Kevin Zucker started playing board wargames as a teenager in La Jolla, California, and began to design his own games.
[2] Zucker met with other ex-SPI employees, and the group started to plan a Napoleonic wargame that would be presented as a spiral-bound book.
[2] In order to publish the game, Zucker formed the company Tactical Studies Group, and convinced George Blagowidow, the owner of Hippocrene Books and distributor of SPI wargames, to buy 800 copies.
At Avalon Hill, Zucker designed The Struggle of Nations,[2] which was a finalist for the Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game of 1981."
[3] In October 2008, Zucker announced that OSG was going out of business at the end of the year,[4] but after a year-long hiatus, the company recommenced production with The Coming Storm, which was a finalist for the Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best Ancient to Napoleonic Era Wargame of 2010".