Game testing at SPI back in the day

[vtsaogames]

Tales from the crypt, back in the 70s https://corlearshookfencibles.blogspot.com/2024/05/working-part-time-at-spi-in-far-away.html

[Doug ex-em4]

That was an interesting read - thanks for sharing. Brought back many memories. In the late seventies/early eighties I was running the Wargames Department in a shop in Liverpool, England. A shop with such a department was quite a rarity back then. We sold SPI amongst other board game publishers and were fortunate to have spare rooms where we could set up and play the big games over days or weeks of necessary (which it often was with those games). I particularly remember Terrible Swift Sword (TSS) as being a great game to play multi-player. There plenty of others - sone of which would probably have benefited from being play-tested by you .

Anyway, thanks for an interesting read and for stirring memories.

Doug

[vtsaogames]

For the bicentennial of the American Revolution the Forlorn Hope Wargames Club played a campaign of the revolution, in the back room of the Compleat Strategist in midtown Manhattan. We used the Avalon Hill board game 1776 for strategic play and used a miniatures set of rules also called 1776 for most battles. A few battles were left to the board game. I headed the British team as Lord Dimwittie. In a complete reversal of actual events, we lost most of the battles and won the war. It took two years. And that's why McDonalds sells fish and chips to this day.

[FramFramson]

In a complete reversal of actual events, we lost most of the battles and won the war. It took two years. And that's why McDonalds sells fish and chips to this day.