

Helpfully, Advance Wars was the first game in the series to feature a narrative, and was originally only released in the western markets. The premise of the game was simple: you took on the role of the commanding officer (C.O.) of a ragtag bunch of soldiers and had the job of turning them into a fighting force to be feared. Advance Wars was the game that ended up stealing a lot of my gaming time away, back in those more innocent times where gameplay mattered more than shiny graphics.
