3.19 Historians Gone Wild

Computer Game Evolution

In the dark days before everyone had a microprocessor, some people just didn't care. They simulated current events, politics, and fantasy epics with paper.

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Chapter

1. Opening into James Dunnigan (00:00:00)

2. What is space? (00:03:29)

3. These tables bring results (00:04:48)

4. Apply chrome (00:07:35)

5. The 3-1 ratio (00:09:23)

6. Strategic, tactical, operational (00:11:14)

7. Go play with yourself… (00:15:01)

8. …or play by mail? (00:16:37)

9. Before SPI (00:19:34)

10. Origins of World War I (00:21:32)

11. Chicago, Chicago! (00:23:25)

12. PanzerBlitz (00:24:13)

13. The Redmond Simonsen school of board games (00:25:13)

14. So, PanzerBlitz (00:27:27)

15. Through the ages in Strategy I (00:31:45)

16. Grunt: trauma gamified (00:36:13)

17. Vote Lincoln in The New President (00:39:29)

18. An Outdoor Survival haunting (00:41:15)

19. Year of the Rat in the year of the Rat (00:41:44)

20. Blocked by Quebec 1759 (00:47:16)

21. Time to Drang Nach Osten (00:53:04)

22. Foxbat & Phantom & imagination (00:56:48)

23. Sniper! the birth of a legend (00:57:58)

24. We Escape from Colditz (01:05:55)

25. Never a quiet day on the Sinai (01:12:45)

26. Scrimmage, football as war (01:15:23)

27. It's the D&D year (01:15:41)

28. Rise and Decline of the Third Reich (01:16:16)

29. A scale is not for 1776 (01:22:46)

30. Kingmaker, a British party game (01:28:26)

31. StarForce. SPI, in SPACE! (01:34:56)

32. A Wolfpack for loners (01:39:38)

33. The tech of Stellar Conquest (01:42:32)

34. A sneaky SSN (01:45:51)

35. Crimea at a mile per hex (01:46:46)

36. Some things start with White Bear & Red Moon (01:48:55)

37. Games Workshop exists (01:52:46)

38. The eye-searing Sorcerer (01:53:53)

39. Search & Destroy the grognard (01:57:05)

40. Battle for Germany is silly fun (01:58:36)

41. A torrent of Quads (02:01:19)

42. Women in wargaming (02:04:16)

43. Wargame jounalism (02:08:20)

44. Wrap-up (02:11:16)