The year was 1948 and The Tornado had just been created by Bob Monkhouse. As one critic noted, “his illustrations show a sexuality that quite defeated Paget Publications’ editorial censor.” Check out the cool hats on those aliens.

Why, they didn’t even have plastic dice back then!

1976 or 1977? Are you kidding? All this griping is about a lack of historical accuracy in a multiplayer game [A Mighty Fortress] designed in 1976 or 1977?

--from the Internet

As one truly old grognard said of another

I had two AREA games with Richard. In Anzio he beat me on Turn One. In Squad Leader, just then new on the market, I beat him. Then began a process which took me about decade of getting the victory chit.

EBay again...

Here is the entire and exact text of an eBay auction for Avalon Hill’s Waterloo:

“BATTLE OF NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO BOARD GAME WATERLOO NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGN REALISTIC BATTLE GAME MADE IN BATTIMAVE MARYLAND COPYRIGHT 1962 TAHA BATTLE OF NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO # 516 BY THE AVALON HILL CO.”

and again...

“This is a really neat army road map of Germany. It is sheet #3 and #4. On the front it has 1:500,000. I think this means it’s the first one of 500,000. The only date I found on it is 1937. The map is in pretty good shape. It has been used of course.”

and again...

1964 Avalon Hill Gettysburg Game. This looks complete in the box. It is 100% guaranteed, because I am not sure.

-- Joe Scoleri

How Avalon Hill would have done it

Roll 2d6. On the table, cross reference the row that represents the value of one die with the column that represents the value of the other die. Read the result.