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A video game, WarGames, was released for the ColecoVision in 1983 and ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 in 1984. It played similarly to the NORAD side of the "Global Thermonuclear War" game, where the United States had to be defended from a Soviet strike by placing bases and weapons at strategic points.
The most successful card wargame (as a card game and as a wargame) would almost certainly be Up Front, a card game about tactical combat in World War II published by Avalon Hill in 1983. The abstractness is harnessed in the game by having the deck produce random terrain, and chances to fire, and the like, simulating uncertainty as to the local ...
In Issue 23 of Moves (Oct-Nov 1975), Richard Berg commented, "Of more than usual interest is Maplay's Guerrilla, another game published in England.A tactical-level game that seems to be more operational than anything, this simulation of the guerrilla warfare in Indonesia in the '60's is a great deal of fun with its surprise attacks, helicopters and canoes and unknown victory conditions."
Space Battle (play-by-mail game) Space Combat (play-by-mail game) Spiral Arm (game) Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game; Starlord (play-by-mail game) Starship Command (play-by-mail game) State of War (play-by-mail game) Strategic Conflict; Strategic Imperial Conquest; Supernova II
Sigma I-63 was one of the series of Sigma war games. Sigma I-63 was scheduled for June of 1963 to be run by the Joint Wargames Agency at a Secret level, played by the interagency, and looking at Indonesia/Malaysia. According to a 1966 Quarterly Bulletin published by the Joint Wargames Agency, Sigma I-63 was cancelled before it could be run. [1]
The first Kriegsspiel manual in English, Rules for the Conduct of the War-Game by E. Baring, based on the system of Wilhelm von Tschischwitz, was published in 1872 for the British army and received a royal endorsement. [9] In the United States, Charles Adiel Lewis Totten published Strategos, the American War Game in 1880.
WarGames is a strategy video game developed by Coleco for the ColecoVision and published in 1984. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64.The game's goal is to defend the United States against nuclear attack, much in the style of a less frantic Missile Command.
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