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Louis Zocchi, Technical Sergeant, USAF (retired), is a gaming hobbyist, former game distributor and publisher, and maker and seller of polyhedral game dice. ==Career== Lou Zocchi was one of the first editors for Avalon Hill's magazine, ''The General'', and a regular contributor during its first 11 years of publication. He also playtested such early wargames as ''Bismark'', ''Afrika Korps'', ''Jutland'', ''Stalingrad'', and a number of titles Avalon Hill did not publish.〔 Zocchi was the first U.S. distributor to sell nothing but adventure games.〔 As a board wargame designer, his credits include ''Luftwaffe'', ''The Battle of Britain'', ''Alien Space'', and ''Flying Tigers'', as well as the 3-, 5-, 14-, 24-, and 100-sided die.〔 Zocchi contributed to the series of books by Guidon Games that began in 1971 with ''Chainmail''. Zocchi produced the superhero RPG ''Superhero: 2044'' in 1977.〔 Zocchi designed and published a set of miniatures rules called the ''Star Fleet Battle Manual'' (1977) that he licensed from Franz Joseph, and Zocchi's old friend Stephen Cole licensed the rights from Joseph to publish the STAR FLEET BATTLES GAME, of his own in 1979.〔 Zocchi distributed the Wee Warriors line.〔 Zocchi helped Judges Guild out of cash-flow problems in the early 1980s by paying them $350 each time in return for the right to reprint out-of-print Judges Guild supplements.〔 Mike Hurdle of Holly Springs Mississippi purchased Zocchi Distribution in February of 1998. Zocchi and his company GameScience have published a number of games over the years (many designed by Zocchi), but are best known for making dice, and inventing the Zocchihedron (100-sided) die. Zocchi is a well-known figure at gaming conventions like Gen Con and Origins Game Fair, where he demonstrates the various inconsistencies〔(Game Science Part 1 )〕〔(Game Science Part 2 )〕 in most mass-produced gaming dice. Zocchi has designed a few games himself, including ''Hardtack'', and ''Battle Wagon Salvo''. In 1987, Zocchi was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming's Hall of Fame.〔 He was honored as a "famous game designer" by being inducted into the Game Designers Hall of Fame and featured as the king of clubs in Flying Buffalo's 2009 Famous Game Designers Playing Card Deck.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Poker Deck )〕 GameScience is still trading, and () Zocchi is still active in the gaming community. He later joined the AL.S.D.F. force and held the rank of Colonel.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lou Zocchi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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