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TASK FORCE GAMES
Part One
- Task Force Games released the first of their Pocket Games, the second major sci-fi/fantasy microgame line, in 1979.
- The Pocket Games were digest sized games packaged in a ziplock bag. Some games were sold shrinkwrapped with the ziplock folded inside the rulebook.
- Task Force released twenty-two Pocket Games.
![Valkenburg Castle](tfg1.jpg)
![Starfire](tfg015.jpg)
![Asteroid Zero-Four](tfg01.jpg)
- Starfire was followed by two Pocket Games sequels before being released as a boxed game.
![Cerberus](tfg02.jpg)
![Star Fleet Battles](tfg022.jpg)
- Star Fleet Battles became one of the first microgames to grow into a full-fledged boxed set when it was rerelased as such in 1979.
![Prochorovka and Intruder](tfg03.jpg)
- Prochorovka was rereleased as the boxed game Armor at Kursk.
![Swordquest and Operation Pegasus](tfg04.jpg)
- Swordquest and Operation Pegasus were both rereleased as boxed games.
![Starfire II and Spellbinder](tfg05.jpg)
![Robots! and Battlewagon](tfg06.jpg)
- Battlewagon was rereleased in a larger format folio edition. The earliest Pocket Game version had double-sided counters.
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