It was 1990, I was 18 years old… I moved to the big city of Toronto and my new friends were gamers who played Risk all the time. I quickly got bored of it and was looking for an alternative game I could introduce to them and I saw on the store shelf Axis & Allies from Milton Bradley “a game of high adventure” and “decide the fate of the world in just a few short hours” (lol). Unfortunately we were all pretty hammered by the end of the night and the only thing I remember of my first game was punching out all the plastic pieces from the plastic stencil racks and all the roundels from the cardboard sheets. it was an instant hit with the whole group and I played it with them religiously for up to 2 years until I moved back home to Peterborough. I brought my game with me and it wasn’t long before I hooked some old high school friends to it, and over the next 8 years I played Classic edition even more than I did before. After that in 2000, I moved back to Toronto where I discovered Spring 1942, then A&A Anniversary edition and finally Global 1940… ironically, I met someone from that first group from the early 90’s almost 20 years later, we accidentally bumped into each other online and we have been playing 1 on 1 1940 Global games every month for the past 5 years.
Origins Game Fair 2008, 2 Weeks Away!
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Greetings AA Gamers,
Well I can’t believe that it is only 2 weeks away but Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio will be opening its gaming tables on June 25-29.
I will be running all the FTF AA tournaments again as usual. We will have a new Guadalcanal tourney that may already be sold out (at least that is what I am told?) and all the other great events including the Mega Revised Tournament.
So, if you have not yet said yes to the weekend, now is the time. You can go to my web site for all the AA details and schedule of events…
http://www.geocities.com/headlesshorseman2/GENCONOriginsTournamentpage.html
Peace,
Greg Smorey 8-)
Axis & Allies Tournament GM - Origins/GEN CON
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