International Team (IT) was an Italian game company founded in the 1970s and active until the early 1980s.
[1][2] IT games were translated in other languages (mostly French, German and English) and exported abroad.
[3] At the peak of IT's popularity, foreign branches of the company were founded, such as International Team France (established in 1979).
[7] While some of International Team's games were quite "typical" of their era and generally not on par with U.S. and British offerings (which benefitted from a more developed hobby and gaming culture) they saturated the Italian market (where in early 1980s fluent English readers were by no means common) and also enjoyed commercial success in France and Germany.
Some of their best games were highly innovative, such as the non-strategic Napoleonic ones (Austerlitz, Jena, Waterloo), presenting a unique Octagons and Squares board, better suited to the Napoleonic infantry formations (square, line, column...).