''Richard Berg's Review of Games'' was a
wargaming
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a realistic simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to s ...
review magazine edited by
Richard Berg
Richard Harvey Berg (1943 – July 26, 2019) was a prolific American wargame designer. He was inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame in 1987.
Early life, army, student and lawyer
Richard Berg was born in New York City. ...
and first published in 1980 by
Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI).
Contents
''Richard Berg's Review of Games'' was a slim professionally produced fanzine with over 20 issues published per year, dedicated to publishing game reviews.
In 1980, Richard Berg, then working as a game designer for (SPI), started writing and editing reviews of wargames, which SPI published as ''Richard Berg's Review of Games''. It began as a two-page standalone newsletter, published twice a month for 25 issues. SPI then converted it into a regular feature in the pages of SPI's ''Strategy & Tactics'' until late 1985.
In the fall of 1991, Berg started up a self-published fanzine, the similarly titled ''
Berg's Review of Games
''Berg's Review of Games'' ( ''BROG'') was a publication started by game designer Richard Berg. The magazine, which featured reviews of video wargames and board wargames, debuted in 1991.
Content
In 1980, Richard Berg, then working as a game de ...
'' (or ''BROG'').
Reception
Steve Jackson reviewed ''Richard Berg's Review of Games'' in ''
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the ...
'' No. 37.
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Other recognition
Twenty-one of the twenty-five issues of ''Richard Berg's Review of Games'' are held in the "Edwin and Terry Murray Collection of Role-Playing Games, 1972-2017" at
Duke University.
References
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Wargaming magazines