Strategic Simulations Inc. Museum

A dedicated company gallery tracing SSI from early Apple II wargames through the General series, Steel Panthers, Imperialism, and its influential AD&D computer role-playing catalog.

Gallery Overview

A dedicated company gallery tracing SSI from early Apple II wargames through the General series, Steel Panthers, Imperialism, and its influential AD&D computer role-playing catalog.

Browse this gallery by historical period, game family, company, creator, technology, and preservation topic.

Company and People

Company GalleryStrategic Simulations Inc.From a 1979 wargame startup to a defining strategy and computer-role-playing publisher.

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 Company GalleryJoel Billings and the Founding of SSIThe entrepreneur who believed personal computers could support serious wargames.

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Early SSI Wargames

Company GalleryComputer BismarckA foundational commercial computer wargame centered on the 1941 hunt for the German battleship Bismarck.

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 Company GalleryComputer AmbushMan-to-man tactical combat with unusually detailed planning and resolution.

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 Company GalleryComputer NapoleonicsOperational and tactical Napoleonic warfare adapted to the home computer.

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 Company GalleryTorpedo FireA naval combat simulation built around submarine and surface-ship engagements.

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Classic Operational Wargames

GameKampfgruppeSSI's landmark 1985 Eastern Front operational-tactical wargame.

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 Company GalleryBattlegroupA Western Front counterpart that extended the Kampfgruppe design tradition.

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 Company GalleryWar in RussiaA vast Eastern Front campaign simulation covering strategy, production, and operations.

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 Company GalleryWarshipTactical surface naval warfare in the Pacific.

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 Company GalleryMech BrigadeCold War armored warfare at the tactical-operational level.

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Construction Sets

Company GalleryWargame Construction SetA toolkit that let players build and share their own wargame scenarios.

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 Company GalleryWargame Construction Set II: Tanks!A more specialized construction system for armored warfare.

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General Series

Company GalleryPanzer GeneralThe accessible campaign wargame that became SSI’s greatest mainstream strategy success.

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 Company GalleryAllied GeneralThe Allied perspective on the Panzer General campaign formula.

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 Company GalleryPacific GeneralOperational strategy across the Pacific War.

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 Company GalleryFantasy GeneralA fantasy adaptation of the General-series campaign system.

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 Company GalleryStar GeneralScience-fiction conquest using the General-series lineage.

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Steel Panthers Series

Company GallerySteel PanthersA landmark tactical wargame focused on armored and combined-arms combat.

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 Company GallerySteel Panthers II: Modern BattlesThe Steel Panthers tactical system extended into postwar and modern conflict.

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 Company GallerySteel Panthers III: Brigade CommandLarger-scale command in the Steel Panthers series.

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Imperialism Series

Company GalleryImperialismIndustrial-age grand strategy built around economics, diplomacy, and state development.

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 Company GalleryImperialism II: Age of ExplorationA preindustrial grand strategy game of exploration, trade, colonization, and European rivalry.

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Gold Box and AD&D

Company GalleryPool of RadianceThe first Gold Box computer role-playing game and the beginning of SSI’s major AD&D era.

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 Company GalleryCurse of the Azure BondsA Gold Box sequel built around magical bonds and a continuing adventuring party.

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 Company GallerySecret of the Silver BladesA high-level Gold Box adventure with extensive dungeon exploration.

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 Company GalleryPools of DarknessThe epic conclusion to the original Pool of Radiance sequence.

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 Company GalleryChampions of KrynnThe Gold Box engine enters the Dragonlance setting.

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Beyond the Gold Box

Company GalleryEye of the BeholderReal-time first-person dungeon exploration under the SSI AD&D banner.

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 Company GalleryDark Sun: Shattered LandsA more open-ended AD&D computer RPG set in the harsh world of Athas.

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Preservation

Company GallerySSI Preservation ArchiveA curatorial framework for preserving SSI boxes, disks, manuals, maps, catalogs, patches, and oral histories.

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