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Gettysburg: The Turning Point

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the 59th-best computer game ever released. The magazine's wargame columnist Terry Coleman named it his pick for the fifth-best computer wargame released by late 1996.
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is the first in a series of games about the American Civil War, and was the first game to make use of a random schedule for reinforcements on the order of battle.
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Batchelder, R. F. (September 1988). "View From A Playtester: The Amiga Conversion of "Gettysburg: The Turning Point"".
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Staff (November 1996). "150 Best (and 50 Worst) Games of All Time".
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Curtis, Ed (December 1986). "Gettysburg: The Turning Point".
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for "Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1986".
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Coleman, Terry (November 1996). "Command Decisions".
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Developer(s)
Strategic Simulations
Publisher(s)
Strategic Simulations
Designer(s)
Platform(s)
Amiga
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore 64
MS-DOS
NA
Genre(s)
Computer wargame
computer wargame
Strategic Simulations
Atari 8-bit computers
Apple II
Commodore 64
Amiga
IBM PC compatibles
Atari ST

Computer Gaming World
Computer Gaming World
Charles S. Roberts Award
Computer Gaming World
Computer and Video Games
"The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers"

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