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Rodger MacGowan
Rodger B. MacGowan (1948 - February 21, 2025) was an artist, game developer, art director, and magazine publisher who has been active in the board wargame industry since the 1970s. MacGowan was a prolific artist of cover art for wargames, and the wargaming magazine he founded, ''Fire & Movement'', won the Charles S. Roberts Award several times while under his editorial control. MacGowan co-founded GMT Games, and created '' C3i'' magazine, for which he was Editor-In-Chief and art director. Biography Early life Rodger MacGowan was born in San Francisco in 1948, the son of career Marine Donald L. MacGowan, and grew up on various Marine bases in Hawaii, North Carolina, New Jersey, and California. Rodger was a budding artist from a young age and using his personal observations of military life, he began creating military history illustrations in the seventh grade. While attending Oceanside High School in California, he was introduced to Avalon Hill's '' Gettysburg'' by a friend, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Afrika Korps (game)
''Afrika Korps'' is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1964 and re-released in 1965 and 1978 that simulates the North Africa Campaign during World War II. Background British forces had enjoyed a great degree of success against Italian forces in North Africa in 1941. That changed after the arrival of the Afrika Korps under the command of Erwin Rommel, who launched an offensive against the Allies, defeating them at Gazala in June 1942 and capturing Tobruk. The Axis advance was stopped in July 1942 only from Alexandria in the First Battle of El Alamein. At the end of August 1942, Axis forces attempted to turn the southern flank of the Allied defenses at the Battle of Alam el Halfa, but were unsuccessful. The Allies counterattacked in October 1942, decisively defeating the Italian-German army in the Second Battle of El Alamein. Description ''Afrika Korps'' is a two-player wargame in which one player controls the Allied forces and the other controls the Axis forces. Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. He was considered one of film music's most innovative and influential composers. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1977 for ''The Omen''), six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and four British Academy Film Awards. He composed scores for five films in the ''Star Trek'' franchise and three in the Rambo (franchise), ''Rambo'' franchise, as well as for films including ''Logan's Run (film), Logan's Run'', ''Planet of the Apes (1968 film), Planet of the Apes'', ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', ''Patton (film), Patton'', Papillon (1973 film), ''Papillon'', ''Chinatown (1974 film), Chinatown'', ''The Omen'', ''Alien (film), Alien'', ''Poltergeist (1982 film), Poltergeist'', ''The Secret of NIMH'', ''Medicine Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Gaming World
''Computer Gaming World'' (CGW) was an American Video game journalism, computer game magazine that was published between 1981 and 2006. One of the few magazines of the era to survive the video game crash of 1983, it was sold to Ziff Davis in 1993. It expanded greatly through the 1990s and became one of the largest dedicated video game magazines, reaching around 500 pages by 1997. In the early 2000s its circulation was about 300,000, only slightly behind the market leader ''PC Gamer''. But, like most magazines of the era, the rapid move of its advertising revenue to internet properties led to a decline in revenue. In 2006, Ziff announced it would be refocused as ''Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, Games for Windows'', before moving it to solely online format, and then shutting down completely later the same year. History In 1979, Russell Sipe left the Southern Baptist Convention ministry. A fan of computer games, he realized in Spring, 1981 that no Video game journalism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the creation of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', SJ Games created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes. SJ Games' early titles were microgames initially sold in 4×7 inch Ziploc bags, and later in the similarly sized Pocket Box. Games such as ''Ogre'', '' Car Wars'', '' Illuminati'', and ''G.E.V.'' (an ''Ogre'' spin-off) were popular during SJ Games' early years. Game designers such as Loren Wiseman and Jonathan Leistiko have worked for Steve Jackson Games. Today SJ Games publishes a variety of games, such as card games, board games, strategy games, and in different genres, such as fantasy, science fiction, and gothic horror. It also published the book ''Principia Discordia'', the sacred text of the Discordian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaquinto Publications
Yaquinto Publications was the wargame publishing arm of the Robert Yaquinto Printing Company of Dallas, Texas. History Yaquinto Publications was started by Robert Yaquinto Printing early in the year 1979. In March 1979 Robert Yaquinto hired Steve Peek and Craig Taylor, both experienced wargame designers with several famous titles in their resumes. Peek and Taylor had been previously employed by Battleline Publications, which had been merged into Heritage USA, but when that failed to rush the growth of the company, Peek and Taylor instead helped to form Yaquinto to publish wargames. Yaquinto brought several innovations to the industry, largely because they operated within a well-established printing company, with its attending expertise. Yaquinto was notable for its use of extra thick cardboard for the counters in its games, making them easier to handle. The most unusual innovation by Yaquinto was their series of Album Games. These games were packaged using the jackets for dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beachhead (board Game)
''Beachhead'', subtitled "A Game of Island Invasions in the South Pacific 1942–1944", is a board wargame published by Yaquinto Publications in 1980 that simulates amphibious landings in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Gameplay ''Beachhead'' is a two-player wargame in which one player controls American forces trying to make an amphibious landing, and the other player controls the Japanese defenders. The game is packaged in an LP record-style folder, with a generic hex grid map of a beach backed by jungle printed on the inside cover. Four hundred counters represent various infantry units as well as machine gunners, tanks and other combat equipment. An American "hero" counter, "Sgt. Stryker", can be used to provide close combat attack bonuses. Setup The Japanese player sets up their units facedown so that the American player cannot know the types of units and strengths. The American units are placed face up. Movement and combat The game system uses an alternating system of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Russian Campaign
''The Russian Campaign'' is a strategic board wargame published by Jedko Games in 1974 that simulates combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. Avalon Hill later bought the game and produced several editions. The unit scale is German Corps and Soviet Armies and roughly covers the Berlin to Gorki region (west to east) and Archangelsk to Grozny (north to south). A full campaign game covers the June 1941 to June 1945 period but numerous shorter scenarios are commonly played. The system features a double-impulse movement system that simulates the German armored blitzkrieg into Western Russia, with mass breakthroughs and encirclements. The rules cover unit production with Russian "worker units" (which simulate both factories and fortifications in key cities), "Stuka" units representing German air strikes, partisans, rail movement, and weather rules. There are also several smaller scenarios detailing key periods during the campaign. Components The game map represents the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
