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1991 · Ozark Softscape · Grand strategy · Historical

Command HQ

In this fast-paced game of strategic global conquest from award-winning game designer Dan Bunten, you'll control your own superpower as you attempt to outguess and overcome opposing superpowers in World Wars I, II, III IV, and V!

Released: 1991
Platforms: Linux MS-DOS PC-9800 Series Windows macOS
Genres: Grand strategy Historical Point-and-click adventure Post-apocalyptic Real-time strategy Simulation Strategy
Developers: Ozark Softscape
Publishers: MicroProse
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Themes: Science fiction
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB E
Languages: English

About

Command HQ is a real-time strategy world domination game. It was released in 1990 by Microplay Software and was created by designer Danielle Bunten.

Tommo purchased the rights to this game in 2013 and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.

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Reception

Command HQ sold 75,000 copies by June 1993.

The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #169 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game an "X" for "Not recommended". A Computer Gaming World survey that year of strategy and war games, however, gave it four and a half stars out of five, and the magazine named the game, with Warlords, as its 1991 Wargames of the Year. 1993 and 1994 surveys in the magazine of wargames gave the game three-plus stars out of five.

Legacy

Computer Gaming World in July 1994 reported a rumor that MicroProse was working on Command HQ II, with four-way and possibly network multiplayer support.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
MS-DOS	1 January 1990	North America
PC-9800 Series	31 July 1992	Japan
Windows	6 November 2014	Worldwide
macOS	6 November 2014	Worldwide
Linux	6 November 2014	Worldwide