Over the years this game has received around 20 releases, new versions, and spin offs. Then, as part of the Game Master’s series under Milton Bradley in the 1980s, Axis & Allies massively outperformed the other four big box games leading to its continued production. It lived in that twilight zone between traditional hex and chit wargames and the more ‘kid-friendly’ Risk. There’s a reason for that, of course. Axis & Allies was a breakthrough game. Originally published by Nova Game Designs in 1981, and taken up by Milton Bradley in 1984, it would go on to become one of the most successful and long-lived board wargames of all time.
