SPI

The Treasure Horde: SPI Boxed Games, Fantasy Capsules, Science Fiction Capsules, Mini Games, and Ares Issue games.

SPI, Incorporated is a company that just about any gamer knows something about.  They existed from 1969 to 1982, and during that time published a veritable treasure trove of designs.  Some were absolute gems, some were pretty bad, but most were worth playing one or two times.  SPI got swallowed up by TSR (The D&D people) in 1982, an acquisition most diehard wargame players still moan about.  

This section will attempt to present PBeM Support for those great old "Small" games from SPI out of the past... games like Demons, Titan Strike, and The Creature that Ate Sheboygan.  There are a lot of titles published by SPI that I cannot, for copyright reasons, post here (many titles are owned by Decision Games out of Lancaster, CA and they reserve the right to publish them).  What I can post, I will.

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Sauron (SPI)

Game File

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VMAP and SMS.  SMS setup file included in Zip file.  SPI's famous minigame of the big battle of the Second Age in Tolkien's epic.
  • Melvin Williams

CREATURE















    THAT ATE SHEBOYGAN COVER

THE CREATURES THAT
ATE NEW YORK

... and SHEBOYGAN

PBeM Support Page

Cyberboard version of delightful old SPI-Moves issue game as well as the game that inspired it, THE CREATURE THAT ATE SHEBOYGAN. game (Sheboygan Gamebox
Updated
)
  • Walter O'Hara
  • Joshua Lawrence (Sheboygan)
Wreck of the BSM Pandora, Ares Magazine Game
The Wreck of the BSM Pandora

Game File

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Cyberboard version of great Ares Issue game (Gamebox Updated )
  • Jeff Fisher

Voyage of the BSM Pandora Ares Game Magazine

VOYAGE of the BSM Pandora

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Cyberboard version of great ARES Issue game, related to "Wreck of..." Above.
  • Jeff Fisher
Time Tripper

Game File

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Cyberboard version of great SPI boxed minigame
  • Jeff Fisher

Rescue From the Hive, ARES issue game

Rescue From The Hive

Game File

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Cyberboard version of ARES issue game (& Boxed Mini Game)
  • Jeff Fisher
FitG Gamebox (perhaps the AH version)
Freedom in the Galaxy

PBeM Support Page

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Cyberboard version of epochal SPI and AH boxed game.
  • Thom Denholm
 

J.R.R. Tolkien... he was the dude.

Gondor, Sauron minigames (same as above)

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Cyberboard version of SPI minigames based upon the WAR OF THE RING game.
  • Walt O'Hara
 

J.R.R. Tolkien... he was the dude.

SPI WAR OF THE RING

PBeM Support Page

 

Cyberboard version of SPI WAR OF THE RING game.
  • Rob Struble