StarGate (board game)

StarGate is a science fiction board game published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1979 in which players wage combat via spaceships.

[1] In the late 1970s, Metagaming Concepts pioneered the MicroGame packaged into a ziplock bag or small flat box.

[3] In Issue 24 of The Space Gamer, Mark Watson compared StarGate to microgames by Metagaming Concepts.

[1] In the October 1980 issue of Fantastic, game designer Greg Costikyan wrote "Star Gate is very chess-like, in that each ship moves in a particular manner.

"[4] In Issue 27 of Simulacrum, Brian Train noted, "This game is an interesting exercise in asymmetry.