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Mr. President was designed by Jack Carmichael, and was published by 3M as part of their "3M Bookshelf Games" series in 1967, as potential candidates for 1968 election campaign began to marshall their forces. The topics up for debate reflect the issues of the day, for example, the American space program.
A few of the more popular games with established sales were acquired from other companies. The games were produced by 3M from 1962 to 1975, under the complete company name, The Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company. By the mid-1970s, gaming trends had shifted to pen-and-paper role playing games and the 3M game division was suffering losses ...
Mr. President (band), a Eurodance group; Mr. President (radio series), an American series of the 1940s and 1950s; Mr. President, a 1987 American series; Mr. President, from the 3M bookshelf game series; Mr. President, a 2016 satirical video game about saving the president from assassination
The is the category of tabletop games that were part of the 3M bookshelf game series. Pages in category "3M bookshelf game series" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Eric Solomon reviewed Stocks & Bonds for Issue 43 of Games & Puzzles magazine, and criticized the game for its unoriginality and low realism. [5] In The Playboy Winner's Guide to Board Games, Jon Freeman heavily compared the game to The Stock Market Game, preferring the fact that all transactions take place on paper but commenting that the rules can occasionally be ambiguous.
As in hnefatafl, the game features unevenly matched teams with different objectives. The 3M game set includes a board marked with an 11 × 11 cell square grid, twenty silver-colored pieces, a gold-colored "flagship" and twelve gold-colored "escorts". The game is played out as a naval battle, with strategy analogous to the siege game of hnefatafl.
In June 1916 McKnight became 3M's vice president at age 29. Soon afterwards, Edgar Ober, the company's president, became ill, leaving McKnight running 3M - he officially became president in August 1929. He served as president until 1949, as chairman of the board from 1949 to 1966, and as honorary chairman of the board until 1972.
Games magazine included Feudal in their "Top 100 Games of 1981", noting that "the initial set-up is done secretly, so the game is constantly surprising". [4] Games & Puzzles felt that the ideal version of the game was the two-player version with each player having two armies, but concluded that there was "very little classifiable strategy". [5]