" to Kampfgruppe.
Jay Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The addition of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM's), combat helicopters, and all the other trappings of modern combat make Mech Brigade a much more dangerous place to take a Sunday stroll."{{cite magazine |last=Selover |first=Jay |title=Battlegroup & Mech Brigade |magazine=Computer Gaming World |date=June–July 1986 |volume=1 |issue=29 |pages=10–11, 43}} In Antic, Dr. John Stanoch opined that Mech Brigade is "certainly not a game for beginners".{{cite journal | author1=Moore, Rich | author2=Stanoch, John | title=Call to Wargames | journal=Antic | date=March 1988 | volume=6 | number=11 | pages=10, 14 }}
In his 1989 computer wargame survey, J. L. Miller of Computer Play offered Mech Brigade a generally positive score but found that the "weapons systems seem to lack the lethality that they in fact possess".
As it had with Kampfgruppe, Computer Gaming World inducted Mech Brigade into its Hall of Fame.{{cite magazine | author=Staff | title=The CGW Hall of Fame | issue=45 | date=March 1988 | magazine=Computer Gaming World | page=44 }} The magazine's Alan Emrich later said that Mech Brigade was "the pre-eminent tank game until the arrival of M-1 Tank Platoon."
Reviews
- Computer Gaming World - June 1991
References
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External links
- {{MobyGames|/mech-brigade}}
- [https://archive.org/details/Tilt037/page/n135/mode/2up Article] in Tilt (French)
{{Gary Grigsby}}
Category:Atari 8-bit computer games
Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games
Category:Strategic Simulations games
Category:Turn-based strategy video games