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SNES

Earth Light

1992 · Hudson Soft · Turn-Based Strategy · 1 player

About

Upon its release in 1992, Earth Light was a bit of a novelty in the realm of turn-based war strategy games. In Earth Light, the entire arsenal of weapons and troops at your disposal were decidedly "cute" and cartoon-like in appearance (fittingly adorned, I should add, in wardrobes of powder-blue, canary-yellow, hot-pink, lime-green, and sugarplum-purple). Yes, Earth Light featured purple space cruisers, pink artillery cannons, and lime-green MECHs. This unabashedly cheerful approach to war gaming contrasts sharply with the more "serious", "somber", "gritty" and oftentimes clinical atmosphere commonly found in today's (and yesteryear's) war simulations. Earth Light is cute, through and through (except for the just plain goofy antagonist who stars in the cinema screens

Gallery

Earth Light — Box front
Box front
Earth Light — Box back
Box back
Earth Light — Title screen
Title screen
Earth Light — Screenshot
Screenshot

Details

Developer
Hudson Soft
Publisher
Hudson Soft
Genre
Turn-Based Strategy
Players
1
Release Date
July 24, 1992
System
SNES

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