Watch “History of Solo Board Gaming,” a board game review for The Fall of Rome from Hopeless Games on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Hopeless Games on YouTube:
Hopeless Games trace the long history of solo gaming. From chess problems and peg solitaire to toy soldiers and conflict simulation. When did people start tiring of their fellow players? And why did it take so long to replace them with an algorithm?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Hopeless History Hour
0:27 Solitaire Wargaming
03:52 Multi-Handed Solitaire
07:47 Models and Simulations
14:00 Early Game Records
17:12 Early Game Problems
20:34 Peg Solitaire (17th cent.)
24:35 Patience (18th cent.)
29:10 Dissected Maps (18th cent.)
33:24 Pinpoint the Bomber (1942)
36:55 Solo-Wargaming (1973)
45:01 The Fall of Rome (1973)
50:18 Early Solo Wargames
52:37 Early Solo Scifi and Fantasy Games
55:46 Ares Magazine Solo Games
56:48 Solo Gaming Today
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