The
Wars series, also known as in Japan,
Advance Wars in the West, and occasionally
Nintendo Wars as a whole, is a series of military
turn-based tactics video games, usually developed by
Intelligent Systems and published by
Nintendo. The series debuted in Japan on August 12, 1988. Like another Intelligent Systems series,
Fire Emblem, earlier installments of the series were released only in Japan;
Advance Wars (2001) was the first to reach the North American and European markets.
Advance Wars was released in the USA on September 10, 2001, but put on hold in Japan and Europe due to the subsequent
terrorist attacks in the USA. Although released in Europe in January 2002, neither GBA game was released in Japan until the
Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2 compilation which released for the Game Boy Advance on November 25, 2004 and for the
Wii U Virtual Console on April 3, 2014.