Tronsoft Interactive Game Museum

Featured Exhibits

Featured Kampfgruppe SSI's landmark 1985 Eastern Front operational-tactical wargame.

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Featured Pool of Radiance The first Gold Box computer role-playing game and the beginning of SSI’s major AD&D era.

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

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Featured Computer Bismarck A foundational commercial computer wargame centered on the 1941 hunt for the German battleship Bismarck.

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Featured Panzer General The accessible campaign wargame that became SSI’s greatest mainstream strategy success.

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Featured Steel Panthers A landmark tactical wargame focused on armored and combined-arms combat.

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Featured Adventure Games Wing Colossal Cave, Zork, Infocom, Sierra, LucasArts, and the evolution of interactive storytelling.

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Featured Strategy Games Wing Empire, Civilization, SSI, Panzer General, Age of Empires, and the systems behind strategic play.

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Featured Origins of the Computer RPG From tabletop rules and university mainframes to Ultima, Wizardry, modern open worlds, moral choice, and persistent online worlds.

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All Exhibits

Game Kampfgruppe SSI's landmark 1985 Eastern Front operational-tactical wargame.

Readiness 100%

Company-gallery Pool of Radiance The first Gold Box computer role-playing game and the beginning of SSI’s major AD&D era.

Readiness 90%

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

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Computer Bismarck A foundational commercial computer wargame centered on the 1941 hunt for the German battleship Bismarck.

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Panzer General The accessible campaign wargame that became SSI’s greatest mainstream strategy success.

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Steel Panthers A landmark tactical wargame focused on armored and combined-arms combat.

Readiness 90%

Wing Adventure Games Wing Colossal Cave, Zork, Infocom, Sierra, LucasArts, and the evolution of interactive storytelling.

Readiness 80%

Wing Strategy Games Wing Empire, Civilization, SSI, Panzer General, Age of Empires, and the systems behind strategic play.

Readiness 95%

History Origins of the Computer RPG From tabletop rules and university mainframes to Ultima, Wizardry, modern open worlds, moral choice, and persistent online worlds.

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Technology Armored Combat Armor, guns, range, facing abstractions, and tactical employment.

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Technology Artillery and Fire Support Indirect fire, suppression, preparation, and battlefield timing.

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System Building a Kampfgruppe Organizing an effective improvised battle group.

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Technology Combined-Arms Doctrine How armor, infantry, artillery, reconnaissance, and engineers support one another.

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System Command and Control Headquarters, cohesion, orders, and battlefield coordination.

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Document Development History How Gary Grigsby and SSI created a reusable Eastern Front battlefield system.

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System Force Preservation Winning campaigns without destroying the formation that must fight the next battle.

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Artifact Infantry and Weapons Encyclopedia Squads, machine guns, anti-tank weapons, engineers, and supporting arms.

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Technology Infantry Combat The role of infantry in towns, woods, defensive positions, and assaults.

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Preservation Legacy and Influence Kampfgruppe's place in the evolution of computer wargames.

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System Line of Sight and Reconnaissance Detection, observation, concealment, and uncertainty.

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System Morale and Experience Why veteran units behave differently from newly formed units.

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Press Period Reception How reviewers and wargamers evaluated Kampfgruppe in the mid-1980s.

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Preservation Preservation Archive A structured plan for preserving the game and its historical context.

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System Repair and Recovery Maintaining armored strength during extended operations.

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Document Scenario Construction Workshop A museum guide to designing balanced Kampfgruppe engagements.

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System Scenarios and Battle Generation How the game creates varied engagements rather than one fixed campaign.

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Person SSI and Gary Grigsby The publisher-designer partnership behind Kampfgruppe.

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System Supply and Logistics Fuel, ammunition, movement, and the operational limits behind combat power.

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Artifact Terrain Encyclopedia How roads, woods, towns, rivers, hills, mud, and snow shape operations.

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Timeline The Eastern Front in 1944 Military context for the forces and situations represented in the game.

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Artifact Vehicle Encyclopedia Representative armored and support vehicles modeled by the game.

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Company-gallery Allied General The Allied perspective on the Panzer General campaign formula.

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Battlegroup A Western Front counterpart that extended the Kampfgruppe design tradition.

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Company-gallery Champions of Krynn The Gold Box engine enters the Dragonlance setting.

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Company-gallery Computer Ambush Man-to-man tactical combat with unusually detailed planning and resolution.

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Computer Napoleonics Operational and tactical Napoleonic warfare adapted to the home computer.

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Curse of the Azure Bonds A Gold Box sequel built around magical bonds and a continuing adventuring party.

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Dark Sun: Shattered Lands A more open-ended AD&D computer RPG set in the harsh world of Athas.

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Company-gallery Eye of the Beholder Real-time first-person dungeon exploration under the SSI AD&D banner.

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Company-gallery Fantasy General A fantasy adaptation of the General-series campaign system.

Readiness 90%

Company-gallery Imperialism Industrial-age grand strategy built around economics, diplomacy, and state development.

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Company-gallery Imperialism II: Age of Exploration A preindustrial grand strategy game of exploration, trade, colonization, and European rivalry.

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Company-gallery Joel Billings and the Founding of SSI The entrepreneur who believed personal computers could support serious wargames.

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Company-gallery Mech Brigade Cold War armored warfare at the tactical-operational level.

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Company-gallery Pacific General Operational strategy across the Pacific War.

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Company-gallery Pools of Darkness The epic conclusion to the original Pool of Radiance sequence.

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Company-gallery Secret of the Silver Blades A high-level Gold Box adventure with extensive dungeon exploration.

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Company-gallery SSI Preservation Archive A curatorial framework for preserving SSI boxes, disks, manuals, maps, catalogs, patches, and oral histories.

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Company-gallery Star General Science-fiction conquest using the General-series lineage.

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Company-gallery Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles The Steel Panthers tactical system extended into postwar and modern conflict.

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Company-gallery Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command Larger-scale command in the Steel Panthers series.

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Company-gallery Torpedo Fire A naval combat simulation built around submarine and surface-ship engagements.

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Company-gallery War in Russia A vast Eastern Front campaign simulation covering strategy, production, and operations.

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Company-gallery Wargame Construction Set A toolkit that let players build and share their own wargame scenarios.

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

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Company-gallery Warship Tactical surface naval warfare in the Pacific.

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Strategy-gallery Age of Empires Historical eras, economy, technology advancement, formations, and accessible empire building in real time.

Readiness 80%

Strategy-gallery Artificial Intelligence in Strategy Games Opponent planning, pathfinding, tactical evaluation, diplomacy, difficulty scaling, and simulation shortcuts.

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Strategy-gallery Board Wargame Roots How hex grids, combat results tables, zones of control, and historical scenarios moved from tabletop design into software.

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Strategy-gallery Boxes, Manuals, and Reference Cards Physical packaging, documentation, maps, charts, keyboard overlays, and printed learning systems.

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Strategy-gallery Civilization Series Technology trees, governments, wonders, diplomacy, and the one-more-turn structure of historical 4X design.

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Strategy-gallery Close Combat Real-time tactical command, morale, suppression, terrain, and historically grounded small-unit combat.

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Strategy-gallery Command & Conquer Asymmetric factions, live-action storytelling, fast interface design, and competitive real-time warfare.

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Strategy-gallery Crusader Kings Dynastic politics, relationships, succession, personality, and emergent medieval narratives.

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Strategy-gallery Dune II and the RTS Template The interface and systems that established the recognizable real-time strategy formula.

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Strategy-gallery Early Mainframe Strategy Experiments on university and military computers that established strategic simulation, hidden information, and computer-controlled opposition.

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Strategy-gallery Empire and the Birth of a Genre The development, versions, and influence of Empire as a foundational computer strategy game.

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Strategy-gallery Empire Collection Versions, descendants, multiplayer traditions, production systems, and the continuing legacy of Empire.

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Strategy-gallery Europa Universalis Statecraft, colonization, diplomacy, trade, warfare, and centuries-long historical simulation.

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Strategy-gallery Fog of War Hidden information, scouting, uncertainty, intelligence gathering, and the limits of battlefield knowledge.

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Strategy-gallery Gary Grigsby and Operational Wargaming Campaign scale, logistics, unit detail, and the evolution of operational computer wargames.

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Strategy-gallery Hearts of Iron Industrial mobilization, logistics, research, alliances, fronts, and global warfare.

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Strategy-gallery Heroes of Might and Magic Adventure maps, army composition, resources, heroes, towns, and campaign structure.

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Strategy-gallery Master of Orion Galactic exploration, species design, diplomacy, ship construction, and space 4X conventions.

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Strategy-gallery Multiplayer and Network Preservation Protocols, matchmaking services, LAN support, server emulation, and documenting online play.

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Strategy-gallery Scenario and Mod Preservation User-created scenarios, editors, mod formats, patches, and community knowledge.

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Strategy-gallery Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri Faction ideology, social engineering, ecological systems, narrative events, and speculative strategy.

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Strategy-gallery SSI Collection Wargames, Gold Box crossovers, construction sets, manuals, catalogs, and publisher history.

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Strategy-gallery Strategic Simulations Inc. SSIs founding, publishing model, landmark releases, and role in bringing detailed wargames to home computers.

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Strategy-gallery Technology Trees Research structures that pace progress, define strategic identity, and connect economy to military power.

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Strategy-gallery The Design of Turns Alternating, simultaneous, phased, and initiative-driven turn systems and how each changes player decision-making.

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Strategy-gallery Total War Series Turn-based campaign management combined with real-time mass battles and historical spectacle.

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Strategy-gallery X-COM and Tactical Decision-Making Action points, destructible battlefields, persistent soldiers, research, and strategic consequences.

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Heritage Apple II Heritage Wing Hardware, software, publishers, education, and games from a foundational home computer.

Readiness 70%

Heritage Commodore 64 Heritage Wing SID music, sprites, demo culture, publishers, and an enormous game library.

Readiness 70%

Heritage DOS Gaming Hall VGA, Sound Blaster, shareware, CD-ROMs, and the rise of PC gaming.

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Wing Indie Games Gallery Independent creators, digital distribution, crowdfunding, early access, and bold experimentation.

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Wing Online Worlds Wing MUDs, Ultima Online, EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and persistent communities.

Readiness 75%

Wing Simulation Wing SimCity, Flight Simulator, Railroad Tycoon, The Sims, and the art of modeling complex systems.

Readiness 75%

Wing Space Games Wing Elite, Wing Commander, Star Control, Freelancer, Starfield, and generations of space exploration.

Readiness 75%