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Simulations Publications, Inc., was formed in 1969 by James F. Dunnigan, as an entity to oversee the publication of Strategy & Tactics, which Dunnigan purchased from Chris Wagner for the price of one dollar. Dunnigan and SPI quickly became established as more than just a magazine, however, and began producing wargames for both separate sale as well as the revolutionary step of including them in the magazine for subscribers. SPI aggressively entered a market dominated to that point in time by The Avalon Hill Game Company and adopted many other business concepts and practices in addition to its ambitious production schedule. SPI embarked on expensive advertising campaigns, for example purchasing full-page ads in Scientific American, and producing give-away copies of wargames for subscribers and visitors to trade shows (Napoleon at Waterloo went out to subscribers to S&T, while Strike Force One was produced specifically as an introductory game). S&T quickly acquired a much larger subscriber base than The General, though it was admitted that the magazine ran at a financial loss, though it was able to claim the cost of the wargames it produced as advertising costs.

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Campaign for North Africa - Chart Set

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War II African Campaign - Parts (SPI)

Campaign for North Africa - Historical Background Book

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War II African Campaign - Parts (SPI)

Campaign for North Africa - Land Game Rulebook

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War II African Campaign - Parts (SPI)

Campaign for North Africa, The

Campaign for North Africa, The

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War II African Campaign - Ziplocks (SPI)

China War 3-Pack - 3 Combined Copies!

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Cobra

Cobra

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1830

Product Line: War Games - World War II Western Front - Boxed Games (SPI)

Complete Wargames Handbook, The w/Drive on Metz

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI14B6

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

Conflicts in American History - Antietam & Cemetery Hill

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2780

Product Line: War Games - American Civil & Revolutionary Wars - Boxed Games (SPI)

Crimean War - Balaclava

Crimean War - Balaclava

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - 1500 to 1900 - Ziplocks (SPI)

Dark Ages

Dark Ages

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIDA-Z

Product Line: War Games - Ancients to Middle Ages - Ziplocks (SPI)

Descent on Crete

Descent on Crete

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIDC-Z

Product Line: War Games - World War II Assorted - Ziplocks (SPI)

Empires of the Middle Ages (Japanese Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI152

Product Line: War Games (Hobby Japan)

Fall of Rome, The (Flat White Box)

Fall of Rome, The (Flat White Box)

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Ancients to Middle Ages - Flat Trays (SPI)

Flying Tigers (Test Series Edition)

By: Gamescience (Lou Zocchi)

Product Line: War Games - World War II Pacific Theater - Ziplocks (SPI)

Foxbat & Phantom

Foxbat & Phantom

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIFX-Z

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Ziplocks (SPI)

Foxbat & Phantom Collection - 2 Combined Copies

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Flat Trays (SPI)

Fulda Gap

Game Design #1

Game Design #1

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

Game Design #2

Game Design #2

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

Game Design #3

Game Design #3

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

Game Design #4

Game Design #4

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

Game Design #5

Game Design #5

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

Games of Middle Earth - Standard Rules for Gondor & Sauron Only!

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Fantasy - Flat Trays (SPI)

Global War

Global War

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIGW-Z

Product Line: War Games - World War II Assorted - Ziplocks (SPI)

Golan (Collector's Edition)

Golan (Collector's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIJGO-780

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Boxed Games (SPI)

Gondor - The Siege of Minas Tirith

Gondor - The Siege of Minas Tirith

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1806

Product Line: War Games - Fantasy - Ziplocks (SPI)

Gondor - The Siege of Minas Tirith

Gondor - The Siege of Minas Tirith

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Fantasy - Boxed Games (SPI)

Great Medieval Battles

Great Medieval Battles

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Ancients to Middle Ages - Boxed Games (SPI)

Great War in the East - Caporetto, 1917

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War I - Ziplocks (SPI)

Great War in the East - Serbia/Galicia

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War I - Ziplocks (SPI)

Great War in the East - The Brusilov Offensive

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War I - Ziplocks (SPI)

Grunt

Highway to the Reich (1st Edition)

Highway to the Reich (1st Edition)

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War II Western Front - Ziplocks (SPI)

Highway to the Reich Collection

Highway to the Reich Collection

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War II Western Front - Flat Trays (SPI)

Hof Gap - The Nurnberg Pincer

Hof Gap - The Nurnberg Pincer

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Ziplocks (SPI)

Island War - Bloody Ridge

Island War - Bloody Ridge

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXBR

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Island War - Okinawa

Island War - Okinawa

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Assorted - Ziplocks (SPI)

KampfPanzer

Korea (Test Series Edition)

Korea (Test Series Edition)

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War I - Ziplocks (SPI)

Kursk (Eric Goldberg)

Kursk (Eric Goldberg)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2680

Product Line: War Games - World War II Eastern Front - Boxed Games (SPI)

La Grande Armee and The East is Red Collection

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Assorted - Flat Trays (SPI)

Lee At Gettysburg

Leipzig (Test Series Edition)

Leipzig (Test Series Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: TSG-7

Product Line: War Games - Napoleonic - Ziplocks (SPI)

Marne, The

Marne, The

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - World War I - Ziplocks (SPI)

MechWar '77

Middle Earth Trilogy - War of the Ring, Gondor & Sauron

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Fantasy - Ziplocks (SPI)

Mighty Fortress, A

Mighty Fortress, A

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - 1500 to 1900 - Ziplocks (SPI)

Mighty Fortress, A

Mighty Fortress, A

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1680

Product Line: War Games - 1500 to 1900 - Boxed Games (SPI)

Modern Battles I

Modern Battles I

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQMB-Z

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Ziplocks (SPI)

Modern Battles I w/The East is Red

Modern Battles I w/The East is Red

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Flat Trays (SPI)

Modern Battles II

Modern Battles II

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQMT-Z

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Ziplocks (SPI)

Modern Battles II

Modern Battles II

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1690

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Boxed Games (SPI)

Modern Battles II - DMZ, The Battle for South Korea

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Assorted - Ziplocks (SPI)

Modern Battles II - The Battle for Jerusalem, 1967

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXJR

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Moment in Conflict #1 - Chickamauga (SPI Master Library Copy)

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - American Civil & Revolutionary Wars - Ziplocks (SPI)

Moment in Conflict #7 - Army Group South, Operation Star

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2426

Product Line: War Games - World War II Eastern Front - Ziplocks (SPI)

Moves Magazine Binder

Moves Magazine Binder

By: SPI

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

Moves Magazine Collection - Issues #1-10

By: SPI

Product Line: Noble Knight Games - Gaming Lots

Moves Magazine Collection - Issues #11-20

By: SPI

Product Line: Noble Knight Games - Gaming Lots

Moves Magazine Collection - Issues #21-30

By: SPI

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50