1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons is a railroad operations and share trading board game first published by Avalon Hill in 1986 based on an...
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1830: Railroads & Robber Barons is a video game developed by Simtex and published by Avalon Hill in 1995 for MS-DOS. 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons is...
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came from the boardgame 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons. An expanded version of the game titled Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe, was released...
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Bruce Shelley (category Video game specialist stubs)
Game of Railroads and Robber Barons, inspired by Francis Tresham's railroad-based game 1829. Around 1988, Shelley recognized that the board game market...
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rover play. The 28 railroads depicted in the game correspond to 28 actual real-life railroads that operated in the early 20th century. The table below...
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responsible for adapting the railroad-based 1829 board game developed by Tresham into 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons. Shelley had joined MicroProse...
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Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in the United States in 1959. Its main distinctions...
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The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons and its video game adaptation has players lead railroad companies in the United States during the year 1830....
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18XX (redirect from 1856 Railroad Game)
in 1981. The game has subsequently had many revisions, reprints, add-on kits and variants. 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons 1830 was published...
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Mayfair Games (category Board game publishing companies)
Mayfair and games licensed by Mayfair from other publishers. 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons and other 18XX games Agricola Bang! The Settlers...
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Civilization (series) (redirect from Civilization (computer game series))
first created Railroad Tycoon in 1990, inspired by Shelley's work at producing Avalon Hill's 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons, inspired by...
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the Hill is a board game published by Avalon Hill in 2004, designed by Bruce Glassco and developed by Rob Daviau, Bill McQuillan, Mike Selinker, and Teeuwynn...
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strategy board game set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe, published by Avalon Hill in 1979. The game was designed by Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge and Peter Olotka...
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Hasbro (redirect from Criticism of Hasbro)
Pig and PJ Masks. The Hasbro brand also spawned TV shows to promote its products, such as Family Game Night on the Discovery Family network. It is the former...
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board game designed by Francis Tresham, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill. The Civilization...
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RuneQuest (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha...
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Avalon Hill (redirect from The Avalon Hill Game Company)
is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company's "Hasbro Gaming" division. Avalon Hill introduced many of the concepts of modern recreational...
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Axis & Allies (redirect from Axis & Allies (board game))
determined by dice rolls. The object of the game is to win the war by capturing enough critical territories to gain the advantage over the enemy. More than ten...
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a fantasy board game for two to six players, designed by Jason B. McAllister and David A. Trampier. Each player controls an army of mythological creatures...
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squares, and railroads. A few units on each side are required to be set up in specific hexes, such as French infantry corps in Toul, but the remainder...
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History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six...
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1958 that re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The game rules were groundbreaking in several respects, and the game, revised several times...
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Squad Leader (redirect from Squad Leader (game))
game originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. It was designed by John Hill and simulates on infantry combat in Europe during World War II. One of...
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PanzerBlitz (section Other reviews and commentary)
combat set on the Eastern Front of World War II. The game, which was the most popular board wargame of the 1970s, is notable for being the first true board-based...
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TwixT (category 3M bookshelf game series)
strategy board game, an early entrant in the 1960s 3M bookshelf game series. It became one of the most popular and enduring games in the series. It is...
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The game was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame in 1997. Cosmic Encounter is a dynamic and social...
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2011 in games (section Game awards given in 2011)
2011. For video games, see 2011 in video gaming. 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons (new edition) 7 Wonders: Catan Island 7 Wonders: Leaders...
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began work on designing a new game from his house in the Avalon neighborhood of Catonsville, Maryland. He designed a game that was similar to other wargames...
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technology used at the end of World War II. The game uses a large hex grid map of a fictional continent dominated by the major powers "Big Red" and "Great Blue"...
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Tactics II (category Board game stubs)
Charles S. Roberts and published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1958 and then re-released again in 1961 and 1972. This was the second game produced by Roberts...
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