(06-10-2012, 07:49 AM)Shad Wrote: For you old-timers whose parents bought you copies of these very, very early wargames... I am extremely curious what was going through their heads? "Jutland... lil Tim will love this!"
It just seems so... non-mainstream? :-)
Until you remember that those games came in boxes in the same format as Clue, Monopoly, Parcheesi, etc. So they just looked like any other board game the kids might enjoy, until you really looked inside. And the fact that they dealt with historical subjects probably seemed educational and vaguely uplifting compared to Candyland -- sort of like buying your kids "Classics Illustrated" comic books instead of Batman. Remember that parents weren't as reflexively anti-military as they became after the 1960s -- we had entire arsenals of cap shooting assault weapons and hand grenades, too! good times...
