From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Metagaming Concepts's Ogre microgame, second edition (1977)

A microgame (sometimes written "MicroGame") is a board game or wargame packaged in a small set. Microgames enjoyed popularity during the 1980s. The term generally refers to board games or wargames which were packaged and sold with instructions and maps or playing surfaces printed in a booklet format, or as one large sheet folded until it became "pocket sized" (approximately 4×7 inches). Game pieces (also known as chits or counters) were printed on one or more sheets of thick paper which the player sometimes had to cut for themselves. Other microgames had fully die-cut cardboard sheets like those included with most board wargames.^[1] Steve Jackson Games used the Pocket Box to package many of their games in this format.

While small scale wargames and board games had existed before they began publishing, Metagaming Concepts first used the term "MicroGame" when they released Ogre, MicroGame #1 in 1977.^[2]

Some publishers of microgames include:

• Cheapass Games
• Fat Messiah Games
• Game Designers' Workshop (defunct)
• Metagaming Concepts (defunct)
• Microgame Design Group (defunct)
• Operational Studies Group
• Simulations Publications, Inc. (defunct)
• Steve Jackson Games
• Task Force Games (defunct)
• Tri Tac Games
• TSR, Inc. (defunct)

Notes

External links

• "The Maverick's Classic Microgames Museum". http://maverick.brainiac.com/cmm/cmm_index.html.   by Joseph Scoleri III
• "Microgame HQ". http://micro.brainiac.com/.   a FAQ and database by Mark Johnson and Joe Scoleri

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

A term coined by Wario Ware Inc.. The microgame genre consist of games made up of very short "microgames" games put together as a game. A microgame is a lot like a minigame but shorter. In later Wario Ware games the microgames became longer, but the one continuing factor between each game in the series, was that what they called 'microgames' made up most of the gameplay. So, essentially, a microgame is different from a minigame in that a minigame is a diversion from the main game, whereas a microgames are usually shorter and more plentiful and make up most of the main game.

Some popular Microgame games:

• WarioWare series
• Feel the Magic: XX/XY

This article is a stub. You can help by adding to it. Stubs are articles that writers have begun work on, but are not yet complete enough to be considered finished articles.