One of the potentially most interesting and useful pieces of information for a game collector/accumulator also happens to be one of the most ephemeral and challenging to locate: the actual number of published units of a particular game title.

And even if some information is found, there is likely to be considerable doubt and confusion about its accuracy. Jim Dunnigan of SPI was the only mainstream publisher who freely and openly discussed game production data. For almost all other companies, this kind of information is usually discovered in passing, almost by accident.

In an effort to remedy this state of affairs, Simulacrum will periodically publish a list of games for which production figures are known with some degree of accuracy. The information presented here comes from several sources, some presumably more reliable than others. For example, data for Simulations Canada games comes directly from Stephen Newberg and should be absolutely accurate. On the other hand, data for SPI games represents the print run of the S&T magazines in which these games first appeared, and so in cases where separate editions were printed later, clearly understates the actual totals.

In the final analysis, the figures listed here are purported to represent the total number of games printed. This is not necessarily the same figure as the total number of games that were sold. Copies might have been given away to reviewers, copies might have been faulty and returned for replacement, and copies might simply have sat in storage until they were finally remaindered or sent to the dump.

And yet, despite these failings, the figures presented here do have some worth. If nothing else, they provide an order-of-magnitude sense of the relative scarcity of certain game titles.

Costikyan Destruction of SPI Center 1977 100
SGS Civil Power Strategist 294 1996 125
SGS Shining Path Strategist 306 1997 125
SGS Tupamaro Strategist 287 1996 125
SGS Hell's Foxes 1991 200
Bumpas Tatchanka 1977 200
Cormier Trafalgar 1968 450
SimCan Raketny Kreyser 1977 550
Game Preserve Rommel in the Desert 1982 800
SimCan Battle Stations! 1984 1,000
SimCan Battleship 1987 1,000
SimCan D.A.K. 1982 1,000
SimCan Hannibal 1983 1,000
SimCan I Will Fight No More Forever 1979 1,000
SimCan Inchon 1981 1,000
SimCan La Regia Marina 1983 1,000
SimCan Le Grand Empire 1978 1,000
SimCan Lebensraum! 1984 1,000
SimCan Lee at the Crossroads 1980 1,000
SimCan Line of Battle 1986 1,000
SimCan Man of War 1983 1,000
SimCan Napoleon's Last Triumph 1982 1,000
SimCan Norseman! 1985 1,000
SimCan One World, the 1984 1,000
SimCan Ortona 1983 1,000
SimCan Power and Resolution 1984 1,000
SimCan Quebec Libre 1978 1,000
SimCan Schnellboote 1984 1,000
SimCan Scourge of God 1982 1,000
SimCan Seapower & the State 1982 1,000
SimCan Warring States 1979 1,000
SimCan West Front 1985 1,000
SimCan Wilderness, the 1983 1,000
SimCan With Fire & Sword 1983 1,000
SPI Bastogne / Anzio Beachhead S&T 20 1970 1,200
SPI Renaissance of Infantry S&T 22 1970 1,428
SimCan I.J.N. 1978 1,500
SimCan Jihad! 1981 1,500
SimCan Rockets Red Glare 1981 1,500
SPI T-34 S&T 23 1970 1,522
SimCan Dieppe 1977 1,550
SimCan Peloponnesian War, the 1977 1,550
SPI Moscow, Battle of S&T 24 1970 1,607
SimCan Assault on Tobruk 1980 2,000
SimCan Dark Stars 1980 2,000
SimCan Divine Wind 1981 2,000
SimCan Kriegsmarine 1980 2,000
Discovery Source of the Nile 1978 2,000
SimCan Torpedo! 1979 2,000
SPI Fall of France S&T 27 1971 2,100
SPI Lost Battles S&T 28 1971 2,500
WWW Far Seas, the S&T 125 1989 4,613
Columbia Rommel in the Desert 1984 5,000
WWW Tigers are Burning, the S&T 118 1988 5,571
SPI Combat Command S&T 30 1972 6,000
DG Atlanta Campaign, the S&T 170 1994 6,048
DG Reinforce the Right S&T 180 1996 6,451
TSR Remember the Maine! S&T 108 1986 11,507
TSR 13: Colonies in Revolt S&T 104 1985 13,000
TSR Thunder at Luetzen S&T 99 1985 14,000
TSR Trail of the Fox S&T 97 1984 15,000
SPI Winter War S&T 33 1972 15,000
SPI Armageddon S&T 34 1972 15,100
TSR Soldiers of the Queen S&T 95 1984 16,000
SPI Year of the Rat S&T 35 1972 16,500
TSR Nordkapp S&T 94 1983 17,000
TSR American Civil War S&T 93 1983 18,000
SPI Destruction of A.G. Center S&T 36 1973 21,000
TSR Iwo Jima S&T 92 1983 22,000
SPI Scrimmage S&T 37 1973 24,100
SPI CA S&T 38 1973 24,400
TSR RDF S&T 91 1983 25,000
SPI Fall of Rome S&T 39 1973 25,100
SPI Kampfpanzer S&T 41 1973 26,100
SPI PanzerArmee Afrika S&T 40 1973 26,100
SPI East is Red, the S&T 42 1974 27,200
SPI American Civil War S&T 43 1974 27,600
SPI Combined Arms S&T 46 1974 28,100
SPI Operation Olympic S&T 45 1974 28,100
SPI Tank! S&T 44 1974 28,100
SPI Wolfpack S&T 47 1974 28,100
SPI Sixth Fleet S&T 48 1975 29,900
SPI Frederick the Great S&T 49 1975 30,200
SPI Breitenfeld S&T 55 1976 31,500
SPI Conquistador S&T 58 1976 31,500
SPI Dixie S&T 54 1976 31,500
SPI Germany, Battle for S&T 50 1975 31,500
SPI October War S&T 61 1977 31,500
SPI Oil War S&T 52 1975 31,500
SPI Panzergruppe Guderian S&T 57 1976 31,500
SPI Plot to Assassinate Hitler, the S&T 59 1976 31,500
SPI Punic Wars S&T 53 1975 31,500
SPI Revolt in the East S&T 56 1976 31,500
SPI Road to Richmond S&T 60 1977 31,500
SPI South Africa S&T 62 1977 31,500
SPI World War I S&T 51 1975 31,500
SPI BAOR S&T 88 1981 32,000
SPI S icily S&T 89 1981 32,000
SPI Cobra S&T 65 1977 34,000
SPI Raid! S&T 64 1977 34,000
SPI VeraCruz S&T 63 1977 34,000
SPI Siege of Constantinople, the S&T 66 1978 34,500
SPI Kharkov S&T 68 1978 36,000
SPI Stonewall S&T 67 1978 36,000
SPI Cassino, Battle for S&T 71 1978 36,300
SPI Crusades, the S&T 70 1978 36,300
SPI Armada S&T 72 1979 36,500
SPI Berlin '85 S&T 79 1980 36,500
SPI Cedar Mountain 1981 36,500
SPI China War, the S&T 76 1979 36,500
SPI Desert Fox S&T 87 1981 36,500
SPI Fifth Corps S&T 82 1980 36,500
SPI Fighting Sail S&T 85 1981 36,500
SPI Kaiser's Battle, the S&T 83 1980 36,500
SPI Napoleon's Art of War S&T 75 1979 36,500
SPI Ney vs. Wellington S&T 74 1979 36,500
SPI Operation Grenade S&T 84 1981 36,500
SPI Panzer Battles S&T 73 1979 36,500
SPI Paratroop S&T 77 1979 36,500
SPI Patton's Third Army S&T 78 1980 36,500
SPI Tannenberg II S&T 69 1978 36,500
SPI Tito S&T 81 1980 36,500
SPI Wilson's Creek S&T 80 1980 36,500