pukunui
Legend
I didn’t discover the existence of such games until I was a bit older in the early 90s. I remember getting a war game that was about re-enacting the battle of Gettysburg. I also got a game that was about B-17s going on bombing runs but it was far too complicated for me, and I never played it.I played the same games in the 70s.
The games we are talking about were not mass market, they were niche and usually found only at the local hobby shop, where they sold historical pewter miniatures for wargames, speciality trains, model cars and RC planes. TSR's D&D was the Trojan Horse that opened the doors for other non-historical indie companies to sell their games there.