Ace of Aces
A Reference Guide

2. Initial Nova Edition

© 1998 Joseph J. Scoleri III



Title Ace of Aces: WWI Aerial Combat Game
Publisher Gameshop Inc.
Date 1980
Price $11.95 - $13.95
Box shrink-wrapped on cardboard backing
Components Two brown 6"x4 1/2" gamebooks with gold print on cover (one German booklet and one Allied booklet) Four 6" x 8 1/2" unnumbered two-sided sheets stapled together on the left side with a single staple. The reverse side of each page is printed upside down. Pages from first to last are (front/ reverse side): campaign. archie, starting charts/ game errata gunnery charts/log sheet damage allocation diagrams/log sheet critical hit chart/chart continued 6" x 8 1/2" cover sheet in red and blue
Other Features: nothing printed on gamebook spine. "Gameshop Inc." on gamebook title page. Page 185 in each gamebook actually the opponent's page. Gameshop Inc." in red across bottom of cover sheet. Four pages of charts & diagrams are separate pages, stapled, with all text in black (not folded in form of a booklet).

After the release of Ace of Aces, Gameshop Inc. became Nova Game Designs. The Nova release contained new gunfire artwork that used larger muzzle flashes and dark tracer lines to make it abundantly clear when you were eligible to fire at your opponent. This change corrected the ambiguity of the Gameshop artwork and gave a dramatic effect that more than made up for the somewhat cartoonish character of the gunfire art.

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