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.
New Axis & Allies computer game
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Just read an announcement for a new Axis and Allies computer game. http://www.timegate.com/pr_5-13-03.htm Has anyone seen anything about it or is it just starting development?
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If RTS stands for Real-Time Strategy, I can’t see many A&A players buying it. I know I won’t. :evil:
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It sounds pretty good to me, I will get it. Not because it is like Axis and Allies, I assume from the article that it will be way more complex. Sounds like a fun game.
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At least they got a real game company to make it. Hasbro interactive sucks. I have never had one of their games that wan’t full of buggs.
Ever tried to play the PC version of RISK? What a joke!
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Good thing Hasbro Interactive doesn’t exist anymore, eh Detzrtfish?
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If RTS stands for Real-Time Strategy, I can’t see many A&A players buying it. I know I won’t. :evil:
depends on your take.
Star Wars Battlegrounds kicks (as did Age of Empires - with the same engine). I also enjoyed Red Alert, and KKND, Orcs and Humans, etc.
True, it just won’t be the same (no trash talking, for example :) ) but i’d give it a chance to prove itself one way or another. -
I would be all for it as I believe I could have been the biggest Command & Conquer junkie out there back in the day. It will remove some of the stratagy from the game, and I would be interested to see what they do with the units as in I would assume instead of America having just P-51’s and B-29’s there would be different fighters to buy at various cost levels, that could be cool. I guess it will all depend on the vision of the group putting this out, can’t wait for the first beta copy :D
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