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.
Does The Axis & Allies Computer Game (1998) Work With XP?
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Title says it all.
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Yes it does. I just played a game with it yesterday.
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awesome! thx
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It works stand-alone (you vs the AI), but I have NEVER been able to set up a multi-player game over the net with it.
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Yeah, the CD-ROM when it first came out was buggy and had all sorts of network problems. Getting a 5 player game going was almost impossible. But with the new patches, especially with the unofficial v4.1 patch, many of the network problems and bugs are fixed and the game is relatively stable. Worth trying, IMHO, if you like playing with 2nd/3rd edition rules.
Nas
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go to this link to play with others
http://www.axisandalliesworldclub.com/
we now have our own server to play on and such
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thx everyone for your support.
I’ve made up my mind to get the game.
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