Larry Harris (game designer)
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Larry Harris, Jr., is a game designer most famous for creating the board game Axis & Allies, as well as some of its sequels. His other significant games include Conquest of the Empire and Broadsides and Boarding Parties, LionHeart and more. He has also assisted in the further development of Trivial Pursuit and Risk. Larry is also the inventor of Thin Ice (Pressman Games).
All four of his Axis & Allies games have won Origins Awards, including the induction of the original game into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design's Hall of Fame in 1996.[1]
He is the son of Lawrence (Larry) Harris, Sr., who was a U.S. infantryman in the Pacific Theatre, participating in assaults in the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines.
