Editing History of Traditional Gaming (section)

====1900-Present A.D.====
*[[H.G. Wells]], worried he wouldn't be immortalized in nerd history just for being one of the first sci-fi writers, makes two wargame books: Floor Games (1911) and Little Wars (1913).  Has rules for spring loaded cannons and such.
*[[E. Gary Gygax]] invents [[Chainmail]], [[Dungeons and Dragons]], and an industry with help from a couple other guys.  30 years earlier, nerds around the world all felt a shudder on the day of his birth, but nobody could explain why at the time.
*1967: [[Braunstein]], the granddaddy of all RPGs, is created.  One of the players, [[Dave Arneson]], goes on to create D&D with Gary Gygax in 1974.
*In 1971 a Japanese dude changes the name of Reversi, a couple basic rules, and steals the credit calling the game Othello.
*In 1979 a white guy copies a version of Gomoku, changes one rule, and enjoys success selling Pente for 10 years. [[Hasbro]] buys it and the game fails.  This establishes a trend.
*1983: Four British dudes at [[Games Workshop]] create [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer Fantasy Battle]].  This is widely regarded as a good move.  Warhammer would later spawn [[Warhammer 40,000]].
*1993: [[Magic the gathering]] is invented, and the joy of collectible card games is introduced in the world. a [[That guy|certain japanese nobody]] decides to [[FAIL|rip it off]] by creating his [[yugioh|"own"]] card game that would be released to the joy of [[weeaboo]]s around the world 5 years later, thank goodness its slowly dying.
*2002: [[FATAL]] is invented and released by Byron Hall.  Jesus wept.
*2004: A strategy board game with an Egyptian theme and lasers was created, called [[Khet]].  This was fuckwin, I don't care who you are.  Fucking Lasers?  Awesome.

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