Sangokushi: Chuugen no Hasha

The 6 playable warlords you choose from are Liu Bei, Liu Zhang, Sun Quan, Ma Teng, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. And the way you select them is through a personality quiz. The hotseat multiplayer mode in Namco's adaptation is limited to 2 players. Taking place in the late period of the Three Kingdoms rule over China, this is a historical simulation with the goal of being the Chinese monarch who unifies China while maintaining a grip over their existing kingdom. Successful strategies must be accomplished through a limited number of available commands, such as instructing battle units who organize semi-automatically. Four icons are displayed on the bottom of the screen, from which it is possible to issue commands. Players execute one instruction per region, and saving the game is considered one of those instructions. The number of the instructions a player can execute is determined by the number of countries under their control, and by the level you choose at the start of the game. Though this game was created after Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is in fact the first NES game to be based on the conflict.