The game was commercially released on Xbox and PC in 2005 as an installment of the Close Combat series, which had been out since 1996.

Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and fame whores (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.

They were, he said, agogwe, the little furry men whom one does not see […]

[T]he horse was the vainer brute of the two; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady. . . . [T]his poor animal from stem to stern was swamped in finery.