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During the s and into the early 's, the 3M company produced a series of games aimed at an adult audience.

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3m board games

The 3M bookshelf game series is a set of strategy and economic games published in the s and early s by 3M Corporation. The games were packaged in leatherette-look large hardback book size boxes in contrast to the prevalent wide, flat game boxes. The series grew to encompass over three dozen games. Most were multi-player board games or card games ; a few were trivia games or two-handed board games. Acquire and TwixT were among the best-selling titles. The series later became part of the Avalon Hill Bookcase games. Very few of these games are still being published. The line consisted of republished classics such as Go , chess and backgammon as well as original games. The Bookshelf games were originally in large boxes that were 8. The early ones were packaged in a different shape box called a "butterbox". In , 3M commissioned game designers Alex Randolph and Sid Sackson to design the early games and they were largely responsible for shaping the direction of the line towards abstract strategy and economic games. Between and submissions were received every year by the company. A few of the more popular games with established sales were acquired from other companies. By the mids, gaming trends had shifted to pen-and-paper role playing games and the 3M game division was suffering losses.

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During the s and into the early 's, the 3M company produced a series of games aimed at an adult audience. These games were in general very well done, with fairly simple rules but complex gameplay and depth and with uniformly high quality components. The games covered a variety of topics, from business and sports simulations to word and abstract strategy games. They produced their games in several formats: the "bookshelf" line, a smaller line of mostly card games known as the "gamette" line, and a sports game line which consisted of a vinyl playing board which wrapped around the box holding the game components. Challenge Bridge Large Box Edition.

3m board games

The 3M bookshelf game series is a set of strategy and economic games published in the s and early s by 3M Corporation. The games were packaged in leatherette-look large hardback book size boxes in contrast to the prevalent wide, flat game boxes. The series grew to encompass over three dozen games. Most were multi-player board games or card games ; a few were trivia games or two-handed board games. Acquire and TwixT were among the best-selling titles. The series later became part of the Avalon Hill Bookcase games. Very few of these games are still being published.

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