Doing an advanced search on games dates 1974 or earlier and categorized as miniatures only returns these 25 games (just enough for a 1 page geeklist).

Hopefully seeing this list will motivate people to (1) submit missing games to the BGG database and (2) submit corrections for other miniature games that don't have the Miniatures category flags. Maybe we'll even get lucky and one of these early designers will chime in and say what games were influences?

I'm using a sort by average rating as I'm a fan of dynamic sorts (and they don't have one for year at this time).

[Edit] My initial query was wrong as I only took games with one or more rating. The initial 25 have been increased to 50 by adding the unrated games.