METAGAMING MICROGAMES

• Metagaming Concepts launched the first line of microgames, and coined the term itself, when they released Ogre, MicroGame #1 in 1977.
• The first MicroGames were approximately 4x7" and came in a plastic bag. Many of the later games came in notoriously flimsy small cardboard boxes.
• Metagaming released twenty-two games in their MicroGame line.

• Ogre, bagged
• Ogre, second edition, 1977 (cover art reappears on Steve Jackson Games edition)
• Melee, 1977
• Melee, 1977

• Chitin: I, 1977
• Chitin: I, second printing, 1978
• Melee, 1979
• Melee, fifth edition, 1981, boxed

• Warp War, 1977
• Warp War, second printing, 1977
• Rivets, 1977
• Rivets, second edition, 1979, boxed

• Wizard, 1978
• Wizard, second edition, 1979
• Wizard, third edition revised, 1980, boxed
• Warp War, third printing, 1977, boxed

• Olympica, 1978
• Olympica, second edition, 1978
• G.E.V., 1978
• G.E.V., 1978, boxed

• Ice War, 1978
• Ice War, second edition rulebook, 1978
• The second edition Ice War rulebook is a bit of a surprise. In 1998 a number of these plain cover rulebooks were found in a game store. This style of rulebook is the same as is found in boxed MicroGames, indicating that a boxed edition of Ice War was planned. However, to date I have been unable to locate any boxed editions of Ice War.