
The first order of business is the defensive gun placements. And it’s the player’s responsibility to set up an opposing force and keep them at bay. The dioramas and the attack formations are always different. Under the glare of overarching desk lamps or the shadow of a school book or two, the Soviets send in wave after wave of toy infantry, tanks, choppers, ATVs and MiGs. Through 11 missions that last 20 to 30 minutes each, the goal is simple: Keep the marauding enemy out of your toy box.

And that means F-14s, helicopter gunships and nuclear strikes are added to the battling mix. Toy Soldiers: Cold War, also downloadable, focuses on imaginary conflicts between the U.S. While placing toy-sized armaments on a scaled-down battlefield, players managed dining table and bedroom floor reenactments of actual World War I battles between the Allies and the Germans. The original Toy Soldiers video game came out in 2010 as a downloadable arcade game for the Xbox 360. Signal Studios’ toy-centric strategy games are built on that very sense of toy-box charm and imagination.
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Those were the days when a sandbox could be a vast Sahara and a tumbled bedspread became a pitted mountainside-ripe for artillery placement, tank deployments and soldier formations pulled from the depths of a heaping cardboard box full of plastic possibilities.

Playing with toy soldiers may not be such a big thing with kids nowadays, but I certainly remember many a childhood afternoon consumed with the imaginative joy of miniature green and tan warfare.
