
Napoleon Senki (ナポレオン戦記?, "Battles of Napoleon") is a real-time tactical strategy video game created by Lenar and released by Irem in March 1988 for the Family Computer. Later that year in August, Brøderbund announced plans to bring the game to the North American NES as The Battlefields of Napoleon, though the release was ultimately scrapped. In this game, players relive the Napoleonic Wars from a top-down perspective. Beginning with the earliest conflicts against the Holy Roman Empire to secure territory for the young French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars in 1796, players take on the role of Napoleon as he leads France through these wars until their conclusion in 1802. All major nations involved in the Napoleonic Wars are featured, including Czarist Russia, Great Britain, and the Spanish Empire. The first in-game battle takes place in what is now Italy, a conflict of equal significance in both Italian and French history. Additional battles occur in what is now the Arab Republic of Egypt, where Napoleon faced the Ottoman Empire, as well as in various other European campaigns.