20 Years Ago, Nintendo's Most Overlooked Series Perfected The Handheld Video Game

20 Years Ago, Nintendo's Most Overlooked Series Perfected The Handheld Video Game

NintendoWhile tactical strategy games are bountiful these days, that wasn’t always the case. A couple of decades ago, it felt like Nintendo was one of the only companies keeping the genre alive, in large part due to its fantastic offering on the Game Boy family of systems. While Fire Emblem gets all the credit these days, Advance Wars was the franchise that truly perfected the idea of handheld strategy. That all came to a head with Dual Strike —…

Omnihanded Entertainmet News | 20 Years Ago, Advance Wars: Dual Strike Saw The Future

Advance Wars: Dual Strike is celebrating its 20-year anniversary today, August 22, 2025. Below, we revisit the user-generated-content features of the game that were ahead of their time.The rain drenched my infantryman’s helmet as he marched forward. He could barely make out the jagged silhouettes of the grey buildings 100 feet ahead, but it would only be a moment until he reached them. Or so he thought–until the ambush fell. Tanks, recon trucks,…

20 Years Ago, Advance Wars: Dual Strike Saw The Future

Versus mode turned Advance Wars into my own tactical playground.