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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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Sniper!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI0490    Year: 1973

Type: Boxed Game

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

Sniper! (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIHSN-774    Year: 1973

Type: Boxed Game

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

Discounted

Sniper! (Flat White Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISN-FWB    Year: 1973

Type: Flat Tray

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

Discounted

Sorcerer (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIHSO-954    Year: 1975

Type: Boxed Game

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

Special Edition #1 w/Battle for Stalingrad

By: Six Angles

Year: 2005

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games (Sunset Games)

remake of the SPI classic

SPI Catalog '75

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Catalogs (SPI)

Spitfire

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISP-Z    Year: 1973

Type: Ziplock

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

Discounted

Spitfire (Flat White Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISP-FWB    Year: 1973

Type: Flat Tray

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

Discounted

Staff Study #2 - Wargame Design

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

StarForce Trilogy

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISFT    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Flat Trays (SPI)

StarForce w/StarSoldier

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Collection

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Flat Trays (SPI)

Recent Arrival
Discounted

Strategy & Tactics - Breitenfeld, Triumph of the Swedish System, 17 September 1631

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXBT    Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Strategy & Tactics - Dixie, The Second War Between the States, 1937

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXDX    Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Strategy & Tactics - World War 1, 1914-1918

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXWW    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Strategy I (Flat White Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISY-FWB    Year: 1971

Type: Flat Tray

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

Swords & Sorcery

By: SPI

Year: 1978

Type: Ziplock

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

Tank!

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Ziplock

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

Terrible Swift Sword

By: SPI

Stock #: SPITS-FT    Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

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

Thirty Years War - Four Battles

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQTY    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

Thirty Years War - Lutzen

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXLZ    Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

TimeTripper

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2970Z    Year: 1980

Type: Ziplock

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

U.S.N.

By: SPI

Year: 1971

Type: Ziplock

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

U.S.N. (Flat White Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIUS-FWB    Year: 1971

Type: Flat Tray

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

Up Scope!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1850    Year: 1977

Type: Boxed Game

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

Recent Arrival

Veracruz

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIVC-Z    Year: 1977

Type: Ziplock

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

Vol. 1, #1 "Remagen Blitzkrieg"

By: SPI

Year: 1967

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Vol. 1, #4 "Gamescience Vietnam"

By: SPI

Year: 1967

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Vol. 1, #5 "Naval Wargame Special"

By: SPI

Year: 1967

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Discounted

Vol. 1, #9 "The Sinai Wargame"

By: SPI

Year: 1967

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Discounted

Vol. 2, #2 "Rules For Naval Wargames"

By: SPI

Year: 1968

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Vol. 2, #3 "Battle of Britain"

By: SPI

Year: 1968

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Discounted

Vol. 2, #5 "Trafalgar"

By: SPI

Year: 1969

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Discounted

Vol. 2, #6 "Midway Systems-Package"

By: SPI

Year: 1969

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

War Between the States

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWN    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

War in Europe Module #1 - The First World War (Deluxe Edition w/Maps)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWEM-DLX    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

War in the East (2nd Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWE-2    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

War in the Pacific - No Maps!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1860-A-NM    Year: 1978

Type: Flat Tray

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

War in the West -Map A Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

War in the West -Map B Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

War in the West -Map C Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

War in the West -Map D Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)