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[billd91]

I don't think so. I would have played whatever game it was in something like 1979-1980, but Blue Max appears to have been published in 1983. I did a quick image search and from what I remember the cover art looked like Knights of the Air, by Avalon Hill, but I can't find a published date for it.

EDIT - Though I had found it, but was wrong. What I found was a book, not a game. Knights of the Air was 1986 or so, so not it.

Was it Fight in the Skies or Dawn Patrol (both by Mike Carr)?

Fight in the Skies

Single-seat fighter vs. two-seat fighter vs. observation balloon in aerial combat.

boardgamegeek.com

Dawn Patrol: Role Playing Game of WW I Air Combat

Light role-playing, via continuing pilot characters, meets WWI air combat gaming.

boardgamegeek.com

 

[dragoner]

The mini games from Metagames/SJG, Task Force Games, TSR and others were so much fun!

Also Nova’s 2-player combat book games- Ace of Aces and Lost Worlds were a blast, especially on road trips.

Ace of Aces was awesome on the long bus rides to chess meets. I still have a bunch:

Just a few, there are more.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I don't think so. I would have played whatever game it was in something like 1979-1980, but Blue Max appears to have been published in 1983. I did a quick image search and from what I remember the cover art looked like Knights of the Air, by Avalon Hill, but I can't find a published date for it.

EDIT - Though I had found it, but was wrong. What I found was a book, not a game. Knights of the Air was 1986 or so, so not it.

Richtofen's War by any chance? I played a fair bit of that in high school.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Ace of Aces was awesome on the long bus rides to chess meets. I still have a bunch:

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Just a few, there are more.

I had Robots! and Ogre, though I'm not sure I ever actually played the former (I had all kinds of little off-brand wargames I never played).

 

[trappedslider]

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Eleven11bot infects video recorders, with the largest concentration of them in the US.

arstechnica.com

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Ace of Aces was awesome on the long bus rides to chess meets. I still have a bunch:

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Just a few, there are more.

I think I have all of those pictured. Holy War & Rivets might be the exceptions.

 

[dragoner]

I think I have all of those pictured. Holy War & Rivets might be the exceptions.

I had Robots! and Ogre, though I'm not sure I ever actually played the former (I had all kinds of little off-brand wargames I never played).

I have Revolt on Antares, Car Wars, Melee, Wizard, bunch of others; the most played were Ogre/GEV and Starfire. Though I guess people got spoiled? These little games were awesome. Used to have a ton of the SPI and Avalon Hill bookcase games also.

 

[RealAlHazred]

They had one half-way relevant competitor in Lancelot Games, who also published a handful of games: the low-fantasy Khelataar, Western, and Wastelands

I'm still trying to locate some of the stuff produced for Western, mostly because English language Old West material was sparse until Deadlands hit big and then was suddenly dominated with Weird West stuff that might not fit more mundane settings. I've gotten lucky with the fanzine archive on alexandria.dk; I'm a sucker for fanzines, even if I have to copy and paste the text to Google Translate. There were some fanzines with fan material for Western there.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have Revolt on Antares, Car Wars, Melee, Wizard, bunch of others; the most played were Ogre/GEV and Starfire.

Yes to all.

I had a lot of the expansions for the Metagames/Steve Jackson games, with OGRE/GEV getting the most play. And I also had the Apple II versions of the computer games for OGRE/GEV and Car Wars. Car Wars is one of the few computer games I finished.

Good times. Good times.

 

[Maxperson]

Today's hot take:
Games are supposed to be fun.

Then explain the existence of Diplomacy.