Waterloo
Waterloo II is a 2-player historical strategy wargame. Character movement and commands are placed via text, and each player takes turns inputting 5 commands for their forces, followed by their opponent. Each…
Waterloo is a real time strategy (rts), released 23 February 1981 on Apple II and Atari 8-bit.
What Waterloo is
Waterloo was released in 1981. It was published by Crystalware. It is available on Apple II and Atari 8-bit.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Based upon the battle of Waterloo, the player controls British and Prussian forces against Napoleon's French forces. Played from an overhead perspective on a large map of continental Western Europe, the player's forces are displayed as small tiles on the screen. In the Atari version, the player has a large smoothly scrolling map, while the Apple II version breaks the map into 16 individual segments, which can be viewed separately.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, historical, non-fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Waterloo launched on 23 February 1981, within three weeks of Defender and Asteroids Deluxe.
Released around the same time: Defender, Asteroids Deluxe.
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