Double photo: Chaosium booth and a "new game from Phil Carter and Judy Barlow" (?) at Origins 1981:

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Judges Guild booth at Origins 1981:

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The Lucky winners of the Grenadier Wizard's Gold Giveaway in 1982:

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A nice display of Avalon Hill games:

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The famous "Come visit the future" poster by GDW:

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Unusual photos of Gary Gygax:

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Dave Arneson gets an award - no, not for the game you think!

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The BIG TSR booth at HIA Show of 1982 and of course You Know Whom is present...

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The never produced Star Fleet Battles Electronic Game by Task Force Games (I remember reading in Nexus magazine this game was the financial equivalent of a black hole...):

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An unusual SPI publication: has anybody ever seen one? Notice the 'careful' definition 'military history' instead of 'wargame'...

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TSR trade ad with great ideas: don't be caught wth empty shelves! Duh...

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Grenadier AD&D Action Art merchandiser (I'm pretty sure it's just a working mock up):

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TSR Hobbies merchandiser with the 'Gateway to Adventure' slogan:

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An interesting ad from GDW with all licensed Traveller publishers:

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Kids 'playing' High Fantasy:

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Another (more convincing in my opinion) trade ad from TSR Hobbies with Morley   :

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A (in)famous trade ad from Steve Jackson Games - you know, we must go to the retailers' minds  

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Nice, any of those Judges Guild pics you find don't hesitate to send my way
Probably going to spend sometime just looking at that one and figuring out what printings some of those products are if I can

ShaneG.

benjoshua wrote:
Yeah, they should have put this in a guy's front pocket......   

Blech!  Maybe not.  

That would have been for an alternate advertising campaign based on small unit actions...  

DnDGeek wrote:I can hear the nerd giggles resonating through the decades. Too funny, Alexander1968; good stuff.

I mean really.  We need some older, hefty guys with black t-shirts in the picture.  Too many young, good-looking people in this bunch.