Games of the Cold War Era

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Games of the Cold War Era
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Ralph Anspach (1973)
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(1983)
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Deluxe Turntable Edition
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1949
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• 1933

(1949-1957)
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• Twenty One, NBC (1956-1958)

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• Milton Bradley (1958)

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Cold War (1947-1989)Coined by Don Juan Manuel,
"guerra fria" ("cold war") to describe tensions
between Islam and Christendom in medieval Spain
(13th C.)First used in reference to tensions
between the Soviet Union and its neighbors by
George Orwell in an essay titled "You and the
Atomic Bomb." London Tribune, October 19,
1945For forty or fifty years past, Mr. H. G.
Wells and others have been warning us that man is
in danger of destroying himself with his own
weapons
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(1951)
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vC0K_LZDXp0I
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Milton Bradley (1957)

• Albert Lamorisse, director of The Red Balloon
  and designer of La Conquete du Monde

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• Milton Bradley (1961)

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(1982)
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Milton Bradley (1967)
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The Game of Life, Milton Bradley (1959)
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Milton Bradley 1963
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Milton Bradley (1965)
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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEwjDELYIEmE
(1966)
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(1967)
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Mattel (1967)
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The Worlds First Indoor Ball

• Parker Bros (1970)

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Smart Games

• Chris Haney Scott Abbot, Horn Abbot Ltd. (1981)

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Parker Bros. (1985)
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• (1974) Sold over 100 million units between 1980
  and 1982

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Apples to Apples (1999)
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Gender (Again!)
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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXHsQpTbQ9Uo

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Milton Bradley (1965)
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ABC (1965)
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Barbie, Mattel (1959)
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• GI Joe

Hasbro (1964)
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Building Toys
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A.C. Gilbert Company (1913)
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Believed to be the first toy to use advertisements
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Inspired by the folk play tradition of using
wooden spools as a construction toy.

• Charles H. Pajeau and Robert Pettit (1914)

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John Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright)
(1916)
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(1949)
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Hobby Gaming
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• War of the Worlds (1898)
• (Illustration from 1906 French Edition)

(1895)
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Little Wars a game for boys from twelve years of
age to one hundred and fifty and for that more
intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games
and books (1913)
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Battle of Gettysburg Civil war Miniatures
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• Jack Scruby, lead miniature wargame revival in
  1955 and went on to make DD miniatures in the
  1970s

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• (1958-1998)

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Michael Fielding, Vernon Calhoun, Northwestern
Products Co. (1940)

• Charles S. Roberts
• Tactics (1954)
• Tactics II (1958)

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Avalon Hill (1958), 1961 (hex grid) version shown
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• Jim Dunnigan, Avalon Hill (1970)

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(1995)
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Avalon Hill (1976)
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(1937)

• (1937)

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Avalon Hill (1979)
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Avalon Hill (1981)
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Games Workshop (1983)
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Dave Arneson used Chainmail to run games where
players controlled a single character, inspiring
DD, (TSR, 1974)
The 1971 edition, including a fantasy supplement,
is one of the oldest sets of rules for fantasy
miniature wargaming (Guidon, 1971)
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• Play Hard
• Play Fair
• Nobody Hurt

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Stewart Brand Pat Farrington Andrew
Fluegelman Bernie De Koven
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