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Following the success of Tactics, Roberts changed the name upon incorporation from "The Avalon Game Company" to "Avalon Hill" in 1958 because of a naming dispute with another company, and the Avalon house was on a hill. [4] [2] The number of games released per year was erratic until 1964 as the company released anywhere from 1 to 7 games. [4] 5-8
Eric Dott was the president of printer company Monarch Services. [2]: 175 One of his clients was the wargaming company Avalon Hill, and when founder Charles S. Roberts left the publishing business in 1963 over financial problems, he handed the company to Monarch and the Smith Box Company, its two biggest creditors.
Charles Swann Roberts (February 3, 1930 – August 20, 2010, [2] [3] [4] Baltimore, Maryland [5]) was a wargame designer, railroad historian, and businessman.He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first commercially successful modern wargame in 1952 (), [6] [7] the first wargaming company in 1954 (Avalon Hill), and designed the first board wargame based upon an ...
Adaptation of the Avalon Hill board game, 1830. 5th Fleet: 1994 Achtung Spitfire! 1997 Andromeda Conquest: 1982 Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization: 1995 B-1 Nuclear Bomber: 1981 Cave Wars: 1996 Computer Acquire: 1983 Adaptation of the Avalon Hill Board Game, Acquire. 1983 version was for Atari 400/800, Apple II/II Plus, Pet 2001 and TRS-80 ...
Thomas Shaw, at the time in charge of Avalon Hill, asked Dunnigan to design and submit his own wargame. [2] The result was Jutland, published by Avalon Hill in 1967. Two years later, after designing 1914 for Avalon Hill, Dunnigan struck out on his own after concluding there must be a "more effective way to publish games."
The General (1964–1998) was a bi-monthly periodical devoted to supporting Avalon Hill's line of wargames, with articles on game tactics, history, and industry news.It was the first professionally produced wargaming magazine for the nascent cardboard and hex-map wargaming hobby.
John Evans Hill (February 21, 1945 – January 12, 2015) [2] was an American designer of military board wargames, as well as rules for miniature wargaming.He is best known as the designer of the Avalon Hill board game Squad Leader and the American Civil War miniatures game Johnny Reb.
For subsequent expansion sets and related games, Avalon Hill's plan had been to only portray German soldiers, but MacGowan insisted on using a different nationality on each box cover. [1] MacGowan continued breaking new ground, being the first to portray Japanese pilots and crews on a wargame box for 1979's Flat Top by Avalon Hill, and the ...