Francis Tresham is an United Kingdom based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970's. Francis founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil ( founded 1971 ) until it's sale to Microprose in 1997. His 1829 game has been credited with inspiring [1] the 18xxboard game series and some of his board games have inspired Sid Meier computer games such as Railroad Tycoon and Civilisation. A board game is any game played on a board (that is, a premarked surface) with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across the board. ... MicroProse Software, Inc. ... Introduction 18XX is the generic term for a series of board games which recreate the building of railroads during the 19th century, since the individual games use particular years in the 19th century as their title (usually the date of the start of railway development in the area of the... A board game is any game played on a board (that is, a premarked surface) with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across the board. ... Sid Meier publicity photo Sid Meier (born 1954, in Detroit, USA) is a renowned programmer and designer of some of the most commercially and critically successful computer games of all time. ... Railroad Tycoon is an economic simulation and computer strategy game. ... Civilization, or Sid Meiers Civilization (which is the games official name) is a computer game created by Sid Meier for Microprose in 1991. ...
He is currently managing director of Tresham Games and is, as of 2005 , producing 18xx style board games. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Introduction 18XX is the generic term for a series of board games which recreate the building of railroads during the 19th century, since the individual games use particular years in the 19th century as their title (usually the date of the start of railway development in the area of the...
Civilization is a board game designed by Francis Tresham, published in Britain in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibson Games), and in the US in 1981 by Avalon Hill. ...
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