Nectaris series

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This article is about the computer/video game series. For the lunar mare of the same name see Mare Nectaris.

Nectaris (Military Madness in the US) was a series of sci-fi-themed, hex-based, turn-based strategy games for a variety of systems. The games were developed by Hudson Soft.

Games in the series include:

Nectaris (PC-Engine, 1989)
Military Madness (TurboGrafx-16, 1989)
Neo Nectaris (PC-Engine CD, 1994)
Nectaris (PC 9800 & X68000, 1992)
Nectaris (PC DOS, 1995)
Nectaris (Windows 95, 1997)
Nectaris GB (Game Boy, 1998)
Nectaris (PlayStation, 1998)
Nectaris Cellular (i-mode, 2003)
Military Madness (US cellphone (Verizon) v1.1)

The 1989 TurboGrafx-16 version of Military Madness was released for Wii's Virtual Console on December 18, 2006. It later received a bug fix for a slowdown experienced during gameplay on February 12, 2007.

[edit] US Reception

Military Madness was one of the early launch titles for the TurboGrafx-16 (TG16) in 1989. The game garnered solid reviews, including Video Games & Computer Entertainment's "1990 Best Military Strategy Game Award". However, despite the critical praise (and modest sales of the US version), the TG16 itself did not sell well in the United States and the game did not earn the same popular following it did in Japan. The game itself was a turn-based strategy game that took place on the moon in 2089 that had the player play as the Union forces (colored blue) against the Axis forces (colored green). Units could not be produced as in other strategy games but you could "capture" enemy units if they were in factories or find unsecured factories and gain units from them.