About

Wizards and crown

Gemfire was a turn-based strategy game released Koei in 1992. It was available on for the PC, NES, Super NES and Genesis. Today it has largely been forgotton, except by a handful of die-hard fans—one of which is the author of these pages.

Not content simply playing the game, I've attempted to worked through every aspect of the game and document it in hopes of sharing the results of that work here.

This site isn't yet finished. I'll be adding more to it was I find the time.

Update December 2023

Seems to have been a renewed interest in this game recently judging from all the traffic. Welcome. So for those visiting, know that I still haven't touched the site since 2014—sorry about that. Still, I have dabbled in trying to make a Javascript remake of the game. Go ahead, have a look. With the advent of AI, I have been able to upscale the graphics from the 1992 PC version. Vector graphics are used for the playing field. The layout follows the PC version of the game but lacks faness.

Scenarios

Families

Families

Gems

Mercenaries

Provinces

People

All people