In order to alleviate this, the developers made the mechanics of Advance Wars easy to understand, adding in an in-depth tutorial that did not require players to read the manual. The game was not originally intended for release outside Japan, like the previous entries in the series, which were released in Japan only due to Nintendo feeling that Western consumers would not be interested in turn-based games because of their complex mechanics. It is the first Wars game to be released outside Japan, as well as the first Wars game to not be released initially in Japan. It is the seventh game in the Wars video game series. Although the game was released in Europe in January 2002, neither it nor its sequel Black Hole Rising were released in Japan until the Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2 compilation in 2004. The game’s release in Japan and Europe was delayed, supposedly due to the September 11 attacks in the United States.

It was released in North America on September 10, 2001. Advance Wars is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance.

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