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SPI and THE CHAOSIUM
SPI
- Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) became the first major publisher to go head-to-head with Metagaming's MicroGames by releasing six small format Capsule fantasy/science-fiction games in the middle of 1979.
- There were two fantasy oriented Magic Capsule games and four science-fiction based Space Capsule games.
- These digest-sized games came in a plastic bag with an adhesive flap. The games were packaged folio style although sometimes the cover would unfold to reveal the mapsheet.
- In 1975, SPI had released a similarly packaged series of folio wargames as the Moment in Conflict series. Another wave of Moment in Conflict games was released in 1979.
![Demons and DeathMaze](spi01.jpg)
- Demons and Death Maze were also sold as boxed games.
![The Creature that Ate Sheboygan and StarGate](spi02.jpg)
- The Creature that Ate Sheboygan was also sold as a boxed game.
![Titan Strike and Vector 3](spi03.jpg)
![World War I](spi04.jpg)
- World War I was also the magazine game in Strategy and Tactics issue 51.
THE CHAOSIUM
- The Chaosium released two humorous digest-sized microgames. Stomp! came out in 1978 followed by Panzer Pranks in 1980.
![Panzer Pranks and Stomp](cha01.jpg)
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