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.
Axis and Allies PC game?
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I received the boardgame of axis and allies many years ago and fell in love with it quickly. However, because the games took a long time to setup and because the it was difficult to find people with enough time to play the game didn’t seem to be played as much as I wanted to play it. I was curious if there was ever any attempt at making the game into a PC version sort of like Risk. This would be a great way to allow me to play games and save without having to keep a board set up all the time.
Doug
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There is - look for them (Axis and allies, and Iron Blitz) - prolly find them on ebay.
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