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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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#321 w/Airborne Korea

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-321    Year: 2020

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

Arena of Death

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3080    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

Barbarossa (Color Flat Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIBA-CFB    Year: 1969

Type: Flat Tray

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

Battle of Borodino, The - Napoleon in Russia, 1812

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIBDZ    Year: 1972

Type: Ziplock

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

Blue & Gray II - Battle of the Wilderness

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXBW    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

China War, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2650    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

Kursk

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIKS    Year: 1971

Type: Ziplock

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

Minuteman

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Ziplocks (SPI)

Modern Battles I - Golan, Syrian-Israeli Combat in the '73 War

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXGO    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Napoleon's Last Battles (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIHNL-1031    Year: 1976

Type: Boxed Game

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

Okinawa (Collector's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIJOK-781    Year: 1975

Type: Boxed Game

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

Panzer '44

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

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

Patrol!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIPL-Z    Year: 1974

Type: Ziplock

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

Sauron - The Battle for the Ring

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1816    Year: 1977

Type: Ziplock

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

SPI Catalog '74

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Catalogs (SPI)

War of the Ring

By: SPI

Type: Ziplock

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

Winter War

By: SPI

Year: 1972

Type: Ziplock

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

World War 3 - 1976-1984 (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIHWO-775    Year: 1975

Type: Boxed Game

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

#105 "Settlers of Catan, Hera and Zeus"

By: SPI

Year: 2001

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #101 - #108

#203 w/Xenophon

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-203    Year: 2000

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#88 "Krieg, Lords of the Sierra Madre"

By: SPI

Year: 1996

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #051 - #100

After the Holocaust (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1520    Year: 1977

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Board Games - Historical (SPI)

Barbarossa

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIBA-Z    Year: 1969

Type: Ziplock

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

Battle Over Britain - Maps Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1983

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Boxed Games (SPI/TSR)

BattleFleet Mars

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIBF-Z    Year: 1977

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Ziplocks (SPI)

Bloody April

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2510-ZIP    Year: 1979

Type: Ziplock

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

Blue & Gray II

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQBT-Z    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

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

Blue & Gray II - Hooker and Lee

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXHL    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

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Breakout & Pursuit

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIBP    Year: 1972

Type: Ziplock

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

Conquistador

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

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

Dreadnought

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI0920    Year: 1975

Type: Boxed Game

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

Drive on Stalingrad

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1770    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

East is Red, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI0570    Year: 1974

Type: Boxed Game

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

Firefight

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

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