Operation Olympic: The Invasion of Japan 1 November 1945

Operation Olympic is a solitaire board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1974. It simulates the planned American invasion of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's home islands, in November 1945, an operation that became moot when Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings. One player commands the invading American force on a hex-grid map of Kyushu, choosing invasion sites and trying to seize the southern half of the island within a limited time, while the Japanese defence is played automatically through die rolls on a Japanese Doctrine Chart. Designer Frank Davis created it as his first game, and it appeared as a free pull-out game in Strategy and Tactics issue 45 (July-August 1974) and as a boxed set. Critics praised its rules, but it placed only 119th of 202 games in SPI's 1976 popularity poll, a result often blamed on the solitaire format.