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Trout was proprietor of a military books store and Keating had had several of his games published by Strategic Simulations. The game that launched the company was Reach for the Stars (1983). It is credited for having "effectively launched the genre of 4-X space games - explore, expand, exploit, exterminate".
Pearl Harbor, subtitled "The War Against Japan, 1941–1945", is a board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1977. Despite the title, the game simulates the entire Pacific Theater of World War II, not just the attack on Pearl Harbor. Serious issues with the rules surfaced after the game was published, and a much-improved ...
The result was Gulf Strike, the first wargame published by Victory in 1983, featuring cover art by Ted Koller. [2] The following year, Avalon Hill published a video game based on the board game, programmed for several popular platforms of the time: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and DOS. [3]
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Wiki: Upcoming and released titles @ r/RealTimeStrategy's Reddit forum (The specific Upcoming Games sub link there has 'yuge', regularly updated charts of upcoming RTS titles and RTS releases from 2018 to present year)
Warlord Games produces both miniatures for wargames as well as the wargames themselves. Black Powder, set in the game of the musket, is mentioned in several books dedicated to wargames set in this period.
Wargame Construction Set (1986), Shoot'Em-Up Construction Kit (1987), Mamirin / Dungeon Manjirou (1988), and Arcade Game Construction Kit (1988) appeared in the 1980s on home computers. 3D Construction Kit was released on the ZX Spectrum in 1991, and contained a full polygon-based world creation tool. Most of these early design frameworks are ...
In a nod to Baltimore's position as the home of Avalon Hill and the birthplace of the commercial wargame hobby, Don Greenwood, a game designer with Avalon Hill and founder of the convention, suggested calling the show "Origins". Over the next few years, both Avalon Hill and SPI (another wargame company) ran the show. As the show continued ...