It was 1990, I was 18 years old… I moved to the big city of Toronto and my new friends were gamers who played Risk all the time. I quickly got bored of it and was looking for an alternative game I could introduce to them and I saw on the store shelf Axis & Allies from Milton Bradley “a game of high adventure” and “decide the fate of the world in just a few short hours” (lol). Unfortunately we were all pretty hammered by the end of the night and the only thing I remember of my first game was punching out all the plastic pieces from the plastic stencil racks and all the roundels from the cardboard sheets. it was an instant hit with the whole group and I played it with them religiously for up to 2 years until I moved back home to Peterborough. I brought my game with me and it wasn’t long before I hooked some old high school friends to it, and over the next 8 years I played Classic edition even more than I did before. After that in 2000, I moved back to Toronto where I discovered Spring 1942, then A&A Anniversary edition and finally Global 1940… ironically, I met someone from that first group from the early 90’s almost 20 years later, we accidentally bumped into each other online and we have been playing 1 on 1 1940 Global games every month for the past 5 years.
Anywhere I can download the game for free?
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I played it as a kid with my dad and got nostalgic and wanted to play it again. maybe teach my GF how to play
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Hi @huzzah
Triplea has a bunch of games. “World War II Classic” is probably it. They’re all named a little different.
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/17147/gargantua-s-k-i-s-s-triplea-instructions/9
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@barnee I downloaded it and I can’t manage to open the game up. I just get a bunch of code on internet explorer when I try to start it
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@barnee Do I need windows 98 emulator or something to run it?
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@barnee Nevermind I got it to work :)
Is there no place where I can find the “real” game? Kinda miss the old map and guys etc. Intro and all -
@huzzah yea this is the only place i’m aware of
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@huzzah This is a very old thread but I remember seeing an old A&A game that used the same 1984 map that you can play without TripleA. Just remember it is terrible but there is a surprising amount of youtube videos of people playing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_%26_Allies_(1998_video_game)
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